All posts by Guy Finley

Turning to Community in Times of Crisis

Whether you’re down to scraping the muck at the bottom of the barrel — because you may have already scraped the bottom of the barrel mid-year — or you’re off to the races a... More

A Vue To A Kill

By Alan Wolk Like Dish’s Sling TV and Apple’s rumored new Apple TV package, Sony Vue, which launched this week in several cities, is not going to destroy the television indust... More

Black Hat: Lessons For Hollywood

By Bryan Ellenburg Just a few hours into the Black Hat USA 2014 Conference, one thing is clear:  The systems used to capture, store, transform, distribute, and archive Media Ente... More

Building a Successful Business on a Backbone of Process, Procedure and Customer Service

Last month CDSA had the pleasure of attending an Open House event thrown by Los Angeles Duplication & Broadcast (LADB) at their Burbank facility that is right across the street... More

Anne Arroyo, The NPD Group

Anne Arroyo Director of Client Development The NPD Group Anne Arroyo is the Director of Client Development for all of The NPD Group’s video industry clients. Anne joined NPD’s... More

Jessica Gill, Interpret LLC

Jessica Gill Director of Strategy and Analysis Interpret LLC Jessica has eight years of consumer insight experience across a broad range of sectors, most recently focusing in ente... More

Larry Taman, Gfk North America

Larry Taman Vice President, Media Industry Group Gfk North America Larry is a Vice President in the Media Industry Group at GfK North America. He is responsible for the business i... More

Al Meyers, PwC

Alfred Meyers Director Retail and Consumer Practice PricewaterhouseCooper Al Meyers is a director with the Retail & Consumer Practice of PwC in the Texas market. He advises re... More

Elizabeth Stephenson, McKinsey & Company

Elizabeth Stephenson Principal, Strategy Practice McKinsey & Company Elizabeth Stephenson is a Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where she serves clie... More

S3 Comes to NYC

Produced by MESA in partnership with TWICE, Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News magazines and in conjunction with CEA’s CE Week in New York City (June 25-29), the 2nd ... More

Peter Wallace Named Worldwide Director, CDSA Anti-Piracy Compliance Programs

Security industry veteran to focus on expanding content protection initiatives in U.S. and aligning the program with other leading security audit standards Long-time entertainment ... More

WEBINAR: What to Do When Your Network is Hacked?

Click here to Download Recording (59 Mb) In the first of a series of webinars on content protection, security and cyber-threat, Steve Armstrong, a leading international d... More

MESA: What We Do!

Take a few moments to review the MESA value proposition. Events, media, special interest groups as well as management of industry initiatives and associations - MESA helps service... More

Divergence of Device, Convergence of Function

2nd November, Beverly Hills, CA This November, Testronic Laboratories, worldwide service provider for the digital media and entertainment industry, sponsored Blu-Con for the third... More

MESA News – Aug. 7

Studios/Suppliers Augmented reality adopted by more studios By Susanne Ault and Jennifer Netherby - 08/07/2009 AUG. 7 | PHYSICAL: IPhone apps also expected on more DVDs, Blu-rays i... More

MESA News – Jul. 31

Studios/Suppliers Image to defer $4 million principal payment By Susanne Ault - 07/31/2009 JULY 31 | PHYSICAL: Deadline extended to Oct. 30 MoreViacom’s Paramount takes Q2 loss ... More

MESA News – Jul. 24

Studios/Supplier Comic-Con: Warner, Disney put motion comics on display By Ned Randolph - 07/24/2009 JULY 24 | DIGITAL: Stan Lee talks about creation of new Time Jumper More Mill... More

MESA News – Jul. 17

Studios/Suppliers Image expands stand-up DVD line By Susanne Ault - 07/16/2009 JULY 16 | UPDATE--PHYSICAL: Acquires three titles with comedy stars More Home entertainment revenue ... More

MESA News – Jul. 10

Studios/Suppliers Comic-Con attracts DVD, Blu-ray on smaller scale By Susanne Ault - 07/10/2009 JULY 10 | PHYSICAL: Studios focus on core sci-fi, horror, animation releases More ... More