M+E Europe Headlines
Inside Italy’s Video Game Piracy Empire (Vice)
From the mid-80s until the year 2000, Italy was a global hotspot for video game piracy.... More
Paramount+ Content Deal with LATAM Airlines (Advanced Television)
Paramount+, the streaming service from Paramount, has announced a partnership with LATAM Airlines Group to launch a Paramount+ Branded Channel on over 300 aircrafts across 148 dest... More
Embracing Audience Insights to Better Understand the Demand for Library Content, Spin-Offs, Reboots (Whip Media Blog)
The entertainment industry is at a pivotal moment, evolving rapidly in response to shifting audience demands. One significant change reshaping this sector is the integration of tec... More
French Territories Snap Up Agatha Christie’s ‘Hjerson’ From ZDF Studios
ZDF Studios has concluded three deals with French speaking territories for the classic whodunnit Agatha Christie's 'Hjerson'. French Pay TV channel serieclub along with Radio-Canad... More
Netflix Develops HDR-VMAF to Dynamically Optimise All its HDR Content (TVBE)
HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic and measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format.... More
How to Create a CX Strategy That Transforms Customer Experiences (Contentful)
Creating a customer experience strategy that truly meets the needs of your customers is paramount to differentiating yourself from your competitors and maintain customer loyalty. B... More
New SAP Exhibition Shines a Light on NFT Art
SAP’s latest exhibition entitled “The Poetry of Blockchain” is the first it has staged exclusively for NFT art. There are 47 works of art by 18 different artists on display a... More
AWS’s Transcription Platform is Now Powered by Generative AI (The Verge)
AWS added new languages to its Amazon Transcribe product, offering generative AI-based transcription for 100 languages and a slew of new AI capabilities for customers. Amazon Trans... More
Yokogawa and FPT Software Ink Global Partnership to Advance DX Solution Offerings
FPT Software today announces a global partnership with Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a leading provider of industrial automation and test and measurement solutions. This alliance ... More
Sony Pictures Partners with Guardian (BTN)
The arrangement will see SPE gain exclusive first rights to the full range of the Guardian’s global journalism, with the aim of developing suitable materials for audio-visual ada... More
Veritone Joins the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners
As an AWS Partner, Veritone contributes its generative AI expertise and AI for Good principles to the programme’s mission. (more…)... More
Riot Games to Upgrade European Broadcast and Production Capabilities (TVBE)
As part of an announcement about its plan to create a new home for esports in Europe, Riot Games has also revealed plans to upgrade its broadcast and production capabilities. The v... More
Compliance Matters to Advertisers (Spherex Blog)
Today, while the placement hasn’t changed much, never-before-advertised merchandise is now regularly promoted.... More
Navigating Content Analytics in the Age of Profitability (Synamedia Blog)
If you’re in the content business – be it in a trillion plus dollar tech giant, a Hollywood studio, or a telco operated platform – profitability could be guiding all your dec... More
Kyndryl Signs Multi-year AWS AI Agreement (Capacity)
The collaboration will help Kyndryl and AWS shared customers infuse innovation across their business, drive efficiency and accelerate digital transformation.... More
AI in Media and Entertainment: How to Collaborate with AI Effectively (LucidLink Blog)
Usage of AI in Media and Entertainment doesn’t need to be controversial. It’s already being used in many applications, and holds exciting possibilities to streamline workflows,... More
Raising Your Game by Deploying AI Within Game Localization (Game Developer)
Leveraging AI and its linguistic capabilities, scale and efficiency, has become an indispensable tool in this process. AI not only accelerates the translation of in-game content bu... More
ZDF Studios in Development Partnership for ‘The Kim Dotcom Story’
The Kim Dotcom Story, based on the bestseller “The Secret Life of Kim Dotcom: Spies, Lies and the War for the Internet” by David Fisher, is being developed by ZDF Studios, Boog... More
Microsoft to Invest Billions in UK AI Infrastructure as Foreign Interest Surges (IT Pro)
Microsoft has pledged £2.5 billion to build critical AI infrastructure in the UK, as part of a series of new foreign investments announced by prime minister Rishi Sunak this week.... More
AMD Inaugurates Largest Global Design Centre in Bengaluru (AIM)
The focus of the engineers will be on designing and developing cutting-edge semi-conductor technology, encompassing areas such as 3D stacking, artificial intelligence, and machine ... More