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Why broadcasters want more from less

03.05.2023

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

Insight Workshop DPP European Broadcaster Summit Broadcasters

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.

Insight Workshop DPP European Broadcaster Summit Key Design Principles

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.

DPP European Broadcaster Summit

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

Tech Security

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

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

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

European Broadcaster Summit 2024

20-21 March 2023, Munich

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

Networking Insight DPP European Broadcaster Summit

IN PERSON

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.

Tech AI Media Supply Festival Broadcasters Vendors

DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2023

18.04.2023

A summary report outlining 18 key design principles that were agreed at the European Broadcaster Summit 2023.

Insight Workshop DPP European Broadcaster Summit Collaboration

MEMBERS

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.

Networking Insight Workshop DPP 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.

Networking Insight DPP European Broadcaster Summit

IN PERSON

DPP European Broadcaster Summit returning to Berlin in 2023 to facilitate engagement and develop Key Design Principles

17.02.2023

The DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2023 in Berlin will promote understanding and engagement between media companies and suppliers.

DPP European Broadcaster Summit

11.04.2022

A summary report of the DPP's first ever European Broadcaster Summit.

DPP European Broadcaster Summit Collaboration Broadcasters

MEMBERS

DPP European Broadcaster Summit

22-24 March 2022

An exclusive new conference event bringing together broadcasters from across Europe to share and discuss key messages with their supplier community.

Networking Insight DPP European Broadcaster Summit

IN PERSON

European Broadcaster Summit in Berlin will tackle industry’s biggest challenges

10.03.2022

The DPP's inaugural European Broadcaster Summit will serve as an information exchange for media companies and the technology supply chain, promoting collaboration and engagement.

Cloud Sustainability DPP European Broadcaster Summit

What's coming up

If you'd like to get involved with our upcoming projects and events, here is our calendar for the year.

What's coming up at the DPP

'Future Ready Media Organisations' shows artificial intelligence delivering value, despite underwhelming impact of some technology transformation initiatives

14.11.2023

12 media companies contributed to in-depth survey interviews to explore future preparedness. Discover which tech investments are leading to actual business benefits in 'Future Ready Media Organisations'?

Sustainability Transformation News Strategy

Leaders' Briefing 2023

8-9 November 2023, London

The DPP Leaders’ Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry, happening in person only.

Tech Transformation Leaders' Briefing

IN PERSON

Future Ready Media Organisations

06.11.2023

What are the technology investments and strategies of Future Ready Media Organisations? Explore how broadcast companies are preparing for future success.

Cloud Sustainability Transformation Research AI Insight

MEMBERS

Sustainability Knowledge Exchange 2023

The DPP online Sustainability Knowledge Exchange was where experts from major broadcasters and leading media technology suppliers provided updates about their sustainability plans, shared ideas about upcoming initiatives, and explained how they are working towards reducing their environmental impact.

Sustainability Networking Workshop

DPP Sustainability Knowledge Exchange 2023

18th October - 16:00 BST

Join the DPP for this exclusive online Sustainability Knowledge Exchange, where experts from major broadcasters and leading media technology suppliers will provide updates about their sustainability plans, share ideas about upcoming initiatives, and explain how they are working towards reducing their environmental impact.

Sustainability Networking Workshop

ONLINE

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.

Workflows Research Survey Operational Effectiveness Hybrid Working

MEMBERS

ZDF Surveys

An outline of the benchmarking work that the DPP is performing with ZDF.

Recommendations & Guidance

Find all of the DPP's technology projects and updates here.

Tech

Tomorrow's News

The DPP examines the business and technology models of future newsrooms.

News Tomorrow's News

Five key quotes from DPP 2023 Predictions - Industry leaders on FAST, Generative AI, Transformation, Innovation and Sustainability

10.03.2023

Media and tech executives in their own words about the biggest trends for the next year.

Sustainability Transformation Innovation Generative AI FAST

Calls for media companies and supply chain to rehearse collective cyber response

27.04.2022

Expert contributors to Cyber Security Secrets call for collective effort to mitigate cyber incident which could impact multiple organisations.

Security

European Broadcaster Summit

At this event, European broadcasters shared and discussed key messages with their supplier community.

Networking Insight DPP European Broadcaster Summit

Sustainability seeds sewn into DPP's trends, predictions and leadership work

08.04.2022

Going green has been a central theme from broadcasters and media suppliers in the DPP's latest events and insight reports.

Sustainability

Tackling Scope 3 emissions - How media organisations are building a sustainable supply chain

31.03.2022

Leaders from RTL Nederland, Atos, Red Bee and Deluxe share advice on tackling Scope 3 emissions.

Sustainability Leaders' Network

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.

Recommendation Tech Update Tech Network

Leaders' Briefing 2021

Senior executives from major media organisations shared three priorities for the year ahead at the Leaders' Briefing 2021.

Tech Transformation Webinar Leaders' Briefing

Leaders' Briefing 2021 - Day 2

18 November 2021

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

Tech Transformation Webinar Leaders' Briefing

IN PERSON

Leaders' Briefing 2021 - Day 1

17 November 2021

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

Tech Transformation Webinar Leaders' Briefing

IN PERSON

RDD6 Metadata XML Generator

A simple web application for generating RDD-6 XML metadata files.

Tech File Delivery Metadata

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.

Research Insight The Cloud For Media

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.

IMF Tech Specification Versioning

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

Tech AI

Tech Leaders Briefing 2020

Senior executives from major media organisations shared exclusive intelligence about their priorities for the year ahead at the DPP Tech Leaders' Briefing 2020.

