Production Delivery Specifications - The Broadcast Standards Essential Guide
September 24th 2025 - 09:30 AM
This Essential Guide provides a unique reference resource for production companies or teams preparing to package and deliver assets to broadcasters & streamers. It gathers the published content delivery specifications from the DPP, Netflix, Apple TV+, NABA, The BBC and others and details the common requirements for assets, metadata, video & audio formats, rights management, subtitling, localization, content sensitivity and more.
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This guide continues our expansion of the enormously popular ‘Broadcast Standards - The Book’ by Cliff Wootton. It is the first of a series of Essential Guides that tackle various aspects of Media Asset Management in production. Delivery specifications are produced by broadcasters and streaming companies to describe how contributing production studios should format and submit their assets for deployment. These are detailed documents and they cover all of the supporting assets that go with the program.
In order for the program to appear in the viewers dashboard, metadata needs to describe various properties of the program. Supporting text, graphics, posters, trailers and featurettes must all be present.
The Netflix delivery specification is a prime example of the level of fine-detail required to specify compliant delivery of programs from external producers. There are equivalent documents provided by all broadcast and streaming companies. They cover broadly similar topics with some details altered to suit their own ingest workflows.
This Essential Guide contains just one extended length article focused on this core topic.
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