Broadcast Media: The Inside Track
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IBC2026 Review: 5 Conversations That Weren't on the Floor Plan (opens the original)
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🎙️ Ben has just got back from IBC2026. Forty one thousand people, a hundred and seventy countries, fourteen halls, and a trade press that agreed on the headline before the doors opened: AI has moved from demo to deployment. That is broadly true. It is also not what Ben remembers. What he remembers is five conversations, and almost none of them happened on a stand. This episode is a personal review of the show through those five moments, with Raiana pushing on what each one actually means for any
🎙️ Bonus: Trade Show Season | Sheikh Saifudeen & Biplab Karki (opens the original)
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🎙️ A bonus episode recorded owith a guest panel from a small scale 'Nomad Basecamp' conference in Pokhara, Nepal - nine days before Ben lands at IBC in Amsterdam with forty five thousand other people. Two very different guests, one question: what are these things actually for? Ben is joined by Sheikh Saifuddin, investor, speaker and founder of Quantum Self, and Biplab Karki, founder and CEO of Hyperce, building Clicks Cloud - an agentic AI e-commerce platform out of Kathmandu. 🔍 In this bonus ep
The Channel With Nobody In It: AI Cinema and the Company That Runs Itself (opens the original)
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On the 13th August a new channel appeared in the live lineup on The Roku Channel. It has a name, a schedule and ad breaks. It looks like a television channel in every structural sense. And it is the first one in the world where nobody is in it. Within forty eight hours the internet had settled on a phrase for it: AI slop. Ben's argument is that arguing about whether it is any good is the least interesting conversation available. Ben and Raiana take Fairground AI Creator TV apart, and then connec
Where AI Actually Works: The Use Cases That Made It Into Production (opens the original)
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There is a version of this industry that exists only on a trade show floor. Synthetic anchors, automated newsrooms, a presenter who does not exist telling you about a technology that will change everything. Then you walk into a real media operations room at three in the morning and none of it is there. What is actually running is a transcription job, a tagging engine and a compliance flag waiting for a human to agree with it. Ben and Raiana take an honest stocktake of AI on the content side of b
Broadcast Is Dead: Long Live YOUR Broadcast Media (opens the original)
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📺 WHAT IS BROADCAST NOW? Ask a media studies class fifty years ago and you got a tidy list: five mass media — print, outdoor, cinema, radio and television. Broadcast was the last two. One signal, one tower, everyone watching the same thing at the same time. That list survived world wars, colour, satellite and cable. It felt as permanent as the periodic table. Then a sixth medium turned up. We filed it under "new media" and told it to wait its turn. In 2026, it isn't waiting — it's eating the tab
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