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MESA Members Bring Solutions to IBC

For the first time in three years, the IBC Show is live in Amsterdam, and MESA members will again be well-represented, with more than two dozen exhibiting, MESA holding a cybersecurity tour on the show floor, and hosting the annual LAMsterdam party at Cafe Zwart.

Here’s a look at what some MESA members are bringing to the show.

Iyuno-SDI

Iyuno-SDI is part of the IBC 2022 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme, which supports the media and entertainment industry with a framework for agile, collaborative and fast-track innovation through a multi-company project-based approach to solving complex media and entertainment business and technology challenges.

This year, Iyuno-SDI is a participant and contributor to the Cloud Localization Blueprint (CLB).

This first-of-its-kind project brings together predominant supply chain software companies to create a definitive blueprint for distributing entertainment content globally. From licensing to localization and final delivery, hear what these industry leaders believe are the key considerations for building a best practice cloud-based media supply chain for content localization.

The CLB will be presented live at IBC 2022 on Sept. 11 from the Innovation Stage. The final showcase session will take place on from 11-11:45 a.m. in Hall 2. The CLB will also be published online at cloudlocalizationblueprint.com after the show.

At Booth 6.C29, Iyuno-SDI, and its affiliate company Ortana, will be there to greet attendees and present its product offerings on display. Learn about Iyuno-SDI’s end-to-end solutions — from dubbing, subtitling, accessibility, media services and creative services — for more than 100 languages and every type of content.

LucidLink

The LucidLink team at IBC will focus on how easy it is to work together from anywhere without changing your workflow. LucidLink media workflow experts will demonstrate how fast and easy you can get started with a cloud-based solution that accelerates the media production pipeline.

LucidLink Filespaces makes massive media files of any type and size immediately available everywhere — edit and collaborate in real-time for global creativity connected. Join the company at Stand 7.B06 in the RAI Amsterdam to discuss ingest, playout, and post-production with the most loved applications in media, including Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Frame.io, Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve.

Attendees will be able to check out LucidLink workflows with Telestream, AJA Video Systems, iconik, Dalet, EVS, Softron, and more:

• Streamline remote collaboration on global media workflows
• How to enable creatives with integrated collaborative workflows across time zones, continents, and agencies
• Create flexible distributed workflows for craft editing, QC, mastering, and delivery
• Build a virtual production hub with superfast, secure remote distributed performance
• Accelerate video production turnaround times for multiple clients with orchestrated cloud solutions
• Solve set-to-post workflows while managing post on multiple productions

NAGRA

NAGRA will showcase its range of innovations, demonstrations and customer successes from across the Kudelski Group, at IBC in Amsterdam, Stand 1.C81. From increasing subscriber loyalty and extending service reach to protecting investments and securing against business threats, NAGRA is setting a new standard in empowering the industry to realize the possibilities of the future.

The NAGRA IBC 2022 theme “Explore the Possibilities Beyond the Horizon” will include customer announcements and solutions that demonstrate how to:

• Create satisfied, profitable and loyal subscribers: NAGRA’s fully integrated and flexible hybrid streaming platform, OpenTV Video Platform, is enabling content aggregation strategies. This is empowering operators with new capabilities through which to market, monetize and manage content while maintaining brand relevance.

Leveraging the advanced behavioral and artificial intelligence capabilities of NAGRA Insight, video service operators can proactively predict changing consumer behavior. This then helps operators optimize investments and personalize subscriber offers to minimize churn and maximize revenue opportunities.

• Extend service reach to address a broader audience: Complementing existing box-based propositions, NAGRA’s direct-to-TV solutions including TVkey Cloud are opening new channels to market, reducing complexity and lowering acquisition costs.

• Addressing the growing demand for linear streaming and on-demand content, NAGRA is enabling operators to extend their service reach to multiple types of devices through a common UX app and enabling innovative and strategic bundling approaches for different platforms.

• Protect investments and secure against business threats. Intelligence-led anti-piracy solutions are accelerating both customer and industry coalition investigations by leveraging NAGRA’s Anti-Piracy Intelligence Platform and NexGuard forensic watermarking solutions.

