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MicroStrategy, Forrester: Companies Must Shift from Being Data-Driven to Insight-Driven

It is crucial for enterprises today to shift their organizations from being data-driven to being insight-driven, according to executives from MicroStrategy and Forrester Research. ... More

Veritone CEO: Integration Underway with Wazee Digital

Veritone has already started to integrate its business with Wazee Digital, the Denver provider of cloud-native video management and licensing services that enable rights holders to... More

OpenText’s Expanded Offerings for Legal Market Include New Cloud Application

OpenText unveiled a new cloud application for the legal technology sector, along with a new suite of products offering what the company said Aug. 20 are “strategic integrations�... More

IBM Cloud Continues European Expansion with New Deal

IBM Cloud’s European expansion has taken another leap forward, this time via a deal with growing Slovakia-based insurance company NOVIS, IBM announced. NOVIS adopted IBM Cloud... More

Gracenote: New Mobile Video Analytics Solution Provides ‘Deep Insights’ into Viewer Engagement

Gracenote introduced a new Mobile Video Analytics solution Aug. 16 that “offers deep insights into how mobile streaming video performance impacts subscriber engagement and retent... More

IBM Watson GM: AI Progress Continues, But Misconceptions Remain

Advancements continue to be made in artificial intelligence (AI) and it’s becoming increasingly prevalent across multiple industries, but misconceptions about the technology rema... More

Veritone to Buy Wazee Digital for $15 Million

Veritone said Aug. 13 that it signed an agreement to buy Wazee Digital, a provider of cloud-native video management and licensing services that enable rights holders to monetize an... More

Veritone Eyes New aiWARE Growth Opportunities

Veritone continues to see growth opportunities for its aiWARE artificial intelligence (AI) operating system among existing media customers and clients in new business sectors inclu... More

HBO Looks to Demystify Language Metadata

Yonah Levenson, manager of taxonomy for HBO, and Laura Dawson, metadata analyst for the company, have a unique — and absolutely vital — job: make sense of multiple language sta... More

MESA Publishes HBO-Developed M&E Industry Language Metadata Table

The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) Aug. 7 published a new language metadata resource, one developed by HBO and released with the goal of uniting data specialis... More

Smart Content Keynoter: Blockchain Can Empower Artists

Content creators face all sorts of challenges today, including a loss of control over their IP, a lack of a sustained income stream, little transparency in the financial reporting ... More

IBM Continues to Enhance Watson AI Solutions for Video

NEW YORK – IBM continues to enhance the various Watson artificial intelligence (AI) solutions it offers to enhance customers’ video services, according to Tim MacGregor, IBM Wa... More

AWS, Machine Learning and a Royal Wedding

It’s been about a year since Amazon Web Services began making it simple for developers to extract metadata from content using machine learning services, and according to Liam Mor... More

New Knowledge CEO: AI, Machine Learning Can Be Used to Combat Manipulative Campaigns

As we continue to hear how the Russian government and its troll armies used paid advertisements and viral propaganda to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, media and ... More

Viacom, NYT Share How They ‘Gamify’ the Data Experience

Three experts from three very different media and entertainment companies gathered July 24 for a panel discussion on how to use data and analytics to attract and retain their custo... More

LiveTiles Exec: Companies Should Focus on Intelligent Transformation to be Successful

NEW YORK — Most organizations are going through some sort of digital transformation to allow them to better compete in their market, but organizations really need to focus on “... More

SVA’s Thibeault: ‘Layered’ Security Solutions Work Best to Protect Your Content

NEW YORK — As over-the-top (OTT) streaming video continues to gain in popularity, it’s a prime target for pirates and, to protect your content, it’s important to use a “lay... More

NeuLion Execs: Using Consumer ‘Watch Data’ Can Grow Your OTT Service

NEW YORK – Real-time “watch data” providing sharp insights and fast intelligence enables over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service providers to identify, manage and analyze ... More

Experts Talk Benefits — and Drawbacks — of Advanced Ads

Dynamic ad insertion and addressable advertising have long been touted as the future of non-linear, ad-supported media, but despite advances in technology making advanced advertisi... More

Data Guru Stilling: Don’t Forget About Your People During the Data Journey

NEW YORK – Every media organization must have a collaborative culture in place built on a clear vision, data fluency and candor, according to data guru Thomas Stilling. “An ... More

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