30 Years of Connecting Creativity and What Comes Next

Chuck Parker, CEO, Sohonet

Thirty years ago, Sohonet began with a bold but simple idea: to make it easier for creatives to connect and collaborate. What started as a private network, linking a handful of London post houses together, has grown into a global ecosystem of services supporting every stage of production, from set to screen and thousands of productions and storytellers every year.

As we celebrate our 30th anniversary, we’re reminded that while technology keeps changing, the goal has always stayed the same: to make collaboration effortless.

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A New Era of Creative Workflows

The way stories are made and shared is changing at extraordinary speed. AI is reshaping creative processes. Streaming platforms, brands, and a new wave of content creators are all competing for audience attention.

Productions are following tax incentives around the world, spreading creative work across more regions and time zones. And smaller, more distributed teams, often collaborating across continents, are now producing professional-grade content at scale.

And, as traditional viewing habits shift and digital platforms dominate, the demand for agile, connected workflows has never been greater.

This new landscape brings both opportunity and complexity: more versions, more endpoints, and more collaboration across hybrid and cloud environments. It’s exactly where Sohonet’s expertise, connecting people, content, and tools, comes into its own.

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Where We’re Heading

We’ve spent three decades earning the trust of studios and storytellers to handle their most complex workflows and that trust is what allows us to shape what comes next.

For Sohonet, the future is about simplifying this growing complexity. The creative process today doesn’t happen in one place, it happens everywhere: on set, in the cloud, across continents and time zones. Our role is to make those boundaries invisible.

Looking ahead, our focus is on creating a broader ecosystem, one that connects every stage of the creative process, from the first day of production through to the global delivery of finished content, bringing together the tools, data, and creative talent that make modern storytelling possible.

We’re investing in technologies and partnerships that strengthen how teams move and manage their content, ensuring they can collaborate seamlessly across any location or platform.

Our goal is simple: to take away the friction, so that technology enables creativity instead of slowing it down. In short, we’re building the future foundation for how ideas move.

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The Next 30 Years

Sohonet has always been about connection, not just between systems, but between people.

As the creative world continues to evolve, we’ll keep adapting with it: staying close to our customers, anticipating their needs, and building solutions that make it easier to tell great stories.

Three decades in, we’re still driven by the same belief that started it all: when you make collaboration effortless, creativity can happen anywhere.