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M&E Journal: Early Security as Insurance Policy

By Mathew Gilliat-Smith, CEO, Fortium Technologies I was inspired to contribute to this season’s M&E Journal after reading the excellent “An Empirical Analysis of the Impa... More

M&E Journal: The Content Provider’s Guide to Success in the New Digital-First Era

By Mary Kay Evans, Chief Marketing Officer, Verizon Digital Media Services The TV and movie viewing landscape is rapidly evolving, and content providers are working around the clo... More

M&E Journal: From Grid to Graph

By Demian Hess, Director of Digital Asset Management & Publishing Systems, Avalon Consulting LLC When you think of a database, you probably think of tables. This paradigm is s... More

M&E Journal: Consumers Rule the Marketplace, But Content is Still King

By Amos Biegun, Global Head of Rights and Royalties, Vistex Inc. Remember the adage, “Content is king?” Now, we’re told, the consumer is king and those of us in the technolo... More

M&E Journal: How — and Why — For-Profit Piracy Works

By Chris Ortman, VP Communications & Corporate Affairs, CreativeFuture Piracy is a problem that affects the creative communities: major studios and networks, mini-majors and ... More

M&E Journal: How—and Why—For-Profit Piracy Works

By Chris Ortman, VP Communications & Corporate Affairs, CreativeFuture Piracy is a problem that affects the creative communities: major studios and networks, mini-majors and i... More

M&E Journal: Broadcast Performance Monitoring: From Flawed to Flawless

By Larry Logan, Chief Marketing Officer, Digimarc Production music proliferates across the gamut of media productions, from television programs to network promos to theatrical mov... More

M&E Journal: Secure Design in a Hyperconnected World

By Ian Hamilton, Chief Technology Officer, Signiant The technological landscape of media production and distribution has transformed over the last decade, moving from mostly isola... More

M&E Journal: Securing Production Workflows Without Compromising Speed or Flexibility

By Chuck Parker, Chairman & CEO, Sohonet Ever since the Sony Pictures hack, I get asked in meetings and at cocktail parties why the security of pre-release production assets s... More

M&E Journal: EST as a Growth Strategy for MVPDs

By Anupam Gupta, Executive Vice President Cloud Services, Vubiquity Electronic sell-through (EST) crossed the Rubicon last year when the purchase of digital movies and shows reach... More

M&E Journal: The Time for Advertising Interoperability Has Come

By Harold Geller, Chief Growth Officer, Ad-ID In the world of video advertising, smooth and automated workflows have been one of the most neglected areas in our business for years... More

M&E Journal: From DAM to Digital Backbone

By Steve Cronan, Founder and CEO, 5th Kind As the world of Digital Asset Management continues to evolve and mature, the question for asset managers isn’t should I invest in a DA... More

M&E Journal: No More Wars…

By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA From M&E Journal Fall 2015 If content is truly king there would be no format wars. The history of home entertainment is an ongoin... More

M&E Journal: What is Smart Content? (And why should you care?)

By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA From M&E Journal Winter 2014-15 What is Smart Content and why should you care? This was the opening comment I posed to a recent asse... More

M&E Journal: Metadata Madness!

By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA From M&E Journal Winter 2013-14 The road to a standard is long and winding – but is worth the effort. Everyone knows it needs t... More