What does "premium" really mean when YouTubers fill cinemas, box office is just 5% of the content economy, and audiences decide what really has value? Recorded at a recent DPP event held at the British Consulate General in Los Angeles, we brought together studio leaders, creator economy pioneers, and industry vendors to explore what premium storytelling really means from the audience's point of view.

Show Notes

In this episode of the podcast, DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer, Mark Harrison, speaks with:

Paul Rennie OBE, British Consul General, Los Angeles [4min 20sec]
Noelle Green, North Road Company and Chernin Entertainment | EVP/Head of Production [8min 09sec]
Michelle Huynh, Fox Entertainment |EVP Studio Content Operations [9min 27sec]
Sophie Taitt, Taitt Media | Founder [13min 06sec]
Chris Saito, Vubiquity | Chief Commercial Officer [20min 16sec]
Richard Fish, Eikon Group | Chief Operating Officer [21min 53sec]
Sarah Macfarlane, DPP | Producer [27min 35sec]

Join experts from across the industry to explore how new business models are reshaping the media economy at the DPP Production Now event in Los Angeles on Thursday 13 August 2026.

New York is buzzing: World Cup soccer, the NBA Finals, and the DPP Media Supply Festival 2026 are in town. In this special episode recorded at the event, Mark Harrison speaks with leaders from AMC Networks, Thomson Reuters and SDVI — as well as DPP CEO Rowan de Pomerai — to explore AI tools in the newsroom, measuring real supply chain transformation, and what it really means to be entering the Age of Agentic Engineering.

Show Notes

DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer Mark Harrison speaks with:

Christina Barlowe-Villano, AMC Networks — SVP, Global Agile Business and Technology Transformation [2min 53sec]
Ditha Kolkar, Thomson Reuters — Director of Engineering [8min 57sec]
Simon Eldridge, SDVI — Chief Operating Officer [14min 34sec]
Rowan de Pomerai, DPP — CEO [23min 02sec]

Not many people get invited to talk about media at the Vatican one day and digital transformation in Amsterdam the next. But that's exactly what happened to DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer Mark Harrison.

In this episode of the DPP Podcast, Mark shares a selection of vignettes from his audio diary. These were recorded during his trip to Rome for the Vatican media arm's Dicastery for Communication conference, and in Amsterdam at the Fonn User Summit, to explore three big questions:

• What really drives trust between audiences and media brands?
• Why has 'digital transformation' delivered so little genuine change?
• And how does content still stand out when AI can create infinite amounts of pretty much anything?

Drawing on the DPP's custom consumer data, international trust research, as well as the latest (and indeed significantly less recent…) DPP insight initiatives, Mark argues that the winners in the next wave of disruption won’t be the most "transformed" companies — but the ones that create content that is transparent, trustworthy, and truly for its audience.

Recorded at the SDVI Media Supply Chain Council in London in May 2026, SDVI Chief Marketing Officer Geoff Stedman sits down with the DPP Podcast to explore how broadcasters and media companies are really using AI in their supply chains, why the focus has shifted from cost-for-value to speed-to-value, and what that means for FinOps, metadata, QC, and cloud migration. Geoff also weighs in on the renewed build vs buy debate in an era of AI-assisted coding and rapidly evolving operating models, all topics which will be debated at the upcoming DPP Media Supply Festival 2026 in New York.

Show Notes

DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Geoff Stedman, SDVI — Chief Marketing Officer

DPP Media Supply Festival 2026 programme and registration information is here.

In this episode of the DPP Podcast we digest some of the major themes that were discussed by the industry leaders who developed the DPP 2026 Predictions, and we ask what it really means for the media industry that 'Agentic AI will make hyperpersonalisation a reality'.

Hear from Caroline Cardozo, VP, Global Head of Product at Vizrt, about why "good enough" quality is both a threat and a huge opportunity, how agentic AI could power one‑to‑one experiences across media, and why 'cloud vs on‑prem' is giving way to a more pragmatic hybrid mindset.

And Ayush Chaturvedi from Comcast Technology Solutions shares his views on where the real innovation is happening — in business models, not just technology. Ayush explores how shifting consumer behaviour, ad tiers, consolidation, and AI‑driven localisation are reshaping TV and streaming in Europe and North America, and what it will take for providers to compete with the scale of global platforms.

Show Notes

DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Caroline Cardozo, Vizrt — VP, Global Head of Product [1min 42sec]
Ayush Chaturvedi, CTS — Director - Global Solution Architecture [17min 48sec]

The DPP 2026 Predictions report is available here.

