Rightsline: Tackling Media Rights, Avails Challenges for Industry’s Biggest Players
With no end in sight to the content craze, the world’s top media producers and distributors are almost exclusively now outsourcing their rights and avails management to a purpose... More
Digimarc CEO: Retailers Still Being ‘Cautious’ About Replacing Traditional Barcode
It’s taking a while to expand Digimarc Barcode across retail stores industrywide because retailers are “suitably cautious” about replacing the traditional barcode that they a... More
Dolby CFO: Smart Wireless Speakers a Growth Opportunity
Sound bars already represent one of several growth areas for Dolby, but down the road the company also sees a potential growth opportunity in the smart wireless speaker product cat... More
Trusted Partner Network Heads Share Details
The end goal of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) — the industrywide content security initiative launched by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Content Deli... More
IBM, Google Execs: AI to Open Up More Content Value, Monetization Opportunities
NEW YORK – All media and entertainment (M&E) companies stand to gain by using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance content value and performance, as well as find and maximize ... More
HITS Spring: Execs to Tackle Advanced Production Technologies
At the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit in Los Angeles on May 17, one of the highlights of the day will be a high-level discussion around new produc... More
AWS Elemental Cloud Services Aim to Maximize Value of Video with AI
NEW YORK — Four of the most recent cloud services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced are helping media and entertainment (M&E) companies maximize the value of video with a... More
EIDR European Working Group to Meet May 9 in London
The latest updates around the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) will be presented May 9 at Google’s Covent Garden offices in London during a free meeting of the EIDR European Work... More
AWS: Three ‘Major Trends’ as Customers Adopt Machine Learning
NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has observed “three major trends” as its customers adopt machine learning (ML) in growing numbers, according to Dan Mbanga, AWS global le... More
HITS Spring: A Hollywood Case Study on Strategic Sourcing
At the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit in Los Angeles on May 17, several entertainment execs will take a closer look at how strategic sourcing is i... More
Legacy FTP to 8K Video … the Old Met the New During the NAB Show
By Jon Finegold, CMO, Signiant - Reflecting on the NAB Show this year, I was struck by two extremes: emerging technology that’s still on the fringe, like 8K video, and dying ... 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