• Through a comprehensive security approach, advanced monitoring and analytics dashboards quantify illicit network activities. NAGRA Active Streaming Protection protects both the content and the service to maximize subscriber value, transforming anti-piracy initiatives from a cost center to a profit center.

• Complementing the showcase is NAGRA Scout. Focused on protecting consumers’ connected lifestyles, it directly addresses consumer concerns about the security of their digital lifestyles when in and away from the home. Featuring a consumer mobile app alongside a cloud-based back-office platform, it also provides operators with additional tools such as home network fault diagnostics, adding significant value to broadband service operator’s offers.

• CSI Awards Finalist: NAGRA is also a finalist in two categories of the 2022 CSI Awards: “Best Content Protection Technology” with the NAGRA Active Streaming Protection, and “Best Cybersecurity Product of Service” with NAGRA’s Holistic Cyber Protection. Winners will be announced at the CSI Awards Ceremony on Friday, September 9 at 5 p.m.

Qumulo

The Qumulo team will be onsite showcasing Studio Q, high performance remote video editing in the cloud. Stop by stand 7.C27 for a live demo and learn how to:

• Easily spin up editorial or post production environments on AWS
• Enable creative teams to leverage the Adobe Creative Cloud editorial suite to complete their entire production in the cloud
• Deliver full frame-rate playback, and real-time editing of high-res 4K video footage, even with multiple editors working with multiple timelines

Qumulo provides a modern hybrid cloud infrastructure for data-driven media and entertainment organizations. Qumulo can handle the most demanding performance requirements, as well as manage, store and protect exabyte levels of HD, and 4K content, on-prem or in cloud environments.

Qvest

Leveraging the opportunities and potential of digital transformation is a complex and multidimensional task. Therefore, it is good to have an experienced technology partner to talk to about how to ensure success in the future. Visit Qvest at IBC and learn how, as a leading consultant and experienced implementation partner, it supports companies along the entire Digital Media Supply Chain – with modern infrastructures, technologies and, workflows.

Qvest provides holistic support on these core challenges, among others:

• Budget Efficiency: How to spend budgets wisely. Declining ad sales, more streaming competition, increasing fragmentation in media consumption: The battle for attention and dwell time is becoming increasingly intense. We explain how budgets can be spent wisely in challenging times.

• Tech & People: How to make business future-ready. Cloud, XR, AI – hardly any other industry is as innovation-driven as the media world. We recognize relevant developments in time and lead companies into a successful future with top technological solutions.

• Staffing & Skills: How to get qualified experts for your projects. Many media companies lack the necessary resources to tackle tasks quickly and implement them on schedule. We support our customers with qualified personnel to successfully realize their projects.

• Risk Minimization: Why it pays off to go the extra mile. The more digital the value chain, the more important effective protection mechanisms are. Find out how to protect yourself from threats early and effectively.

• Sustainability: How to tackle the net zero challenge. If you want to act sustainably, you have to reconcile ecological, economic and social goals. Find out how media companies can develop a sensible net zero strategy with suitable concepts.

• Innovation: How to experience the Next. Making companies capable of learning and adapting means adapting organizational and workforce capabilities to new conditions. Our approaches make it possible to create space for innovation and thereby identify promising ideas.

Red Bee Media

As the leading global media services partner for innovation and growth, Red Bee is returning to IBC 2022, where visitors can experience the future of broadcast. Expand your reach, and make it easier for your audiences to find the right content.

Join Red Bee at Hall 5, Stand H.48 at the RAI Amsterdam, where the entire Executive Team is in attendance, including CEO Steve Nylund. Red Bee is excited to reconnect with the industry, and to share the latest on its full suite of offerings, including Playout, OTT, Distribution, MCR, Media Management, Access Services, Content Discovery, and Post-Production.

Red Bee’s major service propositions are positioned to enable you to explore new business models, reach wider markets and grow your revenue streams:

• Connect – Red Bee Connect takes care of the media delivery lifecycle for both live and linear content to ensure it securely connects with audiences across every platform.
• Reach – Red Bee Reach covers every aspect of the acquisition, preparation, and distribution of media assets to ensure you meet the highest audience expectations.

• Access – Red Bee Access offers the highest quality and accuracy for multi-language accessibility in real-time using both human and machine-based options.

