The winning entries for the 2025 Digital Media Awards in all categories are listed below for the Gold, Silver, Bronze and Special Merit awards.
Congratulations to the many companies who entered their products and services into our Digital Media World Awards this year. It’s exciting to see the entries come in and reflect on the important advances the broadcast and media industries have made over the last 12 months. From increasing confidence in IP production and delivery, the growing diversity of cloud applications and sophistication in the use of HDR, to the rapid advance of AI into an expanding range of processes, the world of broadcast never stops changing.
These Awards recognise the work that organisations and teams have devoted to content creation, distribution and consumers everywhere. Many thanks to everyone for participating – we are now looking forward to 2026.
STREAMING
Harmonic - Harmonic Hybrid Streaming Solution with Central Management
Hybrid streaming is rapidly becoming the standard as it lowers the total cost of ownership of any streaming platform. This approach enables service providers to temporarily leverage the public cloud to handle peak demand for specific events, such as high-profile live sports.
Synamedia - Quortex Switch
Quortex Switch is for any provider managing a multi-CDN environment to stream at scale. It is particularly beneficial for international sports content providers managing large numbers of CDNs with different topologies in each region.
Bridge Technologies - VB440 Container
This expansion sees the integration of a containerised approach to the VB440’s architecture. These advancements deliver a level of scalability previously unseen within the broadcast production space.
Agile TV - Agile CDN Director
Agile CDN Director is the intelligent core of the Agile CDN Solution, designed to optimize content delivery through advanced dynamic routing and policy enforcement. It empowers operators to enhance security, improve efficiency, and scale with flexibility.
Blackmagic Design - ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2
ATEM Mini Extreme ISO G2 ($2,195 US) is an advanced second generation ATEM Mini live production switcher, featuring an expanded professional style control panel, eight HDMI inputs, three HDMI outputs, multiview, built-in streaming engine, CFexpress and Thunderbolt for record/playback.
AJA Video Systems - BRIDGE LIVE 3G-8
BRIDGE LIVE is AJA’s family of high-density IP video solutions that provide flexible real-time, bi-directional encoding, decoding, and transcoding capabilities in a 1RU chassis for the most demanding multi-channel UltraHD and HD workflows.
Finalists
Humans Not Robots - HNR to ZERO - Scenario Modelling
ViewLift - ViewLift
Agile TV - AgileTV Platform
Playbox Neo - PlayBox Neo Suite
PLAYOUT
Pebble - Pebble Automation
Pebble Automation is an enterprise-level playout automation platform engineered for powerful, flexible, and resilient linear channel delivery across any network. Scalable from a single channel to large multi-site operations, it enables broadcasters and service providers to manage complex workflows with precision and confidence.
Viaccess-Orca - DaaS - Design as a Service
In today’s ultracompetitive media landscape, where viewer expectations evolve rapidly, video service providers must find innovative ways to drive viewer engagement and stand out. They also need to respond with speed and agility. A rich content library attracts viewers, but the TV app experience is just as critical to engagement. Customizing the app’s interface to keep it fresh and aligned with viewer demands enhances user experience and strengthens brand impact. Yet, for many broadcasters and streaming providers, designing and updating interfaces is complex and time-consuming. That’s where Viaccess-Orca’s no-code design-as-a-service (DaaS) solution makes a difference.
Playbox Neo - PlayBox Neo Suite
PlayBox Neo Suite is the latest addition to our range of smart media innovations. The platform is an extensive suite of solutions designed to streamline and enhance the workflows of modern media organizations, including TV channels, satellite operators, content creators and OTTs.
CAMERAS
Grass Valley - LDX 180 Series
LDX 180 Series – Bringing Cinematic Depth into Media Production Workflows The LDX 180 Series is a breakthrough camera platform designed to bring the cinematic depth of film into the fast paced world of live production.
Blackmagic Design - PYXIS 12K
Blackmagic PYXIS 12K ($5,495 US) digital film camera features a revolutionary 12K RGBW sensor in the versatile PYXIS camera design. With the same sensor as URSA Cine 12K LF, it has a massive 16 stops of dynamic range along with dual CFexpress media recorders, 10G Ethernet and Blackmagic Cloud global sync, all in a customizable body. PYXIS 12K is available in L-Mount, PL or Locking EF lens mounts.
