M+E Connections

OOONA recently attended the Content Workflow Management Forum held March 22 at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London. Organized by MESA, CWMF is the organization’s premier me... More

James Dunkelberger, partner director of program management for Microsoft, will be the presenter at the March 31 edition of MESA’s “Lunch and Learn” series, held every Thursda... More

Netflix’s new authoring format, Timed Text Authoring Lineage (TTAL), promises to streamline data exchange and file management for subtitling and dubbing. It’s a development tha... More

As the amount of new content continues to grow, we are seeing greater innovation in technologies to make the localisation process faster, more streamlined and more cost-efficient. ... More

There are a lot of different “cloud” services, and I don’t put it in quotations to be dismissive. Rather, we should realize there are different definitions depending on what ... More

One of the constants in the $3 billion localisation market is that it’s always changing, according to Björn Lifvergren, co-founder and executive chairman of LinQ. Lifvergren ... More

The days of static products and generic consumer experiences are ending. Media and entertainment (M&E) audiences are expecting increasing personalization, customization, and re... More

In many organizations there’s an over- whelming amount of data and yet no clear means to take control of it at scale. This is still happening in more organizations than it sh... More

Chris Krebs, the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Alex Stamos, founder and director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, on March 29 wil... More

As streaming platforms take over the world and the volume of entertainment content continues to increase, talks of the so-called talent crunch echo in industry forums. They most fr... More

“Innovate or die, and there’s no innovation if you operate out of fear of the new or untested,” writes Bob Iger, former CEO of The Walt Disney Co. in his recently published b... More

The March 24 edition of MESA’s “Lunch and Learn” series — held every Thursday via the MESAverse platform and Zoom, and intended to bring MESA members together to network, s... More

Virtual production has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time and there is more learning and work to be done, according to industry experts who spoke March 10, during... More

The Media & Entertainment Data Center Alliance (MEDCA) has already come a long way in its first six months but still has much more to accomplish, according to MEDCA executives ... More

Machine learning (ML) can be useful for media and entertainment (M&E) organizations but they shouldn’t expect the technology to solve all their data and other challenges, acc... More

Shari Alyse, a TEDx and inspirational speaker and best-selling author (“Love Yourself Happy”), arrived at the March 10 Smart Content Summit feeling a bit of pressure to deliver... More

The March 17 edition of MESA’s “Lunch and Learn” series — held every Thursday via the MESAverse platform and Zoom, and intended to bring MESA members together to network, s... More

As media companies merge, split and acquire catalogues from each other, “someone’s going to be in the unenviable position” of having to deal with the intellectual property an... More

In the summer of 2021, sports fans around the world finally got their fair share of live action, first with the UEFA Euro 2020 followed by the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. But at... More

On March 10, the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) kicked off its Annual Participant Meeting (APM), held in conjunction with the Smart Content Summit in Los Angeles, by pro... More