M+E Europe Connections
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
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: June 7-11
SAP continues a month’s worth of worldwide Sapphire Now events, Palo Alto Networks and NAGRA hold separate security webinars, and Salesforce welcomes attendees to its day-long Sa... More
Pepperdine, Hollywood IT Society to Host Entertainment Evolution Symposium July 21
The Hollywood IT Society (HITS) and Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School are teaming up to present the inaugural, all-virtual Entertainment Evolution Symposium on July 21, brin... More
Whip Media Debuts AI-Powered Content Marketplace Exchange
A new marketplace offering from enterprise software platform and entertainment data provider Whip Media aims to connect buyers and sellers using one centralised platform, streamlin... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 24-28
GeoGuard hosts a panel around protecting territorially-restricted content from geolocation fraud, Wasabi CEO David Friend takes part in a discussion on the importance of data stora... More
ZOO Debuts Post-to-Platform, Names New EMEA Dub Chief
Localisation provider ZOO Digital has debuted a new post-to-platform service for streaming services and their licensed content partners who need to deliver movies and TV shows to p... More
2021 Edition of MESA’s Spring/Summer M&E Journal Goes Live
The spring/summer edition of the “M&E Journal,” published by MESA and geared toward senior media and entertainment executives who oversee their companies’ digital futures... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 17-21
TiVo takes a data-dive into subscriber retention, Tata Consultancy Services shares how artificial intelligence (AI) can gauge customer expectations, and CHESA and LucidLink take pa... More
HITS Spring: IBM Security CTO Details When to Consider ‘Zero Trust’
On May 12 at the annual Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS) Spring event, Jeff Crume, distinguished engineer, CTO of the Americas for IBM Security, and an IBM mas... More
HITS Keynoter: Virtual Production Here to Stay
The past year-plus has informed many in Hollywood of the need and potential of virtual production techniques. Noah Kadner could’ve told you all of that before the pandemic. He... More
TransPerfect: Streamline Key Workflows, Ensure Scalability
Over the last few years, one of TransPerfect’s key areas of focus has been developing tools and services for the media and entertainment industry. Specifically, these services ha... More
Tamr Shares Usage Record Use Case at May 12 HITS Spring
Cloud-native data mastering solutions firm Tamr will take the stage May 12 at the Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS) Spring event to share how one company is sup... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 10-14
A pair of “Journey to the Cloud” sessions from EditShare, a cybersecurity session from Tata Consultancy Services, and the annual Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit ... More
Digital Strength Provided Cognizant a Boost in Q1
Cognizant reported strong results for its first quarter (ended March 31) that were helped significantly by continued growth in its digital business. (more…)... More
Sohonet Details Ways to Cut Costs Without Creative Compromise
No matter the reason why, when a production is delayed, it means over-runs: everything and everyone will be on set longer, equipment and edit suites have to be rented for longer th... More
Verizon Media Sold for $5B to Apollo Funds
Verizon Media, the global tech and media arm of Verizon, which includes ad tech and media platform businesses, and the Yahoo and AOL brands, has been sold to investment management ... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 3-7
Microsoft hosts its two-day Ability Summit, Box and MicroStrategy offer up inside looks at how to make the most of their products, and the Media & Entertainment Information Sha... More
AWS Makes Industry Waves with New M&E Initiative, Cloud Production Suite Launch
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made industrywide waves this week with several announcements, headlined by the launch of AWS for Media & Entertainment, an initiative geared toward ma... 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
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: April 26-30
Palo Alto talks ransomware with its new cybersecurity division, Akamai discusses the state of security at the edge of networks, and Adobe hosts its annual Summit. Those are just... More