Canon - EOS C50
The EOS C50 is the newest addition to Canon’s cinema EOS system. The EOS C50 is the smallest and lightest full-frame cinema camera ever in Canon’s Cinema EOS lineup, but inside its compact body lies groundbreaking innovation for both filmmakers and hybrid creators.
Marshall Electronics - CV625 Dual-sensor, Dual-lens PTZ/POV Camera
The Marshall Electronics CV625 is the brand’s first-ever dual-sensor, dual-lens PTZ/POV camera. Building off the CV600 technology, the CV625 delivers the benefits of both PTZs and wide-angle POVs into a single 4K auto-tracking camera capable of producing simultaneous close-ups and wide views, as well as picture-in-picture outputs and enhanced AI functionality
Finalists
Proton Camera - PROTON HFR
PRODUCTION
Ross Video - Carbonite HyperMax
Carbonite HyperMax is a next-generation production switcher platform that brings together all the tools required for modern live production in one compact system. It is a hyperconverged solution that combines switching, routing, video and audio processing, multiviewer monitoring, and ultra-high-resolution compositing into a single platform.
Riedel Communications - SimplyLive Production Suite Flex
Riedel’s SimplyLive Production Suite Flex is a groundbreaking modular platform for live productions, setting new standards for efficient workflows in broadcast, sports, and live events through exceptional flexibility, scalability, and interoperability. With its specialized microservices, it covers all key areas of live production – from video switching, replays, and recording to referee review and coaching analysis.
EVS Tactiq
EVS has redefined live production control with Tactiq, the centrepiece of its groundbreaking Flexible Control Room (FCR) solution. This innovative, software-defined approach breaks free from traditional, fixed-function control rooms, empowering broadcasters to scale, automate, and customise workflows with remarkable agility.
Sony Ci Media Cloud - LiveSession in MediaBox
As remote work becomes standard in media production, efficient tools for collaborative video review are essential. Sony’s Ci Media Cloud platform’s MediaBox now features LiveSession, designed to make real-time video review seamless for distributed teams. Ideal for post-production review, client approvals, team feedback sessions, and any scenario where real-time video collaboration is needed.
POST PRODUCTION
Blackmagic Design - DaVinci Resolve 20
DaVinci Resolve 20 (free; Studio version $295) introduces more than 100 new features including powerful AI tools designed to assist users with all stages of their workflow. Use AI IntelliScript to create timelines based on a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to assemble a timeline with camera angles based on speaker detection.
ORION-CONVERT - Lyra camera matching
Achieve perfect camera matching across your multi-cam setup with LYRA. Keep cameras in neutral settings while our intelligent downstream processing handles the adjustments automatically.
NUGEN Audio - DialogCheck
NUGEN Audio DialogCheck is a mono, stereo and multichannel dialog clarity meter that provides an objective measure of speech audio intelligibility, either in sections of audio clips or across entire projects. Ideally suited for use in television, radio, film, podcasting and game audio production, as well as post-production environments.
IP BROADCAST SOLUTIONS
TAG Video Systems - TAG Operator Console
TAG Operator Console transforms how operators manage live multiviewer environments, delivering an intuitive, centralized interface that brings real-time control directly into their hands. Multiviewer management has often relied on complex engineering tools and separate applications that slow response times and create operational friction.
Cerberus Livelink insight
Livelink simplifies complex processes by integrating provisioning, orchestration, and automation into a unified platform. With the recent addition of source permissions and on-demand motion compensated standards conversion, the platform enables seamless management of live content transport across multiple destinations, addressing increasing market demand for flexible, reliable, high-quality video distribution.
Cobalt Digital - UltraBlue MV-SW Multiviewer
Cobalt has incorporated exciting new features into the UltraBlue MV-SW Multiviewer, a software-based multiviewer for compressed and baseband (ST 2110) IP/SDI streams over IP. This product is available as a turn-key package (server plus software) or software-only, where the customer supplies a dedicated server.
Kiloview Electronics - Cradle Series RF02
As AV-over-IP deployments grow, the real challenges are no longer simply transmitting video—it’s managing the network, simplifying setup, and maintaining stable workflows. Kiloview's Cradle Series RF02 addresses these challenges by replacing a stack of separate devices with a unified, modular system that is easier to deploy, manage, and operate reliably in real-world production environments.
