Author: Ifeanyi Dibia
global company that enables seamless multilingual communication, has announced ahead of the IBC 2025 conference (booth 5H49) that it has formed a new strategic collaboration with The IndiaToday Group (ITG), India’s most respected and pioneering news media conglomerate. Through this strategic partnership, CAMB.AI, which is building the world’s premier content localization infrastructure driven by AI-powered multilingual translation, along with ITG’s collaboration will become the first news media partnership of its kind globally. The two organizations will also collaborate in co-building cutting-edge language solutions for the conglomerate. This will allow ITG to expand its reach to both Hindi and regional language…
Israel Obatunde, Chief Executive Officer of Ideas Origin Media (IOM), has been announced as a panelist and facilitator at the prestigious African Beauty Summit Awards taking place on September 21, 2025, at The Assembly House, Norwich, United Kingdom. Since its inception in 2022, Ideas Origin Media has carved a niche as a creative powerhouse, disrupting the advertising and communications space with bold ideas and flawless execution. For Obatunde, this recognition is both a validation of his agency’s impact and an opportunity to share insights with global industry leaders. Speaking in a recent media interview, Obatunde highlighted some of…
a trusted leader in high-performance storage, memory, connectivity, software, and accessories that empower creative and business professionals to maximize performance, enhance reliability, and streamline workflows, today announced an expanded partnership with Hedge. OWC’s Innergize™ software is now integrated into Hedge’s flagship media management and backup application, OffShoot, delivering creative professionals faster, safer, and more reliable workflows. OffShoot is widely recognized as the industry standard for media offloading and backup. Built for macOS, it enables users to create multiple verified copies and archives from cards, drives, and other media simultaneously, with checksum verification to ensure absolute data integrity. With this integration,…
The Fraunhofer IIS experts for image coding and leading contributor to image coding standards such as JPEG 2000 and JPEG XS announced their partnership with ARRI, one of the international leaders in cameras and tools that expand creative possibilities for filmmakers and other content producers to the highest standard. “We are very excited to combine our know-how in efficient, near loss-less image compression with ARRI´s renowned capabilities in color science and cinematic image processing pipelines. This joint effort will lead to new implementations that focus on high-quality transport and storage of camera data for seamless workflow integration,” says Prof. Siegfried…
Facilis Technology, a leading international supplier of cost-effective, high-performance shared storage solutions for collaborative media production networks, announces support for Strada’s peer-to-peer file streaming software for use directly on Facilis HUB servers with optional GPU upgrade. The Strada software, called the Strada “Agent,” is supported on new and current generation Facilis HUB servers shipped since 2023. A product demonstration will be on display at this year’s IBC Convention in Amsterdam (September 12th – 15th). Facilis Technology develops turn-key servers, asset management, remote access software, and client-side caching to meet the demanding requirements of high-quality media production. Our advanced video…
Lagos, Nigeria: Up in The Sky, a standout creative agency, has been honoured for its exceptional creativity and innovation at the 2025 Summit Creative Awards. The short film, “Whispers in The Wires,” created for Paradigm Initiative, has captivated judges and earned a prestigious Gold award in Advocacy & Social Impact Messaging category. This latest achievement joins a string of accolades for their work with Paradigm Initiative, following a Bronze award for “Finding Diana” at the 2023 Summit Creative Awards. “This win is a huge testament to the Up in The Sky team’s dedication to brilliant storytelling and relentless pursuit of…
UWA is among the first organizations to integrate with Avid’s immersive SDK, pioneering a deep fusion between spatial audio production and Pro Tools workstations. This breakthrough significantly boosts the efficiency of spatial audio creation and output, delivering a truly immersive and lifelike audio experience. “The successful integration of Audio Vivid into the Pro Tools ecosystem marks an important milestone in advancing immersive audio technology from standard-setting to deep industry adoption. Through this in-depth collaboration with Avid, open technical architecture is combined with top-tier professional performance, setting a new global benchmark for immersive audio workflows. At the same time, it opens…
Bitmovin and Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, are proud to announce the upcoming launch of the next generation of Akamai Adaptive Media Player (AMP2), powered by Bitmovin. Officially launching on October 1, 2025, AMP2 brings a new standard in video playback performance, analytics, and device coverage – benefiting Akamai customers across over-the-top platforms, direct-to-consumer services, government agencies, and global brands alike to deliver exceptional viewing experiences at scale. “Adaptive Media Player 2 is an exciting evolution of our long-standing partnership with Akamai,” said Stefan Lederer, CEO and Co-Founder of…
nablet GmbH is known for highest-quality video transcoding and image processing SDKs and engines for many years. With mediaEngine, such codecs and wrappers are now available as a processing framework for Windows and Linux with a proper API. For the new product suite, x-dream-media required exactly such a framework – lightweight, but complete for file and stream processing. x-dream-media uses nablet mediaEngine as the default and core processing engine within its new product line, x-dream Media Suite. At IBC 2025, x-dream-media presents a first version of xTranscode – a new file transcoder, xIngest – a new file ingester and will…
OORO, the first monetised Arabic smart TV platform, is built by the region, for the region and powered by DTVKit, the global shared-source software community behind production-ready software for next-generation TV experiences. Elaraby Group, one of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers in the Middle East and Africa, and Ocean Blue Software (OBS), a trusted partner of the world’s leading Smart TV companies, recently announced the launch of OORO. OORO represents the next wave of consumer entertainment devices – spanning TVs, set-top boxes, and streaming sticks – designed around the unique needs of audiences across the Middle East and North Africa…