All posts by Jeff Hyatt

Watchwith CEO: In-Program Offers New Opportunities

By Chris Tribbey Zane Vella, CEO of San Francisco-based Watchwith, sees 2015 as a potentially transformative year when it comes to how TV is consumed on digital devices. With dig... More

Broadband TV Conference: Content Democratization Changing TV

By Chris Tribbey Service operators, content owners, OTT providers and other industry stakeholders will converge in Los Angeles March 3-4 to tackle the changing face of television ... More

Teradata’s Advanced Analytics Tapped by Anheuser-Busch (SC)

Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company will provide advanced analytics services to Anheuser-Busch. The nation’s largest brewer intends to leverage in... More

NBCUniversal Is Using Big Data to Launch Its Audience Targeting Platform (Adweek)

That was, in corporate terms, fast. After 18 months of development, NBCUniversal is leveraging third- and first-party data to create what the company is calling its Audience Target... More

Netflix is Open Sourcing Tools for Analyzing Data in Hadoop (GigaOm)

he data team at Netflix is opening sourcing some of the tools it uses to analyze data stored in Hadoop. The overall open source project is called Surus, and it focuses on user-defi... More

DAM’s Roadmap for 2015 and Beyond: Interoperability, Analytics (CMSWire)

A number of vendors in the DAM industry were asked one question, "What innovative new features and technologies will you offer in 2015?" And while the DAM and MAM industry is diver... More

Operators Warming to Big Data (Multichannel News)

Cable, satellite and telco operators have been gathering data about their customers for decades, but results often fall short of expectations. These days, though, so-called big dat... More

How are Companies Leveraging Data and Delivering Results? (Bloomberg)

Video: The dig data rush has transformed the enterprise and unlocked opportunities. How are companies leveraging big data and delivering results? What are the challenges around usi... More

State Of DAM 2015 (Optimity Advisors)

As the Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace changes and grows to meet new expectations, let’s start 2015 the right way by reaffirming what DAM is. DAM consists of the manag... More

Who Will Own the Internet of Things? (Hint: Not the Users) (EFF)

From phones to cars to refrigerators to farm equipment, software is helping our stuff work better and smarter. But those features come at a high hidden cost: the rapid erosion of o... More

Keeping Big Data Secure: Should You Consider Data Masking? (Smart Data Collective)

Big data is a boon to every industry. And as data volumes continue their exponential rise, the need to protect sensitive information from being compromised is greater than ever bef... More

The Big Data Challenge Isn’t The Needle In The Haystack — It’s The Haystack (Forbes)

A lot of the marketing and analytics software solutions available today do a great job of answering questions you have in their particular silo. For example, you can set up a BI da... More

Apple Buys Musicmetric to Double Down on Music Analytics (Music Ally)

Musicmetric launched in 2008 as a way for music industry clients to track social and sales analytics, later adding in streaming data too. Its most recent funding round was $4.8m in... More

Nielsen Isn’t Leaving the Living Room (WSJ)

Unless traditional TV viewing evaporates, Nielsen will retain the advantage of being the currency there, leaving networks and marketers with little choice but to keep paying it. In... More

ComScore to Tally Viewers Across Their Many Devices (New York Times)

The new metric should provide additional information for television networks and advertisers. ComScore’s initial research revealed that by counting the number of people watching ... More

Retooling Data Synchronization For IoT (Forbes)

It used to be that a TV remote maintained a private connection, a line of sight infrared signal between you and the TV. Today TVs are capable of much more, so you might need an app... More

MCNS Come of Age

By Alan Wolk Once dismissed as the domain of cute kittens and sneezing pandas, online video is coming into its own, and 2015 promises to be the year it leaves its childhood behind... More

Akamai Focuses on Quality, Analytics to Drive Growth (Beet.TV)

Video traffic on the Akamai network is accelerating quickly, and doubling faster than it did in years past, says Bill Wheaton, Senior VP and General Manager at Akamai, a cloud serv... More

Adobe Jumps On Commerce Bandwagon, Rolls Out ‘Shoppable Media’ (AdExchanger)

Adobe isn’t exactly synonymous with ecommerce. At least, synonymous in the sense of competitors SAP and Oracle, which have invested aggressively and acquired commerce-centric com... More