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Design for Tomorrow

No media company will emerge from the pandemic intending to be the same as it was before. The Design for Tomorrow series will identify the key principles for building back better in the post Coronavirus media economy.

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Business Services

4 September 2020

And finally, the Business Services that will help elevate your business to a more secure, sustainable, and efficient workplace complete DPP Innovation Week.

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Unique DPP research project documents the stress and uncertainty of lockdown

21.07.2020

In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic the story commonly told is that the media industry moved to remote working quickly and well; and this is true. But no-one has reported what happened next - until now...

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Will Covid-19 Change The Way We Work?

21.07.2020

In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the media industry moved to remote working quickly and well. But what happened next? We uncover a rollercoaster of anxiety and uncertainty in this special report.

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DPP launches major project to support media industry recovery

03.07.2020

Design for Tomorrow, our next major research project, will be an in-depth look at the key principles that will increase resilience and growth in the post Coronavirus media economy.

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Key Design Principles

27 August 2020

We reveal the common principles that need to inform the design of all media businesses in the wake of the pandemic, in the first of our Design for Tomorrow series.

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Content Preparation

24 September 2020

Join us in this Design for Tomorrow webinar to explore the key supply chain processes of content receipt, and preparation for distribution and archive.

File Delivery Transformation Versioning Research Supply Chain Business Requirements Webinar Design for Tomorrow

Libraries & Archives

1 October 2020

Content companies need their content inventory to be usable and accessible - from anywhere. Find out how this can be achieved in the next Design for Tomorrow webinar.

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Content Creation

15 October 2020

After the pandemic, how will production entities best design to be efficient, flexible, and responsive to different circumstances? Find out at this special Design for Tomorrow webinar.

File Delivery Transformation Production Research Supply Chain Business Requirements Webinar Design for Tomorrow

Distribution

29 October 2020

How can consumers gain access to the content they want, when they want, at the quality they want? Our penultimate Design for Tomorrow webinar asks the experts.

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Commercial Relationships

12 November 2020

What kinds of business relationships will we need in the future? Our final Design for Tomorrow webinar explores how suppliers and customers can best support one another.

Transformation Research Supply Chain Business Requirements Webinar Design for Tomorrow

What are 77% of us looking forward to most?

22.06.2020

We reveal what you're all missing when working from home, and how you can maintain and build the networks that help you find new business opportunities and stay informed.

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Looking Beyond Lockdown

22.05.2020

Mark Harrison's keynote on how our industry could look after the current crisis.

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Looking Beyond Lockdown: Will we recognise ourselves?

14.05.2020

What topics was the media industry discussing before the Coronavirus pandemic? And how relevant will they look when we emerge from lockdown?

Predictions Transformation Opinion Supply Chain

Lockdown: it’s emotional

24.04.2020

Early findings from DPP research show the human face of the crisis.

Transformation Opinion

Looking beyond lockdown

12 May 2020

DPP MD Mark Harrison will give a keynote on how our industry could look after the current crisis

Transformation External Webinar

Next Gen Supply Chain

16.04.2020

Will companies with next generation supply chains have a competitive advantage? We explore what major content companies adopting software defined, cloud led supply chains could mean for the media industry.

Cloud Transformation Research Supply Chain

Upcoming Research

DPP insight reports provide valuable intelligence on the most important topics in media and technology. More information about our upcoming research can be found here.

Cloud Transformation Workflows Research

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.

Tech Transformation Supply Chain Video Web Event Video

Will COVID-19 change the way we work - forever?

27.03.2020

When the pandemic ends, will businesses simply return to the way they worked before? Or will our working practices have been changed forever?

Tech Transformation Research Supply Chain

Tech Leaders' Briefing 2020

TBC w/c 16 November 2020

The DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry.

Tech Transformation Tech Leaders' Briefing

Home Truths No.19 - 2020 Predictions

04.02.2020

How is globalisation creating opportunities, and challenges, in the media supply chain? Plus more 2020 predictions from DPP members

DPP At Home Predictions Transformation

Delivering the IP Future

30.01.2020

Which technologies will enable the media and entertainment industry to deliver an all-IP future for content distribution?

Transformation IP

CES 2020

16.01.2020

How do trends from the world’s most famous technology show affect the media and entertainment industry, and how have they changed over the last decade?

Predictions Transformation

DPP spots game-changing trends for media and entertainment at CES 2020

16.01.2020

The DPP has published its renowned annual report on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Tech Leaders' Briefing 2019

17.12.2019

Grow your business with actionable business intelligence from 32 major customers - broadcasters, content platforms and social and technology giants

Cloud Predictions Transformation Research

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.

