The Future Frames Podcast with Andy Beach

Andy Beach is joined by Deepali Narsiker, Rebecca Avery, and Shuchi Mathur from the Women in Streaming Media community to discuss why metadata has become the foundation of modern media operations. Together, they explore how AI is exposing long-standing workflow, data, and organizational challenges, and why companies that fix their foundations will be the ones that realize AI's full potential. This...

Everyone has an opinion about AI. Most of the debate misses what actually matters. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Tom Merritt for a conversation about technology adoption, consumer perception, and the widening gap between AI hype and practical reality. Drawing on years of reporting and analysis, Tom explores how AI is being marketed, how people are reacting to it, and why many organizati...

As AI reshapes media, the real battleground may not be creation. It may be discovery. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Brian Brushwood for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, algorithms, identity, and the future of audience behavior. From creator economics and recommendation systems to prompt engineering and cognitive outsourcing, the discussion explores how media is becoming increasingly p...

Media innovation is not only driven by technology. It is driven by where capital flows. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Seth Hallen to explore how investment is shaping the next phase of the media stack. From his experience as an operator to building a sector-focused venture fund, Seth breaks down why domain expertise is becoming critical in backing the right companies at the intersection...

Editing is no longer only a creative act. It is becoming infrastructure. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Sumit Rai and Kel Lowinsky from Elevate.io to explore how post-production is shifting from standalone tools to cloud-based systems. What was once a single-user workflow is evolving into a shared, collaborative environment where media, compute, and teams operate in the same layer. The c...

Media has never been only about content. It has always been about control. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Darren Cross to unpack how power has shifted from studios to platforms, and what happens next as AI becomes embedded in the stack. From Netflix and YouTube to TikTok, the conversation explores how distribution, data, and algorithmic routing reshaped the creator economy and redefined...

In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by Renard Jenkins, President & CEO of I2A2 Technologies and former SMPTE president, and Olga Kornienko, Co-Founder and COO of EZDRM, to explore how provenance must function across the full media chain. From development and production to distribution and playback, the conversation focuses on how content can be tracked, traced, and validated as it moves through...

Creators are no longer only talent. They are infrastructure. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by two voices who have lived the creator economy from different angles to explore how AI is reshaping the entire stack. From democratized creation and shifting production workflows to the collapse of traditional metrics, the conversation centers on one core question: what replaces trust when everythi...

SMPTE has spent over a century shaping the foundations of media technology. Now, as AI transforms how content is created, distributed, and understood, that role is evolving. In this episode, Andy Beach is joined by leaders from SMPTE to explore how standards are expanding beyond signal and format into governance, metadata, and system design. The conversation examines the growing importance of shar...

In this episode of Future Frames, Andy Beach is joined by Renard Jenkins , a veteran media and technology executive, CEO of I2A2 Technologies, and former president of SMPTE. This episode will unpack the infrastructure shaping AI-driven media. Together, they explore identity systems, standards, provenance, and ethical design, and why trust in the AI era depends on interoperable systems that can tra...

Future Frames is a podcast about who controls the media stack in the age of AI. Hosted by Andy Beach, it examines how infrastructure, algorithms, and economics shape what gets made, what gets seen, and who gets paid. Each episode goes beyond surface trends to unpack the systems quietly redefining creativity, ownership, and power in modern media. This is a public episode. If you would like to discu...