The DPP, the media industry's business network, has published its summary report of the DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025, which took place in Cologne, Germany from March 12-13.
The European Broadcaster Summit 2025 was the fourth edition of the DPP's gathering of technology and business leaders from major European media companies, along with their partners and members of the supplier community. Some 30 European media companies attended.
Download DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025 summary report
Participating broadcasters were:
BBC, CME (PRO TV, ProPlus, RTL Hrvatska, TV Nova & TV Markiza), France Télévisions, Hearst Networks EMEA, ITV, Mediaset, NRK, ORF, ProSiebenSat.1, Proximus Media House, RTL Deutschland, RTL Nederland, Sky Deutschland, SRF, SVT, SWR, TF1, TV2 Kosmopol, TV2 Norway, UKTV, WDR, Yle, ZDF, and ZDF Studios.
At the conference, broadcasters and suppliers took part in highly engaging workshop sessions, including a live survey exploring different aspects of European broadcasting and the media technology landscape. The European Broadcaster Summit 2025 summary report provides a summary of the key messages and survey analysis in the following topics:
- The technology drivers of transformation
- Vendor ecosystems, product modularity, integrations, and customisation
- Media technology procurement and engagement
- Broadcaster communications and business alignment
- A sentiment analysis on the State of the European Media Technology Market
“The surveys and report analysis highlights areas of clear tension as well as striking alignment — with both broadcasters and suppliers acknowledging how they can be better partners,” says report author Edward Qualtrough, DPP Editorial Director. “This report highlights the tension between the desire for transformative change and the practical challenges of legacy systems, budget constraints, and organisational resistance.”
The most heated discussions related to technology integrations, modularity and customisations. While European broadcasters expressed frustration with a lack of seamless integration between vendors' products, suppliers themselves feel they are providing necessary modularity.
Furthermore, media companies are critical that vendors have not developed mature and fully connected product ecosystems, but broadcasters also concede that their own desire to customise products is preventing this.
The DPP European Broadcaster Summit 2025 was enabled by Headline Sponsor Red Bee Media, and Supporting Sponsors Akamai, Avid, Microsoft, and Snowflake.
The summary report can be downloaded by all DPP members here. If you are not a DPP member, and would like to know more about becoming one, please contact membership@thedpp.com.
