Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2026 shortlist revealed

The shortlist for the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2026 has been announced.

A panel of industry experts will now decide on winners for the 21 categories. The winners will be revealed at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards gala dinner at The Brewery, London on 26 November 2026.

 

The Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2026 are sponsored by Appear, Digital Garage, EIZO, Gravity Media, Medialease, NEP and Netflix.

For category or event sponsorship enquiries, please contact charlotte.wheeler@mb-insight.com.

You can now book your seat at the Awards dinner  – for table enquiries, please contact shane.murphy@mbi.london, visit https://www.broadcasttechawards.co.uk/ or click the ‘Book Now’ box below.

BROADCAST TECH INNOVATION AWARDS 2026 - THE SHORTLIST

BEST AI TOOL

• Ceivo Burnlab
• EDC Media Analyzer Telestream
• Quickture 2 Quickture
• Strawberry Media Intelligence Projective
• SFRM File[less] Editorial Match Yahoo Studios 

  

BEST INDUSTRY SKILLS INITIATIVE

Sponsored by Gravity Media

• ITV Technology Graduate Programme
• On Air 2025
• Pixel Pathway 2026
• Rise Women in Broadcast

 

BEST INNOVATION PROJECT

 Sponsored by NEP

• Bitmovin Server-guided Ad Insertion RTFB, Red Bee Media, Dotscreen, Ad Insertion Platform (AIP), and RMB
• How Iyuno Reimagined Content Localisation Iyuno & SDVI
• MyWorld’s Smart Cinema MyWorld & Hidden Signals
• Premier League Studios Premier League Studios
• Remarkably Bright Creatures – Marcellus Pacific Octopus Netflix, Anonymous Content,  Night Owl Stories & Untold Studios
• Sky’s Clean Energy Solution Sky
• Smart Stories: the Story Object Model IBC Incubator Project Team

 

BEST STUDIO BUILD

Sponsored by Digital Garage

• FIFA World Cup 2026 Studio BBC Sport / Pixotope / MediaCity Studios
• BBC/FLEX Studio BBC Media Tech, for BBC Radio
• FIFA World Cup 2026 ITV Sport
• Finchley Studios Finchley Studios
• ITN Studio Build for ITV News & Good Morning Britain ITN
• Sky Sports Premier League Football OB Studio Sky

 

BEST SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE

Sponsored by Appear

• GLASS - Dirty Looks’ Smart Energy Platform Dirty Looks & Pixels for Good
• Green Wing Sustainability Green Wing Sustainability
• Humans Not Robots’ Blueprint for Carbon-Smart Delivery Humans Not Robots (HNR), as part of the 33-partner 5G-EMERGE consortium led by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
• Measuring the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Virtual Production University of Nottingham Virtual and Immersive Production Studio & Cut the Carbon
• Nobody’s Fuel for Nobody’s Fool ITV Studios, Aggreko, Gravity Media, Terry Tew Sound & Light, & The Collectv
• Sky’s Clean Energy Solution Sky

 

BEST TECH FOR CONTENT CREATORS

• amaran Ray 660c
• BBC Digital Content Space
• Veepod

 

BEST TECH INNOVATION IN LIVE PRODUCTION

• BBC Arabic Trending BBC World Service Television
• BBC Sport - FIFA World Cup 2026 XR Studio BBC Sport / Pixotope / MediaCity Studios
• Gravity Media Stagebox Gravity Media
• Multiview Race Centre for Cycling TNT Sports
• RoutePilot One Timeline TV
• Sky Sports Multiview Sky
• Transforming Global and Scalable Live News Distribution Reuters and TVU
• WSL Play-Off Final: Bringing Fans Closer with Live iPhone Innovation Aurora

 

BEST USE OF AI (CREATIVE)

• Boom Town: How Merthyr Made the World Little Bird Films
• Straten van Toen Particle 6
• Terror In The Skies: Stopping The Liquid Bomb Plot ITV News/ITN
• The Assassinations of Queen Victoria IWC Media
• Unmasking a Monster Arrow Media
• WarGame - The Garden The Garden and ITV Studios
• World Senior’s Snooker Championship Promo Sunset+Vine

 

BEST USE OF AI (WORKFLOW)

• Channel Changers AI Production Suite Channel Changers
• Cuez Storydesk Cruez
• Intelligent Automation ITV
• Promotool.ai Promotool
• SFRM File[less] Workflow Yahoo Studios
• Subtitle-based Semantic Search ITV

 

BEST USE OF ARCHIVE

• 9/11: The Unseen Footage Atomic & Bumblebee for Channel 5
• In Ten Pictures Series 3 BBC Studios for BBC
• Katie Price: Nothing to Hide Mindhouse for Sky Documentaries
• The Alien Autopsy Scandal Mindhouse for Sky Documentaries
• The Investigation of Lucy Letby ITN Productions & ITN Post for Netflix
• Wham! 10 Days in China Supercollider & Bumblebee Post Production for BBC

   

EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION (NON-SCRIPTED)

