All posts by Chris Tribbey
13th Annual MEA Awards Accepting Submissions
The 13th annual Media Excellence Awards (MEA) is now accepting submissions across two-dozen categories, including apps, VR and AR, streaming, AI, content and data. The deadline ... More
Red Bee Adds Points of Presence in London, Paris for Channel Distribution (MESA)
Media services specialist Red Bee announced 15th July it’s added new points of presence (POPs) for channel distribution in the UK and France, with three in London and one in Par... More
Akamai: Media Industry Bombarded By Credential Stuffing Attacks (MESA)
Between January 2018 and last December, the media industry was bombarded with approximately 17 billion credential-stuffing attacks, with cybercriminals constantly testing content c... More
Akamai: Media Industry Bombarded By Credential Stuffing Attacks (CDSA)
Between January 2018 and last December, the media industry was bombarded with approximately 17 billion credential-stuffing attacks, with cybercriminals constantly testing content c... More
Trusted Partner Network Players Come Together July 21
The Trusted Partner Network (TPN) — a joint venture between the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) that manages third-party e... More
DigitalFilm Tree: Remote Work Has ‘Emboldened’ Hackers
Working remotely with sensitive content assets used to be a rare luxury for creative professionals. Today it’s a necessity. And yet while the global pandemic seen the M&E ind... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: July 13-17
Top tips for better customer service from Zendesk, ideas on when to archive content on-premises vs. the cloud from Caringo, and a bevy of work-from-home and future of media and ent... More
AppTek Launches New Multi-Lingual Collaboration Mobile Apps (MESA)
AppTek, which specialises in automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), and natural language understanding (NLU), all enabled by artificial intelligence ... More
Box CEO to Discuss ‘The Future of Work’ July 16
Giant increases in digital collaboration, more productivity in the afternoons, and more work being done outside of normal business hours. The shift to remote working has resulte... More
Whip Media Group, BB Partner on Streaming Service Data (MESA)
Whip Media Group has partnered up with Buenos Aires-based media intelligence and content distribution researcher Business Bureau (BB), to provide real-time streaming availability d... More
M&E Day: Zendesk Looks at How COVID-19 Has Changed the Customer Experience
You probably don’t need a survey to tell you the pandemic has changed the consumer experience, from the way they access content, to how they communicate in their professional and... More
Eurofins Digital Testing Boosts Cybersecurity Portfolio with Commissum Acquisition (CDSA)
Quality assurance and testing services specialist Eurofins Digital Testing has acquired Edinburgh-based security testing and consultancy firm Commissum, adding to Eurofins’ Europ... More
M&E Day: Whip Media Examines Post-COVID Future of Premium VOD
For many years now, cinema admissions have been under pressure, with only the big-budget tentpole titles — films with a budget of $100-million or more — and animations accounti... More
TransPerfect Gives AI, Chatbot Developers a COVID-19 Info Boost (MESA)
AI-assisted language and technology solutions firm TransPerfect is offering up for free its DataForce data collection and annotation service to AI and chatbot developers worldwide,... More
SDI Media Moves to New Helsinki Facility, Increases Finland Capacity by 50%
Localisation specialist SDI Media has moved into a new Helsinki studio, increasing its capacity and square footage by 50%, with the aim of better serve subtitling and dubbing servi... More
Global M&E Day Keynoter: Uncertain Times, But a Bright Industry Future
The pandemic has resulted in more change — and more uncertainty — for the media and entertainment industry than perhaps any other modern challenges its ever faced before, accor... More
Darktrace Extends Enterprise Immune System Services (MESA)
Cybersecurity AI firm Darktrace has announced a new collection of products and features geared toward extending its Enterprise Immune System platform to video and chat apps, endpoi... More
AWS Preps Real-Time Racing Stats for Formula 1 (SCN)
With choices few for a sports-starved world dealing with the ongoing pandemic, Amazon Web Services is making sure one of the few live competitive offerings out there is as entertai... More
Vendors to Share Latest Insights During Global M&E Day
More than 15 of the media and entertainment industry’s top vendors will be on hand 2 July during the Global Media & Entertainment Day event being presented live, virtually, from ... More