• Discover – Red Bee Discover delivers the metadata and images needed to enhance the appeal of linear and on-demand content to meet the expectations of increasingly discerning audiences.

• Play – Red Bee Play handles all the technical and operational challenges of creating linear channels, ensuring they engage and delight viewers around the world

• Pulse – Red Bee Pulse combines our scalable cloud-based OTT delivery platform with the complete wrap of complementary features to help you build scalable services with truly global reach.

Shift Media

Shift Media will be showcasing the MediaSilo and Screeners.com solutions. The company will highlight the simplicity of collaboration through WIP projects during shoot and post-production with MediaSilo and demonstrate why thousands of press reviewers prefer getting their pre-release screeners through Screeners.com (and why security teams love it, too).

The big story for Shift this IBC is that it has brought back the MediaSilo brand and the quality and reliability for which it is synonymous.

Signiant

Since it last met with our industry colleagues across the pond at IBC2019, Signiant has experienced unprecedented growth building on its foundation of world-class fast file movement. Now that IBC is returning this September, the company is excited to reconnect with friends in Europe once again.

Launched this summer, Media Engine is a modern media management service built into the Signiant Platform. Signiant SaaS customers can easily search, preview and take action on media assets across all their Signiant-connected storage, from anywhere in the world. It enables federated searches across multiple content repositories, both on-premises and in the cloud. Results are immediately actionable via the powerful services available on the platform anchored by Signiant’s best-in-class fast file transfer.

While Cloud I/O isn’t new to Signiant, it is a huge area of growth and innovation. Signiant’s software is used to move petabytes of valuable content to and from AWS, Azure and GCP every month with proven speed, security, and reliability. The volume of data our software moves monthly to and from the cloud has grown by 11x since IBC 2019.

Growth drivers include:

• Cloud ingest applications driven by the explosion of streaming services.
• Fanout distribution, where the massive bandwidth of the public cloud platforms is leveraged to provide many endpoints with access to large files simultaneously.
• Multi-cloud imperatives where companies are both diversifying their cloud strategies and accessing best-of-breed services from the various cloud providers.
• Replacing dedicated connections such as AWS DirectConnect and Microsoft ExpressRoute with far better flexibility, economics, visibility and control.
• Automatic backup of WIP to the cloud.

Jet for Enterprises + Wasabi Integration: In 2019 the company first introduced Signiant Jet, an award-winning SaaS product that, for the first time, made lightning-fast, automated file movement accessible to SMBs. Thanks to continued innovation, an enterprise version of Jet is now available to navigate more complex networks — adding bandwidth controls, firewall relays, expanded APIs and more.

The Signiant Platform now supports Google Cloud Platform in addition to AWS and Azure and supports on-prem file and object storage offering a consistent user experience to access and share any-size file across any hybrid cloud, multi-cloud storage environment.

Synamedia

Synamedia, the world’s largest independent video software provider, has unveiled its line-up of demonstrations at IBC 2022 on stand A69 in hall 5, emphasizing its leadership in SaaS video streaming technologies. With the broadest set of offerings in the industry, Synamedia’s portfolio meets the needs of customers across all video services from content providers and streamers to broadcast giants. At IBC, Synamedia will show how its latest solutions protect, enrich and deliver world-class video services with a commitment to reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).

The highlights are:

• Deployments of its multi-tenant SaaS offerings including Synamedia Iris for addressable advertising; Clarissa for business insights; OTT ServiceGuard for streaming anti-piracy; and CSFEye to minimise credential fraud activity and password sharing. The entire SaaS portfolio uses the Synamedia Cloud common framework, creating a cohesive experience across all products and features common workflows for operations and management of services.

• The complete Synamedia Go cloud video suite which offers service providers everything they need to rapidly launch a streaming service and customise it to increase value. Go is a flexible, SaaS-based modular video platform that balances functionality with speed-to-market for VOD and live streaming services. Highlighting Synamedia Go’s open design, the stand will also feature some of the pre-integrated solutions from providers in the Synamedia Partner Network.

• Following the acquisition of Utelly in May 2022, Synamedia has now transformed the Go.Aggregate and Go.Recommend packages for content discovery across multiple streaming services and live TV. Synamedia will also demonstrate Go’s ability to connect everything – extending search and discovery across music, audio books, podcasts, short-form user-generated content, and more. Aggregate and Go.Recommend add-on packs are available standalone or with Go.Foundation.

