All posts by Chris Tribbey

Exactuals Celebrates SAG-AFTRA Success, Entertainment Partners Partnership

Los Angeles-based industry payments specialist Exactuals is celebrating sign-ups for its direct deposit service by many of the 160,000-plus union members with SAG-AFTRA, the compan... More

Cinelytic: Improving How M&E Business is Done

Combining the best practices of finance, science and tech, and the entertainment sectors, Los Angeles-based Cinelytic has a bold goal: help entertainment industry professionals max... More

HITS Spring: LiveTiles to Look at AI, Bot Strategies

The nascent introduction of artificial intelligence into the workplace means gaining practical insights into how to implement it properly remains a major challenge for many organiz... More

HITS Spring: Birlasoft, Exactuals, Azure Bring Cloud, Payments Knowledge

Executives from Microsoft Azure, Birlasoft, Exactuals and Blizzard Entertainment will all be on hand May 23 at the HITS Spring event in Los Angeles, offering insights into the late... More

Videocites Launches Re-Streaming Detection Service

AI-based content protection and management services firm Videocites is launching a new service that automatically tracks illegally shared streaming video on social media platforms,... More

HITS Spring: AFI, EIDR to Discuss ‘Enabling the Future’

One of the latest groups to join the ranks of the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) unique ID registry system is the American Film Institute (AFI), and along with its missio... More

HITS Spring: MicroStrategy to Share Enterprise Analytics Insights

At the May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Rick Pechter, principal solutions architect for MicroStrategy, will offer attendees ideas on how to ... More

HITS Spring: 5th Kind to Tackle ‘Metadata Endgame’

At the May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Steve Cronan, CEO of 5th Kind, will show attendees how they can make the most of everything they hav... More

HITS Spring: Richey May, New Wave Offer Content Protection Lessons

For the May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, JT Gaietto, executive director of Richey May Technology Solutions’ cybersecurity practice, and Ri... More

CDSA Production Security Guidelines Detailed at HITS Spring

The May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles will see Lulu Zezza, co-chair of the Content Delivery & Security Association’s (CDSA) Production S... More

HITS Spring: Entertainment Partners Brings Digital Food for Thought

At the May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Darren Ehlers, SVP of product management for Entertainment Partners, will share a simple message: di... More

HITS Spring: MarkLogic, Sony Set to Share Data Success Story

An investment in descriptive, time-based metadata has helped Sony Pictures to better understand its content library, and the studio is doing it with the help of enterprise NoSQL da... More

Eurofins Digital Testing to Be Exclusive CI Plus 2.0 Test Partner

Quality assurance and testing specialist Eurofins Digital Testing will serve as the exclusive test partner for the CI Plus 2.0 standard, an enhanced security system allowing manufa... More

HITS Spring: Spark Digital to Look at the Future of Geotargeting

From targeting content within a physical space to localizing content for global markets, using time and place data to get compelling, targeted content to customers is more importan... More

StudioCanal Adds NexGuard Watermarking to Protect International Distribution

European film production and distribution firm StudioCanal has inked a deal with NAGRA to deploy NexGuard forensic watermarking technology with its content, to protect internationa... More

HITS Spring: SoftServe to Hype Hybrid Recommendation Engines

Digital media companies are facing a recommendation engine challenge today, one that sees many of these solutions falling short, when it comes to making the most of the user experi... More

HITS Spring: Cinelytic CEO to Show Predictive Insights

At the May 23 HITS Spring event at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles, Tobias Queisser, co-founder and CEO of predictive analytics specialists Cinelytic will offer attende... More

Google Economist, Blockgraph GM Highlight HITS Spring Program

Qing Wu, senior economist with Google, Jason Manningham, GM of blockchain TV audience platform Blockgraph, and Laurie H. Hutzler, CEO of Emotional Tool Box Screenwriting will all t... More

TiVo Lands Armstrong Cable Deal (MESA)

TiVo April 29 announced a second customer for its Next-Gen Platform for TV and streaming services, with East Coast cable operator Armstrong utilizing the service to transition to I... More