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IBC Innovation Awards

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The IBC Awards bring together under one umbrella IBC’s Innovation and Social Impact awards to enable a single celebration of different industry advances across five categories: Content Creation, Content Distribution, Content Everywhere, Environment & Sustainability and Social Impact.

The IBC Innovation Awards recognise the best in collaborative efforts to develop new solutions to real-world technical challenges and to address social and environmental issues. 

From AI-powered remastering and hybrid Olympic streaming to social impact tools and sustainable media, the 2025 shortlist reflects real-world innovation redefining our industry. Press release here.

View the 2025 Awards Shortlist

Join us at the IBC Innovation Awards Ceremony on 14 September, 18:00 at the Main Stage, with our exclusive IBC2025 Delegate Pass! Invitation only.

IBC2025 IHFE Award

The IBC2025 International Honour for Excellence (IHFE) Award, its most prestigious award, goes to world-renowned editor Thelma Schoonmaker, recognising her extraordinary achievements and lifetime contribution to the art and craft of filmmaking, spanning more than five decades and helping shape modern cinema through her close collaboration with Martin Scorsese.

The award will be presented in person on Sunday 14 September at 18.00 CEST on the main stage of the IBC Conference in the RAI Amsterdam.

Earlier in the day at the IBC Conference, Thelma Schoonmaker will also participate in a Fireside Chat about her life in film, hosted by journalist and author Carolyn Giardina, Consulting Editor of American Cinema Editors’ ‘Cinema Editor’ Magazine. The session will be free to attend for all IBC2025 attendees.

Read Press Release here

2025 Best Technical Paper

Alexis Allemann, Sebastien Noir and Andrei Popescu-Belis are being awarded the coveted Best Technical Paper at IBC2025 for their work developing an AI Chatbot for Trusted News, underpinned with strict editorial standards and transparency.

The paper is entitled EBU NEO – A sophisticated multilingual chatbot for a trusted news ecosystem exploration, and addresses the quality, bias and transparency concerns of commercial news chatbots. The result is a database of over 3.5 million articles growing by 3000 news stories per day, and an invaluable tool for both professional journalists and the public to explore the news.

Read Press Release here

2025 Special Award

IBC is recognising Globo, Latin America’s largest media company, with a Special Award for its continued leadership, innovation and support for global media advancement.

In 2025, the group celebrates a century of media leadership in Latin America since the launch of its newspaper O Globo in 1925. As it looks to the future, Globo reaffirms its commitment to innovation, Brazilian talent, and continuous reinvention.

Read Press Release here

The 2025 Award categories are:

Content Creation

Whatever the size of the screen and wherever you choose to watch it, what audiences want is great content. This award recognises projects which give creative talents the tools they need, from acquisition to post production.

Content Distribution

Great content is no use if it does not reach the eyes and ears of the consumer. This award celebrates the best new ways to manage content and connect creators and consumers, or creators and their collaborators.

Content Everywhere

Consumers today expect to be engaged wherever they are, on whatever device is to hand. This award celebrates the connected experience. To win this award, your project will make the most of the connected world, using technology to engage audiences.

Social Impact

The Social Impact category recognises a company initiative or campaign which is making a positive impact in the industry and/or in the wider world. It celebrates the industry’s willingness to innovate and engage with today’s big issues, such as diversity and wellbeing.

Environment & Sustainability

While content creators and distributors are increasingly aware of the imperative of finding green solutions underpinning all their work, this award is looking for stand-out new approaches and best-in-class developments or projects with sustainability at their heart.

The IBC Innovation Awards, established over 20 years ago, celebrate an industry spirit of co-operation and collaboration.

They are presented to the end user of a project - the broadcaster or media company that started with a requirement and who brought together the technology partners to find an exciting solution. At the same time, those technology partners are also celebrated and honoured for their contribution to a co-operative process which delivered the successful result.

View the 2025 Awards shortlist          View the 2024 Awards winners 

 

IBC2025 Innovation Awards – Judging Panel

The IBC Innovation Awards are judged by a panel of editors and consultants, drawn from around the industry and around the world.

View 2025 judging panel

The IBC Innovation Awards at IBC2025

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Delegate Badge Holders

    • IBC Conference
    • IBC Awards
    In Conversation With...editor and multi-Oscar award-winner Thelma Schoonmaker
    Conference Room 1
    World-renowned editor Thelma Schoonmaker will talk with Carolyn Giardiana about her work in film. Th ...
    Speakers
    Thelma Schoonmaker
    Thelma Schoonmaker - Editor
    • IBC Awards
    IBC Awards
    Conference Room 1
    IBC reveals the winners of this year’s prestigious Innovation Awards and presents the International ...
    Presenter
    Sasha Twining
    Sasha Twining - Conference Host

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