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MESA Members Bring Solutions to IBC
For the first time in three years, the IBC Show is live in Amsterdam, and MESA members will again be well-represented, with more than two dozen exhibiting, MESA holding a cybersecu... More
MESA Members Out in Force at IBC
For the first time in three years, the IBC Show is live in Amsterdam, and MESA members will again be well-represented, with more than two dozen exhibiting, MESA holding a cybersecu... More
Iron Mountain Examines Digital Costs at Entertainment Evolution Symposium
At the Sept. 21 Entertainment Evolution Symposium (EES) in Los Angeles, Chris Pennington, director of energy and sustainability for Iron Mountain, will point out potential flaws in... More
Signiant Examines Cloud Pitfalls, Benefits at Entertainment Evolution Symposium
Most media companies are using the cloud in some way today, and the No. 1 challenge Signiant encounters is around managing and predicting costs. The company has been at the for... More
FPT Software Tackles Ethical Uses of Data, AI at Entertainment Evolution Symposium
Media and entertainment players are turning more and more to AI and machine learning to help streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve the richness of information that can b... More
M&E Journal: The Secret to Avoiding Data Fatigue
Digital transformation is not new. It’s been around for over 30 years. Despite being a buzzword, digital transformation should be a part of any IT leader’s strategy every da... More
MESA’s M+E Journal Scores APEX Award
The 2021 winter edition of MESA’s bi-annual M+E Journal has been honored by the APEX Awards with an “Award of Excellence,” honoring publications in a variety of businesses. (... More
AWS: Amazon SageMaker Canvas Enables Better Business Decisions Using ML
For organizations that are looking to make better business decisions using machine learning (ML) without writing code or requiring ML experience, Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides t... More
Cognizant CEO: Company Saw ‘Tremendous Momentum’ For Communications, Media, Tech in Q2
Cognizant reported strong results for its second quarter (ended June 30) that were helped significantly by continued growth in digital and its Communications, Media and Technology ... More
M&E Journal: The Cost of Bad Data
Data Management Review puts the financial impact of bad data within an organization at an average of 15 percent of net revenue annually. Let’s do a tiny bit of math. Variety ... More
Smart Content News Publishing Schedule
The Smart Content News e-newsletter will not publish Aug. 4 and Aug. 11. The MESA editorial department will also not be publishing on MESAonline.org between Aug. 1-12. Smart Conten... More
Microsoft CEO Touts New Azure Solutions and More at Inspire
Microsoft used the opening session on July 19 at its Inspire 2022 event, once again held online, to highlight several new and enhanced Azure and other solutions. (more…)... More
Changing the Way You Look at Your Media
Where is that media file? Where is that one asset you need right now, to give to that person way over on the other side of the world, so they can do their job on time? That is ... More
EIDR, ISAN Provide Updates on Their ID Standard Registries
Directors of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) and International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) International Agency provided updates on their respective identifier standard... More
Databricks: Data, Analytics, AI on One Platform
San Francisco-based Databricks is on a mission: to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. And with more than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including over 40... More
M&E Journal: Advanced Analytics: Unlocking Data’s Full Potential
Almost 15 million years. Approximately five billion days. Or 1.3 x 1,011 hours. That’s the amount of entertainment programming Americans collectively watched on streaming serv... More
HITS Spring: Sefleuria’s CEO Explores How the M&E Industry Can Build a Framework for Ethical AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way since its early introduction into mainstream information technology (IT). With increased usage and use cases, it is critical for... More
HITS Spring: LMT Metadata Table Continues to Make Strides
MESA’s Language LMT Metadata Table (LMT) Working Group is moving fast, with more languages being added to serve the media and entertainment (M&E) sector and beyond all the ti... More
HITS Spring: Data and AI Play Key Roles in Winning the Battle for Consumer, Advertiser Attention
Each content company today is engaged in a battle over audience attention for their direct-to-consumer businesses and their advertising ecosystem is under more pressure now than ev... More
HITS Spring: How Metal Toad, AWS Use Machine Learning to Moderate Online Content
Every individual and company today is creating more and more content and distributing that content faster than ever. But that increase in content creation and distribution is makin... More