Products

The best experience to the end-user on any device and at any time

The scope of the Strategic Programme on Products is across audience-facing services, with the goal of helping EBU members to sustainably deliver the best experience to the end user, on any device, at any time. By working with members on current best practices and future requirements, It helps them define their current offering and realise longer-term strategies.

The crafting of user-facing products involves the entire value chain supported by workflows, services and technical standards. This includes the development and promotion of open and interoperable standards, as well as opensource software.

Groups

Connected Cars and Devices

Implementing the EBU's vision on how Radio and TV services are consumed on a new range of connected devices, particularly for automotive, though initiatives and industry collaborations.

TV Platforms

Driving and improve technology that enables the seamless integration of linear broadcast with online distribution mechanisms on end-user devices, in markets covered by the EBU Membership.

Products Kaizen

Enhancing the knowledge on how digital media products best are crafted. Products Kaizen is the EBU hub for the roles of product owners and product managers who are working on audience facing digital media products for public service media companies

Recommenders

The community of product owners and data scientists choosing, deploying and operating automated recommendation systems.

Collaborative Developments

EuroVOX

An open toolbox for transcribing and translating audio, audiovisual and text content. Removes the complexity of integrating with different vendors and tools by providing a single, unified API, as well as a web-based tool to easily transcribe, translate and transform content.

Additionally, developing tools to harness realtime transcription and simultaneous translation for online and broadcast captioning and subtitling.

PEACH

The personalization and recommendation ecosystem built by broadcasters for broadcasters, enabling Members to provide a personalized cross-device experience to the end-user. Also including discussions on data science, analytics, algorithms and user profiling. 

News Pilot

The News Pilot provides journalists with real-time monitoring of the news. Those are rich articles containing images, audios and videos, automatically translated into English using EuroVox. 

This hub also powers a new digital News Exchange between 13 Members called A European Perspective.