M+E Connections
Industry Collaboration is the Key During the Pandemic and Beyond
As the impact of COVID-19 on the global production community settles into a “new normal,” we’ve seen an exponential increase in the adoption of tools, technologies and workfl... More
Back to the Cinema?
Nineteen-year-old UCLA law student Alan Shimp examines the post-COVID-19 plight of movie theaters, and what it’ll take for them to get the youngest generation of paying movie fan... More
Addressing What it Takes to Win With the Audience
Right after last year’s Emmys, we were analyzing all of the bits and pieces trying to figure out who the kingpins in the industry were going to be when we read a statement with s... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 26-29
More from Sony and its “Technology Tuesdays” series, a host of informative presentations from Wasabi, a closer look at MarkLogic’s Data Hub, and a half-day of Hollywood Innov... More
Diamond: Strides Made in Website Accessibility This Year, But More Work Needed
Website accessibility has improved in 2020 from 2019, but there are still many sites that are either fully inaccessible or accessible “with difficulty,” according to Diamond. ... More
M&E Journal: Holographic Technology: Powering the Next Consumer Revolution
By Phillip Gara, Director, Strategy and Jayson Kleinman, Communications, OTOY - Technological accelerants like the rise of 5G networking, GPU ray-tracing hardware and commercial... More
SHIFT’s Landauer: We’re ‘a Security Company That Makes Software’
JJ Landauer, information security analyst for SHIFT and Screeners.com, looks at his company in a unique way. “We’re a security company that makes software,” he said May 12... More
Whip Media Group Examines Outlook for HBO Max
Set to debut May 27 with a monster amount of content — 10,000 hours-plus, both TV and film — HBO Max is the latest entry into the streaming wars, and ahead of its launch Whip M... More
Zendesk Exec: M&E Companies Can Survive and Thrive Despite COVID-19 Challenges
The media and entertainment industry has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, just like every other type of business – in its specific case, with shuttered film and TV... More
Digital Nirvana Details Benefits of Trance Captioning Solution
Automatic transcriptions, localization translations, captioning converting, the ability to assess the actual quality of captions automatically, conformed to the style guides of var... More
Adobe Introduces Creative Cloud Video Enhancements
Adobe announced several new Creative Cloud Video enhancements that were made available May 19 for its Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Character Animator and Premiere Rush. ... More
Our Finest Hour Season 1, Episode 5: ‘Finding Mr. Hanks’
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us feeling lost and adrift, in the way of inspiration or direction. And like other times when the “normal” way of life has been upended, ... More
Streaming Services Light Up Global Availability of Targeted Content
By Andy Marken, President, Marken Communications - When projects start up again, 2020 will be the year of content directed and produced by women, with an abundance of heroine le... More
Verizon Media Exec: Company’s Seeing Surge in OTT Viewing, Game Content
Trends that Verizon Media has seen since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic include surging over-the-top (OTT) streaming content viewership and demand for videogame content, accord... More
M&E Journal: Reimagining Advertising With Digital: Connecting Buyers and Sellers
By Brajesh Jha, Global Head, Media Entertainment, Genpact - Most media companies have taken significant steps with digital, using automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to ... More
Richey May Tech: Remote Working a Daunting Security Challenge
Ransomware, piracy, spoilers, leaks … Hollywood’s list of concerns is a constant reminder to keep your security at the forefront. But while the protocols were pretty straigh... More
Technicolor Helps Out Charter With Device Donations to Provide COVID-19 Broadband Access
To help families without internet access during stay-at-home orders, Technicolor has donated 30,000 broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) devices to Charter Communications, t... More
Dolby CFO: Company Sees Growth Opportunity in Dolby.io
Dolby sees a new “potential growth” opportunity in Dolby.io, its new platform that allows content developers to use Dolby application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance t... More
M&E Journal: How Secure is Your Cloud Solution?
By Lulu Zezza, Co-Founder, One-Simple - Only a few years ago we considered the cloud “unsafe.” Today we consider cloud solutions safer than our on-premise networks. This is ... More
Veritone President: Strong SaaS Performance Boosted Q1 Results
A strong showing for Veritone’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business provided the artificial intelligence (AI) tech company a revenue boost during its first quarter (ended March... More