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MicroStrategy, Forrester: Companies Must Shift from Being Data-Driven to Insight-Driven

It is crucial for enterprises today to shift their organizations from being data-driven to being insight-driven, according to executives from MicroStrategy and Forrester Research. ... More

With OTT’s Audiovisual Localization Landscape, the New Silk Road is the Cloud

By Yota Georgakopoulou, senior director, research and international development, Deluxe - In June I spent a week in Shanghai as an invited speaker at the 2018 Sino-Foreign Audio... More

Veritone CEO: Wazee Digital, Performance Bridge Additions are ‘Important Steps’ in Company’s Strategy

Veritone’s acquisitions of Wazee Digital and Performance Bridge Media (PBM) will help the company as it continues to expand its presence in new vertical markets beyond the media ... More

HBO Looks to Demystify Language Metadata

Yonah Levenson, manager of taxonomy for HBO, and Laura Dawson, metadata analyst for the company, have a unique — and absolutely vital — job: make sense of multiple language sta... More

Save the Date Oct. 4: HITS Fall is Going to Be ‘EPIC’

The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Society (HITS) will be “EPIC” this fall, thanks to a full morning of keynotes, panels and use-case presentations about Entertainment Produ... More

Microsoft’s Wahl: Video AI Isn’t ‘Pie in the Sky’

Martin Wahl, principal program manager of cloud, AI and cognitive services for Microsoft, shared some daunting figures July 24 during a presentation at the Smart Content Summit Eas... More

LiveTiles Exec: Companies Should Focus on Intelligent Transformation to be Successful

NEW YORK — Most organizations are going through some sort of digital transformation to allow them to better compete in their market, but organizations really need to focus on “... More

Experts Talk Benefits — and Drawbacks — of Advanced Ads

Dynamic ad insertion and addressable advertising have long been touted as the future of non-linear, ad-supported media, but despite advances in technology making advanced advertisi... More

Data Guru Stilling: Don’t Forget About Your People During the Data Journey

NEW YORK – Every media organization must have a collaborative culture in place built on a clear vision, data fluency and candor, according to data guru Thomas Stilling. “An ... More

MarkLogic, Sony Share Data Gains

As long as there’s been entertainment, one thing has always been true, according to Matt Turner, CTO of media and manufacturing for MarkLogic: “The focus is on the content, mak... More

Trusted Partner Network Discussed July 24 at NYC M&E Day

On July 24 at the Media & Entertainment Day, two of the heads of the new, industrywide Trusted Partner Network (TPN) initiative will share details about the program for the fir... More

Cognizant: Blockchain Demand Growing, But Obstacles Remain

Blockchain demand and usage is growing across multiple business sectors, but several challenges remain that are preventing the technology from being implemented at scale, according... More

Video AI, Data Topics Highlight Smart Content Summit East

Among the focus areas of the July 24 Media & Entertainment Day at the Microsoft Conference Center in New York is Smart Content Summit East, a track that will see media and ente... More

Cognizant: M&E is Nearing the ‘End of Digital’s Beginning’

A new white paper from IT consulting firm Cognizant looks at the new digital economics of the media and entertainment industry, as well as the ways in which leadership and strategy... More

IBM Touts AI Partnership with H20.ai

NEW YORK – The strategic global deal that IBM and H2O.ai announced here June 7 is an example of IBM’s strategy of expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) for business leader... More

MESA’s Latest ‘M&E Journal’ Edition Goes Live

The 2018 spring-summer edition of the “M&E Journal,” published by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA), and geared toward senior media and entertainment e... More

HITS Spring: Creative Artists Can Benefit from AI, Avanade Says

Artificial intelligence (AI) may seem to be a contradiction to the entire concept of the creative process, but the technology can actually be used to help creative artists perform ... More

HITS Spring: SAS Shares M&E Machine Learning Use Cases

For media and entertainment companies, digging through the sheer amount of data available to make better business decisions can be a daunting task. At the May 17 HITS Spring: T... More

HITS Spring: IBM Security Lead Stresses Preparedness

Recently, Doug Lhotka, executive cybersecurity architect for IBM Security, sat down for a meal with a dozen CISOs, and picked their brains about what the biggest threat to their or... More

HITS Spring: Veritone Execs Talk Upcoming Onslaught of AI Solutions

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — During a standing-room only breakout session May 17 during the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit, Daniel Wong asked th... More

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