Spidercam, the world leading cable camera system owner and Gravity Media Group, the global provider of complex live broadcast facilities and production services, have today announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate growth in the adoption, service and support of the Spidercam system in the USA and Canada. This agreement, which was finalised at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas, builds upon the existing successful strategic partnership in Australia and New Zealand that has been in existence since 2015.

ATEME, video delivery leader, and CANAL+ #1 France Service Provider, extends their partnership to include UHD premium services.

Anevia, a leading provider in OTT and IPTV software solutions, has announced a strategic business partnership with Keepixo, a French-based leading provider of software head-end products, to provide operators and broadcasters with a ‘one-stop shop’ ultra-low-latency delivery solution for UHD content in over-the-top (OTT) environments.

EditShare, a technology leader in intelligent shared storage, QC and media management solutions, today rolled out the new EditShare Academic Partnership (EAP) Program. Open to all accredited educational institutions, EAP offers educators best pricing combined with invaluable workflow mentoring and knowledge-sharing, amplifying the classroom experience for students whether they are studying broadcast journalism, feature film production or anything in between.

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) today launched an updated version of A Producers Guide to File Delivery. Enabled by DPP Member, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. (Deluxe), a world-leading video creation to distribution company, the guide is a handbook aimed at UK production companies and programme suppliers, providing guidance on the end-to-end file delivery process from file creation (AS-11) and metadata insertion through to QC and delivery.

In a new report, DPP AT HOME: Automation, the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) brings together the views of senior leaders from across the media supply chain on the need to collaborate on some of the basic automation functions enabled by machine learning. The report comes from the latest event in the DPP AT HOME series, which brought together 20 senior executives at IBC 2017 and was enabled by DPP Member Prime Focus Technologies.

Peli Products -the US global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance protective case solutions- and Zero 2 Infinity, the Aerospace company based in Barcelona specialised in elevating all kind of payloads to the Space, have reached a Partnership agreement. Both companies support innovation, quality and new technologies to confront the everyday challenges of modern life. Thanks to this shared vision of the World, both companies benefit of each other business strengths.

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) today announced the launch of an important new programme designed to help suppliers demonstrate their commitment to best security practice. The Committed to Security Programme enables companies to apply to complete best practice security checklists for both production and broadcast environments. On successful submission of the completed forms, the company is eligible to display the DPP Committed to Security logo.

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) today announced that it has entered into a formal partnership with the worlds leading alliance of public service media, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), to drive the development of technical standards and the adoption of interoperability across the media industry.

At this years IBC, the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) will be sharing important new international initiatives in mastering, metadata exchange and cybersecurity through a series of demonstrations and conference sessions during the show.

DiGiGridIt has been supplying and installing cutting edge technology into recording studios since the early digital days, and has built a reputation based on in-depth product knowledge and great customer service. Mediaspec provide technology products and services to the education, music, television and film markets. It serves the media and entertainment industry providing expertise asIt was Mediaspecs expertise within the industry and commitment to customers that attracted us to the company. Were seeing tremendous growth in the UK market and Mediaspec were an obvious choice of partner to help continue this. said Dan Page, Brand Manager, DiGiGrid. Their reputation for delivering technology driven systems fits perfectly with DiGiGrids network connected solutions and is why were confident the partnership will flourish.

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) today published guidance and advice for producers and suppliers delivering close to transmission in the UK by either file or lines. Titled Delivering Close to TX Without Tape: What UK Producers Need to Know the guide aims to provide greater clarity on how producers can manage the close to transmission deliveries as the deadline for completely tapeless 1 October 2017 exactly three years after when file-based delivery became the preferred method of programme delivery to UK broadcasters BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and UKTV will cease to accept delivery on videotape of programmes commissioned after this date.

France Medias Monde today announced a partnership with Wochit, the cloud-based video creation platform, as part of its expanding digital strategy. The partnership will better enable France Medias Monde to rapidly create short-form social video that is optimized for distribution across platforms and screens in order to grow and engage audiences.