All posts by Jeff Hyatt

Rovi Video Leads Metadata Market Across the Globe; Now Covers 70 Countries (SC)

Rovi's expansive metadata is available in North America, Latin America, Europe, and more recently in key Asian markets such as China, Japan and India. The Rovi Video global databas... More

Microsoft adds Harmonic’s ProMedia to Playready DRM (CED)

Playready enables content consumption via browsers and/or apps running most major mobile operating systems, including Windows, iOS, Android and Linux. In addition to mobile devices... More

Digimarc to Showcase Growing Retail Industry Support for Digimarc Barcode, Digimarc IDs (MarketWatch)

Digimarc today announced it will showcase early adopters of and key infrastructure developments for Digimarc(R) Barcode and Digimarc IDs at the National Retail Federation's Annual ... More

Adstream Uses Pentaho to Add Analytics Edge (ComputerWeekly)

Global digital asset management company Adstream has turned to Pentaho’s data integration technology to mount its Adbank platform for advertising workflow, asset management and d... More

CES 2015: Consumer Data Gets Big (Forbes)

More and more content is becoming available to consumers anywhere they want it, as long as they have a broadband connection to stream it. And content producers like HBO will have a... More

The Changing Face of DRM: Where Do We Stand in 2015? (StreamingMedia)

While DRM is a form of content protection, it’s only one alternative, and one used by only a tiny percentage of websites. As an example, there are thousands of websites that dist... More

The Future for Consumer Goods in the Data Economy (Wired)

Data now feels so central to business success that without an ongoing, data-mediated relationship with their customer base, we may be looking at an environment where data-poor bran... More

Will Hollywood Abuse “Big Data” Culled from Streaming Video? (StreamDaily)

Video: Netflix has reached “the nirvana for marketers” by getting consumers to self-select and create “super-granular” personalization algorithms, said IBM’s Richard Mara... More

Cognitive Networks Detects What You’re Watching On Your Smart TV (TechCrunch)

Cognitive Networks has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) that looks at the picture on your TV and uses that data to identify exactly what you’re watching. That, in tu... More

The Era of Big Data Won’t Materialise Without Fast Data (InformationAge)

You might think that, as we’re able to collect more and more data, we’d also be able process in tandem. However, in practice, this is not the case. Yes, organisations are amass... More

How Big Data Can Change the Music Industry (VentureBeat)

Much like Instagram with sponsored posts, brands can use data and music DNA to drive engagement strategies that strengthen awareness and loyalty. Combining this with a proper distr... More

Mining Location Data For Consumer Insight (MobileInsider)

Mobile search is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to geotemporal data sets that can help advertisers better understand consumer behavior. Passive sources of geotemporal da... More

At CES 2015, Gadget Makers to Test Promise of a Do-It-All Wearable (CNET)

Wearable devices are undoubtedly a key new technology. By 2018, wearable shipments are expected to jump to 112 million units, more than five times last year's figure, according to ... More

Bands and Brands: Universal Music Partners With Havas (AdAge)

Havas and Universal Music are launching the Global Music Data Alliance, a partnership both companies hope will create new revenue streams by mining the data provided by consumer be... More

CBS’s DeBevoise: The Time was Right for OTT

By Chris Tribbey When CBS debuted its digital subscription service CBS All Access in mid-October, the news came at the same time HBO announced a similar offering that same week (w... More

Why Graph Technology Is Ready For Its Close Up In 2016 (Forbes)

As the graph market matures, [Emil] Eifrem thinks data professionals won’t pigeonhole graphs as “just for social” use cases. Because graphs are so adept at showing recommenda... More

Sports Made the Most Second Screen Noise in 2014

By Chris Tribbey Early on in 2014 a second screen theme became apparent: if you’re broadcasting a major sporting event, laptops, smartphones and tablets are not only part of the... More

Free Research from NSS Labs: Total Cost of Ownership for IPS

By Chris Tribbey As a holiday gift to MESA members, NSS Labs' is offering its report on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for intrusion prevention systems (IPS) at no charge. In it... More

Logi Analytics Partners with Teradata to Transform and Analyze Massive Amounts of Data (GlobeNewswire)

Logi Analytics, the analytics everywhere company, today announced its partnership with Teradata Corporation, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, allowing Log... More