• Finn Curry, Tom Nursey & Tatjana Radivoj of Sky Post Production The Salt Path Scandal
• Gary Kelly & Jack Cheetham of Splice Post A Toxic Love Story
• Joe Siddons & James Spooner of Home Post Production Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire
• Richard Lambert, Chris Domaille, James Burchill, Ian Bown & Jonathon Cawte of Films @ 59 Nightmares of Nature
• Stephen Gilbert & Kate Davis Rebel Country
• Thaddaios Yianni of runVT In Ten Pictures Series 3
• Tristan Powell of Molinare Bowie: The Final Act 

 

EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION (SCRIPTED)

• James Colledge, Roland Heap, Bryony Lear, Marc Spector and Harry Platford of Jumbuck Film & TV with Foley from Sound Disposition Alice & Steve
• Jamie Kolonić, Adam Powell-Evans, Hayden Morris, Tom Hoey and Jay Whittaker of LA Post Granite Harbour Series 3
• Mark Briscoe of Home Post Production Tip Toe
• Richard Davey, Antony Bayman, Laura Lovejoy, Miles Sullivan, Jack Gillies, Sam Walsh, Neale Ross and Rhiana Field of Jumbuck Film & TV Rivals Season 2
• Richard Davey, Jack Gillies, Michael Williams, Alex Gibson, Vanessa Kanaan, Tom Beale, Sam Walsh, Neale Ross and Rhiana Field of Jumbuck Film & TV Legends

   

EXCELLENCE IN GRADING (NON-SCRIPTED)

Sponsored by EIZO

• Emma Johnson of The Finish Line This Land
• Enge Gray of Racoon Race Across the World Series 6
• John Sackey of Serious Facilities Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel
• Jon Bruce of BSQUARED Sara Price: Chasing Dakar
• Katherine Jamieson of Splice Post Pompeii Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston
• Ross Baker of Molinare Should I Marry a Murderer?
• Simon Bland of Films @ 59 How to Live on Earth

     

EXCELLENCE IN GRADING (SCRIPTED)

Sponsored by EIZO

• Aidan Farrell of The Farm Post Production Lord Of The Flies
• Alex Beards of LA Post Granite Harbour Series 3
• Colin Brown of BSQUARED Coldwater
• Nuala Sheridan of The Farm Small Prophets
• Paul Harrison of Residence Pictures Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue
• Ross Baker of Molinare Frauds
• Taryn Calverey of Blazing Griffin Grow

 

EXCELLENCE IN VFX

• Chris Ritvo, Taylor Rockwell, Ross Burgess, Adam Chabane, Artem Sukach, Andrea Lacedelli, Timucin Ozger, Luke Groves, Tobias Winblad, Ngoc Phan and Mai Nguyen of Untold Studios Remarkably Bright Creatures
• Graham Stott & Moonraker VFX Team Evolution
• Jonathan Privett, Steve Moncur and Stafford Lawrence of Industrial Light & Magic and Paul Silcox of Lux Aeterna The Dinosaurs
• Mark Harris of Milk Visual Effects Team Under Salt Marsh
• Serious FX Surgeons: At the Edge of Life Series 8
• Tanvir Hanif of Digital Imaging FX Brassic

 

POST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

• Aimee Silverman ITN Post
• Jen Powell Home Post Production
• Laura Praciak Home Post Production
• Laura Taylor Home Post Production
• Marie Nichols Bumblebee

  

STANDOUT TECH OF THE YEAR

• Appear X Platform
• freispace Post-Production Scheduling
• Gravity Media Stagebox
• InSync OG-MCC Range Ultra-Low-Latency Conversion for Tier-One Live Production
• LiveU & Actua Sport Resilient Multi-Venue Contribution and Cloud Distribution at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games   

 

TECH TEAM OF THE YEAR

 Sponsored by Medialease

• BBC Studios EMEA FAST BBC Studios
• Gen AI Innovation Team ITV Studios
• Home Post Production Tech Ops Team Home Post Production
• NEP UK RF Team NEP UK
• NEP UK Wimbledon Team NEP UK
• Premier League Studios Technology Team Premier League Studios
• The Finish Line Post Production The Finish Line 

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (LIVE PRODUCTION)

Sponsored by Netflix

• Bethan Clargo ITV Sport
• Claudia Manchip Aurora
• Felix Payne Gravity Media
• Lanna Cowles NEP UK
• Mariana Galego Gravity Media
• Nick Arbenz NEP UK

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (POST-PRODUCTION)

Sponsored by Netflix

• Asya Al Kooheji Framestore
• Connor Eves Sky Post Production
• Heather Mills Particle 6
• Isabel Derr Azimuth Post Production
• Isabelle Yung ITN Post
• Kitty Banks FixFX

 

YOUNG TALENT OF THE YEAR (PRODUCTION)

Sponsored by Netflix

• Finley Bradley Sky
• Lily Brook See-Saw Films
• Louise Duncan Particle 6
• Mathilde Davidson Sky
• Nick Moysey Noah Media Group
• Ryan Whittle Sky