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Transforming Media Asset Management with Wasabi and VIDA Content OS

The partnership with Wasabi has yielded impressive results for VIDA. The scalability and economic model of Wasabi have allowed VIDA to grow its business. Wasabi’s reliable servic... More

Estonia Launches Regulatory Sandbox for UK Start-Ups (Verdict)

Estonia, through the Accelerate Estonia programme, has expanded its regulatory sandbox initiative to support UK start-ups. The sandbox is intended to remove specific regulatory bar... More

UK VFX Industry Welcomes Budget Tax Relief (TVB)

The tax relief changes are likely to stimulate an additional £175 million of VFX work to be performed in the UK.... More

Sohonet’s ClearView Flex Now on AWS (Televisual)

Creative teams can now seamlessly stream content from AWS workstations via an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). This enables productions with ClearView Flex to operate on a virtual machi... More

Barcelona Beats Its Own Record for International Tech Hubs (BIW)

Catalonia now has 140 tech centres, 76% of which are located in Barcelona city. The number of hubs has quadrupled in the last seven years and beat its own record. These now generat... More

Iyuno’s McBride Promoted to CRO, Dembry Becomes CSO, CIO

Media localisation firm Iyuno has promoted industry veteran Nicky McBride to chief revenue officer and named Allan Dembry to the dual roles of chief security officer and chief info... More

Portugal: Pay-TV growth at lowest level since 2013 (Advanced Television)

Portugal ended 2023 with 4.6 million pay-TV subscribers, an increase of 96,000 (2.1 per cent) on the previous year, marking the lowest annual growth rate since 2013.... More

Deutsche Telekom Group Expands Partnership with Netflix

Deutsche Telekom is adding Netflix for subscribers in Croatia and Hungary. It's part of a new partnership between Deutsche Telekom and Netflix that will offer an improved, “seaml... More

Unlocking Creative Potential: AI Voice Tools for Voice Actors (Respeecher Blog)

The digital era has transformed the voice acting industry, presenting voice actors with new challenges to overcome and innovative opportunities to explore. By seamlessly integratin... More

On the FAST Track (World Screen)

FAST has emerged as a considerable bright spot for companies across the ecosystem, from distributors shoring up valuable additional revenues from library titles to AVOD platforms u... More

Fremantle Partners with Rachel Weisz’s Astral Projection (TBI)

The three-year pact will see Fremantle become the primary home for all of Astral’s television and film projects, with the producer set to work with the group’s Global Drama div... More

Adobe Firefly GenAI Tool Gives IBM’s Design Teams an Efficiency Boost (Verdict)

IBM said the GenAI tools will free up time for designers to be more creative.... More

AR/VR Headsets Sales Surged During the Holiday Season (TV Tech)

Global market for augmented reality and virtual reality headsets grew 130.4% in Q4 2023.... More

UK Government to Introduce New Tax Relief for Studios (World Screen)

Delivering the UK government’s spring budget 2024 speech, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans for a 40 percent corporate tax relief for film and TV studio faci... More

Netflix Enters the Ring (Variety)

Jake Paul is set to fight former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a boxing match that will be live streamed on Netflix. This marks Netflix’s latest venture into the world of li... More

Cognizant Unveils Advanced Lab to Accelerate AI Research, Innovation

The lab, based in San Francisco, will focus on advancing the science and practice of AI through innovation and development of intellectual property and AI-enablement technologies. ... More

Fabric Origin Spotlights Women Directors

This year Fabric celebrates the 96th Academy Awards, and the three films with female directors that have been nominated. Only the director of Past Lives, Justine Triet, was also no... More

Whip Media Names Chase Cabanillas CTO

Enterprise software platform and entertainment data provider Whip Media has named Chase Cabanillas as its new CTO. Cabanillas will lead Whip Media’s global engineering organisati... More

Apple Highlights iPhone 15 Pro in Live-action Manga Film (Marketing Dive)

The latest for the tech giant’s ongoing “Shot on iPhone” campaign is a live-action adaptation of the manga series “Midnight.” The film, shot in the dark streets of Tokyo,... More

Future of IFEC: Why Creativity Must be at the Heart of Content Curation (Anuvu Blog)

Creative content not only sets airlines apart in a competitive market, but also fosters emotional connections between passengers and airline brands. Without it, onboard content can... More

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