All posts by M&E Journal

M&E Journal: The Progression of Digital Archives

By Robert Crotty, COO, 5th Kind - As filmmaking went digital, final picture—once the single deliverable—became supplemented by hard drives and archival tape of digital conte... More

M&E Journal: The Language Metadata Table (LMT): An Industrywide Effort to Collaborate

Mary Yurkovic will be among the presenters Feb. 27 at the Smart Hollywood Summit in Los Angeles. By Mary Yurkovic, Director, Smart Content Council, MESA - Pick a standard, an... More

M&E Journal: A Holographic Future: Creating and Monetizing the Next Generation of Media Using Blockchain

By Kalin Stoyanchev, VP Blockchain and Distributed Systems, and Phillip Gara, Director Strategic Planning, OTOY - The M&E industry has historically been a pioneer in commerciali... More

M&E Journal: Improving Transparency and Speed in the Content Supply Chain, From Client to Freelance Translator

By Nicky McBride, VP Business Development, SDI Media - Media localization has gone through a major transition in the last few years, driven both by the need to turn around local... More

M&E Journal: Upping the Monetization Game During Live Sports Broadcasts

By Mike Arthur, SVP, Sports, Live Events Content Licensing, Wazee Digital, a Veritone Company - For years, sports properties and rights holders— such as golf, football, tenni... More

M&E Journal: Adapting Your Content Model in a Direct-to-Consumer Economy

By Amos Biegun, Vistex, and Richard Whittington, SAP - Over time, studios have adopted several practices to manage rights. At first, tracking rights ownership was done manually,... More

M&E Journal: Applied Science and the Content Bonanza

By Jim Riley, CRO, Bitmax - Over the past few years content creators have produced a bonanza of quality content. Virtual MVPDs and other OTT and direct-to-consumer (DTC) storefr... More

M&E Journal: Making Money with Music: The Importance of Differentiation, Segmentation and Control

By Steve Curd, CEO, Scaeva Technologies - In 1999, the recorded music industry generated $40 billion. By 2017 it had fallen to less than half of that. Assuming that each of us i... More

M&E Journal: The Evolution – and Applications – of the Video-Based Search Engine

By Eyal Arad, CEO, Co-Founder, Videocites - The text-based search engine is the standard search tool for video discovery and management according to titles, tags, or any other a... More

M&E Journal: Grow the Pipeline (in Almost No Time)

By Nadya Ichinomiya, Director, Information Technology, Television Marketing, Sony Pictures Entertainment - Once upon a time a clever, apocryphal sage intoned with solemn expecta... More

M&E Journal: It is the Dawning of the Age of Transparency

By Guy Finley, President, Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) - I see you. You see me. We see everything. Welcome to the Age of Transparency. It’s a world where we ... More

M&E Journal: For Hollywood, Fusing Creativity with Analytics is Still a Work in Progress

By Devendra Mishra, Executive Director, HITS and Chief Strategist, MESA - Over the past two decades, data analytics in global business have evolved from the early recommendation... More

Getting Started with AI

By Mary Yurkovic, Director, Smart Content Council, MESA - Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be a big buzzword in the M&E space and for a very good reason. It not only re... More

M&E Journal: Turning E-Waste Into Opportunities for Others

By Brandon Smith, VP of Sales, human-I-T - We begin with Amir Patel, age 7, of the village of Sangarampur in northeast India. Nearby, piles of electronics nearly 6-feethigh wai... More

M&E Journal: Using Storytelling to Win (Or How I Learned to Love Mass Disruption)

By Bob Gold, Founder, President and CEO, Bob Gold & Associates - Today, data can be mined for insights, but also confused as noise. For example, we just did general consumer aud... More

M&E Journal: Is AI-Driven Metadata the Best Kept Secret in Hollywood?

By Ian Cameron, VP of Digital Media, and Daniel Mayer, CMO and SVP for Products, Expert System Enterprise - In 2016, the seven biggest film studios were hit by an estimated 15 p... More

M&E Journal: Accelerating and Automating Workflows for Modern Media Production

By Richard Heitmann, VP of Marketing, Aspera, an IBM company - Today’s media companies need to create more video content than ever — and in a growing number of formats, reso... More

M&E Journal: How New Live TV Streamers Could Transform TV With User Data

By Steven Herrera, Consultant, Zaszou - Cord cutting — switching from cable or satellite TV to online video — appeals to consumers tired of paying high prices for large bund... More

M&E Journal: The Value of Analyzing Data as a Performance Tool and Service Offering

By Ramón Bretón, Chief Technology Officer, 3rd I QC - To say that computers are ubiquitous in today’s business world is a vast understatement. One byproduct of the computeri... More