M+E Connections

Los Angeles-based digital preservation service Digital Bedrock has announced an agreement with director Steven Soderbergh and his company Fingerprint Releasing, which will see Digi... More

As part of a strategic reorganization of Disney into four business segments, the company has combined the management of its direct-to-consumer (D2C) distribution platforms, technol... More

Starting this month and running through September, content protection and multiscreen TV solutions firm NAGRA and research firm MTM will produce their third annual “Pay-TV Innova... More

Risk management and cybersecurity solutions firm Kroll has been acquired by global advisory firm Duff & Phelps, the companies announced March 13, with Duff & Phelps picking up Krol... More

Veritone’s aiWARE artificial intelligence (AI) platform will now be used by ESPN for TV and podcasts as part of a renewed and expanded deal that was announced by the companies Ma... More

LOS ANGELES — In 2017, NeuLion managed video for 63,000 live events, delivering more than 300 live linear channels, covering everything from ingest and encoding, to monetization,... More

Interactivity keeps evolving and it’s important for media and entertainment companies to embrace new forms of interactive media and also find ways to measure viewer engagement, J... More

By Bhanu Srikanth, Chief Technology Officer, Giant Interactive - I’m going against popular opinion here: Google made an enormous mistake when they fired James Damore, the eng... More

Google announced March 7 it’s partnered with TiVo Music Metadata to provide select artist metadata and artist images for several services, including YouTube Red, YouTube Music an... More

Several new features will be added to the Box Relay workflow tool that Box co-developed with IBM, according to Murl Smith, a Box Education representative. “One of the best thi... More

Salesforce’s expanded partnership with IBM stands to provide customers with more valuable data than ever before, according to David Havlek, Salesforce deputy CFO. One of the g... More

Dave Ginsberg, host and principal of Elegant Workflow Consulting, started the company with a simple mantra: technology needs to “get out of the way” in order to empower creativ... More

Comcast’s NBCUniversal business is off to a strong start in 2018 behind the strength of the Super Bowl broadcast Feb. 4 and then the Winter Olympics broadcast from PyeongChang, S... More

By Roger Sherwood, Director, Global Strategy & Marketing, Cisco Systems - When you work for a company steeped in internet protocol (IP) technologies, and your job is to help ce... More

The CEOs of CBS and Viacom stressed the importance of their over-the-top (OTT) streaming initiatives, especially their direct-to-consumer (D2C) offerings, at the Morgan Stanley Tec... More

TiVo will continue to focus on growth areas of its business that take advantage of increased video content consumption and over-the-top (OTT) platform opportunities as it explores ... More

By Tom Anthony, Senior Product Manager, Content and Licensing, Vistex - Anatural consequence of advancing technology is the ability to get your content delivered to your end con... More

Discovery Communications and Comcast’s NBCUniversal division reported strong viewership data for their coverage of the Olympics Winter Games from PyeongChang, South Korea. “We... More

The 2018 HPA Tech Retreat, held Feb. 19-23 in Palm Desert, Calif. saw record-breaking attendance and nearly a full week of presentations from industry engineering, technical, and c... More

In February 2017, video sharing tech company MediaSilo and file-sharing platform firm Wiredrive merged, creating one of the largest video collaboration SaaS providers in the busine... More