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European broadcasters and vendors are evolving closer relationships, finds the DPP

19.04.2023

New for this year, this post event report provides a summary of 18 key design principles that were agreed at the European Broadcaster Summit 2023.

European Broadcaster Summit

IBC 2026: Demand vs Supply

05.10.2026

Our latest report explores three themes that emerged at IBC 2026: Agentic Advantage, Interoperability Reimagined, and Live in Play.

Demand vs Supply

MEMBERS

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

What we learned at the Media Supply Festival 2026

26.06.2026

Key messages and themes from the Media Supply Festival 2026 - and the session videos that enable you to dive deeper.

Transformation AI Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

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.

NAB 2026: Demand vs Supply

05.05.2026

The report explores the evolving relationship between technology vendors and content companies through key themes that shaped the conversation at NAB 2026.

Demand vs Supply

MEMBERS

NAB in 2026: The State of the Trade Show

01.05.2026

Based on the conversations with the many contributors to this report at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the overall impression was that NAB in 2026 felt significantly quieter and more subdued than in previous years. This tallied with our own observations while walking around the show floors.

NAB Demand vs Supply

The Other Broadcast Industry - Impressions from ISE 2026

23.02.2026

ISE is growing while broadcast shows are shrinking. Is AV Broadcast is now shaping the future of production? And what does this mean for Media and Entertainment industry?

AV Broadcast

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

Customer caution holds back AI innovation at IBC, says new DPP report

06.10.2025

Demand vs Supply provides a unique snapshot of the media and entertainment industry’s two largest trade shows, charting how customer needs are evolving, and how suppliers are responding.

Demand vs Supply

Have green goals dropped off the media industry agenda?

14.08.2025

DPP Sustainability Pulse Check 2025 reveals industry's attitudes to the green agenda

Sustainability

NAB 2025: Demand vs Supply

22.04.2025

The report explores three key business challenges identified by DPP members as priorities: Content QC, Virtualisation, and Content Monetisation.

Cloud Monetisation Demand vs Supply Archive

MEMBERS

Broadcaster customisations and lack of connected vendor ecosystems hindering media transformation, DPP European Broadcaster Summit report finds

08.04.2025

The European Broadcaster Summit 2025 summary report provides an outline of the key messages and survey analysis in some of the key industry topics.

Cloud Transformation 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 launches Live Production Exchange for live broadcasters

13.12.2024

The DPP has launched a pioneering new initiative, DPP Live Production Exchange (LPX).

Suppliers are helping customers to cut costs, says DPP report

26.09.2024

The DPP has published its analysis of IBC 2024, and found media technology suppliers are responding to their customers’ need to reduce costs.

Production News IBC

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

Balancing the art and the science of media tech machine learning implementations

29.08.2024

August 2024 episode of the DPP Podcast features Mediagenix product and marketing leaders discussing the 'human-in-the-loop' approach to product strategy and development.

Cyber security

Promoting cyber security best practice in the media industry

Security

Media companies are assessing how changing business models will affect the supply chain

13.06.2024

At the end of May, the DPP Media Supply Festival returned to New York. The event brought together experts and practitioners from media and technology companies from across the USA and beyond to share ideas and insights about today’s - and tomorrow’s - media supply chain.

AI Media Supply Festival

The Shifting Landscape of Sustainability in Media Technology

02.05.2024

Kristan Bullett, CEO of Humans Not Robots, on how technology suppliers and buyers can adopt sustainable practices and to contribute to shaping the industry's future

Sustainability

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

Vaporware evaporates at NAB 2024, reports DPP

29.04.2024

DPP Technology Strategist David Thompson visits NAB 2024 to research Co-Pilot AI, Next Generation AdTech, Content Integrity and Increasing Accessibility, and analyse whether industry solutions are satisfying customer demands

European Broadcaster Summit shows convergence of broadcast into an IT and software world

11.04.2024

DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2024 summary report shows how media companies and suppliers are looking to approach key industry challenges.

Cloud Transformation AI European Broadcaster Summit

Photo highlights from the DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2024

27.03.2024

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

European Broadcaster Summit

European Broadcaster Summit 2024

20-21 March 2024, Munich

A unique leadership engagement conference which brings together senior executives from major European content providers and their supplier community to explore common challenges.

European Broadcaster Summit

Only global giants are making headway with generative AI, reveals DPP’s CES 2024 analysis

18.01.2024

While the global technology giants may be investing billions in generative AI, the industry in general has very little capital to spend.

DPP appoints Jess Goode as Head of Member Engagement

16.01.2024

Jess will work directly with the executive team to lead the DPP’s member success programme, helping member companies to get the most out of the DPP’s activities.

DPP News News

Hybrid Working in the Media Industry

09.10.2023

Where has the media sector settled in its post-pandemic recovery? Read DPP's hybrid working report to find out.

Cloud Transformation

MEMBERS

DPP research finds IBC 2023 was about modularity, not Gen AI

29.09.2023

The DPP has published its assessment of how well vendors at IBC 2023 met the current needs of their customers.

IBC

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

Media Supply Festival 2023

1-2 June 2023, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

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

The DPP reveals how supply is meeting demand at NAB2023

10.05.2023

For the first time, the DPP has published a unique market assessment from the NAB show.

Cloud AI NAB

Why broadcasters want more from less

03.05.2023

DPP CEO Mark Harrison reflects on the European Broadcaster Summit 2023.

