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Veritone: Combining Apps with Cognitive Computing to Transform Unstructured Data

Costa Mesa, Calif.—based Veritone may only be a few years old but it’s already garnered some of the biggest names in the business, coming to it for its proprietary platform, on... More

M&E Journal: Riding The Content Management Tidal Wave

By Rob Gardos, CEO, Mediamorph - Like any sophisticated problem, the content-explosion challenge is best understood by breaking down the component parts, from creation to consu... More

Microsoft Exec: Mixed Reality is ‘Next Evolution in Human Computing’

Microsoft is stepping up its Windows Mixed Reality initiatives on the hardware and software fronts, according to comments made by EVP Terry Myerson in a keynote webcast from IFA in... More

M&E Journal: The Serverless Revolution

By Ian Hamilton, CTO, Signiant - Ever since moving images were first used for entertainment in the silent film era, constant technical advances have created opportunities for e... More

Box: Improving Security Among Benefits to Managing Your Content in the Cloud

Content is important to the success of everybody in the media and entertainment industry, and there are several benefits to managing one’s content in the cloud, according to Beth... More

M&E Journal: TV Networks’ Rush to the Web May Be Fruitless Without Aggregation

By Bill Mobley, CEO, FreeCast - The consumer migration from cable and satellite TV to web-based video providers continues, with no sign of slowing down. Now more than ever, the... More

Digital Bedrock: A New Approach to Content Preservation

From teaching digital asset management, archiving, and cataloguing courses at UCLA and NYU, to running the nonprofit, historical preservation Audiovisual Archive Network service, L... More

Ooyala: SVOD Providers Have Unrealistic Subscriber Expectations

Having an unrealistic expectation of rapid subscriber growth is among the most common mistakes that subscription VOD (SVOD) providers make, according to a new Ooyala whitepaper. B... More

M&E Journal: Opportunities for Linear Television Using Data Science

By Sebastian Souyris, VP Data Science, RSG Media - You might be asking yourself, what is data science? In recent years, data science has become rather trendy and can mean many ... More

Evoque CEO: Experience Matters Most in M&E Consulting

Vincent Balembois, CEO of Evoque Consulting, sees a lot of needs among media and entertainment firms for his company’s services. And to provide them, his team members bring an av... More

M&E Journal: Continuity: Things We Learned from the Fire

By Damien Carroll, Chief Operating Officer, Sohonet - On an early morning last September, Sohonet’s NOC responded to alarms showing that all office equipment had gone offline ... More

M&E Journal: Blockchain and the Hollywood Supply Chain

By Steve Wong and Björn Obermeier, DXC Technology - Hollywood movie studios, record labels, publishers and broadcast networks have traditionally served as the guardians of inte... More

AWS Unveils Machine Learning-Powered Security Service at Summit, Adds Hulu

NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new machine-learning based security service at its AWS Summit Aug. 14, while announcing new cloud service client wins that inclu... More

Content Protection, Metadata and More: An M&E Entertainment Day Wrap

More than 300 people were on hand July 25 at the inaugural Microsoft Media & Entertainment Day event in New York City, attending four tracks of programming catering to represen... More

Analysts Predict Impact of Planned Disney Streaming Service

Disney’s announcement that it plans to launch its own direct-to-consumer streaming service for its Disney and Pixar films in 2019 stands to hurt Netflix, although to what degree ... More

M&E Journal: Put Your Film Data Into Focus With ‘Smart Production’

By Jukka Paajanen, Regional Technology Innovation Lead, Avanade - Imagine filming a movie. There is a vast array of details that reveal the “who, what, when, where and how”... More

AT&T’s DirecTV Now to Add CBS, Showtime

AT&T’s DirecTV Now over-the-top (OTT) streaming service is adding CBS, Showtime and other CBS-owned networks, as part of a deal announced by the companies Aug. 7. Terms weren’t... More

TiVo Posts Major Q2 Revenue Uptick

The successful integration of TiVo’s products and brand into the company that once was Rovi, along with a series of successful pay TV and consumer electronics deals, helped the c... More

M&E Journal: With Microservices, Anything is Possible

By John Motz, CTO, GrayMeta - First conceived in May of 2011, the concept of microservices isn’t new. Microservices is the idea of narrowly focusing on a single task and is h... More

Bot Applications Stretch Beyond Media and Entertainment

Dale Linemann, program manager for Microsoft has been working hands on with media and entertainment partners on bot technology for a while, addressing issues in their usage in ever... More

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