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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Just how early does data play a role in the production lifecycle of a feature film or television show? Try the script. That’s the perspective of the mana... 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

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

By William Mobley, President & CEO, FreeCast - The media industry is facing a dilemma unlike anything it’s ever seen before. The business model upon which cable TV is built is... More

IBM is making “good progress” with its Watson cognitive technology platform, and sees it as a “long-term investment” that will continue to grow as it’s expanded to additi... More

Companies are facing significant challenges today, whether they are in the technology sector or not, according to Jeetu Patel, SVP of Box Platform and the company’s chief strateg... More

Here’s a run-down of recent virtual reality-related entertainment items via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. To help promote its highly praised sci-fi ... More

Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Western Digital and IBM are among members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) that have banded together to form t... More

Professional services company KPMG interviewed 138 CEOs in the U.S. tech industry and found a pattern: automation and machine learning are top priorities, as tech companies realize... 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

Salesforce continued its string of acquisitions Oct. 3, spending an estimated $700 million for data management platform company Krux, giving Salesforce technology that will help it... More

Microsoft continued its aggressive artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives Sept. 29, announcing the creation of the Microsoft AI and Research Group. The news came only one day aft... More

OpenText has announced the latest version of OpenText Exstream. The new release offers the fastest, most reliable communications production engine to enable digital transformation ... More

When Michael Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III College, takes the stage Oct. 18 for the HITS Fall: Digipa... More

By Steven L. Canepa and Chad M. Andrews, IBM Video is the most popular form of content consumption on the planet, generating behemoth revenues through traditional business model... More

Culver City, Calif.-based media and entertainment quality-control specialist 3rd i QC announced Sept. 20 that it was opening a dedicated virtual reality and augmented reality QC sp... More

At its Teradata Partners Conference in Atlanta this week, the company debuted what it’s calling the “world’s most powerful analytic database,” Teradata Everywhere. Keepi... More

Before its anticipated sci-fi series “Westworld” lands Oct. 2, HBO went all out with a new promotion for the series: a unique web site that does more than just tout the show, a... More

Teradata has agreed with SAS to become a global authorized reseller of SAS® data management and analytics software. The agreement enables customers to quickly assess, deploy and i... More

While dozens of members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) are at this week’s IBC conference in Amsterdam, announcing new technologies and new partnerships... More