Standards That Shape MediaTech
Your gateway to understanding, influencing, and staying ahead of the standards that define our industry.
Monitoring Global Standards For Our Members
IAMT plays a long-standing role in monitoring global standards activity and reporting back to the industry, and that commitment continues. We remain deeply engaged in shaping the standards that matter most to our members, ensuring their interests are represented wherever key decisions are made.
But today’s environment demands deeper, more collaborative involvement. Many companies simply do not have the time or resources to track dozens of evolving standards, attend international committee meetings, or interpret early drafts that could reshape product development. IAMT bridges that gap. By connecting our technical specialists with the expertise inside member organisations, we make it possible to review emerging standards early, minimise disruption, and avoid costly surprises.
To support this, we have established the Standards Monitoring Group, open to any IAMT member with an interest in technology standards. The group provides access to in-development documents, a dedicated discussion channel, and a structured way for members to influence outcomes through IAMT’s formal representation on bodies such as SMPTE, AES, VSF, EBU and ABU. It ensures your insight helps shape standards in the best interests of the wider industry, without placing unnecessary demands on your time.
Together, we deliver informed oversight, early visibility, and a collective voice where it matters most.
Other Standards Organisations
IAMT represents its members on SMPTE, AES, VSF, EBU and ABU. These are the key bodies producing the standards and specifications that shape MediaTech.
Broadcast & Media Engineering
- SMPTE (IAMT represented)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers: ST 2110, timecode and more - AES (IAMT represented)
Audio Engineering Society: audio standards including AES67 and AES70 - EBU Technology & Innovation (IAMT represented)
European Broadcasting Union technical specifications and recommendations - ABU (IAMT represented)
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union - NABA
North American Broadcasters Association - ATSC
Advanced Television Systems Committee: ATSC 3.0 - DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting: open standards for digital TV delivery - SCTE
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, including SCTE-35
International Standards Bodies
- ITU-R
Broadcasting recommendations such as BT.709 and BT.2100 - ITU-T
Telecommunications standards, and video coding with ISO/IEC (H.264, H.265) - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29
Coding of audio, picture and multimedia: the home of MPEG and JPEG - ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute, which publishes DVB specifications - IETF
Internet protocols, including RTP - W3C
Web standards, including the media APIs used for streaming playback - 3GPP
Mobile network standards, including 5G broadcast - CTA
Consumer Technology Association: consumer electronics standards, including CTA-608/708 captions
Industry Alliances & Specifications
- VSF (IAMT represented)
Video Services Forum: technical recommendations, including RIST - AMWA
Advanced Media Workflow Association: NMOS specifications - AIMS
Alliance for IP Media Solutions: promoting open standards for IP media - C2PA
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity: Content Credentials - MovieLabs
Studio technology body behind the 2030 Vision and the Ontology for Media Creation
