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NAB Show Announces 2025 Product of the Year and Project of the Year Awards Winners

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 10:48 am

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NAB Show unveiled the winners of its distinguished 2025 Product of the Year and newly established Project of the Year Awards during a special ceremony at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday. These honors spotlight the most innovative and forward-thinking new products showcased on the exhibit floor and projects delivered in 2024. They celebrated breakthrough solutions shaping the future of media, entertainment, and technology.

The 2025 NAB Show comes to close on Wednesday

This year, NAB Show added the Project of the Year category to highlight the outstanding key players bringing to life the most ambitious and innovative projects delivered. This first-of-its-kind program recognizes excellence across the broadcasting and entertainment industry, honoring cutting-edge applications, installations, workflows, and use cases that push boundaries and redefine possibilities. Winners were selected by a panel of industry peers.

Meanwhile, the 7th Annual Product of the Year Award Winners were selected by a panel of industry experts in 16 categories. To be eligible, nominated products must be from companies exhibiting at the 2025 NAB Show and available for delivery within the 2025 calendar year.

These winners are driving the industry forward with a remarkable range of solutions opening new frontiers, says Eric Trabb, senior vice president and chief customer success officer at NAB. We're proud to celebrate the creativity and impact of our industry's top work. From cutting-edge advancements and technologies shaping the future of content creation, distribution, and monetization and now the teams behind those efforts - it's exciting to see how storytellers are connecting with audiences in entirely new ways.

This year's Project of the Year Award Winners are:

ACQUISITION CATEGORY

Celebrating the tools and techniques applied to projects from high-end cinematic productions to the world's largest sporting events, that engage and captivate audiences everywhere.

France TV - Led by Romuald Rat and Amy Rajaonson. Technology Partner: TVU

MLB Network - Led by Jason Hedgcock. Technology Partner: Bitfire

National Geographic: Content Acquisition Transformation - Led by Brad Hughes. Technology partners: TMT Insights, SDVI, and Signiant

PRODUCTION CATEGORY

Highlighting original ways of utilizing technology and talent to inspire creatives in commercials, episodic tv, reality-tv, docu-dramas, and broad range of enterprise content.

Monumental Studios Entertainment: Studio renovation to redefine the fan experience, enhance operational efficiency, and pioneer new sports workflows. - Led by Charlie Myers. Technology Partner: Dalet , Diversified

The Intuit Dome: New Home to the LA Clippers. - Led by Jason Lemiere. Technology Partners: Imagine Communications and Beck TV

Texas House of Representatives - Led by Jay Koog. Technology partner: Ross Video and Nelco Media

OPERATIONS CATEGORY

Recognizing efforts to manage and move content in myriad formats to scale workflows and maximize efficiencies across complex global environments.

Sinclair Broadcasting, Nexstar and Triveni Digital: BPS Mesh Network Initial Deployment - Led by Harvey Arnold of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Brett Jenkins, of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Technology Partner: Triveni Digital

Sinclair Broadcasting: Migration to an IP platform to facilitate the transition of numerous station's Master Control into the Cloud - Led by Mike Kralec. Technology Partner: Zixi

A+E Global Media - Led by David Klee. Technology Partners: TMT Insights, SDVI, Arch Platform Technologies and AWS

DELIVERY CATEGORY

Honoring teams using the best technology to enhance the customer experience.

NBCUniversal: Satellite Downlink Ecosystem Transformation. - Led by Grant McGilvray. Technology partner: Appear

Millicom (Tigo ONE TV): Proactive End-to-End Streaming Media Workflow Monitoring. - Led by Eduardo Donatelli. Technology Partner: Interra Systems

Portland Trail Blazers: Enhanced storytelling with Viz Libero using unique data visualization tools to grow viewership by 69-percent. - Led by John McConnell. Technology Partner: Vizrt

This year's Product of the Year Award Winners are:

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

Adobe: Generative Extend in Premiere Pro

ObviousFuture GmbH: CaraOne

Sony Electronics: BRC-AM7

Amazon Web Services (AWS): Amazon Nova

Sensara, Inc.:SceneSense

Mediagenix Automation: Mediagenix Scheduling

Eon Media Corp.: eonRadioAIMetadata

Spectatr.ai: AI Agents

ARwall: ARFX Infinite Studio

Super Micro Computer, Inc.: Supermicro and RAVEL Turnkey Workload Solution for Generative AI

Moments Lab: MXT-2 Custom Moments for Finding Specific Video Highlights at Scale

Prime Focus Technologies: CLEAR AI Content Studio- Application for snackable content creation

ASSET MANAGEMENT AND PLAYOUT

Crispin Corporation, A Sony Group Company: FASTWheel

CYME: Peakto

Arcitecta: Mediaflux Real-Time

Mimir Media Tech AS: Mimir

BBright: BBright Integrated Playout v2.0 NextGen Playout

Ad Signal: Assure

Strada: Strada Agent

Vizrt: Viz One 8

AUDIO PRODUCTION, PROCESSING AND NETWORKING

Super Hi-Fi : Control Room

RTS Intercoms: RTS Voice Over Cloud (RVOC)

iZotope: iZotope RX 11 Audio Editor

Glensound: GMT Mobile

Saramonic: Saramonic Ultra

Orban Labs, Inc.: Orban Optimod 5950 HD

CAMERA SUPPORT, CONTROL AND ACCESSORIES

FUJIFILM North America Corporation: FUJINON Duvo HZK14-100mm T2.9-3.9 Portable PL Mount Zoom Lens

Canon U.S.A., Inc. : Adobe Frame.io Camera to Cloud in-camera activation for Canon EOS C400 and EOS C80 Cameras

Canon U.S.A. Inc.: Op
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