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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.

Tech Transformation Opinion

Business Benefits of IMF for Advertising

06.09.2019

How will component-based workflows bring efficiencies across the advertising supply chain and unlock new commercial opportunities using IMF?

Advertising Transformation Versioning

Home Truths No.18 – The Localisation Challenge

01.09.2019

How do the relationships between media companies around the localisation and versioning processes required for international distribution need to change?

DPP At Home Cloud File Delivery Transformation Workflows Versioning

Do Brands Hold the Key to the Future of Content?

30.07.2019

Content funding models are being disrupted. Who’s calling the shots? Creators, advertisers, consumers – or all three?

Advertising Predictions Transformation

Could brands hold the key to the future of media?

30.07.2019

A new report from the DPP raises important questions about whether the current content explosion could hit a funding crisis.

Advertising Predictions Transformation

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

Tech Transformation Opinion Implementation

Home Truths No.17 – Preparing for a post broadcast world

06.06.2019

What are the challenges posed by the transition to full IP distribution of content to consumers? How can we ensure smooth delivery of a fully IP future?

DPP At Home Transformation Workflows IP

The two little words we’ll all be saying soon

31.05.2019

I may be the luckiest guy in the media industry.

Transformation Opinion Supply Chain

IMF: Changing the Game for Content Versioning

26.04.2019

Technology is making the world seem smaller, yet perhaps now more than ever, audiences want their locality and their culture reflected in the media they consume.

IMF Tech Transformation Versioning

Survey Report: Blindsided

27.02.2019

Are you in danger of missing highly disruptive trends? Find out what new trends in technology, global media markets and consumer behaviours mean for media

Predictions Transformation Research

Home Truths No.16 The DPP 2019 Predictions

31.01.2019

Which 8 key themes will dominate the media industry in 2019? Find out what DPP members predict, and what we got right, and wrong, in 2018

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2019 Predictions say new business models are key

31.01.2019

The DPP has released its latest set of annual predictions, created by industry experts drawn from its membership.

DPP At Home Predictions Transformation

CES 2019 shows profound trends for media

17.01.2019

Today the DPP published its annual report on the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to its Member companies.

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CES 2019

17.01.2019

Discover the trends from CES 2019 that will have profound implications for media companies, in the context of a decade’s worth of CES trend data

Cloud Predictions Transformation UHD Research AI

Home Truths No.15 AI For Real

08.01.2019

How is AI being applied in the media and where does future potential lie? Where is the real business value and what are the opportunities?

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The DPP creates unique assessment of AI in media

08.01.2019

The DPP has published a new report for its Members that looks in detail at how AI is being applied in the media industry, and where future potential lies

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Home Truths No.14 Communicating Security

18.12.2018

Who’s the weakest link in the chain? Find out why only by listening to the ‘customer’ can security experts really understand how to minimise risk.

DPP At Home Transformation Security

Technology Leaders' Briefing 2018

04.12.2018

Actionable business intelligence from 17 major technology customers - broadcasters, platforms and technology giants. Their top 3 priorities revealed.

Transformation Research

Meet The IMF Pioneers

16.10.2018

How are some of the world’s biggest broadcasters implementing IMF for Broadcast & Online in their workflows?

File Delivery Transformation Workflows Versioning

Home Truths No.13 The Future of Video Advertising

08.10.2018

What are the challenges to the advertising model as both advertising & video move online &, increasingly, to mobile? Will a whole new model emerge?

Advertising DPP At Home Transformation

The Production Business

12.07.2018

The first ever survey of how production companies produce, completed by 57 production companies of all sizes and kinds

Transformation Production Research

Home Truths No.12 Building The Media Cloud

06.06.2018

What would it take to create ideal cloud environments for media? We explore the requirements for building the media industry cloud

DPP At Home Cloud Transformation Workflows

The Future of Media & Entertainment

17.05.2018

When no one knows how everything works, everyone needs someone who understands something.

Transformation Opinion

The Business Benefits of IMF

10.04.2018

This guide helps influencers and decision makers from content supply companies understand the financial and operational benefits of adopting IMF

Tech File Delivery Transformation Workflows Versioning

Survey Report: Why we get trends wrong

26.02.2018

Do media professionals have blind spots when it comes to the technologies they believe really matter? More effective technology trend analysis.

Predictions Transformation Research

Home Truths No.11 The DPP 2018 Predictions

06.02.2018

In 2017 we drew up the first ever DPP predictions. It's time to find out what we got right, what we got wrong, and the next big things for 2018

DPP At Home Predictions Transformation

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

Survey Report: Are we fit for Cyber War?

