BCNEXXT Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation as Customers Continue to Increase Cloud Deployments
March 11, 2025
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The Netherlands – March 11, 2025 – BCNEXXT, a trailblazer in virtualized, cloud-native systems for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing, proudly marks a decade of redefining broadcast playout. This milestone year celebrates BCNEXXT’s unwavering commitment to innovation and its role as a partner of choice for broadcasters worldwide. Notably, BCNEXXT customers have expanded their deployments of Vipe, the company’s flagship cloud-native playout platform, over the last year, further underscoring the trust and impact BCNEXXT commands in the industry.
Since its inception in 2015, BCNEXXT has empowered broadcasters to overcome the operational and financial challenges of costly, rigid legacy playout infrastructures. Built from the ground up to be truly cloud-native, Vipe leverages containerized microservices and dynamic resource scaling to deliver unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. By eliminating the silos of traditional workflows (Linear, OTT, VOD) and pre-assembling content with QC ahead of air time, Vipe cuts operational costs by up to 60% while driving 99.9999% uptime. It’s playout reimagined for the next generation of broadcast.
Leadership Expertise Driving Success
Central to BCNEXXT’s groundbreaking achievements is its deeply experienced leadership team, which most recently saw the appointment of broadcast industry veteran Graham Sharp as VP of Sales and Marketing at BCNEXXT, joining Sander Ten Dam, COO, Matthijs de Vries, CTO and Co-founder, Harold Vermeulen. Together, the BCNEXXT leadership team's collective expertise spans decades and includes pivotal leadership roles at companies such as AVID, Discreet Logic, Publitronic, and Grass Valley. This deep knowledge has been instrumental in the creation of disruptive technologies and innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of broadcasters.
“Our 10-year anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on BCNEXXT’s commitment to innovation and our customers’ trust in our solutions,” said Graham Sharp, VP of Sales and Marketing at BCNEXXT. “Over the past decade, the company has not only witnessed the rapid evolution of the broadcasting industry, but has actively helped shape it. Vipe’s success and the expansion of our customer deployments this year highlights our ability to provide broadcasters with the agility, efficiency, and scalability they need to thrive in a competitive and fast-changing landscape.”
The continued increase of customer Vipe installations underscores the industry’s confidence in BCNEXXT’s solutions. Customers like Overon, Sky, and Encompass are leveraging Vipe to enhance operational efficiency, innovate their services, and position themselves for long-term growth.
“Vipe has fundamentally transformed how we approach playout, enabling us to deliver unparalleled reliability, flexibility, and cost efficiency to our customers,” said Ricardo Flores, SVP Sales at Overon. “We’ve not only improved our operational performance, but also empowered our clients to adapt seamlessly to the demands of a rapidly evolving market, ensuring lasting success in a competitive industry.”
A Legacy of Innovation
BCNEXXT continues to set new benchmarks in broadcast technology with groundbreaking advancements. In September 2024, the company introduced Vipe RT, a real-time playout engine designed to meet the rigorous demands of live sports and events. Its ability to deliver unmatched automation, dynamic scalability, and operational efficiency enables broadcasters to cut costs by as much as 60%.
Vipe RT’s capabilities were celebrated at IBC 2024, where it earned the prestigious Best of Show award in the TVBEurope category. This recognition underscores BCNEXXT's ongoing mission to revolutionize broadcast operations by simplifying workflows, enhancing reliability, and setting a new standard for live event broadcasting.
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As BCNEXXT celebrates its 10-year anniversary, its commitment to innovation and partnership remains steadfast. The path forward builds on its foundation of customer success, expanding cloud capabilities, and ongoing leadership in transforming broadcast workflows.
To learn more about how BCNEXXT’s innovative solutions are reshaping the broadcasting landscape, download the playbook “Transform Your Media Business Through Efficient Content Delivery”. This guide provides actionable insights and tools for optimizing media workflows with cloud-native technologies.
