Name
Reducing streaming’s carbon footprint: Learnings from ECOFLOW, and next steps
Date & Time
Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Kristan Bullett Tim Davis Dr Hemini Mehta Ian Nock
Description

ECOFLOW is one of the world’s stand-out initiatives focused on making TV streaming more sustainable. We hear from key project stakeholders about the effort to benchmark the carbon footprint of streaming, establish standardised methods to measure streaming energy consumption, identify energy saving opportunities and provide actionable blueprints for sustainability. This project tested and compared proposed energy savings features, evaluated their network and device impacts and sought to understand their impact on user behaviour. Changes as diverse as multicasting and P2P streaming, darker coloured UIs, and device defaults to SDR rather than HDR settings were considered, among other things. You will hear key learnings on how to measure streaming energy consumption, and we ask if standardisation of measurement methods is central to industry transparency, fairness and success. Results are reviewed and we explore what happens next.

Location Name
Stage 2
Full Address
155 Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate
London EC2M 3TQ
United Kingdom