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MEDCA Stresses the Importance of M&E Infrastructure at MESAverse Event
Media and entertainment organisations that haven’t significantly enhanced their infrastructures yet really need to get started or they may fall far behind their rivals, according... More
MEDCA Stresses the Importance of M&E Infrastructure at MESAverse Event
Media and entertainment organizations that haven’t significantly enhanced their infrastructures yet really need to get started or they may fall far behind their rivals, according... More
Smart Content Summit EU Set for Dec. 5 in Amsterdam
The Smart Content Summit — an annual gathering of the entertainment industry’s top minds in the areas of big data, AI, machine learning, automation and blockchain — expanded ... More
The (Un)Predictability of SVOD Performance
Streaming services are a mystery. Complete and accurate theatrical box office, television audience ratings, and home video rental performance have generally been available throu... More
IPG Mediabrands Looks to Gracenote for Help With DEI Initiatives
New York-based marketing agency has tapped Gracenote and its Inclusion Analytics solution to use data and analytics to help advertisers better connect with underserved audiences, a... More
MicroStrategy Doubles Down on the ‘Dominant Digital Property’
MicroStrategy’s relatively new Bitcoin strategy has started helping its older, core software business, according to Michael Saylor, its CEO and chairman “The MicroStrategy b... More
ABOVE Opens New Possibilities for Airlines
ABOVE, a joint venture of Touch Inflight Solutions and castLabs, was started in 2019 as an open standards-based content supply chain platform for the cost-efficient encoding, stora... More
Vision Media: A Digital-First Company With Analog Roots
Since 1986, Vision Media has been a staple in the media and entertainment space, the standard bearer for the distribution of promotional materials and content to targeted audiences... More
Veritone Reports Strong Initial Demand for MARVEL.ai
Veritone has seen strong initial demand for MARVEL.ai, the complete end-to-end voice-as-a-Sservice solution that it launched at its analyst day event in May, according to Brian Alg... More
M&E Journal: Diversity Drives Engagement in Period Content and Beyond
The hardship, stress and pain the global population collectively endured during 2020 is almost unimaginable. The confluence of a global pandemic and a reckoning with deeply ingrain... More
Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) Names Hollie Choi Executive Director
The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, appointed Hollie Choi to lead the organization as... More
EES 2021: Whip Media Stresses the Importance of Data and Thinking Globally
As Netflix and other major companies expand their streaming platforms and their footprints in global markets, the need to create and find content that attracts and retains audience... More
Virtual Repertory Theatre Founder to Deliver Keynote July 21 at EES
Kiira Benzing, executive creative director of next-generation production firm Double Eye Studios, and founder of the XR and virtual reality entertainment group Virtual Repertory Th... More
Robots Writing Code
I’ve written before about how machine learning may impact you, but after a conversation with Metal Toad CTO Tony Rost things have gotten even more interesting — machines are no... More
Tech Evangelist Wolf to Keynote July 21 Entertainment Evolution Symposium
Media technology evangelist Michael Wolf, president of Activate Consulting and former head of McKinsey & Co.’s entertainment practice, will deliver the keynote address July 21 at... More
Visual Data Media Services: An Unwavering Commitment to Quality, Service
What started in 1995 as a small editing facility in Burbank today has become one of the biggest multichannel media management firms, with Data Media Services helping content owners... More
Hold the Popcorn: The Content Secret Sauce Won’t be Secret for Long
The world has undoubtedly changed forever. Before 2020, media was already in transformation. Distribution windows were on the precipice and the streaming wars were heating up. T... More
M&E Journal: Virtual Creative Economies: Blockchain NFTs and the Future of Digital Media
Over the past few months, blockchain non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have rapidly moved from its incubation period within the community of crypto artists and developers into one of the ... More
How AI Can Be Used to Help M&E Companies Gain Audience Insights
Media and entertainment companies have a unique opportunity to analyze changes that have taken place in viewing behavior, sentiment and the associated implications on programming c... More
Meta CEO: How to ‘Turbocharge’ EIDR Workflows
The Meta Data Systems EIDR matching and registration module is effectively “turbocharging” the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) workflows of some of the world’s largest studi... More