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Media CTO Survey 2025

14.11.2025

This report explores the leadership challenges and technology investment priorities of 33 leading CTOs from major media organisations.

Cloud Transformation AI Supply Chain

Premium Free for members

Media CTO Survey 2025 workshop

25 September 2025

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2025 ahead of its publication in November 2025.

Workshop

Selected members

Reducing costs is higher on the agenda of media companies than growing audience or revenue, finds DPP’s new Media CTO Survey report

28.11.2024

The Media CTO Survey report aims to inform the media industry more about the challenges of the CTO role, leadership strategies, approaches to recruitment and procurement, and technology investment priorities.

News

Media CTO Survey 2024

18.11.2024

This report explores the leadership challenges and technology investment priorities of 26 leading CTOs from major media organisations.

Transformation

MEMBERS

Media CTO Survey 2024 workshop

26 September 2024

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2024 ahead of its publication in November 2024.

Workshop

DPP inviting technology leaders to be part of inaugural Media CTO Survey 2024

09.08.2024

Research initiative will show investment priorities and leadership challenges of media CTOs

Transformation News

Leaders' Briefing 2026

17-18 November 2026, London

Our flagship conference, the DPP Leaders’ Briefing, is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for media and technology.

Leaders' Briefing

Public

DPP Executive Summit 2026

16 November 2026, London

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2026 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

Exec Summit

Invite only

IBC in 2026: The state of the trade show

02.10.2026

IBC 2026 was busy, then quieter. But does lower footfall mean lower value? We examine the numbers and changing role of trade shows.

IBC

How much is GenAI coding driving a shift to 'self build' in media?

10.06.2026

Recent DPP insight reveals the extent to which AI-assisted coding and development tools are shifting the 'Build vs Buy' dynamic for media organisations.

Photo highlights from the DPP Leaders' Briefing 2025

27.11.2025

Discover the highlights from the Leaders' Briefing 2025, the pre-eminent business intelligence event for media and technology.

Leaders' Briefing

Leaders' Briefing 2025

18-19 November 2025, London

Our flagship conference, the DPP Leaders’ Briefing, is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for media and technology.

Leaders' Briefing

DPP Executive Summit 2025

17 November 2025

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2025 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

Exec Summit

Invite only

Media Tech CEOs focused on new product launches, AI and supplier partnerships, DPP's new Media Tech CEO Survey reveals

05.11.2025

New DPP Media Tech CEO Survey research reveals the perspectives of Chief Executives at major technology providers serving the media and broadcast industry.

Cloud Transformation AI Supply Chain

Deadline approaching to be part of inaugural DPP Media Tech CEO Survey

14.08.2025

DPP Media Tech CEO Survey 2025 will showcase leadership perspectives, innovation agenda and drivers of transformation in fast-paced industry

Photo highlights from the DPP Media Supply Festival 2025

13.06.2025

Discover the highlights from Media Supply Festival 2025, where customers and suppliers in the media supply chain came together to share the latest insights.

Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Photo highlights from the DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025

26.03.2025

The DPP's fourth European Broadcaster Summit brought together senior executives from major European content providers and their supplier community to explore common challenges.

European Broadcaster Summit

NAB 2025: What buyers want

18 March 2025, 5pm GMT / 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST / 6 PM CET

The DPP will be hosting a webinar in advance of NAB, sharing key insights from our recent CTO Survey and upcoming Demand vs Supply reports, shedding light on what customers are looking for from vendors at this year's show.

NAB

Public

DPP Executive Summit 2024

19 November 2024, London

The Executive Summit is a closed, invitation-only event for speakers at the 2024 Leaders’ Briefing featuring selected executives from the content provider community.

Exec Summit

Northern Waves TV Announces 2024 Agenda with DPP

03.10.2024

The DPP, as a media partner, will present a Keynote presentation on ‘The Real Impact of AI in Media Today’ at the Northern Waves TV conference.

Photo highlights from the DPP Espresso Summit 2024

23.09.2024

At this special event, in partnership with Signiant, we hosted a breakfast alongside high quality networking and five short, sharp thought leadership sessions.

