All posts by Jeff Hyatt

Rovi has hired Bob Ivins as senior vice president, business development, where he’ll be tasked with spearheading Rovi's data and analytics assets business. Ivins will be based at... More

According to Rentrak, because it often happens that a set-top box is left on when the television is turned off, this process is crucial to the measurement of viewing based on retur... More

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has installed DIVArchive CSM systems in 12 of its facilities to manage news, post production, and historical archives. RTVE has also installed a DIV... More

YouTube has confirmed a big milestone to Billboard: $1 billion in payouts from its ContentID copyright earmarking system since its launch seven years ago. The system is made availa... More

The company has about 300 people working on the problem of content discovery: this includes algorithms, user interfaces, the platform that recommendations appear through, and all o... More

MarkLogic Corporation, the leading Enterprise NoSQL database platform and Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA), a global leader in rapid-fire, easy-to-use business analytics software, tod... More

Media and entertainment content and rights-management company FilmTrack has inked a deal with digital rights watchdog company Bent Pixels, to collaborate on rights management for f... More

In online advertising, data management platforms (DMPs) are winning fans by letting ad buyers plug in customer data, break customers down in to segments and then target those segme... More

Like machine-making instructions, these items (books, movies, music) were made reliable and protected with laws of copyright, patent and trademark. Now, according to people involve... More

The underlying logic of the technology is to block unauthorized copies of content and in doing so, cause behavioral changes in casual consumers of pirated entertainment that make t... More

Technology plus creativity is transforming every industry - delivering power and wonder to the audience at digital speed. And big data? Is it the new nirvana -- the perfect marketi... More

From his second-floor office, almost five miles from the UFC's show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena recently, Clint Cox, Director of Content Protection for Ultimate Fighting Champion... More

Thomas Edison would be proud. General Electric, the company he started, still knows how to make a buck off cutting-edge technology. In this case, the technology is in the so-called... More

Personalizing your message to your individual prospects is key to a successful marketing campaign. And without big data, it is not possible to scale personalization to a large pros... More

The companies said this deal gives Rentrak and Kantar “better scale to rapidly innovate their products and services in the United States.” No Kantar Media TV measurement or glo... More

With the average NFL team valued at roughly $1.43 billion, there’s no such thing as too much data when it comes to improving everything from the front office to the backfield. Wh... More

HITS, the Hollywood-based studio IT association, will launch a new broadcast initiative, HITS Broadcast IT Summit, at CCW+SATCON at Jacob Javits Convention Center on November 13. ... More

"Content is King." No, wait, "Distribution is King." No, wait, "Content and distribution are equals and need to work together." And on the debate has raged for years about what's a... More

The ability to consistently identify online users — some of whom are anonymous, while others are logged in or otherwise identified — across channels and devices is one of digit... More