HITS Connections
Data Takes Center Stage at ‘Holly-wired’ Event
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Nick Curcuru, VP of data services for MasterCard, said something May 25 at the "Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet" event in Los Angeles that c... More
HITS Keynote: Design Thinking can Apply to Media
By Chris Tribbey When attendees at the May 25 "Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet" event return from lunch, they’ll be treated to a presentation on “design thinkin... More
BeBop Technology Expands Into Europe and Canada
BeBop Technology, a leading provider of innovative Cloud solutions for the media and entertainment industry, announced today the opening of a sales and support office in Vancouver,... More
Bringing Sanity to Metadata Madness
By Christy King, Strategic Consultant, MESA Who would have imagined that there are 200 people in New York City who are excited enough about metadata to devote an entire day to d... More
Metadata Madness Speakers: Content Owners Still Have Data Work to do
It’s no secret that metadata is a crucial component for success for everyone in the media and entertainment space today, from OTT and service providers to advertisers and markete... More
HP: Apps, Malware Tops Among Cyber Risks for Businesses
Mobile apps and malware quickly became the top threats for businesses in 2015, according to a new report from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and while the sophistication of atta... More
‘CODE’ Doc Hits UCLA
By Chris Tribbey The documentary film “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap” has already been screened at government agencies (including the White House and Congress) and Fortune ... More
Aspera Uses SC15 to Show Off Data Transfer Advancements
Aspera, IBM’s high-speed file transfer software arm, will use this week’s SC15 Conference in Austin, Texas to showcase several new innovations for data transfer between computi... More
Challenge for M&E Companies: Making Sure More Data Isn’t Too Much of a Good Thing
Thanks to the explosion in viewing on connected devices, media and entertainment companies today have access to vastly more data about how consumers are engaging with and respondin... More
Rovi Debuts New Music Discovery Platform
Rovi. Corp. Nov. 4 announced it’s combined three of its products — search, recommendations and conversation — into one personalized service music providers can offer their co... More
Final Program Announced For Broadcast It Summit, Nov 11, NYC
HITS, the media & entertainment IT society, returns to New York City next week at NAB’s CCW Conference on November 11 with a three-hour, in-depth program overview of the ways... More
Media Execs to Tackle Data, Analytics at HITS DMA Summit, Oct. 8
Media and entertainment executives have more technologies and tools than ever to help boost the audience and profitability of content across multiple distribution platforms. But al... More
Media Execs to Tackle Data, Analytics at HITS DMA Summit, Oct. 8
Media and entertainment executives have more technologies and tools than ever to help boost the audience and profitability of content across multiple distribution platforms. But al... More
Rovi Comes Out Swinging at IBC; OTT Study Challenges Cord-Cutting Problem
Rovi opened up the International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam on Friday with a slew of new announcements, including a new natural language voice solution for content search... More
Box, MESA to Host ‘Producing a Hit in the Cloud’ Webinar Sept. 2
By Chris Tribbey Last year the popular rock band Foo Fighters did something pretty unique. Visiting eight American cities (Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, N... More
Allant Group: Improving the Ad Experience
By Chris Tribbey Allant Group has been around for 30 years, first starting off as a pure marketing services company, with a focus on marketing databases, analytics and customer re... More
FilmTrack Launches Partner Portal Metadata Solution
Intellectual property management software company FilmTrack has launched a new Aspera-enabled end-to-end asset ingestion and workflow tool, dubbed Partner Portal. The new offering... More
Civolution Completes Teletrax Sale, Turns Focus to Watermarking
Automated content recognition tech company Civolution has completed the sale of its TV analytics and TV synced ads business, Teletrax, to 4C, a Chicago-based data science software ... More
Infor Adds New Alliances to Bolster Enterprise Asset Management Network (SCN)
Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced announced new alliance partnerships with Advoco, Inc. and YES Energy Source. As members of the Infor Partner Network, both organiza... More
MESA Smart Content Council Goes Local
MESA’s Smart Content Council has announced a partnership with the Midwest Digital Asset Managers Smart Content Meetup Group to produce a series of educational and networking even... More
