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Kitplus talk market disruption, consolidation and taking risks with DPP CEO, Mark Harrison.
How a chance meeting helped two DPP member companies create exciting new business opportunities.
At this special RTS event the DPP reflected on the key milestones of the last decade, and the probable trends for the next.
Dick Hobbs from KitPlus TV interviews DPP MD Mark Harrison, about the background of the DPP, what good operating practices will look like post-pandemic, and the future of AI in media.
Your DPP: Quarterly Update (July)
8 July 2025
Your DPP is an opportunity to get (re)acquainted with your DPP membership, and to find out what we have coming up and how you can get involved.
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Innovation Showcase: June
17 June 2025
An opportunity for the DPP and for our members to share the latest technical updates and participate in a discussion around them.
Your DPP: Quarterly Update (April)
29 April 2025
DPP Advisory Group: March
3 March 2025, 16:30 GMT
A group of representatives from the DPP membership, which meets quarterly to help us build a better DPP for you.
Innovation Showcase: February
11 February 2025, 16:00 GMT
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Multiple speakers also emphasised the need for operational effectiveness due to increased pressures to reduce costs.
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Innovation Showcase: October 24
29 October 2024, 16:00 GMT
DPP Advisory Group: October
22 October 2024, 16:30 GMT
Your DPP: Quarterly Update (October)
1 October 2024
DPP Tech Update: July
11 July 2024, 16:00 BST
DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.
DPP Advisory Group: June
18 June 2024, 16:30 BST
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.
DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2024 summary report shows how media companies and suppliers are looking to approach key industry challenges.
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 Tech Update: March
12 March, 15:30 GMT
DPP Advisory Group: February
8 February 2024, 16:30 GMT
Your privacy is important to us. Learn how the DPP manages your information.
Explore sponsorship opportunities with the DPP, to associate your brand with our events and insight.
DPP Advisory Group: December
7 December 2023, 16:30 GMT
The keyword at the Leaders’ Briefing 2023 was AI, but the key theme was business effectiveness.
DPP Tech Update: October
24 October, 4:00pm BST
The DPP has published its assessment of how well vendors at IBC 2023 met the current needs of their customers.
13th July, 4:00pm BST
DPP Advisory Group: July
11 July 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.
For the first time, the DPP has published a unique market assessment from the NAB show.
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.
21 March 2023
CES 2023 is the only report that examines consumer trends from a media industry perspective.
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.
DPP Tech Network: October
31 October 2022
Building on its success as a membership organisation, the DPP has announced plans to become fully self-sufficient.
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.
28 June 2022
A group of representatives from the DPP membership get together to help us build a better DPP for you.
DPP Tech Network: June
20 June 2022
At the 2022 DPP Media Supply Festival, over 160 customers and suppliers were brought together to explore the transformation of media supply processes. The DPP Media Supply Manifesto 2022 summarises the key themes, challenges, and changes that unfolded.
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.
Integration Expertise
Investigate one of the most important questions: who is best placed to deliver successful integration?
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DPP Tech Network: February
14 February 2022
How will the media industry grow and adapt to rapid change and colossal demand for content in turbulent economic conditions? Find out in the DPP 2022 Predictions.
2 February 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.
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.
Values, workforce, skills, engagement and diversity are critical and profound part of business transformation agenda, DPP Leaders’ Briefing 2021 shows.
In the DPP Leaders’ Briefing 2021 summary report, content providers challenged supplier ecosystem to help tackle biggest tech challenges and deliver for customers.
The DPP Leaders' Briefing 2021 summary report presents an exclusive picture of where the media industry is heading.
DPP Tech Network: November
1 November 2021
20 October 2021
DPP Tech Network: July
12 July 2021
DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them
15 June 2021
DPP Tech Network: April
26 April 2021
Going Live & Remote is a major research project exploring the recent explosion in the creation of live content by distributed work teams
9 March 2021
How will a media industry focused on survival and redefinition become more adaptable and accepting of risk in order to both survive and thrive throughout 2021? Find out in the DPP 2021 Predictions.
DPP Tech Network: January 2021
At this Tech Network update we discussed recent DPP technical insights, updates to DPP technical projects and projects on the roadmap for 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 Tech Network: January
18 January 2021
The purpose of the DPP Tech Leaders’ Briefing is to generate focused business intelligence, and this year didn’t disappoint. A unique picture of the business direction being set by leading decision makers is presented in the summary report.
2 December 2020
Commercial Relationships: Embedding value
30 November 2020
What kinds of business relationships will we need in the future? Our final Design for Tomorrow webcast explores how suppliers and customers can best support one another.
Distribution: Delivering for audiences
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 webcast asks the experts.
Content Creation: Producing ingenuity
15 October 2020
2020 has been traumatic for production. How can the highest risk part of the industry be ready for next time? Find out at this special Design for Tomorrow webcast.
5 October 2020
Libraries and Archives: Managing media inventory
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 webcast.
‘Burrito economics’ has become a useful shorthand for truly understanding manufacturing costs. But are we any nearer understanding the value relationship between consumers, their content, and how we manufacture and deliver it?
Content Preparation: Building the agile media factory
24 September 2020
Join us in this Design for Tomorrow webcast to explore the key supply chain processes of content receipt, and preparation for distribution and archive.
DPP Exclusive
17 September 2020
We’ll explore analytics, efficiency, the health of the media economy and much more at this invitation-only summit for 50 senior leaders from the membership of the DPP.
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.
A new DPP report, Key Design Principles, provides practical guidance, and five foundational components, for any organisation determined to build back better from the turmoil of 2020.
Discover the five Key Design Principles for any organisation determined to build back better from the turmoil of 2020, and equip your company to succeed, even when the future is unknown.
This latest DPP report gives an unprecedented industry-wide view of the opportunities and challenges of building media workflows in the cloud.
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.
DPP Tech Network
16 March 2020
DPP members meet to discuss IMF technology development, implementation, and AS-11 file delivery.
DPP Advisory Group
10 March 2020
A group of representatives from the DPP membership, which meets quarterly to help us build a better DPP for you
The DPP today published its annual media industry predictions, in partnership with DPP member company Imagen.
The industry continues to split discussions about technology and business practice, but this discourse needs to change, says DPP managing director Mark Harrison.
A report from the DPP’s IMF Breakfast Briefing at IBC 2019
As a UK Public Service Broadcaster, ITV is regulated by Ofcom, which oversees the provision of accessible content on our broadcast platforms.
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.
The introduction of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) within the media industry has brought a revolution to media workflow processes for film and television.
Every year we run a survey to check in with the whole DPP membership and find out how we’re doing.
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
We promise it’s not just alphabet soup.
TV and Online advertising have started to converge over the last few years. What does this mean for TV ad sales and operations teams?
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.
Bright and early on Tuesday morning, a dedicated group of enthusiastic DPP members turned out at our NAB breakfast briefing.
Home Truths No.16 The DPP 2019 Predictions
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
The DPP has released its latest set of annual predictions, created by industry experts drawn from its membership.
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
The DPP has today announced the release of a new technical specification to support broadcasters delivering (UHD) programmes
Meet The IMF Pioneers
How are some of the world’s biggest broadcasters implementing IMF for Broadcast & Online in their workflows?
The DPP has today announced it will become a new entity, Digital Production Partnership Ltd (DPP Ltd), from 1 April.
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