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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.

AI Strategy

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

Content Delivery

Driving best practice in business-to-business content exchange across the supply chain

Advertising IMF Tech AS-11 File Delivery UHD Metadata Implementation Live VOD

IMF Versioning and Mastering

Providing simpler and more efficient mastering, localisation and versioning

Advertising IMF Tech File Delivery Versioning Metadata Implementation QC

AS-11 Air-Ready Masters

Explore the DPP specifications that revolutionised file-based delivery of TV content

Advertising Tech AS-11 File Delivery Metadata Implementation

Metadata

Better data enables seamless exchange, simpler management, and enhanced discovery

IMF Tech AS-11 File Delivery AI News Metadata Implementation VOD

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.

Tech Security Implementation

Improving Sustainability Practices

12.07.2021

IMG Studios explain their journey to environmental sustainability.

Tech Sustainability Opinion Implementation

DPP publishes guidance for VOD supplier onboarding

24.03.2021

This new guidance sets out commonly agreed best practices that are simple to implement and can drive significant time and cost savings. It is recommended reading for both senders and receivers of VOD content.

Tech File Delivery Workflows Implementation Guidance VOD

DPP007 - Content Supplier Onboarding

This guidance sets out commonly agreed best practices that are simple to implement and can drive significant time and cost savings.

Tech File Delivery Workflows Implementation Guidance VOD

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

DPP charts the path to the cloud for media companies

17.08.2020

This latest DPP report gives an unprecedented industry-wide view of the opportunities and challenges of building media workflows in the cloud.

Tech Cloud Transformation Research Supply Chain Implementation

The Cloud for Media

17.08.2020

Our 2020 report provides an authoritative guide to migrating media organisations to the cloud, the steps required, and practical advice for success.

Tech Cloud Transformation Research Supply Chain Implementation

MEMBERS

Can we deliver an all-IP future for content distribution?

26.06.2020

Understanding the true impact of IP technologies for large scale viewing can be difficult. Watch this recent webinar to help decide where to direct your attention and investment.

Tech Distribution IP Implementation Web Event Video

Are next gen supply chains now necessary for survival?

05.06.2020

Watch Next Gen Supply Chain - a matter of life & death? An executive round table web event featuring Discovery, Sky, UKTV, ViacomCBS and Vubiquity.

Tech Supply Chain Implementation Business Requirements Web Event Video

How the IMF Delivery Schema could transform your workflows

01.05.2020

What does the schema do? How does it work? And what's next on the development roadmap?

IMF Tech Workflows Versioning Metadata Implementation

Supplying the VOD Revolution

30.04.2020

An extensive piece of research into the global supply of content to VOD platforms, identifying pain points and exploring formats and standards. What practical steps can be taken to reduce complexity and enhance efficiency in this vital artery of our industry?

Tech File Delivery Workflows Versioning Research Distribution Supply Chain Implementation

DPP Hackathon: the results!

10.12.2019

Learn who participated in the inaugural DPP virtual hackathon around the IMF MM API, and of course, who won.

IMF Tech Versioning Implementation DPP Explore

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

All aboard for IMF at IBC

09.07.2019

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

IMF Tech Versioning Implementation

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

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

21.06.2019

We promise it’s not just alphabet soup.

IMF Tech Versioning Implementation

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

IMF For Real

11.04.2019

Bright and early on Tuesday morning, a dedicated group of enthusiastic DPP members turned out at our NAB breakfast briefing.

IMF Tech Versioning Implementation

Metadata for News Innovation Day

07.02.2019

Watch the summary from the DPP's Metadata for News Innovation Day.

Tech News Metadata Implementation

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

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

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

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

Document Formats

A summary of the technical document formats published by the DPP.

Tech

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.

Networking Insight

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

Generative AI has raised expectations of AI’s potential, finds the DPP’s new AI report

19.02.2024

In the last five years, technology has advanced, AI use cases have evolved, and generative AI has emerged. This new report aims to take a step back and analyse the present state of AI in media through a measured and practical way.

Tech AI Insight Generative AI AI in Media: What does good look like?

Recommendations & Guidance

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

Tech

News & views

The latest news and updates from the DPP.

News

5 steps to optimise content monetisation

24.07.2023

In its Making Media Pay series, the DPP explored how media companies around the world are looking to maximise the revenue generation from their valuable media assets. Here, we summarise 5 key steps to optimise content monetisation.

Insight Making Media Pay Content Monetisation Rights Management Content Protection

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

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

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.

How To Buy Better

‘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.

Insight Standards Interoperability

Double standards? DPP previews The Truth About Standards to member organisations

15.09.2022

In The Truth About Standards, the DPP exposes what media companies really think about standards and standards bodies. Book a bespoke briefing to learn about what it all means for your organisation.

Standards

Making integration work and the 'postmodern' media supply chain?

13.04.2022

DPP's Making Integration Work report series draws parallels between media workflows and the IT industry’s approach to enterprise resource planning suites.

Insight Making Integration Work

Environmental policy

The DPP takes sustainability seriously. Learn how we are cutting our environmental impact.

Sustainability

DPP publishes Recommendation DPP008 Business to Business Metadata Exchange

13.01.2022

Business to Business Metadata Exchange aims to reduce friction in the media supply chain at the points of content interchange, specifically around the exchange of metadata.

Recommendation Supply Chain Tech Update Tech Network

DPP Tech Network: November

1 November 2021

DPP members meet to hear the latest updates from DPP technical projects, and participate in discussion around them.

Tech Tech Network

ONLINE

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

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.

Tech Cloud Transformation Supply Chain Web Event Video

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.

Tech Cloud Transformation Supply Chain Webinar

Cybersecurity and Content Protection Summit 2020

12 May 2020

Mark Harrison and Abdul Hakim join this CDSA event to discuss setting the standards and systems for remote access, and content security vs. information security

Security External Webinar

DPP Tech Network

16 March 2020

DPP members meet to discuss IMF technology development, implementation, and AS-11 file delivery.

Tech Tech Network

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.

IMF Tech Versioning Recommendation

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

Sign of the Times: Enhancing IMF with Auxilary Image Tracks

16.09.2019

As a UK Public Service Broadcaster, ITV is regulated by Ofcom, which oversees the provision of accessible content on our broadcast platforms.

IMF Tech 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

Transforming IMF with OPL

16.08.2019

The component of IMF which causes the most questions and occasionally confusion is the “Output Profile List” or OPL.

IMF Tech Versioning

IMF in the cloud with AWS

02.08.2019

“It’s time to start”. If you’ve ever been to a Blue Man Concert, you know the significance of this statement.

IMF Tech Cloud Versioning

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

DPP002 Metadata Exchange for News

An implementation framework to enable exchange of a minimum metadata set between systems and news organisations.

Tech Recommendation News Metadata

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

The DPP creates unique assessment of AI in media

08.01.2019

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

Tech DPP At Home Transformation Workflows AI Metadata

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 launches news metadata guidance

22.05.2018

The DPP has announced the release of a new implementation guide: DPP Metadata Exchange for News.

Tech Recommendation News Metadata

File Delivery: The Story So Far

17.05.2015

What made the DPP’s implementation of file delivery in the UK, on 1st October 2014, such an extraordinary example of pan-industry collaboration?

File Delivery Transformation Production Workflows

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

DPP Launches Quality Control Guidelines

13.03.2014

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

Tech File Delivery QC