All posts by Chris Tribbey
Whip Media Study: Streamers are Self-Isolating, Looking for Laughs
A new study from content tracking tool TV Time and its parent company Whip Media sees a large majority (91%) of U.S. TV viewers socially distancing, isolating themselves to a degre... More
Digital Offering, Expanded NAB NY Show to Replace NAB 2020 Vegas
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced March 20 that the 2020 NAB Show, originally scheduled to be held in April in Las Vegas, will not be rescheduled this year, ... More
MESA Members Go Remote, Offer Free Product Access in Response to COVID-19
With the continued spread of the coronavirus, members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) have responded with free offerings of their top products, moves to f... More
SAP, Futurum Report Examines ‘What’s Next for Content Streaming Services’
A new white paper from SAP and analyst firm Futurum asks the all-important question “‘What’s Next For Content Streaming Services?” At a time when millions of people have ca... More
Whip Media: Streaming Wars a ‘Brute Force’ Game Today
LOS ANGELES — Dave Cornella, SVP of global strategic accounts for Whip Media Group, looks at the streaming landscape today, and sees a problem. “If you look at our industry ... More
BeBop Technology Offers Remote Work Insights
To keep the industry working when remote is needed, what are some of the best practices needed to make that happen? That’s the question BeBop Technology is tackling in a serie... More
BeBop, Sony Ci to Hold Post-Production in the Cloud Webinar March 18
Sports brands everywhere are looking to make the most out of all their assets, and keep fans more engaged with all the content available. The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA)... More
Cinelytic CEO Looks to Make Most of P2P Piracy Data
Most media and entertainment companies lack insights into global OTT audiences, despite how fast the business is growing. The industry spends $200 billion annually making and m... More
April NAB Show Postponed Over COVID-19 Concerns
The late-April NAB Show is the latest media and entertainment conference to be put on hold over concerns with the growing spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), with NAB presi... More
BeBanjo: OTT Services Must Be Nimble, Adapt Quickly to Compete
As content planning, scheduling, distribution and delivery all become more complex, the need to manage larger quantities of metadata, schedules and rights is crucial to running a s... More
NASA JPL CIO Explores Hollywood Similarities With Space Exploration
LOS ANGELES — Randi Levin, CIO for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), sees a lot of similarities between the technology needs for Hollywood and for space exploration. And not jus... More
NAB 2020: OWNZONES to Demo New Content Workflow Technologies (MESA)
OWNZONES Entertainment Technologies will display its newest innovations for content workflow and supply chain management at NAB Show 2020. The company will also highlight its techn... More
ShortsTV CEO: Short-Form Content Going Beyond Cat Videos
LOS ANGELES — Carter Pilcher, CEO of global TV network ShortsTV, was recently at a friend’s house, and watched as his friend’s four-year-old daughter went up to the living ro... More
Cinelytic CEO: Finding the Silver (Data) Lining in Pervasive Piracy
LOS ANGELES — Nobody in the industry is a fan of piracy and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. It’s billions out of the pockets of content owners, creators, and everyone associat... More
Shazam Founder: Building to Scale Takes Perseverance … and a Bit of Luck
LOS ANGELES — When Chris Barton and his friends came up with the idea of Shazam in 1999 — to allow for mobile identification of any song, anywhere — it was years before smart... More
Sony NMS Head of Platform Services Sees Opportunity Among OTT Options
LOS ANGELES — The data is pretty well-known by now: every U.S. household has an average of two OTT subscriptions today, and there are more services joining the ranks of options a... More
EIDR 2.5 to Launch April 25
LOS ANGELES — The latest significant stack improvement to EIDR, EIDR 2.5, will launch on Saturday, April 25, bringing with it reliability and resilience for both registry and de-... More
Cinelytic CEO to Decode Streaming Audience Demand at Smart Summit
Both on the main stage and during a breakout session March at the at the Smart Content Summit in L.A., Tobias Queisser, co-founder and CEO of Cinelytic, will get a unique insight i... More
Sony NMS to Share Streaming Insights at OTT Supply Chain Event
More than half of U.S. households now are subscribing monthly to at least two of the major streaming sites around, leading some to call the SVOD market saturated. Don’t tell t... More
