Category Archives: Feature Articles

How Q-SYS Automation Transforms Your Studio: Reclaim 60-90 Minutes Daily for Pure Creativity

Imagine walking into your studio at 7:00 AM, coffee in hand, knowing that by 7:15, you’ll be ready to create. No frantic adjustments. No technical scrambling. Just you, your talent, and the content that matters. This isn’t a dream—it’s the reality that Q-SYS studio automation delivers every single day. Currently, your production team arrives ready […]

The 95% Solution: Achieving 18-Month ROI Through Broadcast Studio Energy Efficiency

Picture this: The conference room buzzes with anticipation. An ESG officer steps forward to present a sustainability initiative to the finance committee—projected investment: $150,000. Projected return: “brand reputation improvement” and “alignment with corporate values.”  The CFO’s expression shifts.  Organizations face mounting pressure to achieve ESG goals, yet the persistent myth of the “green premium”—that sustainability […]

PoE Lighting vs. Traditional Studio Lighting: 2025 Cost & ROI Comparison

The studio lighting landscape is experiencing a revolutionary transformation, forcing a hard look at the true PoE studio lighting cost versus traditional setups. While legacy broadcast facilities struggle with lengthy permitting processes and expensive electrical work, innovative organizations are embracing a game-changing solution that delivers a dramatically faster ROI. This transformation starts with the elegance of […]

Unlocking Your Studio’s Potential with Q-SYS Integration

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 […]

Calculating the ROI of Studio Automation: A Business Case

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 […]

5 Common Studio Automation Myths—Debunked

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 […]

From Vision to Reality: Building Your In-House Broadcast Studio Without the Complexity

Building in-house broadcast studio

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 […]

Transformation in Action: The Journey to Effortless Integration with Ikan

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 […]

Powered By Ikan – Behind The Scenes With Red Feather

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 […]

Jeff Berlin – How a Tilta Camera Cage is like Flying

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 […]

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