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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