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HITS Fall: Gracenote’s Studio System ‘Makes Sense of the Data’

LOS ANGELES — Bill Isbell, director of sales for Gracenote, received an odd request one day from one of the clients using the company’s Studio System enterprise-level collabora... More

M&E Journal: How New Live TV Streamers Could Transform TV With User Data

By Steven Herrera, Consultant, Zaszou - Cord cutting — switching from cable or satellite TV to online video — appeals to consumers tired of paying high prices for large bund... More

M&E Journal: The Value of Analyzing Data as a Performance Tool and Service Offering

By Ramón Bretón, Chief Technology Officer, 3rd I QC - To say that computers are ubiquitous in today’s business world is a vast understatement. One byproduct of the computeri... More

MESA Members to Be Out in Force at NAB Show New York

Several members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are planning to exhibit at NAB Show New York, Oct. 17-18 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. More than ... More

DXC Technology Launches Analytics Migration Factory for Microsoft Azure

End-to-end IT services firm DXC Technology has announced the first-ever Analytics Migration Factory for Microsoft Azure, a new factory model featuring advanced artificial intellige... More

HBO, Fox, Warner Among Studio Speakers at HITS Fall

The Oct. 4 Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit (HITS) Fall event in Los Angeles will see a collection of studio heads discussing the latest innovations at their companies,... More

M&E Journal: Deriving Insight from Data: How to Keep Your Media Workflow Ahead of the Curve

By Matthew Eaton, GM EMEA, GrayMeta - In the era of data overload, industries across the board are eagerly seeking solutions to solve business challenges and meet data analysis ... More

Adobe CFO: Company Eyes More AI, ML, AR, VR Opportunities Ahead

Adobe will continue to invest in several areas that it sees opportunities in, including its Adobe Sensei artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform, as well as... More

M&E Journal: Data’s Ability to Create an Intelligent Workplace Makes It as Valuable as Oil

By Karl Redenbach, Co-Founder and CEO, LiveTiles - The rise of AI will finally free humans from the mundane tasks they have longed to leave behind (and that are holding business... More

M&E Journal: Maintain Your Creative Focus: How to Simplify Business Processes with Artificial Intelligence

By Jukka Paajanen, Regional Innovation Lead, Avanade - It’s the end of the day and you’re looking at the dailies of your production. Something catches your eye, and suddenl... 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

M&E Journal: Three M&E Business Workflows Ripe for Machine Learning Transformation

By Ben Kus, Senior Director, Product Management, Box - The competition and complexity facing M&E companies and the management of their data today has never been greater. Given t... 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

M&E Journal: How Entertainment Metadata is Adapting to Meet the Needs of Today’s Digital Viewers

By Roz Ho, SVP and General Manager, Consumer and Metadata, TiVo - With the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and the billions of dollars these serv... More

M&E Journal: The Biometric Data Concerns Around Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

By Ed Klaris, CEO, and Alexia Bedat, Associate, KlarisIP - A particular type of private information became the focus of increasing attention in 2017: biometric data. Biometric ... 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

MarkLogic Exec: Companies Should Use the Right Data Pattern to Unlock Smart Content’s Power

NEW YORK – It’s important for media and other companies to use the right data pattern if they want to truly take advantage of the power of smart content, according to Matt Turn... More

New Asset ID Standards the ‘UPC Code’ for Media

In early July, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) published new standards that bind Ad-IDs to commercials and Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) codes to ... More

Ooyala Exec: All Media Companies Would Benefit from a Connected Supply Chain

NEW YORK — As the content arms race escalates, there is tremendous value in investments that create and connect horizontal platforms and such an approach to managing the content ... More

MoviePass Exec: It’s All About the Data

NEW YORK — Although MoviePass continues to lose money with its $10-a-month movie theater subscription service, subscriber numbers keep growing and profitability keeps getting clo... More

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