IGTV Opportunities and threats for IRIB

IGTV and its capabilities have affected the communication space of today's Iranian society, creating many challenges and issues in the media policy, especially IRIB. This study, explains the opportunities and threats of IGTV for IRIB and bring up the existing and desirable policies and strategies facing this new media service. For this purpose, with a qualitative approach and expert interview technique, 12 semi-structured interviews with communication science and media management professionals were conducted, and the data were coded, categorized and analyzed by Nvivo 10 software. IGTV opportunities for IRIB include two categories of practical opportunities (use of user-generated content, talent identification, audience engagement and polling) and ultimate opportunities (helping to govern well, balancing formal and customary culture, diversifying Iran's media sphere and produce better productions). The threats posed by IGTV to the IRIB included creating more challenges for the IRIB monopoly position, reducing the audience, and reducing revenue from the advertisements. According to experts, the two main ways exist for IRIB. First, the continuation of current policies (filtering and popularization of domestic platforms) and second, appropriate policies for the new era (convergent policies). They suggested having a professional presence in the social media space and becoming a multi-platform media, working on their strengths, using IGTV to interact more with the audience and attracting them and gaining their trust as strategies for IRIB.