We are delighted to announce the publication of the 2026 Big Broadcast Survey (“BBS”) Reports. Since its launch in 2009, the BBS has been conducted annually, making this the 18th consecutive year of publication. Throughout, the BBS has served as the largest annual demand-side study of the global broadcast and media technology sector.

The customer universe for professional media technologies, the technologies themselves, and the supplier ecosystem have all changed significantly over the past two decades. The BBS has evolution alongside the industry, a process made possible by the annual input from stakeholders and thoughtful responses from several thousand global media technology professionals.

Many thanks to you all.

We will review key findings from the 2026 BBS at the upcoming Devoncroft Executive Summit | Amsterdam and will publish selected highlights from this year’s reports on the Devoncroft website. The articles are posted on a semi-regular basis, so please check back often.  To receive posts when published, please register your email address (on home page) to receive automatic notifications of new blog posts.

For those parties interested in additional information on the full 2026 BBS reports, please call or email us.

Three types of 2026 BBS reports are available for interested parties:

• 2026 BBS Global Brand Reports: provide detailed insight into how more than 100 media technology suppliers (see full list below) are perceived by technology buyers, along with comprehensive benchmarking of media technology vendors on a wide variety of metrics
• 2026 BBS Product Reports: provide detailed information from buyers, specifiers, and users of media technology products in 31 separate categories (see full list below)
• 2026 BBS Global Market Report: provides detailed information about industry trends, major projects being planned, media technology budgets, and current and planned adoption levels for various technologies, including UHD/4K, AI/ML/GenAI, cloud-based infrastructure, and IP-based technologies.

The table below lists the technology vendor brands (in alphabetical order) profiled in the 2026 BBS.

Technology Product Categories & Vendor Brands Covered in the 2026 BBS, by Application Area

Acquisition & Production:

Cloud Live Production Systems
Backlight, Evertz, Grass Valley, LiveU, OBS, Riedel, Sony, TVU Networks, Vizrt, Vmix

ENG Cameras
Ikegami, Kokusai Denki, Panasonic, Sony

Graphics & Branding
Adobe, Avid, Chyron, Evertz, Ross Video, Singular Live, Vizrt, Zero Density

Large Format Single Sensor Cameras
ARRI, Blackmagic Design, Canon, Panasonic, Red Digital Cinema (Nikon), Sony

Live Production Replay Servers
Avid, Evertz, EVS, Grass Valley, Riedel, Sony (Hawkeye), Vizrt

Production Switchers
Blackmagic Design, Grass Valley, Panasonic, Ross Video, Sony, Vizrt

PTZ Cameras
Canon, Panasonic, Sony, Vizrt

Studio / System Cameras
Grass Valley, Hitachi, Ikegami, Panasonic, Sony

Post Production:

Digital Audio Workstations
Ableton, Adobe, Apple, Avid, Cakewalk, Propellerhead, Steinberg

Video Editing
Adobe, Apple, Avid, Blackmagic Design, Grass Valley

Infrastructure:

Bonded Cellular
Dejero, Haivision, LiveU, TVU Networks

Contribution / Transport
Appear, Evertz, Haivision, Lawo, Media Links, Net Insight, OBS, Riedel, Sony (Nevion), Techex, Zixi

IT / Blade Server
Cisco, Dell, Huawei

IT Switch / Router
Arista Networks, Cisco, Dell, Huawei, Netgear

Signal Processing / Interfacing / Modular / Routing
Aja Video, Blackmagic Design, Evertz, Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, Riedel, Ross Video

Audio:

Audio Consoles
AEQ, Avid, Calrec, DHD, Lawo, Solid State Logic, Studer (Evertz), Telos, Wheatstone, Yamaha

Audio Monitors (speakers)
Adam, Dynaudio, Focal, Genelec, JBL, Meyer, Neumann, PMC

Intercom / Talkback
AEQ, Clear-Com, Riedel, RTS Intercom Systems, Telos, Unity Intercom

Microphones
AKG, Audio-Technica, beyerdynamic, DPA Microphone, Electro-Voice, Neumann, Rode, Schoeps, Sennheiser, Shure, Sony

Storage:

High Performance Shared Storage
Avid, Dell, Hitachi, Pixitmedia, Quantum, Vast

Software Automation & Control:

Broadcast Business Management Systems
Imagine Communications, Mediagenix, Operative, WideOrbit

Media Asset Management
Adobe, Avid, Backlight, Dalet, Evertz, EVS, Vizrt, Vidispine

Orchestration
Avid, SDVI, Skyline, Sony, Telestream

Playout and Delivery:

Encoding/Transcoding
ateme, AWS, Bitmovin, Harmonic, MediaKind, Mux, Synamedia, Telestream

Playout
Amagi, Bcnexxt, Evertz, Grass Valley, Harmonic, Imagine Communications

Transmitters
GatesAir, Kokusai Denki, Rohde & Schwarz

Test, Quality Control and Monitoring:

Quality of Experience (QoE) Measurement
Bitmovin, Conviva, Mux, Nice People at Work

Quality of Signal (QoS) Measurement
Mux, Skyline, TAG, Telestream

Test & Measurement
Leader, Rohde & Schwarz, Telestream

Multiviewers
Evertz, Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, TAG

Managed Services

Public Cloud
Akamai, Alibaba, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud

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