Devoncroft is 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 evolved 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.
Devoncroft 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 the 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 and Vendor Brands Covered in the 2026 BBS, by Application Area
Acquisition and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and Measurement
Leader, Rohde and 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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