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AWS Introduces New Machine Learning Capabilities at Annual NY Summit
Amazon Web Services used its annual AWS Summit in New York July 17 to introduce new SageMaker machine learning (ML) features and announce expanded relationships with customers incl... More
Salesforce Exec: ‘Potential is Enormous’ for Machine Learning in CRM
When it comes to machine learning (ML) as it applies to customer relationship management (CRM), we’re still “in the first inning,” but “the potential is enormous,” accord... More
SMPTE Publishes Standards for Binding Ad-IDs to Commercials, EIDR Codes to Content
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) July 9 announced it has published new standards around binding Ad-IDs to commercials and Entertainment ID Registry (E... More
M&E Journal: The Pattern to Unlock Smart Content
By Matt Turner, CTO, Media and Manufacturing, MarkLogic - Everyone in the M&E content ecosystem knows the Holy Grail of content value generation is in serving the right content... More
Ooyala: AI, Blockchain, AR and VR Usage All Growing
Usage and demand for artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) continue to grow and are among the most significant technology trends... More
MESA, MarkLogic to Host Smart Content Webinar with Sony July 18
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and MarkLogic will host a unique webinar July 18, exploring how bringing together the data (including the operational and enterpr... More
M&E Journal: Get Ready for EIDR 3.0
By Will Kreth, Executive Director, Entertainment ID Registry - Since its first release in 2010, the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) — a widely adopted industry standard univ... More
Adobe’s Editing App ‘Project Rush’ Syncs All Projects to the Cloud
At the VidCon conference in Anaheim, Calif., June 19, Adobe introduced Project Rush, a new app that it said automatically syncs all of one’s digital workflows to the cloud, enabl... More
A Single Source of Truth: Rights Management in the Age of Digitalization
By Michael McGuire, Chief Revenue Officer, FilmTrack- Over the past decade, the M&E ecosystem has been completely redefined. Advances in technology have completely changed t... More
M&E Journal: New Tools Needed for New Forms of Storytelling
By Mario Kenyon, Head of Production & Daniel Kenyon, Founder and CEO, Furious M - Immersive technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed are the next major gr... More
IBM Watson Media, Fox Sports Add AI to World Cup Coverage
For this month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Fox Sports has partnered with IBM Watson Media to add an artificial intelligence layer to the broadcaster’s coverage of the even... More
Accelerated Ingest to Cloud Services
By Megan Cater, Senior Manager Digital Content at Signiant - We are in an era of data inundation. According to a report by IDC, by 2020 there will be as many digital bits in ex... More
HITS Spring: M&E Companies Can Significantly Benefit from Machine Learning
Media and entertainment companies stand to benefit tremendously from the use of machine learning (ML), as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, but not all ML and... More
HITS Spring: LiveTiles Chief Architect Examines Future of AI Tools
For the last decade, everyone in the media and entertainment industry has had some form of the term “digital transformation” beaten into their heads, and from the move away fro... More
Rightsline: Tackling Media Rights, Avails Challenges for Industry’s Biggest Players
With no end in sight to the content craze, the world’s top media producers and distributors are almost exclusively now outsourcing their rights and avails management to a purpose... More
Digimarc CEO: Retailers Still Being ‘Cautious’ About Replacing Traditional Barcode
It’s taking a while to expand Digimarc Barcode across retail stores industrywide because retailers are “suitably cautious” about replacing the traditional barcode that they a... More
Dolby CFO: Smart Wireless Speakers a Growth Opportunity
Sound bars already represent one of several growth areas for Dolby, but down the road the company also sees a potential growth opportunity in the smart wireless speaker product cat... More
IBM, Google Execs: AI to Open Up More Content Value, Monetization Opportunities
NEW YORK – All media and entertainment (M&E) companies stand to gain by using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance content value and performance, as well as find and maximize ... More
AWS Elemental Cloud Services Aim to Maximize Value of Video with AI
NEW YORK — Four of the most recent cloud services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced are helping media and entertainment (M&E) companies maximize the value of video with a... More
EIDR European Working Group to Meet May 9 in London
The latest updates around the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) will be presented May 9 at Google’s Covent Garden offices in London during a free meeting of the EIDR European Work... More