• Synamedia’s most recent acquisition, Quortex, a cloud-native SaaS solution for just-in-time processing of live and recorded streaming, provides exactly the resources required at any given time, cutting operational costs and reducing energy use dramatically. Ideally suited for disaster recovery, long-tail and niche revenue-generating content, Quortex complements software-defined Vivid Workflow as-a-Service (WaaS)with solutions for service providers of any size that deliver premium OTT services for live events and sports, disaster recovery, and more.
Synamedia will debut two new SaaS solutions as it expands its Vivid WaaS offer, with Vivid Connect for cost effective backhaul transport services and Vivid Record for time-shifted TV and cloud DVR. The Vivid portfolio being showcased will also include Vivid WaaS PowerVu, Vivid

• Synamedia will launch Fluid EdgeCDN, a new portfolio of services for scalable, smart, and efficient CDN operations. Features include a sophisticated traffic prediction engine that allows ISPs to sell excess CDN capacity with a share of the revenue going back to the rights holder.

Synamedia will demonstrate the combined power of its broad suite of solutions to solve the urgent issues of the industry with low TCO, in particular for original content producers such as sports leagues. For example, it will demonstrate live sports streaming at scale, using Synamedia’s Fluid EdgeCDN solution to implement edge-embedded watermarking from EverGuard which detects and disrupts streaming piracy many times faster than competitive solutions. Another use case will feature advertising and low latency ad insertion using Synamedia Iris and Vivid WaaS.

Take 1

Following Verbit’s recent acquisition of VITAC and Take 1, both brands will demonstrate their joint capabilities from a shared stand during IBC 2022, Sept. 9-12, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.

With more than 50 years of combined experience in the media and entertainment industry, VITAC and Take 1 offer a variety of live and offline captioning, transcription, audio description, subtitling and dubbing services.

The VITAC and Take 1 teams will be available on stand 5.G36 at IBC 2022 to demonstrate their joint capabilities in live captions, pre-recorded captions, subtitles, transcription, audio description, dubbing and translation.

The companies will also reveal how extracting valuable metadata at the beginning of the content supply chain and working with one provider for the full suite of media services provides significant operational and cost efficiencies.

VITAC and Take 1’s access services manager, Scott Henderson will take part in a panel discussion entitled “Managed Services: Adding Value in Content Distribution” on the Content Everywhere Stage, Hall5 on Monday, Sep. 12, at 2:30 p.m.

“IBC 2022 comes less than two months after Take 1 joined the Verbit family and provides the perfect opportunity for us to introduce our new partners at VITAC to the UK and European market and to demonstrate our joint capabilities.  We can’t wait to see everyone at the show,” said Take 1 CEO Louise Tapia.

 

Verimatrix

Verimatrix, the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, today announced it will highlight its powerful content protection, anti-piracy and enterprise cybersecurity technologies for streaming services providers, broadcasters, telcos and operators from Sept. 9-12 during this year’s IBC conference at RAI Amsterdam.

The company’s IBC showcase follows a fast-growing number of technology partnerships that underscore the appeal of the cloud-based Verimatrix Streamkeeper solution that’s designed to enable battle-ready, yet streamlined and cost-effective protections for content delivered via nearly any platform type. The IBC conference serves as one of the media and entertainment industry’s most notable venues to feature Verimatrix’s unique zero-code telemetry approach that makes anti-piracy and cybersecurity not only simple and fast, but also cost-effective and designed to encourage integration with other related M&E providers.

IBC Show Highlights:

• Product demos – Verimatrix XTD (Extended Threat Defense), Verimatrix Streamkeeper, Verimatrix Secure Delivery Platform and Verimatrix VCAS (IPTV/DVB)
• 3D hologram – A holographic presentation of Verimatrix Counterspy, the company’s proprietary anti-piracy and app protection security agent that uses proprietary zero code technology
• Partner recognition – Technology partners are critical to Verimatrix’s success, and the company will feature key partners on its partner wall, during demos and in booth videos

The company is set to host two in-booth mixers at its IBC Booth 1.C23 on September 9 and 10 with TiVo, a leader in DVR and advanced television, as well as The Goose House, a popular esports community that Verimatrix sponsors. Verimatrix is also sponsoring a Media and Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) networking event scheduled for 8-10 p.m. on September 9 at Café Black.