About BCNEXXT
BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.
The Netherlands – March 11, 2025 – BCNEXXT, a trailblazer in virtualized, cloud-native systems for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing, proudly marks a decade of redefining broadcast playout. This milestone year celebrates BCNEXXT’s unwavering commitment to innovation and its role as a partner of choice for broadcasters worldwide. Notably, BCNEXXT customers have expanded their deployments of Vipe, the company’s flagship cloud-native playout platform, over the last year, further underscoring the trust and impact BCNEXXT commands in the industry.
Since its inception in 2015, BCNEXXT has empowered broadcasters to overcome the operational and financial challenges of costly, rigid legacy playout infrastructures. Built from the ground up to be truly cloud-native, Vipe leverages containerized microservices and dynamic resource scaling to deliver unmatched efficiency, flexibility, and reliability. By eliminating the silos of traditional workflows (Linear, OTT, VOD) and pre-assembling content with QC ahead of air time, Vipe cuts operational costs by up to 60% while driving 99.9999% uptime. It’s playout reimagined for the next generation of broadcast.
Leadership Expertise Driving Success
Central to BCNEXXT’s groundbreaking achievements is its deeply experienced leadership team, which most recently saw the appointment of broadcast industry veteran Graham Sharp as VP of Sales and Marketing at BCNEXXT, joining Sander Ten Dam, COO, Matthijs de Vries, CTO and Co-founder, Harold Vermeulen. Together, the BCNEXXT leadership team's collective expertise spans decades and includes pivotal leadership roles at companies such as AVID, Discreet Logic, Publitronic, and Grass Valley. This deep knowledge has been instrumental in the creation of disruptive technologies and innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of broadcasters.
“Our 10-year anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on BCNEXXT’s commitment to innovation and our customers’ trust in our solutions,” said Graham Sharp, VP of Sales and Marketing at BCNEXXT. “Over the past decade, the company has not only witnessed the rapid evolution of the broadcasting industry, but has actively helped shape it. Vipe’s success and the expansion of our customer deployments this year highlights our ability to provide broadcasters with the agility, efficiency, and scalability they need to thrive in a competitive and fast-changing landscape.”
The continued increase of customer Vipe installations underscores the industry’s confidence in BCNEXXT’s solutions. Customers like Overon, Sky, and Encompass are leveraging Vipe to enhance operational efficiency, innovate their services, and position themselves for long-term growth.
“Vipe has fundamentally transformed how we approach playout, enabling us to deliver unparalleled reliability, flexibility, and cost efficiency to our customers,” said Ricardo Flores, SVP Sales at Overon. “We’ve not only improved our operational performance, but also empowered our clients to adapt seamlessly to the demands of a rapidly evolving market, ensuring lasting success in a competitive industry.”
A Legacy of Innovation
BCNEXXT continues to set new benchmarks in broadcast technology with groundbreaking advancements. In September 2024, the company introduced Vipe RT, a real-time playout engine designed to meet the rigorous demands of live sports and events. Its ability to deliver unmatched automation, dynamic scalability, and operational efficiency enables broadcasters to cut costs by as much as 60%.
Vipe RT’s capabilities were celebrated at IBC 2024, where it earned the prestigious Best of Show award in the TVBEurope category. This recognition underscores BCNEXXT's ongoing mission to revolutionize broadcast operations by simplifying workflows, enhancing reliability, and setting a new standard for live event broadcasting.
Discover More
As BCNEXXT celebrates its 10-year anniversary, its commitment to innovation and partnership remains steadfast. The path forward builds on its foundation of customer success, expanding cloud capabilities, and ongoing leadership in transforming broadcast workflows.
To learn more about how BCNEXXT’s innovative solutions are reshaping the broadcasting landscape, download the playbook “Transform Your Media Business Through Efficient Content Delivery”. This guide provides actionable insights and tools for optimizing media workflows with cloud-native technologies.
About BCNEXXT
BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.
