IBC Reflections and Where Media is Headed
The media industry is entering a new era where competitive advantage will be defined not by AI-generated content alone, but by AI-orchestrated media operations. Drawing on conversations from IBC 2026, this blog explores how media companies are evolving from disconnected, workflow-based production models to connected, intelligence-driven operating platforms that unify content creation, production, distribution, audience engagement, and monetization. Five strategic priorities are emerging across the industry: maximizing the value of premium content and IP, industrializing content production, connecting fragmented workflows and data, enabling real-time audience and monetization intelligence, and embedding trust, governance, and rights management into AI-powered operations. As organizations move from isolated AI tools to agent-driven, human-supervised ecosystems, the winners will be those that build a shared intelligence layer capable of turning creative intent into measurable business outcomes at scale.
NDI Broadcast Feature Intermittent and Unreliable
Hi friends. I'm dealing with an NDI / Microsoft Teams "Broadcast with NDI" issue and am hoping I can get some help. I have a streaming system through my work where my streaming computer is custom-made and running VMIX. We pull our virtual speakers in through NDI via Teams on a separate computer that's on the same network. We've done this for years without issue. I ran a live stream with 10 presenters in Teams using NDI and the active speaker input in VMIX just a few weeks ago and had zero issues. Yesterday, I went to test for an upcoming stream, and for the life of me, Teams would immediately stop the NDI broadcast feature right after I start it and the inputs would not appear on my streaming computer's VMIX's NDI window. I swapped out the computers running Teams twice and got the same result. I have run all the updates I could, rebooted everything including my switch, router, etc., but nothing's working. Has anyone dealt with this before? Seems to be a Teams-related matter vs. a network or computer issue. Later in the day, I did a Teams clear cache and it brought in 1 speaker in, but didn't pull in active speaker. My only next step at the moment is to roll-back teams to an older version in hopes that fixes it. Thoughts, recommendations?
Problem during Live event broadcast
Hello~ My organization has been using live events for a while, I personally have been producer of 4-5. We do the broadcast connecting multiple speakers from different countries, so everyone in the organization can become more connnected. Yesterday we hosted one of our quarterly events where the C-level provides updates about the company....the event was going well, everyone in all the locations were doing a great job, but at the end something went wrong, at some point, not sure why the image disapeared. The attendees were still able to listen, the audio was fine, but the image couldn't be moved to the live feed, I tried pulling only the share screen, having only the webcam, having both, nothing worked. I also tried to leave the event and join again, use another producer account, nothing working. This happened after the event have been going smoothly for about 45-50mins, all the suddlen the image that was live (ppt+webcam) disapeared (when this happen, no changes were being done to the broadcast, we were just listening to a presentation), when I as producer tried to put any content in the live feed I got an error message (but no error number), see screencap below:Skype Meeting Broadcast - recommendations when feeding video clips into Event?
Hi all - Giving this new network a try! We are using Skype Meeting Broadcast to conduct company-wide town halls and the like. We're a media company so in general these meetings include talking heads as well as frequent use of clips and sizzle reels into the event. Today we are accomplishing this using an Inogeni SDI->USB or HDMI->USB converter to feed the video into essentially the speaker camera feed in the Producer client. We're noticing some variable quality depending on the clip. Does Microsoft have recommendations on the clip format (encoding type, bitrate, etc.) to achieve best quality. We're not certain if the artifacting we are seeing is coming from the SFB client that is acting as Producer or if on the backend in whatever it is that Skype Broadcast Meetings does to create the event feed for viewers. Thanks so much! DaveSkype Meeting Broadcast in a hybrid enviroment
We are trying to test Skype Meeting Broadcast, but have not been able to get it to work. We are setup hybrid between lync 2013 onprem and s4b online. The user testing is on s4b online, but it keeps failing when he tries to start the broadcast. Is this configuration supported and does anyone here have it working in a hybrid environment? thanks,jbCan I use Skype Meeting Broadcast with a hybrid deployment if on-prem is Lync Server 2013?
Hi, I am very interested in leveraging the Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities for our company. We have E1 licenses for everyone but our Skype deployment is using Lync Server 2013 on-prem, and will likely remain that way for a while. I have been reading through the documentation for this and it isn't clear to me if Skype for Business Server 2015 is required to do this hybrid setup or if we can do hybrid with Lync Server 2013 and still use Broadcast. I started with this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-Skype-Meeting-Broadcast-c472c76b-21f1-4e4b-ab58-329a6c33757d At the bottom there is a link to https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt243953.aspx, which specifies that the article is for Skype for Business Server 2015. That is why I thought it was a requirement... however, once inside that article, I saw there was this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205403.aspx, which contained instructions server 2015 as well as 2013 here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205403(v=ocs.15).aspx. It looks like the hybrid configuration is supported with Lync Server 2013 on premises, but I can't tell for sure if that includes support for Skype Meeting Broadcast, or of that is just for basic capabilities. Any insight you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks, BrianWelcome to the Skype Meeting Broadcast Preview Community!
Hi everyone, and welcome to the Skype Meeting Broadcast Preview Community board! My name is Saranya Yogarajah and I am a Preview Program Manager leading the Community efforts here at Skype for Business. Skype Meeting Broadcast makes it easy to host large virtual meetings, such as internal “Town Hall” meetings and public webinars, by enabling customers to broadcast Skype for Business online for up to 10,000 people who can attend from a browser on nearly any device! This community space is your dedicated space to ask questions and get updates about this validation. Mohamed Saleem is our Preview PM leading the efforts for this Preview Program, so you will be hearing a lot from him! Welcome to the community and we look forward to hearing from you! Please note that this community space is not designed to be your place to provide product feedback. We still encourage you to provide product feedback at www.skypefeedback.com!Skype Broadcast Meeting Roadmap?
We've trialled SfB Broadcast Meeting, and found it promising but a bit limited at present - screen sharing for us is a major requirement - however I can't find a roadmap or similar with information on when/if that function (or any others) are going to be introduced. Are there ongoing plans for SfB Broadcast to be developed, or is it a "garage" project that's out there but will now be ignored and left as-is?