Media companies challenge technology providers to improve cyber security posture, DPP research shows

09.09.2024

DPP research The State of Media Technology Security 2024 explores how content providers and industry technology providers are responding to growing cyber threat.

Security

Photo highlights from the DPP Media Supply Festival 2024

02.06.2024

The Festival is the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Media industry CxOs headline DPP Media Supply Festival 2024 in New York from May 30-31

30.04.2024

The DPP will once again hold its DPP Media Supply Festival on New York City’s iconic Madison Avenue.

Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

New roles for Harrison and de Pomerai at DPP

02.04.2024

The DPP has transferred the role of CEO from Mark Harrison to Rowan de Pomerai, with Mark Harrison now taking the role of Founder and Chief Content Officer.

DPP News News

Generative AI has raised expectations of AI’s potential, finds the DPP’s new AI report

19.02.2024

In the last five years, technology has advanced, AI use cases have evolved, and generative AI has emerged. This new report aims to take a step back and analyse the present state of AI in media through a measured and practical way.

Are the 5 rules of AI still golden?

31.10.2023

In 2021, DPP CTO Rowan de Pomerai outlined his "5 Golden Rules of Media AI". But after a year of immense AI progress, do the 5 rules still apply?

Hybrid work enhances wellbeing and morale at the expense of company culture and engagement, reveals new DPP research

10.10.2023

The research explores the state of hybrid working in the media industry post pandemic by surveying 80 media and technology companies and gathering information from three workshop sessions with more than 50 subject matter experts.

Artificial intelligence now a foundational technology for media

29.06.2023

At the Media Supply Festival 2023, industry leaders discussed how artificial intelligence was becoming a foundational technology for content providers and tech suppliers.

AI Media Supply Festival

Supply chain transformation comes from optimising key business processes rather than technology

14.06.2023

This report summarises 45 insights that came from our 15 sessions at the DPP Media Supply Festival 2023 in New York. The annual event takes the temperature on the strategies and technologies that are powering the content supply chain.

Transformation Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Data critical to all aspects of Making Media Pay

26.05.2023

Data analytics and exploitation is one of the threads which ties together Rights Management, Content Monetisation and Content Protection in the DPP's Making Media Pay series.

Rights Management, Content Monetisation, and Content Protection form the foundation for maximising content revenue

18.05.2023

In Making Media Pay, the DPP and its members explore how media companies are optimising revenue generation from their content assets.

Join industry leaders at Media Supply Festival 2023 in New York

16.05.2023

The DPP Media Supply Festival 2023 from June 1-2 is the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Automation, for the people - Localisation innovations augment human expertise with technology transformation

15.05.2023

In the DPP podcast, SDVI CMO Geoff Stedman discusses the DPP's The Future of Localisation work with report author Rowan de Pomerai.

DPP at The Supply Chain Breakfast - Paris

27th March, 9:05 - 9:15am CEST

DPP CTO Rowan de Pomerai will be presenting industry trends in cloud-based supply chains at Ateliere's 'The Supply Chain Breakfast' in Paris.

Cloud Supply Chain

Standing on the shoulders of AI giants

07.03.2023

DPP CTO Rowan de Pomerai explains how the world of localisation is benefiting from rapid developments in machine learning.

Localisers must balance innovation and efficiency with craft and creativity, says DPP’s new localisation report

21.02.2023

DPP's new localisation report will help readers understand localisation, explore the evolving demand, and the potential for automation in the localisation supply chain.

Supply Chain

How to improve customer-vendor relationships? Technology buyers and suppliers share commitments and demands

18.01.2023

As part of the DPP's How to Buy Better research, customers and vendors shared how both parties can improve their behaviours.

‘Future standards process must be more agile’, says the DPP’s new standards report

18.10.2022

The DPP sets out to discover the right balance of standardisation to meet the needs of the modern media industry.

DPP Leaders' Briefing 2022 brings together media and technology innovators

17.10.2022

The DPP Leaders' Briefing 2022 is an exclusive conference and networking opportunity bringing together content providers and media suppliers.