NVIDIA's Anaïs Hayes and Jamie Allan speak with the DPP's Rowan de Pomerai and Mark Harrison, in London and Las Vegas respectively, to explore the three waves of AI reshaping media and entertainment: cost reduction, revenue growth, and experience transformation.

Anaïs explains how AI has moved from isolated experiments to being embedded across the production lifecycle, from virtual sets and open source physics engines to localisation and creative tools that democratise who gets to tell stories. And from the show floor at CES 2026, Jamie shifts the focus to AI's physical and real‑time future — from embodied AI and robotics to live media experiences.

Show Notes

DPP CEO Rowan de Pomerai, and DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer Mark Harrison, speak with NVIDIA's:

Anaïs Hayes, Senior Director: Media & Entertainment, EMEA
Jamie Allan, Director, AdTech & Digital Marketing Industries

This episode of the DPP Podcast is sponsored by NVIDIA.

As Las Vegas fills with 150,000 visitors for CES 2026, DPP Founder Mark Harrison walks the halls as part of his research for the DPP Tech Trends 2026 report. And on his 17th visit to CES he asks if anything taking place in early January in Las Vegas really matters for the media and entertainment industry?

From industrial robot demos and buzzing health-tech halls to the notable no-shows of some major global tech players on the exhibition floor, Mark's audio diary from CES 2026 tracks how "physical AI", specialist tech and the maker economy are quietly reshaping what really matters for media and entertainment.

Mark also speaks with Akamai CTO Bobby Blumofe. Together they explore how AI-powered search is rewriting the web, why "agentic" interfaces could replace 30 years of pages and menus, and how physical AI and robotics are stealing the spotlight while consumer and creative AI quietly become table stakes.

Show Notes

DPP Founder and Chief Content Officer, Mark Harrison's audio diary from CES 2026, and conversation with:

Bobby Blumofe, Akamai — CTO [6min 01sec]

Budgets are tight, OpEx is rising, and everyone is talking about AI — but what will Media CTOs actually be prioritising in 2026? In this episode of the DPP podcast, Edward Qualtrough is joined by Cognizant's Peter Elvidge, Channel 4 Technology & Distribution Director Grace Boswood, and Anshul Kapoor from Google Cloud to unpack the insights from the DPP Media CTO Survey 2025 including the real impact of the shift from CapEx to OpEx; why data architecture and automation now dominate tech roadmaps; where AI is being welcomed and where it's being resisted by creative teams; and why change management and cross‑business engagement remain the biggest CTO leadership headaches.

Show Notes

DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Peter Elvidge, Cognizant — Director for Media & Entertainment
Grace Boswood, Channel 4 — Director of Technology & Distribution
Anshul Kapoor, Google Cloud — Head of Media Solutions

The DPP Media CTO Survey 2025 is available to download here.

What is the Media Tech CEO Agenda for 2026? You can find out in the new DPP Media Tech CEO Survey 2025 report, which explores the perspectives of Chief Executives at major technology providers serving the media and broadcast industry.

And on stage in London at the DPP Leaders' Briefing 2025, Mediagenix CEO Fabrice Maquignon and Dalet VP of Product Management, Mathieu Zarouk, discussed the financial state of the industry, CEO priorities, production innovation, industry partnerships, media supply chain maturity, and AI strategy with DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough in a session which focused on some of the research findings. CEOs from Ross Video, nxtedition and Emotion Systems — each of whom are participating CEOs in the initiative — also share some of their reflections.

Show Notes

DPP Editorial Director Edward Qualtrough speaks with:

Fabrice Maquignon, CEO — Mediagenix
Mathieu Zarouk, VP, Product Management — Dalet
David Ross, CEO — Ross Video [8min 31sec]
Robert Nagy, CEO — nxtedition [23min 07sec]
MC Patel, CEO — Emotion Systems [28min 41sec]

DPP members can download the DPP Media Tech CEO Survey 2025 here.

DPP CEO Rowan de Pomerai visits Los Angeles and New York, speaking with Fox CTO Melody Hildebrandt and CEO of Media Cluster Norway, Helge Svela, along the way.

Discover how Fox is leveraging AI in its Fox One streaming service, and find out how Norwegian tech companies are providing solutions to US news providers.

Show Notes

DPP CEO Rowan de Pomerai speaks with:

Melody Hildebrandt, Fox — CTO [1min 36sec]
Helge Svela, Media Cluster Norway — CEO [6min 43ec]