Analytics
Quantifying Discovery
The headline finding from Ooyala's Q1 2015 Global Video Index report was the explosive growth in mobile video consumption over the past two years, now up to 42% of all online video... More
Welcome to Smarter Basketball (The Atlantic)
The rise of big data is pitting the old school against the new school as the NBA undergoes its analytics revolution. Last week’s NBA Finals may have offered the naysayers the str... More
IBM and Box Team Up to Target Global Data-Storage Market (NYT)
IBM, the technology giant, and Box, a Silicon Valley online file-storage company, are combining their products, technology and marketing to try to smarten and streamline the work d... More
Spotify Buys Beats’ Analytics Provider Seed Scientific (TechCrunch)
Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge a new Advanced Analytics unit tasked with understanding and improving how artis... More
Nielsen Rolls Out Analytics, ROI Packages For Mid-Markets (MediaPost)
Long a dominant force in national media ratings and research for big clients in categories like consumer packaged goods, Nielsen is looking to expand its business with new offering... More
Google Music Crunches Your Data to Craft Perfect Playlists (Wired)
This kind of contextual knowledge is working its way across Google, from Google Now to YouTube and beyond. For the Music team, it’s designed to help people who don’t know what ... More
S3 Panelists See Some Progress with Broadcasters, Smart Content1
Looking at the projected media and entertainment (M&E) growth of 30 major metro cities, PwC’s “Cities of Opportunity: The Urban Rhythm of Entertainment & Media" will re... More
S3 Panelists See Some Progress with Broadcasters, Smart Content
Looking at the projected media and entertainment (M&E) growth of 30 major metro cities, PwC’s “Cities of Opportunity: The Urban Rhythm of Entertainment & Media" will re... More
Spotify Adds Video Streaming, Other Services Built Around Listener Data (AdAge)
Spotify is rolling out a slew of new products, including a video platform, designed to transform the music streaming service into a much broader entertainment system. By adding vid... More
Cannes Lions Festival Shifts Focus Toward Ad Technology (New York Times)
This year, there will be more emphasis on advertising technology, which is fundamentally changing how advertising is created, bought and sold. Underpinning many of the panels and s... More
If You Think TV Is Dead, Maybe You’re Measuring Wrong (WSJ)
The TV world may love to hate Nielsen, but now the measurement giant is arming media companies with a new report that could aid their fight against digital rivals. The message of N... More
IBM Serves Wimbledon Tennis With Data Analytics (Forbes)
Nww in 2015, advanced analytics via IBM InfoSphere Streams will identify breaking match facts in near real-time and, via Watson Engagement Advisor, provide related insights and his... More
Bezos Drives Data-Driven Audience Profiling: WaPo’s Stevens (Beet.TV)
When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, many wondered what influence the technology executive would have on the historic newspaper. One answer is now evi... More
Teletrax TV Analytics Solution Monitors Twentieth Century Fox (Advanced Television)
Teletrax, a Civolution company and the leading provider of real-time TV analytics and TV synchronized ads, has announced that Twentieth Century FOX Television Distribution has rene... More
Publishers Arming Themselves With Data To Fight For Programmatic Dollars (AdExchanger)
Data-based buying requires data-based selling, a theme that ran through the Association of Magazine Media’s Programmania conference Thursday. Magazine publishers have an advantag... More
SAS Automates Data Modeling for Fast Analysis (InfoWorld)
SAS wants to supercharge your business analysis, through new software that automatically builds multiple models of data and picks those that best predict future events. "If you tak... More
PITCHf/x Stays in Play as Sportvision and MLB Advanced Media Ink New Baseball Data Deal (Sportscaster)
PITCHf/x and its derivative data will be in play at all 30 MLB ballparks as Sportvision and MLB Advanced Media renew their deal for the pitch tracking system. It seems people just ... More
LAIKA Executive Touts Switch to Hightail
During LAIKA’s first two films (“Coraline” in 2009 and “ParaNorman” in 2012) the main way the Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio went about sharing video files amo... More
Tapad Adds Linear TV To Measurement Platform (MediaPost)
After raising $18.5 million last month, cross-screen marketing tech provider Tapad said it intended to use a portion of the funds to add linear TV measurement to its product. It di... More
Viacom: ‘Our Product Is Content, Our Currency Is Audiences’ (AdExchanger)
Channels are so last season. “I don’t care what device you’re on – I care about reaching you at the right time,” said Robert Spratlen, Viacom’s VP of digital media, dat... More