All posts by Andy Marken

We enjoy exercising and working out but think we overdid it the other evening and sprained our flicking finger. You know the routine. (more…)... More

Whether it’s your first, your fifth, or god forbid, your 15th, there’s always something really different and special about IBC. Two years of isolation awhile back slowed the... More

We’ve always known that Hollywood didn’t have the corner on the movie/series development/production market but seeing them was always a challenge. We had to visit an art movie ... More

The problem with all the TV research reports is that they think singular family unit/household overflows with consensus, harmony and perfect equality. You know, the family is th... More

The hiatus from the office didn’t cause the global shortage of new, middle managers and senior team employees, it only exasperated and shined a spotlight on the situation. W... More

We’re not certain if cancelling your cable bundle is a battle of wits or stubborn perseverance, but either way, it isn’t fun. O.K., maybe a little fun. Now you can sign up f... More

Businesses, especially in the media and entertainment industry, are running so fast, trying to catch the next great thing that they’ve lost sight of the reason they’re in busin... More

People have been spending too much time pontificating on how AI is going to take over, make things all better and clean up all the messes we made. Back in 2019, we think IBM CE... More

They were back. Nearly 3,500 theater owners from 80 countries cheering, clapping as studio executives said they had learned their lesson and were going to put their new, exciting, ... More

Lots of folks at NAB said the industry has shifted. Suddenly, it’s all about streaming. Not necessarily so! Right now, it’s messy which is exactly how the industry makes pro... More

With more than 65,000 attendees, NAB came back strong this year as content owners, creators, producers and distributors weighed the benefits of a new breed of hardware, software an... More

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 10... More

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 100 ye... More

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 100 ye... More

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 100 ye... More

With everyone trying to figure out what the M&E industry will look like in the years ahead, this year’s NAB should be the most exciting, most chaotic event in the show’s 100 ye... More

When we told our son the internet passed its golden age (50) awhile back, he asked how old folks like his grandpa and us communicated back in the Dark Ages. “You know, before ema... More

When 2022 wound down, theater owners everywhere were saying the movie industry is back. Now they’re moaning that it will be another year before it recovers. We don’t know ho... More

Back when DVDs were first being introduced the industry’s — and undoubtedly content creators’ — biggest concern was making them so they couldn’t be copied. They really wa... More