IBC Innovation Awards

Entries for the IBC2024 Awards are now closed!

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. 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.

The five IBC Innovation Awards categories are Content Creation, Content Distribution, Content Everywhere, Environment & Sustainability and Social Impact.

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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.

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.

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The IBC Innovation Awards at IBC2025

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IBC Awards

- IBC Awards
14 Sep 2025 Main Stage 18:00 - 20:00
IBC Awards

IBC reveals the winners of this year’s prestigious Innovation Awards and presents the International Honour for Excellence. Invitation only

The IHFE Award Announced

The IBC2024 International Honour for Excellence (IHFE) Award, its most prestigious award, goes to Ukraine’s Mstyslav Chernov for his work as a video journalist and his groundbreaking film 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (with AP and PBS Frontline). The award recognises the resolve and skill as filmmaker demonstrated by Chernov in uncovering the unvarnished truth that he and his Associated Press (AP) team witnessed on the ground as they covered the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian forces in early 2022.

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Image Credit: AP Photo Felipe Dana

2024 Best Technical Paper Award

The coveted Best Technical Paper was awarded to 'Advancements in Radiance Field Techniques for Volumetric Video Generation: A Technical Overview' for its work in the new and exciting area of Neural Radiance Fields. Joshua Maraval, Nicolas Ramin, and Lu Zhang received the Best Technical Paper Award, which was presented at the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony.

It and the 23 other successful Technical Papers were chosen from 327 submissions and were presented as part of the IBC2024 Conference from 13-15 September.

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