Leaders' Briefing

The DPP becomes an independent organisation

03.10.2022

Building on its success as a membership organisation, the DPP has announced plans to become fully self-sufficient.

DPP News News

Double standards? DPP previews The Truth About Standards to member organisations

15.09.2022

In The Truth About Standards, the DPP exposes what media companies really think about standards and standards bodies. Book a bespoke briefing to learn about what it all means for your organisation.

News organisations must adopt a pragmatic story centric approach to keep up

12.09.2022

More than any other content type, news is experiencing disruption in formats and outputs. In Making The News, experts were brought together to examine the technology and workflow changes necessary to keep up.

News

The rise of social and mobile represents a power shift to audience and platforms

11.07.2022

What's The News? found that current trends in mobile and social media - and the shifts towards these platforms - has dramatically changed how news is being consumed.

News

SDVI's Reinventing the Media Supply Chain: London Edition

14 June 2022

Join SDVI, Telestream, and Codemill, in collaboration with AWS, for an informative half-day lunch and workshop on the latest innovations in the media supply chain.

Supply Chain

Public

Making integration work and the 'postmodern' media supply chain?

13.04.2022

DPP's Making Integration Work report series draws parallels between media workflows and the IT industry’s approach to enterprise resource planning suites.

Strategic integration can bring a new level of agility to media companies

30.03.2022

Making Integration Work examines the challenges and opportunities of software integration and data integration.

CES 2022: Every cloud has to have an edge

15.02.2022

Edge technology is improving to keep pace with innovation by cloud hyperscalers, as devices and services drive consumer technology growth.

Cloud Sustainability

‘This is the year sustainability went into production’, says the DPP’s new CES report

17.01.2022

CES 2022: What consumer trends mean for the media industry unwraps the trends from this year’s exhibition and compares them against 13 years of previous CES analysis.

Cloud Sustainability

DPP publishes Recommendation DPP008 Business to Business Metadata Exchange

13.01.2022

Business to Business Metadata Exchange aims to reduce friction in the media supply chain at the points of content interchange, specifically around the exchange of metadata.

Supply Chain

DPP podcast episode 9 with ITV and Dalet - Getting Agile outside of IT, and how tech transformation is fuelling business innovation

11.01.2022

ITV's Zoe Carter and Dalet's Ewan Johnston join CTO Rowan de Pomerai for episode 9 of the DPP podcast to digest themes from the Leaders' Briefing 2021.

Transformation Leaders' Briefing

Media leaders look to supply chain partners to better integrate modular, best-of-breed services

15.12.2021

In the DPP Leaders’ Briefing 2021 summary report, content providers challenged supplier ecosystem to help tackle biggest tech challenges and deliver for customers.

Supply Chain Leaders' Briefing

The DPP partners with Convergent for its Committed to Security Programme

03.11.2021

The DPP announces the launch of a new partnership to enhance and grow the DPP Committed to Security Programme.

Security

Cloud adoption disrupts established relationships in the media industry, reveals new DPP insight

27.10.2021

The Cloud for Media series explores the present reality of media in the cloud, and sheds light on the challenges that remain.

DPP and SMPTE publish major updates to IMF documentation

04.08.2021

The DPP has collaborated with SMPTE® on the publication of a new pair of SMPTE Recommended Disclosure Documents resulting in adoption by the BBC this summer.

The media industry has redefined innovation - and found new opportunities, says DPP report

27.04.2021

Innovation is an overused and misunderstood word - and yet there has never been more need for it in the media industry. The Making Innovation Pay series defines what we mean by innovation, and how companies can be effective at identifying and delivering it.

Transformation

DPP research reveals five key models of live remote production

08.04.2021

Live Remote Production defines, for the first time anywhere, five architectural models for producing live content. The report then examines the benefits of each model, identifying which will become dominant.

Cloud Production Live

Scaling in ML/AI media workflows

01.04.2021

Adlede's Johanna Björklund tells us how good training data and access to networks like the DPP helps scale AI solutions

DPP publishes guidance for VOD supplier onboarding

24.03.2021

This new guidance sets out commonly agreed best practices that are simple to implement and can drive significant time and cost savings. It is recommended reading for both senders and receivers of VOD content.

