About AIB
AIB is the trade association for TV, radio and digital broadcasting.
Established in 1993, AIB provides its members with intelligence, networking, lobbying, promotion and more. AIB's growing international membership includes major broadcasters and suppliers to the global broadcasting industry.
What we do
Influencing Policy
Our work programme is active in areas as diverse as Pay-TV regulations, media freedom, spectrum, safety & security and funding in order to ensure that our Members’ voices are heard by policy-makers across multiple geographies.
We respond to our Members’ needs on key issues that affect them individually or collectively. We help our Members to communicate with those who make major decisions and we assist in positively influencing outcomes.
We monitor media markets internationally to ensure that our Members know when issues of concern arise so that the appropriate response can be formulated, either directly by a Member organisation, or through the Association.
Knowledge Centre
The AIB has been gathering intelligence and monitoring developments in global media for more than a quarter of a century.
We have built an extensive body of information and knowledge about global media which Members can call on to develop strategies or to understand markets.
We are constantly adding to the intelligence that Members can access as part of their membership benefits.
Working Groups
The AIB uses Working Groups to help members address their key strategic business, managerial and operational issues.
By working together as a group, the AIB’smembership has a powerful global voice that is of immense use to all member organisations, whatever their size, wherever they may be located.
The output of the Groups helps to build consensus among Members on key subjects and helps inform future strategies in Member organisations. Each Group has a chairman elected from the membership to direct its work.
Key working groups:
Artificial Intelligence
Sustainability
Big Tech
Cyber Security
AIBs Advisory Group
Conferences and Networking
The AIB works to bring people in the media industry together, and to share expertise, knowledge and concerns with colleagues and with a wide range of observers, commentators, regulators and parliamentarians.
We provide platforms for the discussion of key industry topics that are relevant to our Members wherever they may be in the world.
We organise large-scale conferences and private networking events, as occasion demands.
The agenda for all our events is driven by the Members, responding to their needs and requirements.
Global Collaboration
The AIB is inclusive and outward-looking. We seek to collaborate and co-operate with organisations where our Members will benefit from the exchange of information and sharing of knowledge.
We work closely with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on, for example, the implementation of the dotRadio top level domain, chairing the World dotRadio Advisory Board (WRAB).
We work closely with organisations such as the North American Broadcasting Association (NABA) on key strategic issues such as cyber security.
We benefit from reciprocal membership of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) and the International Association of Broadcast Manufacturers (IABM).
We work with select commercial organisations to deliver additional benefits to our Members, such as speaking opportunities at third-party conferences, or discounts on key events.
We also work closely with many of the key regulators on current issues that affect our members such as Brexit, licensing, trade regulation and spectrum allocation.
Promotion
The AIB has global reach through its online presence.
More than 27,000 media leaders in over 150 territories receive our briefings that report on the activities of our Members and provide insight into developments across the wider media industry.
Our main website, www.aib.org.uk, is visited by people on every continent each week. Our Members have the opportunity to share their latest news with our global audience, and to publish profiles of their businesses on the website.
Our proactive promotional work supports Members and offers them a route to reach opinion-leaders in multiple markets.
We also have a dedicated website for the AIBs, our annual competition to find the best in factual programming. www.theaibs.tv
Celebrating Success
The AIB celebrates success in factual productions across television, radio and digital through our annual awards, The AIBs.
Over the past 19 years the AIBs have become renowned as a unique, respected global competition that crosses boundaries and brings journalists, editors, executives, and other opinion leaders and decision makers from around the world together in a way that no other awards can match.
This is the only international awards for journalism and factual productions across TV, radio, and digital platforms that are open for work in all languages
Today, the AIBs are highly respected, globally recognised and greatly coveted.
Our judges include highly qualified media practitioners throughout the world, reflecting the truly international nature of this important competition: commissioners, editors, producers, journalists and reviewers.
The AIBs winners are those at the pinnacle of factual programme-making who come together for a gala event in London each November – a highlight of the international media calendar. Here, participants not only celebrate their success, they share knowledge, experience and information with colleagues from around the world as part of our work to help support the growth of factual story-telling in markets globally.
Governance and Secretariat
The day-to-day work of the AIB is carried out by a small Secretariat unit headed by the Chief Executive. Based in an office in north Norfolk about 90 miles north of London, the Secretariat serves the Members, providing the services outlined in this booklet.
Governance rests with our Executive Committee, consisting of six people elected by the Members for a two-year term of office. The Executive Committee meets formally four times a year. The Executive Committee receives reports from the Secretariat and the chairmen of all Working Groups and helps to set out the Association’s overall work programme and provide advice and guidance to the Secretariat.
Our governance structure forms an integral part of the way in which the Association delivers its objectives and its strategy.