Connections

NEW YORK — Amid the increased complexity of measuring TV viewership, there is a major opportunity for the TV industry to “unlock the value of addressable TV” advertising if e... More

By Jim Delli Santi, VP Marketing, Spherex - At MIPCOM 2018, keynote speaker and ITV CEO Carolyn McCall announced ITV’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) service, launching by year end ... More

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey – This is the first of three stories previewing some of the workflow solutions being showcased at this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas. Members... More

By Harold Geller, Executive Director, Ad-ID - In a world where content is king, tracking is critical. But the standards by which we identify leading advertising content have lan... More

By Jeff Berman and Chris Tribbey - Members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will be bringing connected TV, OTT and application solutions to Las Vegas ne... More

Blockchains, distributed ledgers and related technologies have the potential to revolutionize the way we track and manage natively digital assets and physical artifacts, but the te... More

By Hector Leano, M&E Marketing Global Industry Lead, Amazon Web Services - Digital has disintermediated content creators, distributors, and consumers, overturning traditional me... More

Effectively using metadata is crucial for media and entertainment (M&E) companies today and using artificial intelligence (AI) and other tools that enable us to harvest it at scale... More

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are already influencing content creation and, although there are still kinks to be worked out, the technology continues to ev... More

The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) has launched its new Universities, Archives, Museums Initiative (UAM) initiative, a no-cost program that will aid cultural institutions... More

By Hillary Henderson, Senior Director of Product Strategy & Management, IBM Watson Media and IBM Cloud Video - By 2021, it’s projected that 82 percent of all IP traffic wi... More

Nielsen launched a new technology, product and commercial initiative as part of a deal combining its Gracenote division’s Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology with what... More

Mary Yurkovic will be among the presenters Feb. 27 at the Smart Hollywood Summit in Los Angeles. By Mary Yurkovic, Director, Smart Content Council, MESA - Pick a standard, an... More

By Kalin Stoyanchev, VP Blockchain and Distributed Systems, and Phillip Gara, Director Strategic Planning, OTOY - The M&E industry has historically been a pioneer in commerciali... More

Sophisticated AI and ML algorithms are already able to mimic the work of artists, pen songs, make informed filmmaking decisions, and enrich metadata to boost the value of content. ... More

By Mike Arthur, SVP, Sports, Live Events Content Licensing, Wazee Digital, a Veritone Company - For years, sports properties and rights holders— such as golf, football, tenni... More

Leaders of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) — an industry security initiative supported by roughly 30 media and entertainment companies, and created by the Motion Picture Associ... More

By Jim Riley, CRO, Bitmax - Over the past few years content creators have produced a bonanza of quality content. Virtual MVPDs and other OTT and direct-to-consumer (DTC) storefr... More

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — 2019 marks the ninth year of existence for the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), the global unique identifier system. But while it’ll be a year be... More

By Eyal Arad, CEO, Co-Founder, Videocites - The text-based search engine is the standard search tool for video discovery and management according to titles, tags, or any other a... More