22.11.2017

Are you proactive in establishing good security practice? Experts discuss the maturity of security thinking in the media sector

Transformation Security Research

Home Truths No.10 Automation

28.09.2017

What happens when the media industry is no longer in control of the future of media? And where will machine learning and AI take the industry next?

DPP At Home Cloud Transformation Connectivity

Home Truths No.9 Building the New Supply Chain

04.07.2017

How does supply chain thinking apply to media companies? What does the new media supply chain look like? And what are the key principles?

DPP At Home Transformation

Meet The… Online Pioneers

20.06.2017

Facebook, Fulwell 73 and Silverback Films reveal the new creative processes behind their creation of the best premium content for online distribution

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Home Truths No.8 - The Need For Speed

10.05.2017

How will businesses transform in the next 5 years? And how could the very shape of the industry be disrupted?

DPP At Home Transformation

Survey Report: The Business Benefits of IP Production

28.03.2017

The first ever assessment of where companies can expect to see the greatest ROI from committing to IP-based production

Cloud Transformation Production Research IP

Meet The… Rising Stars

17.01.2017

Find out about the ways in which new DPP member start-up companies are busy disrupting existing business models

Cloud Predictions Transformation

Meet The… UK Broadcasters 2016

02.11.2016

What types of relationships do broadcasters want as they migrate away from a hardware-centric operation to a software and cloud-driven world?

Transformation Security

File Delivery: The Story So Far

17.05.2015

What made the DPP’s implementation of file delivery in the UK, on 1st October 2014, such an extraordinary example of pan-industry collaboration?

File Delivery Transformation Production Workflows

Major Change for the DPP

26.03.2015

The DPP has today announced it will become a new entity, Digital Production Partnership Ltd (DPP Ltd), from 1 April.

Transformation DPP Update

Why 1st October Delivered More Than Just Files

01.10.2014

The DPP was founded on a simple premise: broadcasters are the ones best placed to make digital easier.

Tech AS-11 File Delivery Transformation Implementation

10 Things You Need to Know About Digital Storage

13.09.2014

Where and how could you store your new digital content? And how can you make it safe, retrievable and affordable for the long term?

File Delivery Transformation Production Workflows 10 Things

DPP Unveils UK File-based Delivery Date

14.09.2013

The DPP has announced today, in a dedicated DPP session at IBC, that UK broadcasters BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will move to file-based programme delivery from 1 October 2014.

Tech AS-11 File Delivery Transformation Implementation

The Creative Revolution

01.05.2013

"How are digital technologies changing creativity? Is the partnership between creativity and technology being strained by change – or invigorated?"

Transformation Production

The Coming Storm?

01.03.2013

How are cloud technologies and processed being applied to broadcast technologies and key media business areas?

Cloud Transformation Production

The Reluctant Revolution

01.09.2011

What are the barriers to end-to-end digital for production? And how could changes in the market, technology and processes tear those barriers down?

Transformation Production

UK Broadcasters Announce Partnership

27.01.2011

The UK’s major public service broadcasters have signed up to the Digital Production Partnership (DPP).

Transformation DPP Update

AI in Media Challenge - Technology Briefing

29.07.2020

Ahead of the AI in Media Challenge we held an exclusive event for the solution providers taking part in the Challenge. Find out what they discussed here.

Tech AI Web Event Video

Transforming IMF with OPL

16.08.2019

The component of IMF which causes the most questions and occasionally confusion is the “Output Profile List” or OPL.

IMF Tech Versioning

Mind the security gap

18.05.2020

Find out how member company Overcast HQ has benefited from taking part in the DPP Committed to Security Programme

Tech Security Certification Opinion

Will IMF replace AMWA AS-11?

30.08.2019

The DPP is famous for making the transition to file-based delivery a reality, by developing a family of specifications built on AMWA AS-11.

IMF Tech AS-11 File Delivery Versioning

NABA and the DPP pave the way for J2K

19.07.2019

The introduction of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) within the media industry has brought a revolution to media workflow processes for film and television.

IMF Tech Specification Versioning

All aboard for IMF at IBC

09.07.2019

At IBC this year we’ll be continuing the DPP’s mission to deliver business insights and real world implementations of IMF for Broadcast & Online

IMF Tech Versioning Implementation

DPP launches new report showcasing cloud-led production

06.02.2020

The DPP has today released a groundbreaking new report exploring how production companies are now using the cloud as a key production tool.

Tech Production Research

The DPP reveals the greatest risks to a full IP future

06.06.2019

The DPP today released an important new report which looks at the challenges posed by the transition to full IP distribution of content to consumers.

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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?

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