As media organizations find themselves producing more content for more destinations on ever-tighter schedules, the tools meant to support that work have struggled to keep pace. At IBC2026 in Amsterdam, Backlight is presenting a set of platform upgrades for Iconik and Wildmoka that use artificial intelligence to close that gap — making archives searchable through plain language, connecting live production to digital distribution, and opening the ecosystem to outside integrations. It is a familiar tension in the technology story: the volume of human creative output expanding faster than the syst