File Delivery

A peek inside the Machine Intelligence Garage

18.03.2021

Cognizant's Peter Elvidge reflects on the recent Machine Intelligence Garage event with the DPP and Digital Catapult

The DPP Podcast launches with The Final Word on CES 2021

04.02.2021

The DPP Podcast is a brand new resource for DPP members, designed to stimulate conversation and debate about what’s going on in media today.

DPP News

Smallest CES for a decade marks the start of a technological revolution says the DPP

21.01.2021

The DPP unpacks the trends from this year’s CES and combines them with a broader analysis of the technology market, to reveal a business-led tech revolution - from which consumers will be the beneficiaries.

DPP determines that consumer demand drives content distribution strategies

27.10.2020

Viewers now demand content on their terms, on their devices, and with a first class user experience throughout. Distribution: Delivering for audiences identifies six key success factors for forward looking distribution businesses.

Transformation Distribution

DPP reveals key success factors for maximising the value of content libraries

29.09.2020

Achieve the resilience and responsiveness now required of a modern media company, maximise the value of your archives, and ensure they’re fit for an uncertain future.

Transformation Metadata Supply Chain

Content Preparation: Building the Agile Media Factory

28.09.2020

This webcast explored the key supply chain processes of content receipt, and preparation for distribution and archive.

File Delivery Transformation Supply Chain

Thinking Out Cloud

21.09.2020

This webinar brought together experts from across the media ecosystem to discuss the key principles that should underpin your cloud strategy, and its practical implementation.

Cloud Transformation Supply Chain

DPP report exposes chaos in the supply of content for Video on Demand

30.04.2020

Supplying the VOD Revolution defines a reference workflow for the supply of content from distributors and aggregators to platforms. It exposes the pain points felt by implementers of these workflows, and explores the web of standards and formats in use today.

Cloud Distribution

How is coronavirus impacting the media industry?

30.03.2020

Watch our webcast, in which broadcasters, production companies and vendors shared their knowledge and experience regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the media industry.

Transformation Supply Chain

The DPP in 2020: helping to build intelligent businesses

23.10.2019

How will smart media companies make their business decisions in 2020? How will a broadcaster’s CTO decide which new technology areas are worthy of their team’s attention?

Supply Chain

Unlocking new opportunities with IMF for Advertising

22.10.2019

The DPP today announced the development of a proof of concept to demonstrate how component-based workflows using IMF can be applied to advertising use cases.

Transformation

When will tech mean business?

10.10.2019

The industry continues to split discussions about technology and business practice, but this discourse needs to change, says DPP managing director Mark Harrison.

Transformation

What do 75% of members get from the DPP?

18.07.2019

Every year we run a survey to check in with the whole DPP membership and find out how we’re doing.

Why DPP technology work isn’t about technology

28.06.2019

Change is perhaps the only constant in our industry. And the landscape has certainly changed a lot in the last few decades.R

Transformation

IMF For Real

11.04.2019

Bright and early on Tuesday morning, a dedicated group of enthusiastic DPP members turned out at our NAB breakfast briefing.

Meet the UK Broadcasters 2017

27.11.2017

We explore the three current key priorities of each of the CTOs from the major UK broadcasters; and their specific messages to the supplier community

Transformation

DPP Announces Tech Standards for HD Commercials

13.01.2016

The DPP has today announced Common Technical Delivery Standards for High Definition Commercials/Sponsorship and Promotions/Presentation material.

DPP Launches Quality Control Guidelines

13.03.2014

The DPP has released a set of standardised UK Quality Control Requirements

File Delivery

DPP Launches Live Technical Standards

04.10.2012

The DPP has today unveiled its Technical Standards for delivery of Live Television programmes.

Distribution Live

DPP Announces File-Based Technical Standards

26.01.2012

The DPP has unveiled its new Technical and Metadata Standards for File-Based Programme Delivery in the UK.

AS-11 File Delivery Metadata

DPP Unveils UK's First Common Delivery Stds

10.03.2011

The DPP has today unveiled common technical standards for tape delivery of HD and SD TV programmes to all major UK broadcasters.