Tech Leaders' Briefing

DPP Tech Leader's Briefing 2020 - Day Three

18 November 2020

Featuring a special keynote and the view from the European broadcasters.

Tech Leaders' Briefing

Rise Awards 2020

17 November 2020

Come and celebrate the outstanding talent, skills, expertise and achievements of exceptional women across the broadcast technology and services sectors!

Tech Leaders' Briefing External Webinar

DPP Tech Leader's Briefing 2020 - Day Two

17 November 2020

Featuring content providers from the Sport and News communities.

Tech Leaders' Briefing

DPP Tech Leader's Briefing 2020 - Day One

16 November 2020

Featuring UK Broadcasters, and North American Networks Part One.

Tech Leaders' Briefing

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.

Advertising IMF Tech Workflows Versioning Opinion Implementation

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

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

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.

Public Webinar

How is the industry using the Committed to Security Programme?

10.03.2020

So far 42 member companies have completed the checklists for production, broadcast, or both. But how are they putting their results into action?

Security Opinion

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

MEMBERS

News Organisations Collaborate Through the DPP

13.12.2019

For a number of years we have been working with news organisations to facilitate collaboration and information exchange.

Tech News Metadata

DPP launches industry-wide sustainability initiative

14.11.2019

The DPP today launched a major new initiative to promote environmentally sustainable practices among suppliers and content providers.

Tech Sustainability Certification

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?

Opinion Tech Leaders' Briefing IP Supply Chain

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

How do you like your IMF in the morning?

27.09.2019

A report from the DPP’s IMF Breakfast Briefing at IBC 2019

Advertising IMF Tech Versioning Implementation

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

DPP and NABA launch IMF Application Constraint DPP (JPEG2000) published by SMPTE

23.08.2019

The DPP in collaboration with NABA has today announced the publication of the second SMPTE Technical Specification (TSP) for the IMF for broadcast and online use cases.

IMF Tech Specification Versioning

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

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

DPP guidance makes IMF implementation easier

17.07.2019

The DPP has today released four documents to support the industry’s deployment of IMF for Broadcast & Online.

IMF Tech Versioning Recommendation Implementation Guidance

DPP Live Delivery Requirements [Template]

This document outlines the technical requirements for the delivery of Live programmes to UK broadcasters.

Tech Delivery Requirements Live

UK HD Promos and Presentation [Template]

This document outlines the technical requirements for the delivery of HD Promotions and Presentation material to UK broadcasters.

Advertising Tech File Delivery Delivery Requirements

UK HD Commercials and Sponsorship [Template]

This document outlines the technical requirements for the delivery of HD Commercials and Sponsorship material to UK broadcasters.

Advertising Tech File Delivery Delivery Requirements

Supplement for Super16mm

This document details the requirements for delivering programmes to UK Broadcasters which have been produced using Super16 film.

Tech File Delivery

QC Requirements

This document describes the QC checks required to deliver a valid AS-11 DPP that meets technical requirements of UK broadcasters.

Tech File Delivery QC

DPP Supplement - PSE Devices

This document contains a list of products that have been agreed by the UK broadcasters to competently perform PSE testing.

Tech File Delivery QC

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

Unlocking Opportunities with IMF for Advertising

07.06.2019

TV and Online advertising have started to converge over the last few years. What does this mean for TV ad sales and operations teams?

Advertising IMF Tech Workflows Versioning

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.

Tech DPP At Home Distribution IP

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.

IMF Tech Versioning Supply Chain Implementation

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)

Tech AS-11 Specification File Delivery Delivery Requirements

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

MEMBERS

DPP launches AMWA AS-11 X1 UHD specification

23.10.2018

The DPP has today announced the release of a new technical specification to support broadcasters delivering (UHD) programmes

Tech AS-11 Specification File Delivery UHD

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

MEMBERS

DPP and SMPTE launch IMF specification

16.08.2018

The DPP has announced the release of a new technical specification to support the mastering and international exchange of content

IMF Tech Specification Versioning

The Future of Media & Entertainment

17.05.2018

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

Transformation Opinion

DPP & SMPTE will fast-track IMF for broadcast

13.07.2017

The DPP today announced that it will partner with SMPTE to develop a specification for a new version of the IMF.

IMF Tech Specification Versioning

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

DPP agrees requirements for News Exchange

15.04.2016

The DPP and its News Exchange working group has been busy collaborating on the development of a minimum metadata specification for exchanging news content between UK Broadcasters and agencies.

Tech News Metadata Business Requirements

DPP helps accelerate industry move to UHD

27.01.2016

The DPP has today announced a technical standard for the delivery of Ultra High Definition (UHD) programmes.

Tech DPP At Home Production Workflows UHD Implementation

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.

Advertising Tech Delivery Requirements

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 Launches Quality Control Guidelines

13.03.2014

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

Tech File Delivery QC

DPP to develop Compliance Programme

06.03.2014

The DPP is working to create a Compliance Programme that will ensure manufacturers meet the AS-11 DPP standard.

Tech AS-11 File Delivery Certification Implementation

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

DPP Launches Live Technical Standards

04.10.2012

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

Tech Distribution Delivery Requirements Live

First DPP File-Based UK Delivery: Emmerdale

27.09.2012

Emmerdale becomes the first British television production to adopt the DPP’s new Technical and Metadata Standards for file-based programme delivery.

AS-11 File Delivery Metadata Implementation

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.

Tech AS-11 File Delivery Metadata Delivery Requirements

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

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.

Tech Delivery Requirements