AJA Video Systems IP25-R
IP25-R is a 4K SMPTE 2110 to 12G-SDI/HDMI Mini-Converter that bridges IP and baseband infrastructures. It allows professionals to de-encapsulate ST 2110 video, audio, and ancillary data for frame-accurate output to HDMI and SDI monitors, routers, and myriad other baseband equipment.
Blackmagic Design - DeckLink IP 100G
DeckLink IP 100G ($1,975 US) is a new PCIe Gen 4 card that can capture and play back up to eight channels of HD and Ultra HD video simultaneously into 2110 IP systems. It also includes two 100G Ethernet QSFP ports for redundancy or for connecting to two separate 100G Ethernet switches, as well as built-in cooling.
Finalists
Bitfocus - Buttons
Playbox - PlayBox Neo Suite
Bridge Technologies - VB440 Container
NETGEAR AV - M4350 Network Switches
CLOUD
Broadpeak Adaptive Streaming CDN
Broadpeak’s Adaptive Streaming CDN as a Service (ASCDN) delivers a turnkey cloud service enabling media providers to stream high-quality video globally without investing in proprietary CDN infrastructure.
Grass Valley Event Producer X
Event Producer X is a revolutionary AMPP application that integrates a software-based production switcher (Maverik X), graphics, editing, audio, and multiviewer into a single, user-friendly user interface.
Strawberry Multisite - Projective
Strawberry Multisite is more than just a technology; it's a new paradigm for post-production. It provides the flexibility, scalability, and control necessary to thrive in a distributed world. By unifying disparate systems into one intelligent and collaborative hub, Multisite empowers creative organizations to overcome logistical hurdles and unlock their full potential.
Blackmagic Cloud Backup 8
Blackmagic Cloud Backup 8 ($1,785 US) is a new media backup solution that allows users to use inexpensive computer hard drives to back up media files fast. Blackmagic Cloud Backup 8 syncs to Blackmagic Cloud for backing up collaborative projects in DaVinci Resolve.
Finalists
Cerberus Tech - inSight
Sony Ci Media Cloud - LiveSession in MediaBox
STORAGE
Quantum Scalar i7 RAPTOR
In today’s media and entertainment landscape, data growth has reached unprecedented levels. Studios, broadcasters, and post-production facilities are capturing content in higher resolutions, with more cameras and longer retention requirements than ever before. Yet keeping all that data accessible, secure, and affordable has become one of the industry’s most significant challenges.
Tuxera Fusion SMB
Tuxera Fusion SMB is the world's most advanced SMB server for Linux, delivering breakthrough performance that transforms modern media workflows. Building on our NAB Show 2025 Product of the Year recognition in Cloud Computing and Storage, recent engineering advances have pushed performance boundaries, with Mac workflows now achieving 8.6GB/sec from a single port on ATTO Technology 100GbE cards - more than double the throughput of open-source alternatives.
TMT Insights Focus
TMT Insights’ Focus platform redefines how media and entertainment (M&E) companies connect strategic planning to operational execution, bridging the long-standing divide between content sales, programming, finance, and operations. Designed as a purpose-built, enterprise-grade solution, Focus enables global content teams to operate with greater visibility, alignment, and speed across the upstream media supply chain.
QC QA MONITORING
Interra Systems - ORION with Multiviewer
Interra Systems’ ORION with Multiviewer transforms how media companies monitor and ensure video quality across broadcast, IPTV, OTT, and postproduction environments. Designed for video engineers and operators, this software-based platform combines automated quality control and assurance with real-time visualization — delivering a unified, scalable, and flexible monitoring experience.
TAG Video Systems - TAG QC Station
TAG QC Station redefines video quality control by merging monitoring, multiviewing, and real-time QC analysis into a single, software-based solution. Traditionally, ensuring signal integrity required a combination of hardware scopes and standalone QC systems, tools that operated in isolation and slowed response times. QC Station eliminates that complexity by embedding all essential QC functionalities directly into TAG’s multiviewer mosaic, enabling operators to monitor, analyze, and act instantly within the same interface.
Synamedia - Open Source pVMAF
While VMAF (the popular video quality metric released by Netflix) is great for VOD environments, it is too computationally heavy for live streaming. Synamedia’s pVMAF (predictive VMAF) is a lightweight, in-loop video quality metric that delivers VMAF-level accuracy yet, unlike VMAF, with minimal computational overhead.