Viewers expect high-quality content delivered seamlessly across multiple platforms, and Broadcasters and Content Owners are under huge pressure to meet these demands efficiently and cost-effectively.
Beyond streamlining playout, simplifying operations, and significantly reducing overhead, Vipe delivers rich on-air graphics as envisioned in the design studioThe Netherlands - September 11, 2024 - At the upcoming IBC Show, BCNEXXT will showcase the latest version of Vipe, introducing for the first time Vipe RT, a dedicated, real-time playout engine that supports the most complex live event and sports scenarios. IBC attendees can experience Vipe’s native Adobe® After Effects® integration at the BCNEXXT exhibit in Hall 3, Stand 3.B23.Already deployed in hundreds of entertainment channels around the world, Vipe delivers major savings to organizations of all sizes by consolidating silos, streamlining resource usage, and increasing their automation and reliability levels.Vipe also enables differentiating on-air graphics, preserving the rich designs envisioned by the artists through its native Adobe® After Effects® integration. Typical playout workflows flatten rich 3D graphics into a single .MOV file, which is then keyed over the content. As a result, the graphic loses much of its dynamics. With native After Effects integration, Vipe’s rendering engine takes all design elements, including the timing markers, and renders them in 3D exactly as the designer envisioned.“Having native graphics integration as part of a playout solution enables a workflow that supports stylish, dynamic graphics to better differentiate a channel,” states Graham Sharp, CEO of BCNEXXT, USA. “In today's multi-channel world not only are we trying to make our users more efficient, but also enable them to creatively differentiate their channels, all with 99.9999% uptime.”Vipe can be deployed across public and private clouds, on premises as well as hybrid. With its highly optimized compute usage, Vipe ensures lower-energy consumption leading to more sustainable operations and significantly reduced costs whilst delivering unmatched reliability. To learn more about the Vipe playout workflow, please visit: https://www.bcnexxt.com/approach.Learn about Adobe After Effects and give it a try by updating the app today. To enhance your workflow even further, explore the many extensions that are available as part of the Adobe Video ecosystem today.Book a Meeting at IBC 2024To book a one-on-one meeting to learn more about this modern playout service and technology, please contact: ibc@bcnexxt.com.About BCNEXXTBCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.
How Rethinking Playout Can Redefine Your Media Supply ChainThe Media Supply chain is a hot topic, but why?We as an industry have created huge supply chain complexity by taking a siloed approach to distribution. We have different departments, staff, technology and systems for Linear, FAST, VOD and Streaming Channels resulting in the supply chain having to deliver multiple versions of content to each endpoint.So why are we so focused on the Supply Chain? We are putting the cart before the horse and spending millions solving a problem that we could solve in a much simpler way.Why not consolidate playout first, then the supply chain only has to deliver a master version of the content, to a single end point?VIPE from BCNEXXT is a single platform that creates all of your distribution requirements in their transport stream formats from a single master content source. It does this without ingesting, on the fly, then stitches the events together into linear streams or delivers them to VOD origin servers based on your schedules and manifests.Liberate your playout and simplify your supply chain.
BCNEXXT Introduces Vipe RT at IBC 2024 Cloud-native playout solution revolutionizes live sports and events workflows, simplifying operations and reducing overhead by as much as 60%
Everyone knows the adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” This rings particularly true in broadcast playout, where on-air errors can be hugely disruptive and costly to the broadcaster.Traditional systems assemble video, audio, and graphics components in real-time, even when schedules are pre-set. Any glitch during this live assembly can lead to on-air errors, requiring constant vigilance from Master Control Room (MCR) operators, who need to be on standby 24/7.By pre-assembling and QC checking as much content as possible ahead of on-air time, far superior Quality of Service (QoS) can be achieved effectively reducing operational expenses and the need for around-the-clock monitoring. This pre-assembly approach can be used for all distribution requirements, enabling the consolidation of Video on Demand (VOD), Over-the-Top (OTT), and Linear playout operations, dramatically reducing operating costs further.
