The conference room hummed with the familiar rhythm of a quarterly board meeting when the unexpected happened. A last-minute request came through: stream this session live to remote stakeholders while simultaneously recording for later distribution. The IT director’s face drained of color. The conference room ran on Q-SYS—a system the team knew intimately. The broadcast […]
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The conversation started, as they often do, with sticker shock. “This is a significant investment” The facilities director stared at the studio automation proposal, mentally calculating how many quarters of budget it represented. “This is a significant investment,” he said carefully, the universal code for “this seems expensive.” The systems integrator had heard this response […]
The conference room fell silent as the CFO delivered her verdict. “Studio automation sounds impressive,” she said, tapping the proposal with her pen, “but it’s clearly designed for major broadcasters with unlimited budgets, not organizations like ours.” Around the table, heads nodded in agreement. The IT director worried about complexity. The creative director feared losing […]
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The corporate communication landscape has fundamentally changed. As organizations seek more direct, authentic ways to connect with their audiences, in-house broadcast studios have emerged as a powerful solution for creating compelling content and maintaining genuine audience engagement. The New Broadcasting Paradigm Gone are the days when broadcasting meant relying solely on traditional media channels. Today’s […]
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The Numbers Tell a Stark Story In one major systems integration firm, only 3 out of 900 employees possessed the expertise to handle broadcast studio implementations. Yet, market demand for corporate broadcast studios is surging: •The broadcast equipment market, currently valued at $5.2 billion, is projected to grow steadily at 5% annually. •The broadcast-over-IP segment […]
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What do you get when you combine Jeeps, horses, bandits, a plane, and explosions…an action movie? No, actually you would get the scenes of a promo video that we at Ikan got to experience. A couple of weeks ago, we got a chance to go behind the scenes with Red Feather while they were shooting […]
This is a guest post by Jeff Berlin, a Los Angeles based photographer and cinematographer. He is a Sony Artisan and an experienced aviator. A few years ago, I was flying an airplane called a Cirrus SR22 from Los Angeles to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras for a project. If you’re unfamiliar with this airplane, I’ve […]
Are you interested in filming, field production, or gear for making videos? Michael Webb, our VP of Product Development, recently spoke on The Sean Green Show to discuss ikan’s latest products, gear, and the broadcast and film industry. In case you didn’t know, ikan manufacturers and distributes a variety of equipment for film, video, and […]