European Broadcaster Summit

Photo highlights from the DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2023

04.04.2023

The DPP's second exclusive conference event brought together broadcasters from across Europe to share and discuss key messages with their supplier community.

European Broadcaster Summit

European Broadcaster Summit 2023

29-30 March 2023, Berlin

The DPP's second exclusive conference event bringing together broadcasters from across Europe to share and discuss key messages with their supplier community.

European Broadcaster Summit

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

The Future of Localisation

20.02.2023

The DPP has spoken with more than 50 experts from content creators, streaming platforms, localisation service providers, and technology vendors, to find out whether we're on the brink of an automated localisation revolution.

AI Localisation

MEMBERS

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.

It’s time for efficiency, say speakers at DPP Leaders’ Briefing

05.12.2022

This year’s event saw a significant strategic shift. After years of emphasis on building new direct to consumer services, the priority now is efficiency.

Leaders' Briefing

New DPP report reveals true picture about customer and vendor relationships

16.11.2022

It contains information on how both parties would like to change procurement processes, and how to manage and improve ongoing relations.

How To Buy Better

16.11.2022

How To Buy Better reveals the true picture about customer and vendor relationships.

Transformation

MEMBERS

How To Buy Better Expert Panel

25 October 2022

A small expert panel of senior executives will provide their views for DPP's How To Buy Better project.

Workshop

How To Buy Better Workshop

20 October 2022

A private workshop to gather qualitative views from experts for DPP's groundbreaking How To Buy Better insight project.

Workshop

‘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.

Media Supply Festival 2022

At the Festival, over 160 customers and suppliers were brought together to explore the transformation of media supply processes.

Media Supply Festival

Media Supply Festival 2022

18-19 May 2022

Join the DPP in person in Dulles, USA for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Members

European broadcasters look for strategic relationships to help enable transformation

11.04.2022

At the DPP European Broadcaster Summit, broadcasters from across Europe came together to share and discuss key messages with their supplier community. This report provides a summary of the themes that emerged.

European Broadcaster Summit

Integration Expertise

30.03.2022

Investigate one of the most important questions: who is best placed to deliver successful integration?

Transformation Metadata

MEMBERS

DPP Leaders' Network: Sustainable Supply Chain

At this event we looked at real world examples of how vendors are working together to help deliver both their own sustainability goals, and those of their customers.

Supply Chain

DPP Leaders' Network: Sustainable Supply Chain

9 March 2022

We'll look at real world examples of how vendors are working together to help deliver both their own sustainability goals, and those of their customers.

Supply Chain

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

Recommendation DPP001 Live IP Profiles updated to version 1.1

07.12.2021

The document defines a number of profiles for the exchange of live content over IP networks, maximising interoperability between parties by limiting the number of different profiles in use.

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

Media Supply Festival 2021

The festival brought together content companies, cloud providers, integrators, and startups to explore software-defined content supply chains.

Transformation Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Media Supply Festival Day 2 - Building for Success

8 September 2021

Spend time at the cutting edge of theory and practice around supply chain. The second day features the Online Demo Zone and more Media Supply Conference sessions.

Transformation Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Members

Media Supply Festival Day 1 - The Media Factory Today

7 September 2021

Be part of a new breed of event for the people building the media factories of tomorrow. Day 1 includes the Online Demo Zone, Supply Chain Live, and the first set of Media Supply Conference sessions.

Transformation Supply Chain Media Supply Festival

Members

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.

Better TV for Everyone with Addressable Advertising and IMF

04.11.2020

IMF for Advertising increases speed and efficiency, and decreases storage requirements. Find out how you can get involved in live tests of real ads from creative agencies to demonstrate these benefits.

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

Thinking Out Cloud

15 September 2020

Experts from across the media ecosystem discuss the key principles that should underpin your cloud strategy, and its practical implementation, in this exclusive DPP webinar.

Cloud Transformation

Members

Adding descriptive metadata to IMF for Ads

03.04.2020

The DPP IMF for Advertising project group have been exploring the business benefits of making improvements to workflows in the video advertising supply chain.

Metadata

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

How Coronavirus is impacting the media industry

26 March 2020

A live webcast from the DPP and the IABM, bringing together broadcasters, production companies and vendors to share their knowledge and experience regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the media industry.

Transformation

Public

DPP adds auxiliary track for sign-interpretation to IMF

04.12.2019

The DPP has today released two documents that extend the functionality of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) through the development of an Auxiliary Image Sequence Plug-in.

Tech Leaders' Briefing 2019

13 & 14 November 2019

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

Leaders' Briefing

Members

Media executives call for greater collaboration around localisation

01.11.2019

The DPP released a new report to its members today on the localisation and versioning processes required for the international distribution of content.

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

A free, open API to turbo charge IMF: imf-mm-api

21.06.2019

We promise it’s not just alphabet soup.

Why IMF Matters for Broadcast & Online

10.05.2019

Two years ago, the DPP set out to make IMF a reality for both our members and the industry as a whole, through technical work and implementation support.

Supply Chain

PBS to adopt AMWA AS-11 X9 specification

03.04.2019

The DPP, in collaboration with the NABA and AMWA, is delighted to announce the adoption of AMWA AS-11 X9: MXF Program Contribution – NABA DPP HD (AVC)

AS-11 File Delivery

Broadcasters support DPP Security mark

12.09.2018

We’re delighted to announce that 30 suppliers have now been awarded the DPP Committed to Security marka

Security

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 News