Verimatrix Streamkeeper stands as a cybersecurity and anti-piracy gamechanger. Its users can implement a comprehensive set of content protection and anti-piracy solutions such as Multi-DRM, Watermarking, App Shield and other countermeasures that allow users to hunt down and take out OTT pirates who often take advantage of premium content that’s left unprotected. Streamkeeper includes Verimatrix’s Counterspy technology – the autonomous injection of an anti-piracy and app protection security agent that uses proprietary zero code technology that brings deep, defensive countermeasures as well as the monitoring of clients without the hassle of a huge integration effort.

Verimatrix XTD defends against endpoint attacks by monitoring apps, APIs and unmanaged devices; illuminating blind spots and preventing firewall intrusions — threats that are not typically covered by existing cybersecurity solutions.

Verimatrix Streamkeeper info is available at www.verimatrix.com/products/streamkeeper.
Verimatrix XTD info is available at www.verimatrix.com/products/extended-threat-defense.

Veritone

Veritone, creator of aiWARE, a hyper-expansive enterprise AI platform, will showcase its array of award-winning AI solutions designed to increase revenue opportunities, efficiencies, scaled operations and enterprise-level migration to the Web3 metaverse.

Through Veritone’s AI offerings, content creators and owners can efficiently and securely share, manage and protect assets; expedite content monetization; and scale, localize and translate digital content. As an established solutions leader in the media and entertainment industry, Veritone provides its AI-driven software solutions to many of the world’s top entertainment companies and to all Big 6 media companies, which by some estimates collectively control as much as 90 percent of all consumable content. In addition, seven of the world’s largest sporting events leverage Veritone.

“We needed a proven, scalable and reliable system that would enable us to create a contextual data layer for Globo’s rights-held sports assets and index thousands of hours of content per year for better searchability,” said Marcelo Fontana, Globo’s product manager of Media and Entertainment solutions. “Globo selected Veritone aiWARE for its flexibility to run multiple AI models on each piece of content within a secure, network-isolated environment. Recognizing Veritone as one of the biggest companies in enterprise AI software, services and applications, we trust its AI solutions to help Globo address current and future challenges, efficiently and at scale.”

A common thread linking Veritone’s library of media and entertainment solutions is its AI Platform aiWARE™. Through Veritone Digital Media Hub, powered by aiWARE, customers can monetize valuable content that was previously idle and increase efficiency by seamlessly locating and sharing desired content within its AI-powered digital asset management applications. aiWARE is capable of sorting, tagging and segmenting media behind a storefront in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional digital asset management or media asset management solutions.

“Media and entertainment organizations are often looking to better monetize their content and improve efficiency when it comes to workflows and archive management,” said Drew Hilles, senior vice president, Commercial Enterprise, Veritone. “With the emergence of Web3, that struggle is now compounded even further. We’re excited to showcase our award winning AI solutions at IBC and help media organizations across the world overcome the challenges of digital content monetization and management with Veritone’s portfolio of AI solutions that help them monetize, manage, extend and protect their assets wherever those organizations reside.”

Veriverse, Veritone’s Web3 solutions portfolio, helps content creators and owners securely generate synthetic media, mint and trade NFTs and monetize and protect their assets in traditional and multiverse channels. Veritone Voice provides scale of engagement by creating custom AI voice models with the ability to generate branded synthetic content in multiple languages. To humanize digital experience, Veritone Avatar offers custom, ultra-realistic, interactive avatars to provide influencers and enterprises the ability to drive greater connection in areas of recruiting, fan engagement, customer service, education, virtual assistants, sales and more.

Wasabi

Wasabi Technologies will be exhibiting in booth 7.D28 at IBC at the RAI Amsterdam. Come meet with company experts to hear how producers and content owners save money by offloading expensive primary storage to Wasabi, protect their business from disaster with cloud storage, and enable truly active archives to get the most out of legacy assets.

Wasabi has been redefining the cloud storage market with high-speed service and a flat rate pricing model where users don’t get charged for data egress or API calls. That’s performance and pricing predictability you can count on.

