Media services provider Prime Focus Technologies and OpenAI partner Microsoft have been working together to make Co-pilot AI a reality for media and entertainment. As part of the DPP's 'Demand vs Supply' analysis of NAB, we look at how the two companies are using the latest AI tools to respond to customer needs. How do you road test such new tech? What do we mean by 'creative AI'? And what is GenAI really for: saving money, or making it?

Show Notes

DPP Founder Mark Harrison speaks with:

Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Prime Focus Technologies — Founder, President & CEO
Andy Beach, Microsoft — CTO, Media & Entertainment

Need an AI cheat code for NAB? Take a look at our AI in Media report - it tells you all you need to know.

How has the BBC been using automation technologies for 30 years, and in what ways has the corporation implemented artificial intelligence capabilities in its wildlife shows and working with its orchestras? How is media industry technology provider Ateliere developing solutions and working with customers on AI partnerships? In this episode of the DPP podcast, Rowan de Pomerai speaks with Ateliere CTO Ryan Kido and BBC Solution Lead Morag McIntosh to find out more about 'good' uses of AI in media.

Show Notes

Ryan Kido, Ateliere — CTO
Morag McIntosh, BBC — Solution Lead

Part 1 of the DPP podcast "What does 'good' AI look like?" is here, featuring Avid CTO Kevin Riley and Google Product Manager Melika Golkaram.

DPP members can go here to download AI in Media: What does good look like?

Who should ultimately be responsible for the oversight, governance and implementation of artificial intelligence capabilities in media organisations? And in which parts of media workflows are AI tools most mature, and where is there the biggest room for opportunity? These are some of the questions tackled in the DPP report AI in Media: What does good look like? And to discuss some of the findings, media industry experts from Avid and Google came on the DPP podcast to talk about the latest innovations and trends.

Show Notes

Joining the DPP's Rowan de Pomerai and Edward Qualtrough to discuss artificial intelligence in the media industry are:

Kevin Riley, Avid — CTO
Melika Golkaram, Google — Product Manager

Part 2 of the DPP podcast "What does 'good' AI look like?" is here, featuring Ateliere CTO Ryan Kido and BBC Solution Lead Morag McIntosh.

DPP members can go here to download AI in Media: What does good look like?

The DPP 2024 Predictions report published in February 2024 reveals an industry striving to achieve a position of complete technical, commercial and business flexibility — able to respond to whatever challenges might come next for media, entertainment, technology and broadcasting organisations. And that viewpoint isn’t dreamt up by the DPP themselves, but developed by 30 expert practitioners who debate, vote on and co-create statements about the state of the industry.

But is it actually delusional to aspire to reach such a position of infinite flexibility? Zixi CEO Gordon Brooks and Warner Bros. Discover Sports Technology Lead, Darren Long, came on the DPP podcast to explore industry trends, investigate why there are fewer predictions about specific technologies taking off in media, discuss the impact artificial intelligence will have on our work, and share what there is to be most excited by in the sector.

Show Notes

DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Gordon Brooks — Zixi, CEO [2min 12sec]
Darren Long — Warner Bros. Discovery, Sports Technology Integration Project Lead [21min 00sec]

The DPP 2024 Predictions report is available here.

What are the major consumer technology innovation trends, and what does it all mean for the media industry? For 15 years, DPP CEO Mark Harrison has attended the CES show in Las Vegas and reported back on the technologies shaping our personal and professional lives. In this episode of the DPP podcast, we present Mark's audio diary from CES, where he also met media and entertainment experts from the BBC, Vubiquity and Hollywood Professional Association to reflect on what actually matters to the industry.

Show Notes

DPP CEO Mark Harrison shares his audio diary, musings and highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show 2024 in Las Vegas. On his travels he is joined by:

Laura Ellis, BBC — Head of Technology Forecasting, BBC R&D [9min 55sec]
Seth Hallen, Light Iron — Managing Director & HPA President [14min 10sec]
Craig German, HPA — Member of the board [14min 10sec]
Justin Beaudin, Vubiquity — Chief Operating Officer [27min 40sec]

DPP members can access Mark Harrison's report here — CES 2024: What consumer trends mean for the media industry.

What are the less-discussed media industry trends to focus on in 2024? And what are the technologies, themes and hype that's best avoided? Digesting the major media, entertainment and broadcast technology and business developments of 2023, DPP CEO Mark Harrison and CTO Rowan de Pomerai talk about the non-mainstream trends that will shape the sector, share some industry highlights and lowlights, pitch their 'Antipredictions' of what's best avoided, and look forward to being part of an industry in change in 2024.

Show Notes

Sharing their media industry foresight, this episode features:

Mark Harrison, DPP CEO
Rowan de Pomerai, DPP CTO

The DPP Leaders' Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry. The DPP Leaders’ Briefing 2023 showcased technology and business experts from more than 30 media companies, each sharing their top three priorities for the coming year. And in this episode of the DPP podcast, Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough catches up with speakers, exhibitors and attendees from TikTok, Warner Bros. Discovery, RTÉ, ITV Studios, NPAW, nxtedition, Caretta Research and Wolftech to digest some of the major themes from the event. To what extent did artificial intelligence really dominate discussions, and what was the experience of speakers and attendees?

Show notes

In this episode, DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Deirdre Temple, Head of Solutions, Technology | RTÉ [2min 00sec]
Brian Wynne, Head of Technology, Infrastructure | RTÉ [2min 00sec]
Abigail Hughes, Director of Sales Operations for Global Partnership | ITV Studios [5min 32sec]
Natalina Manni, Head of Content Strategy & Operations, Europe, Russia & Israel | TikTok [8min 34sec]
Rebecca Jackson, Marketing and Business Development | Caretta Research [10min 38sec]
Renata Andriusyte, Northern and Central Europe Director | NPAW [14min 46sec]
Till Sudworth, CMO and Head of BU Video | NPAW [14min 46sec]
JJ Eynon, Director of Engineering, CNN | Warner Bros. Discovery [18min 40sec]
Adam Leah, Creative Director | nxtedition [21min 34sec]
Arne Berven, CEO | Wolftech [24min 16sec]

With special thanks to filmmaker, director and editor Mark Levermore for recording the video and audio from the DPP Leaders' Briefing 2023.

Sanjeevan Bala is ITV Chief Data & AI Officer. In Part 2 of the DPP's calm reflections about artificial intelligence in the media industry, Sanjeevan speaks with DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough to offer the content provider perspective about AI in media. He discusses:

• The genus of his Chief Data & AI Officer role [1min 47sec]
• Identifying opportunities and developing guardrails [5min 01sec]
• Running immersive AI workshops with ITV leadership [8min 54sec]
• Commodisation and consumerisation of AI capabilities [12min 50sec]
• Balancing cost and value; and comparing 10x vs marginal opportunities [16min 10 sec]
• When to partner, build and buy with AI solutions? [20min 36sec]
• 'Taking the model to the data' and the roadmap to AI at the Edge [23min 55sec]
• Why you don’t need an AI strategy [27min 29sec]
• Macro trends and conjecture about the future impact of AI in media [29min 55sec]

In Part 1 we spoke with Johanna Björklund, Co-founder and CTO at media technology startups Adlede and Codemill, as well as Associate Professor in Theoretical Computer Science with a focus on semantic analysis of multimodal data at Umeå University. You can listen to that episode here.