All posts by Jeff Hyatt

By Chris Tribbey For all the work pay TV providers are putting into TV Everywhere platforms, the efforts are still going largely unrecognized by their subscribers. That’s accor... More

By Chris Tribbey Hollywood, know your enemy. Better yet, know their motivations. That’s part of the message Ralph Echemendia aims to deliver Dec. 12 at the Content Delivery... More

By Chris Tribbey Online sales for Cyber Monday hit $2.29 billion, a 16% year-over-year increase that helped conclude a record five days of holiday spending, according to data fr... More

By Chris Tribbey In years past Best Buy would greet its Black Friday crowds with a midnight Thanksgiving night opening, but for 2013 the retailer opened its doors six hours earlie... More

LOS ANGELES — Join leading media & entertainment analysts and consultancies on December 10th in Los Angeles to find out what’s new, what’s trending, and what’s right a... More

Allen DeBevoise, the Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Machinima, Inc., will be the keynote speaker for the 2nd Screen Summit at CES, set for January 6, 2014 at Treasure Island Hotel... More

By Jeffrey Hyatt Right around the corner, just beyond the plates of turkey, the gifts, and ringing in the New Year, CES 2014 will be here. And that means the 2nd Screen Summit retu... More

Variety, in partnership with The Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), has announced that Gale Anne Hurd, known as the “First Lady of Sci-Fi,” will be a keynote s... More

By Jeffrey Hyatt PlayStation 4 went on sale early Friday, marking the first new gaming system in seven years from Sony. Sony's PlayStation 4 is faster than its predecessor, and als... More

Leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) executives will gather next week at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza to share best practices and expertise representing all sectors of the dig... More

Variety, in partnership with The Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), the international association advocating the secure and responsible delivery and storage of ent... More

By Paul Sweeting Consumers may be cutting the cable cord but they're not giving up on subscription TV services. According to a new study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the majority of... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer With a storied career that included producing Mean Streets alongside Martin Scorsese, producing the “Concert for Bangladesh” and founding the first online ... More

By Lyndsey Schaefer More than 300 executives gathered at the Four Seasons Los Angeles today at the Hollywood IT Society (HITS) Digital Marketing & Analytics Summit to discuss ... More

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host a “Digital Media in the AWS Cloud” event for media company IT executives on October 10 at the London West Hollywood Hotel. The event will sh... More

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Hollywood IT Society weekly e-newsletter. Each Friday we will deliver the top headlines from the worlds of content management, storage, cloud ... More

Groundbreaking sound and recording pioneer Ray Dolby died Thursday at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80, Dolby Laboratories announced in a press release. He had been livin... More

Cinram, a Najafi Companies affiliate, has acquired Saffron Digital, a specialty firm that provides and manages digital media content, for $47 million from HTC. With offices in Lon... More

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) and Media & Entertainment Services Alliance Europe (MESA Europe), in association with the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DE... More