All posts by M&E Journal

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

M&E Journal: Real-Time Actionable Analytics: A Game Changer for Broadcast TV

By Simon Trudelle, Senior Product Marketing Director, NAGRA - We live in a world where information is king, and the M&E industry is no exception. However, there are certain mark... More

M&E Journal: Deriving Insight from Data: How to Keep Your Media Workflow Ahead of the Curve

By Matthew Eaton, GM EMEA, GrayMeta - In the era of data overload, industries across the board are eagerly seeking solutions to solve business challenges and meet data analysis ... More

M&E Journal: Data’s Ability to Create an Intelligent Workplace Makes It as Valuable as Oil

By Karl Redenbach, Co-Founder and CEO, LiveTiles - The rise of AI will finally free humans from the mundane tasks they have longed to leave behind (and that are holding business... More

M&E Journal: Maintain Your Creative Focus: How to Simplify Business Processes with Artificial Intelligence

By Jukka Paajanen, Regional Innovation Lead, Avanade - It’s the end of the day and you’re looking at the dailies of your production. Something catches your eye, and suddenl... More

M&E Journal: Three M&E Business Workflows Ripe for Machine Learning Transformation

By Ben Kus, Senior Director, Product Management, Box - The competition and complexity facing M&E companies and the management of their data today has never been greater. Given t... More

M&E Journal: How Entertainment Metadata is Adapting to Meet the Needs of Today’s Digital Viewers

By Roz Ho, SVP and General Manager, Consumer and Metadata, TiVo - With the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and the billions of dollars these serv... More

M&E Journal: The Biometric Data Concerns Around Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

By Ed Klaris, CEO, and Alexia Bedat, Associate, KlarisIP - A particular type of private information became the focus of increasing attention in 2017: biometric data. Biometric ... More

M&E Journal: Chapter Next: Collapsing the Digital Content Supply Chain and Royalties Settlements Process

By Rob Gardos, CEO, Mediamorph - The M&E industry isn’t exactly at the forefront when it comes to digital content supply chain and royalty settlements. But then, why should it... More