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From Data to Distribution: ‘M&E Journal’ Digital Edition Now Available

The spring edition of the “M&E Journal: Navigating the Next New” magazine — featuring insights from dozens of media and entertainment industry executives — is now available... More

Digimarc CEO Eyes Huge ‘Addressable Market’

There is a huge “addressable market” for the Digimarc Discover platform, company CEO Bruce Davis told the Needham Emerging Technology Conference in New York May 19. He pointed ... More

Latency Among the Challenges for Live 4K Streaming, Says Verizon

By Jeff Berman The market for 4K video content and hardware continues to grow, but latency remains one of the challenges facing companies who want to deliver live 4K content ove... More

NAB Show: MESA Member Focus

By Chris Tribbey The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) asked its members attending the NAB Show to highlight what they offered at the annual confab. This is the sec... More

3rd i Selects GrayMeta to Solve Its Big Data, Metadata Challenges

GrayMeta, a leading provider of metadata solutions that brings tremendous value to company assets, has announced that 3rd i, a pioneer in the field of 3rd party content and technol... More

MESA Members New, Old Bringing Their Best to NAB

With more than 100,000 attendees, the annual NAB Show confab in recent years has been quietly making itself just as important as the Consumer Electronics Show, at least when it com... More

MESA Members Hit the Cloud at NAB

If cloud technology is your thing, you won’t be disappointed at this month’s NAB Show. The two-day Cloud Innovation Conference runs Tuesday April 19 and Wednesday April 20, ... More

NAB Show: PwC, EMC, 5th Kind, Azure Take the Stage at NAB

By Chris Tribbey LAS VEGAS — Here’s a rundown of the latest news from Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) member companies out of the 2016 NAB Show: Pricewater... More

Deluxe MediaCloud CTO Talks ‘Industry-First’ 4K Delivery Test

ATSC 3.0, virtual reality, high dynamic range (HDR) … all look to be big newsmakers during April’s NAB Show. But as far as the run-up to the annual trade event in Las Vegas, it... More

Proposed Day-and-Date VOD Service Gains A-list Backers

By Paul Sweeting Hollywood producers and directors have traditionally been protective of the theater-going experience, regarding the big screen as the native and natural venue f... More

G2M Digital: Getting Start-Ups Started

G2M (“Go 2 Market” Digital) came via a simple idea from president Stephen Brooks: being a start-up in the media and entertainment space can be nearly impossible, with major stu... More

MediaSilo: Piracy Doesn’t Have to be a Cost of Doing Business

By Chris Tribbey The origin story of Boston-based MediaSilo goes like this: In 2007, the company’s founder Kai Pradel (then-owner of a local video production agency) spent mor... More

Smart Content: It’s All About the Data

Media content today is about more than pictures and sound. It’s also about the embedded intelligence that orchestrates the movements of those pictures and sounds as they travel t... More

PwC: Cord Cutting to Pick Up in 2016

By Chris Tribbey Today, nearly 80% of Americans still subscribe to some sort of traditional pay TV service. But the increasing availability of digital alternatives to cable and sa... More

EU Copyright Reform Plans Due Dec. 9th

By Paul Sweeting We now have a date for when the first pieces of the European Union's long-range plan to create a single EU-wide market for digital goods and services will begin t... More

GrayMeta: Metadata is King

From the start, GrayMeta has had a singular focus: help media and entertainment companies get the most out of their metadata. The company’s solutions allow companies to capture ... More

European Commission Readies New Rules for Digital Content

The European Union is poised to take a major step toward its long-sought goal of creating a single market for digital goods and services across the entire 28-member bloc. A leaked ... More

AES Panel Advocates Standardizing Metadata

A uniform global metadata standard that provides all the critical details of everyone who participated in a recording will alleviate lapses in the present system, concurred a well-... More

Can Metadata Save the Radio Star?

As the music industry grows more complex with the proliferation of free and paid streaming services the need for accurate and consistent metadata to properly track the usage of rec... More

New ‘Variety’ Summit to Tackle Data-Driven Storytelling, Marketing

For Variety’s first-ever Big Data Summit, one day just wouldn’t be enough to cover all the ways big data is impacting Hollywood. On Nov. 4-5 at the Intercontinental Hotel in C... More

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