The Netherlands - April 18, 2024 - BCNEXXT is pleased to announce that Vipe has won the 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award in the Asset Management, Automation and Playout category. The official awards program recognizes some of the most significant and promising new products and technologies showcased by exhibitors at the 2024 NAB Show.
Vipe is a cloud-native, software-only offering that simplifies and speeds up the deployment of fully automated linear playout (including live), OTT streaming and VOD offerings. It removes multiple silos and simplifies media supply chains. Clients experience up to 60% cost reductions.
“Vipe enables broadcasters and content owners to dramatically improve their operational efficiency,” states Graham Sharp, CEO, BCNEXXT USA. “Vipe intelligently scales resources to match the complexity of the content, consolidates linear, streaming and VOD silos under a single point of technical management, and automates most common playout tasks, increasing reliability and reducing costs.. We are honored to be recognized by the NAB and take home this prestigious award!” The 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award Winners were selected by a panel of
industry experts in 15 categories. “NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace showcasing the latest trends and
technology spanning creation, distribution and monetization in the broadcast,
media and entertainment industry,” said senior vice president and chief customer
success officer Eric Trabb, NAB Global Connections and Events.“Congratulations to BCNEXXT for winning the prestigious 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award, a testament to the groundbreaking innovation embodied by Vipe. Its profound impact on the content lifecycle underscores its pivotal role in empowering storytellers to navigate present challenges and embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.” BCNEXXT’s customer Comcast Technology Solutions was also recognized with an IABM BaM award at the 2024 NAB Show for their advanced playout workflow, which relies on Vipe. About NAB Show
NAB Show is the preeminent conference and exhibition driving the evolution of
broadcast, media and entertainment, held April 13-17, 2024 (Exhibits April 14-17)
in Las Vegas. Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show
is the ultimate marketplace for next-generation technology inspiring superior
audio and video experiences. From creation to consumption, across multiple
platforms, NAB Show, ranked as one of the top fastest-growing shows in the
United States, is where global visionaries convene to bring content to life in new
and exciting ways. Learn more at NABShow.com. About BCNEXXT
BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.
OVERON, the technical content delivery division of the leading audiovisual service provider Grup MEDIAPRO, has transformed its playout operations across North and South America with BCNEXXT’s cloud-native playout solution, Vipe. As a global media distribution powerhouse, OVERON is at the forefront of delivering tier-1 sports and live content, servicing over a thousand TV channels worldwide. The move of its core playout operations, consisting of 25 television channels, to the cloud underscores OVERON's commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology like Vipe for modern media distribution, ensuring high reliability and agility in service delivery.
BCNEXXT is showcasing the future of playout operations at NAB 2024 with the cloud-native solution, Vipe in the IABM lounge W236LMR (Level 2). Reducing operational costs by as much as 60% with an incredible 99.9999% uptime, Vipe is a cloud-native software-only solution designed to streamline and expedite the deployment of fully automated linear (including live), OTT, FAST, Streaming and VOD channels. Vipe combines the multiple silos that content owners and distributors typically have in place today, drastically simplifying media supply chains, reducing operator-to-channel ratio and enabling organizations to quickly deploy new channels without the upfront costs.
We are thrilled to be part of the project at Sky Europe that won the prestigieus IBC “Content distribution” innovation award. Together with Techex (https://techex.co.uk/) and Squaredpaper (https://squaredpaper.co.uk/) we managed to help Sky migrate all Content TV channels from traditional on-prem, to be fully cloud native playout channels .For us, the project started in 2019 with some DR channels, today it is running 135 live Vipe channels from the cloud.Thank you Sky Europe for putting your trust in our platform in us as a company.
BCNEXXT, the creators of the new innovative native cloud Playout platform Vipe, announced today that they have achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technology Partner status and completed the Foundational Technical Review (FTR).