All posts by M&E Journal

M&E Journal: Marrying Our Creative and Business Practices

Along with many of you, I’m sure, my wife and I have been introducing our kids to the movies we watched growing up. Raiders of the Lost Ark, that 1981 phenom, was on the other ni... More

M&E Journal: Hollywood’s New Remote – and Virtual – Production Reality

For director and actor Ramon Fernandez (Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig, “Sons of Anarchy”) the past year was challenging on all fronts, both around the producti... More

M&E Journal: Charting Post-Pandemic Hollywood Through Its Own Lens

In 2011, Contagion terrified us about the spread of a virus transmitted by respiratory droplets. The Day After Tomorrow depicted catastrophic climatic that ushered in global coolin... More

M&E Journal: Change for the Better

Like many in the M&E supply chain, Convergent witnessed an immediate drop off in business in March 2020 as businesses stopped to assess the COVID-19 situation. Fortunately, ... More

M&E Journal: How Lockdown Accelerated Dubbing Changes

When the pandemic and its implications settled in, localisation service providers quickly got on the same page. Content owners needed a solution that could offer flexibility, choic... More

M&E Journal: New Ways to Connect People and Data

It’s the little things that you miss the most. The hallway hello that conveys so much more. The give and take at the coffee station updating a years-long argument. The way you ca... More

M&E Journal: The Show Must Go On: Empower Remote Creative Teams With Collaborative Cloud-Based Workflows

2020 was a year like no other. Media and entertainment organizations face urgent challenges to keep creative workflows moving forward and generate new business as they work to keep... More

M&E Journal: A Smart Content Love Story

Automation technologies are becoming woven throughout the fabric of virtually every company, especially now, and especially in the media and entertainment space. This raises the qu... More

M&E Journal: Building the Content Workflow of the Future With Cloud Storage

As media workflows have evolved over the years, the number of storage platforms in operation at a typical content facility has multiplied to support a variety of tasks. It’s ... More

M&E Journal: Language Codes for All

“What code should we use for Latin American Spanish?” an HBO developer asked me in 2017. “We’re setting up a new system and we aren’t sure what it should be.” It turns ... More

M&E Journal: Everything Must Be Online

Ask any expert in innovation and they will tell you that things won’t change until a certain threshold of discomfort is surpassed and sustained. Well, 2020 has certainly delivere... More

M&E Journal: An Insiders Look at the Billion-Dollar Pirate Subscription IPTV Business

When looking into the ever-evolving and growing world of IPTV piracy, it is difficult to fully grasp what it means when a recent investigative report, “Money for Nothing: The Bil... More

M&E Journal: How European M&E Can Overcome Adversity Through Collaboration

The media and entertainment industry in Europe continues to face a host of challenges due to the pandemic, with productions halted for months, the logistics of moving thousands of ... More

M&E Journal: The Power of SAAS and AI

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on all aspects of our business and the industry as a whole. But the pace of business has not slowed; it’s just changed. Medi... More

M&E Journal: The Future-Fit M&E Organization: Being Ready In an Unpredictable World

The media and entertainment industry, like all others, is focused now on the immediate repercussions of the pandemic. The common theme can be summarized as the need to be ready for... More

M&E Journal: A New Crossroad of Art and Science

As market and channel management becomes more and more complicated, there are now ways to analyze and solve some of these complexities via the convergence of the fields of rights m... More

M&E Journal: The End of Co-Located, Physical Reviews

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 crisis has deeply changed our attitude to work. WFH is now the new standard in many geographies that have strict lockdown rules. Additionally, s... More

M&E Journal: The Realities of Remote Dubbing

The challenges of remote dubbing — both physical and technological — have come front and center during the pandemic. The physical hurdles are the most obvious: under normal ... More

M&E Journal: Building Resilience

We all saw the tectonic shift coming: the changes in consumer preferences and media buying that would reshape the industry. But we thought they would arrive at the end of a three-a... More