Xperi

Xperi is using UBC to launch TiVo OS to Smart TV makers, welcoming Vestel as its first OEM partner, which will ship the first smart TVs powered by TiVo in Europe beginning in 2023.

Unlike existing platforms, which are largely built around “walled gardens,” TiVo OS is a first-of-its-kind neutral platform, aimed at giving original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more control over the user experience and helping consumers cut through the clutter of streaming and linear content options with simplified, universal discovery to consumers. With an award-winning content-first experience, global content provider scale and profitable partnership model, Powered by TiVo™ is the ultimate independent smart TV operating system.

Vestel, one of the top three European TV producers will launch Powered by TiVo Smart TVs as part of a multi-year, multi-country, multi-million-unit agreement, with the first units expected to ship in 2023.

Based on decades of experience growing profitable consumer electronics and entertainment ecosystems, the Powered by TiVo model is designed to maximize the lifetime value of customers for TV OEM partners better than competing platforms. With the expected growth of connected television (CTV) advertising from 16 billion USD to 36 billion USD by 2026, television OEMs, like Vestel, have an opportunity to work with TiVo and participate in monetization throughout the lifecycle of the Smart TV.

XL8

At IBC, AI-powered machine translation technology firm XL8 will debut MediaCAT, a new platform meant for seamless, AI-based media localization, including automation, asset management and synchronization capabilities for media content workflows.

MediaCAT automatically extracts lines from media content, matching the timecode, and translating content to a desired language pair, or multiple language pairs simultaneously. The platform enables in-line post-editing and the addition of synthetic dubbing or voice-overs, allowing users to audition specific voices quickly with just a few clicks.

Adding these new capabilities to XL8’s existing suite of Machine Translation Post-Edit (MTPE) services makes MediaCAT the most convenient and unified translation solution available for human translators. MediaCAT will allow users to edit timecode and set limits per segment for a translated subtitle in-line within the tool. These features significantly reduce tedious and repetitive tasks often associated with traditional translation workflows since XL8’s translation engine is specifically optimised for media content translation.

At IBC, XL8 is also previewing its EventCAT platform, which will complement XL8’s existing live subtitling capabilities for live broadcasts and events and provide an on/offline interpretation platform supported by a global network of thousands of interpreters.

Zixi

Join Zixi in Amsterdam where the company will be on the show floor for IBC 2022. Learn about exciting new offerings and find out more about the latest features and functionality of the Software Defined Video Platform (SDVP).

Mark Henry from Disney Streaming Services, Matt Wilson from Paramount and others will be joining CEO Gordon Brooks to discuss trends in the market and how Zixi’s innovation has helped them address specific problems of live event management, solutions for efficiently delivering not only 24 x 7 live linear but also OU and event applications, as well as their needs for actionable analytics, data visualization and RCA (root cause analysis) reporting for cost efficiencies required in dynamic, modern live IP video broadcasting workflows.

Zixi will be a sponsor at the strategic Devoncroft Executive Summit at IBC 2022 taking place on Sept. 8.

As part of the showcase, Zixi will be exhibiting new and existing capabilities, including:

• Dynamically manage live event schedules and allocate resources in ZEN Master
• Define event stages and rules templates including pre and post-event stream behavior
• Switch between live and slate sources, trigger blackout content replacement, enable bandwidth bonding and failover options, and distribute target optimized ultra-low latency feeds
• Leverage video optimized ZaaS Cloud Infrastructure or deploy SDVP instances within your own on-prem, hybrid or cloud operating environments.
Real-time live event operations dashboard with manual override controls provides visibility into event status from pre-production through post-live stages.
• ZaaS delivers all the functionality of the SDVP with managed high performance cloud infrastructure to deliver a powerful comprehensive solution for efficiently delivering OU/Event applications.

OU on ZaaS provides a turnkey experience for managing all facets of live video production and distribution, including integrated low-latency live transcoding and stream packaging
Updated ZEN Master live events management simplifies complex live event schedules and orchestrating event stages.

Expanded geographic ingress points deliver consistent ultra-low latency over diverse signal paths for production backhaul to cloud processing centers.

This is the second of two stories previewing MESA members at the IBC show in Amsterdam. You can read the first here.