Agterberg, Bas2020-08-132020-08-132014-12-24https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15071The article analyses the changes in production and consumption in the audiovisual industry and the way the so-called ‘ephemeral’ commissioned productions are scarcely preserved. New technologies and the liberal economic policies and internationalisation changed the media landscape in the 1980s. Audiovisual companies created a broad range of products within the audiovisual industry. This also resulted in a democratisation of the use of media as well as new formats of programmes and distribution for commissioned productions. By looking at a specific company that recently handed over a collection to the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, challenges and issues of preserving video and digital and interactive audiovisual productions are discussed.engCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 GenericFernsehenaudiovisual archivevideoSound and Visioncommissioned audiovisual productionsinteractive contentephemeral media07079110.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc06910.25969/mediarep/141072213-0969