M+E Connections

Leading Nordic media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) just a few years ago was running into a problem. Growing fast and expanding the business across several regions, t... More

DXC Technology is on track to close its planned purchase of Luxoft by the end of June, according to Mike Lawrie, DXC CEO and president. Luxoft's digital talent acquisition capab... More

Data experts from several major studios will take the stage Feb. 27 at the Smart Hollywood Summit, a day-long conference that will tackle the transformative effect AI, blockchain, ... More

By Amos Biegun, Vistex, and Richard Whittington, SAP - Over time, studios have adopted several practices to manage rights. At first, tracking rights ownership was done manually,... More

Disney continues to see encouraging results from its ESPN Plus direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming initiative and expects that to continue as the company prepares for the launch of ... More

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Feb. 5 launched a High Efficiency Localization package collection of language services, geared toward more automated and streamlined subtitling ... More

Amazon was helped in its fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31) by continued strong momentum in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, according to CFO Brian Olsavsky. “AWS maintaine... More

By Steve Curd, CEO, Scaeva Technologies - In 1999, the recorded music industry generated $40 billion. By 2017 it had fallen to less than half of that. Assuming that each of us i... More

When President Obama saw the need to commercialize, research and adopt a policy around robotics and AI, he turned to Dr. Eric Daimler, a leading authority with more than 20 years o... More

Apple reported strong revenue from its cloud and other services in the first quarter (ended Dec. 29) that helped offset weakness in its iPhone business. Services revenue “set ... More

Ultra High-Def (UHD) TV and UHD Blu-ray hardware and software sales continue to grow globally, but some challenges remain for the industry, including lingering consumer confusion a... More

Studio executives, experts from the Hollywood vendor community and OTT providers will all be on hand Jan. 30 in Playa Vista, Calif. for the annual Participant Meeting of the Entert... More

Artificial intelligence (AI) strategies becoming a necessity and an increase in both action-oriented analytics and explainable AI that makes people more comfortable with the techno... More

By Jon Finegold, CMO, Signiant - As cloud technology becomes mainstream in media, the highly customized applications deployed by early adopters are increasingly being retired in... More

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has debuted a new service geared toward enabling workforces to access internal web sites and applications from mobile devices, without connecting to VPNs ... More

Companies can take advantage of Google Cloud’s latest technologies and tools to build applications at the increasingly fast speeds that customers are looking for today, according... More

Before the show floor opened for CES 2019 in Las Vegas, online video platform and workflow management system specialist Ooyala hosted a private “Business of Video” panel, featu... More

As media fragmentation continues to grow, there are signs of “content fatigue” among many TV viewers, but there are opportunities for the TV industry to combat that fatigue by ... More

By Christopher Taylor, Security Consultant, Taksati Consulting - “Offense informs defense” has been a driving security tenet for a long time and nothing epitomizes this more... More

Along with more original Netflix content, we can also expect to see more bundling of its streaming service with pay TV, internet and mobile services, as well as more interactive st... More