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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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the virtual lifestyle becomes synonymous with the new normal, the trend towards premium video on demand (PVOD) has expedited its prominence in the digital world with blockbuster... More

We have all been inundated with Zoom meetings, webinars and articles about how to adapt to working during a pandemic. And rightly so. These changes have been incredibly disruptive ... More

One of the more interesting — if not opportunistic — evolutions in media and entertainment production today is the change from large in-house studio post teams to independent a... More

Before the pandemic, piracy in North America was costing video service providers more than $4 billion yearly as a result of 7.5 million households reportedly accessing pirated cont... More

With thousands of pre-COIVD-19 produced programming already in the can around the world, the inability to resume new production with pandemic-related lockdowns, pretty much worldwi... More

As a media services provider with a focus on transcription, access and localisation services, we’ve seen demand for some of our services skyrocket and others shrink during lockdo... More

Video piracy is not a new issue. Since the dawn of professional movie production, there have been people willing to make a fast buck by exploiting “private property in the form o... More

Success in today’s highly competitive media environment often comes down to the ability to create and deliver the highest-quality, most compliant content in the shortest time pos... More