Hitomi Broadcast - MatchBox ST 2110
MatchBox ST 2110 represents a significant advancement in quality control and monitoring for IP-based broadcast workflows, extending Hitomi's industry-leading precision timing measurement capabilities into SMPTE ST 2110 environments.
VIDEO PROCESSING
Grass Valley ACE-3901 - Agile Compute Engine
The ACE-3901 from Grass Valley is a groundbreaking FPGA-based platform that redefines how broadcasters bridge SDI and IP workflows. Purpose-built for the hybrid transition era, it delivers the industry’s highest density and most flexible edge processing solution—empowering media operations to scale effortlessly across HD, UHD, and fully IP-native infrastructures
AJA UDC-4K
UDC-4K is a 4K-capable 12G-SDI/HDMI 2.0 Mini-Converter with powerful scaling, frame synchronization, frame rate conversion, and distribution amplification capabilities. It allows users to easily convert 12G-SDI to/from HDMI 2.0 and scale between 4K, UltraHD, 2K, and HD, while also ensuring audio and video signals remain in sync.
Harmonic AI-Powered EyeQ Content-Aware Encoding
At its core, EyeQ content-aware encoding utilizes AI to dynamically adjust encoding parameters based on what truly matters to the viewer — how the human eye perceives detail, motion and contrast. By optimizing video quality perceptually, EyeQ achieves visually superior results at significantly lower bitrates. The compression technology intelligently distinguishes between regions of visual importance and less critical details, allocating bits only where they contribute most to perceived quality.
Blackmagic Streaming Decoder
Blackmagic Streaming Decoder 4K ($745 US) is a professional streaming decoder that lets users build internet broadcast links with the Blackmagic Streaming Encoder. The Blackmagic Streaming Decoder 4K receives the H.264 or H.265 stream from the Blackmagic Streaming Encoder and converts it to SDI and HDMI video.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - MACHINE LEARNING
Quickplay AI Studio
AI Studio is a production-ready platform that transforms massive content libraries into short-form monetizable assets, at scale. It isn't just another platform—it's redefining how broadcasters, telcos, and sports rights holders monetize their content in the social-first era.
ThinkAnalytics - ThinkMediaAI
ThinkMediaAI is the first product in the industry to use AI to address viewer engagement, content metadata enrichment, and targeted advertising in a single, modular platform.
Disguise - Ask AId3n
Ask AId3n is an AI-powered assistant available as a plugin for Disguise’s Emmy-award-winning Designer Pro software. Designer Pro sits at the heart of projects like concerts, theatre shows, virtual productions, and more, and has been used on everything from Coachella and Oasis Live ‘25 to the West End’s Hercules show.
Dalet - Dalia
For decades, Dalet has led innovation in content workflows for broadcasters and digital creators. Now it’s redefining them with Dalia, an agentic AI framework built on 30 years of media-engineering expertise.
AUTOMATION
Telestream - Vantage AI
Vantage AI introduces advanced artificial intelligence capabilities that drive smarter automation, richer metadata, and more precise quality control across live and file-based workflows. Designed for broadcasters, content owners, live event producers, and post-production teams, Vantage AI streamlines complex operations from ingest to delivery, while maintaining the reliability, control, and cost predictability critical to high-volume media environments.
BCNEXXT - Vipe
Playout has long been encumbered by fixed, usually overprovisioned infrastructure based on peak requirements. Vipe offers a radically new approach, automatically scaling resources to the complexity of content, delivering both flexibility and efficiency, reducing operating costs and increasing reliability.
Ross Video - Quorum One
Quorum One represents a new era in AV production, bringing broadcast-grade content production into a compact platform built for modern communication needs. Developed by Ross Video, Quorum One is an automated meeting-control system that combines live switching, graphics, clip playout, and AI camera tracking in a single unit with a modern web interface. Unlike traditional multi-box AV systems that require complex integration, Quorum One connects easily to existing IP networks to deliver an easy and reliable content production solution.
Mediagenix - Scheduling Automation
Mediagenix Scheduling Automation speedily schedule linear channels (from FAST to traditional) with an 80% reduction in effort compared with manually-scheduled channels.
