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Vast Media Smart Screen Round-Up: YouTube Calls for Presenters, FIFA Original Series
Here’s a run-down of recent second screen-related entertainment items, via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. • For an opportunity to produce their own... More
IBM Watson Media, Fox Sports Add AI to World Cup Coverage
For this month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Fox Sports has partnered with IBM Watson Media to add an artificial intelligence layer to the broadcaster’s coverage of the even... More
HITS Spring Keynoter Pushes Attendees to Be Happier
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Mo Gawdat had it all. Successful career, wonderful family, all the “keep-up-with-the-Joneses” material possessions you might want. But the former ... More
HITS Spring to See AI, Data Endeavors Highlighted
Among the breakout sessions during the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit returns to Los Angeles on May 17 is a closer look at the latest AI and d... More
Vast Media Smart Screen Round-Up: Digital-First Debuts, Snapchat Partnerships
Here’s a run-down of recent second screen-related entertainment items, via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. • To promote the latest season of its rea... More
HITS Spring Keynoter to Share Design Thinking Approaches
When the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit returns to Los Angeles on May 17, Hollywood A-list creative-futurist and designer, Jeff Julian (“Doctor ... More
Ooyala Analyst: Mobile Video Plays Could Soon Hit 70% of All Online Video Watched
Mobile video plays continued to grow in the fourth quarter of 2017 and could soon reach 70% of all online video played globally, according to Jim O’Neill, principal analyst at st... More
May 2 Webinar: ‘Introducing the Trusted Partner Network: One Industry, One Audit’
On May 2 at 11 a.m. PT, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) will hold a webinar to discuss the Trusted Partner N... More
Live at NAB Show: Anti-Piracy Tools, New Workflows Featured on the Show Floor
LAS VEGAS — The NAB Show saw no shortage of new workflow solutions, software-as-a-service technologies, and anti-piracy news from members of the Media & Entertainment Services Al... More
Live at NAB Show: MESA Members Talk Digital Asset Management, AI, and More
LAS VEGAS -- Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) brought a variety of new offerings to the annual NAB Show, covering artificial intelligence (AI), and mac... More
Live at NAB Show: MESA Members Debut Variety of New Technologies as Show Gets Underway
By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey LAS VEGAS -- Cloud solutions, digital asset management offerings, security and content protection technologies and more we’re on hand from mem... More
NAB Show: Industry’s Trusted Partner Network Debuts at Cyber Summit
The Trusted Partner Network (TPN) — a new content security initiative aimed at helping companies prevent leaks, breaches and hacks of pre-release film and TV content, by elevatin... More
UI Centric: Creating High-Quality User Experiences
Every day, millions of people use digital products on an ever-growing range of platforms. To create digital products that are intuitive and useful across this complex landscape, it... More
Fox, Turner, Viacom Execs: OpenAP Yielding Promising Early Results
NEW YORK -- The OpenAP platform developed by Fox Networks Group, Turner and Viacom has already yielded promising initial results after only a few months, according to executives fr... More
NAB Show: MESA Members to Showcase Connected TV, OTT and App Solutions
Globecast will be touting its new Cloud Channel Playout solution for 4K Ultra High-Definition (UHD), HD and standard-definition (SD) channels at NAB. The new media management servi... More
Smart Content West: MarkLogic’s Turner Links Data to Smart Content
LOS ANGELES — For Matt Turner, CTO of MarkLogic, the advances of smart content have come more quickly than he could have dreamed, with more and more media and entertainment firms... More
Smart Content West: M&E Companies Must Provide Consumers with More Personalized Content
Media and entertainment (M&E) companies today need to provide unique, personalized content, driven by a deep understanding of the individual, due to the growing popularity of over-... More
Media Data, Asset Management Topics Headline Smart Content Summit East
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliances (MESA) Smart Content Summit to the Microsoft Technology Center in New York City March 8, offering the latest industry data initiatives ... More
M&E Journal: Media Grabs All the High-Tech Goodies
By Roger Sherwood, Director, Global Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Systems - When you work for a company steeped in internet protocol (IP) technologies, and your job is to help ce... More
Vast Media Smart Screen Round-Up: A Reddit TV Premiere, the Nile in VR
Here’s a run-down of recent second screen-related entertainment items, via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. • On Feb. 15, TBS premiered the first epi... More