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Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Oct. 31 announced it will acquire cloud-based localization platform and distributed services firm Sfera, including both Sfera Studios and Sfera ... More

Media and entertainment companies have more access to consumer data than ever before, and can use it to inform their targeting, programming, advertising, and even their content cre... More

By Colleen Quinn, Marketing Director, Teradata Audience measurement has long been a labored and imprecise exercise in “getting to know you” by broadcasters and cable network... More

LOS ANGELES — In the 10-year history of the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater — a cozy 190-seat venue, hidden in the bowels of the Griffith Observatory — no feature-length ... More

Collecting and effectively making use of analytics and data are important tools that media and entertainment (M&E) companies can use to understand their consumers and deliver the c... More

For its first-ever cross-industry event, the SoCal Women’s Leadership Group chose to co-locate with the HITS Fall conference Oct. 18 in Los Angeles, drawing more than 350 attende... More

Pixar Animation Studios has been able to achieve remarkable success with its feature-length films including “Finding Nemo” and “Toy Story” thanks in large part to the compa... More

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — At the Oct. 18 HITS Fall event, Michael Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College... More

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — At the Oct. 18 HITS Fall confab, a panel of content creators, talent experts and IT experts all mulled the same questions: what are the biggest challenges fa... More

It’s still very early days for virtual reality (VR), but there are many opportunities for the technology that lie ahead … as well as challenges, including market fragmentation ... More

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Famed sci-fi director Roland Emmerich (“Stargate,” “Universal Soldier”) may have made his toughest cutting-room-floor decision ever with his late... More

U.S. consumers descended on retail stores across the country to buy the PlayStation (PS) VR virtual reality headset when it went on sale the night of Oct. 13, including at select B... More

By David Benson, Founder, DSB Consulting - Hollywood is no stranger to innovation. One hundred twenty years ago the first moving pictures left audiences awestruck, and in some c... More

Cloud technology, new workflows, improving data analytics, making the most of metadata, transitioning from the B2B to B2C business model … Hollywood’s reliance on IT to keep up... More

The standards organization Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) Oct.10 announced the launch of two new standards for the recording industry: Recording Information Notification (RIN), an XM... More

Static image recognition is expected to generate the most artificial intelligence (AI) revenue among all use cases on a cumulative basis from 2016-2025, according to projections in... More

It’s been a year since Discovery Communications launched its virtual reality apps, and in that time, the broadcaster has learned what rule No. 1 is when it comes to VR: content s... More

By Thomas Siegman, RSG Media Systems - Data analytics is upending the media industry, helping companies buy, schedule, promote, and distribute content better, and to boost reven... More

Matthew Luhn, who spent 23 years working as a storyteller, consultant, writer and instructor at Pixar Animation Studios, will be the first keynote to take the stage Oct. 18 in Los ... More

Over-the-top (OTT) live video streaming remains challenging, so using experienced managed solution providers to handle the job is the best option for content companies, according t... More