A Modest Step Forward for Music Metadata

By Paul Sweeting SoundExchange, the digital performance royalty collection agency, along with the international record industry association IFPI, this week unveiled its long-await... More

Wipro, Tableau Partner on Business Intelligence Solutions (SCN)

IT and business process services company Wipro has announced a new partnership with New Jersey-based business analytics software company Tableau to offer joint business intelligenc... More

Avanade Research: Smart Technologies Driving Significant Improvements in Revenue, Customer Experience

New Avanade research shows that the majority of business leaders are already investing in, and benefiting from, the increased use of smart technologies in the workplace. Increased ... More

Metadata and Interactive Media Ads Take the Stage at Metadata Madness

By Chris Tribbey Metadata has become an absolutely crucial part of the media and entertainment ecosystem, and interactive advertising is no different. Why metadata is important i... More

Smart Content Panel: Internal Silos Can Communicate Better

With the transition to digital for media and entertainment — home entertainment, TV broadcasting and even theatrical —multiple groups are all distributing the same content to s... More

Smart Content Panel: Standards Only Work When People Use Them

During the second annual Smart Content Summit there was plenty of discussion on media and entertainment standards for metadata and more. But the way a lot of people in the industr... More

Prime Focus Technologies to Provide Cloud-Based Media Asset Management Solution to Cricket Australia

Prime Focus Technologies will deploy CLEAR Media ERP’s, Asset Management module, Cloud MAM, to establish and operate a digital video library for Cricket Australia (CA), the natio... More

Smart Content Panel Tackle Content Mining

By Chris Tribbey Before coming over to Universal Music Group last year as its new VP of advanced media planning and management, JR Yasgur spent more than a decade with Sony Pictur... More

Smart Content Summit Speakers Stress Data Organization

By Chris Tribbey The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) hosted their second annual Smart Content Summit yesterday in Los Angeles, which saw more than 300 data, ope... More

comScore, Rentrak Complete Merger

Online tracking firm comScore has completed its stock-for-stock acquisition of media and entertainment research firm Rentrak, creating a new audience measurement powerhouse that’... More

Music Industry Still Hoping For Metadata Harmony

As music business models grow more diverse and complex the need for clear and consistent metadata and copyright management information (CMI) to track song plays and disperse royalt... More

The Time for Advertising Interoperability Has Come

By Harold Geller, Chief Growth Officer, Ad-ID In the world of video advertising, smooth and automated workflows have been one of the most neglected areas in our business for yea... More

Sign up for our newsletters
* indicates required
MESA Newsletters