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Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Prime Focus Technologies: Metadata: The Key to Content Discoverability - "The digital space is today crammed with millions of videos. Metadata has therefore... More

In today’s age of the Experience Business, the brands that will be successful are focused on anticipating customers’ needs with personalized experiences and constantly raising ... More

Nielsen has reached an agreement to acquire Tribune Media’s Gracenote digital and data business operations for $560 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday. Gracenote su... More

Wilson Raj, SAS: Get Artificially Intelligent- Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, but has seen a resurgence as data size and diversity continue to grow. Dat... More

Hyper-localised: As well as talking about global and political events, the campaign is also super personal. It draws on data to pick out the (often questionable) music listening h... More

Over the past year, the cloud computing industry has reached an inflection point. Cloud providers used to focus on delivering state-of-the-art IT services. However, demand for thei... More

When IBM began constructing its Cloud Video portfolio earlier this year through the acquisitions of Clearleap and Ustream, it was always envisaged that at some stage, its Watson AI... More

In a surprise move, Spotify has announced it has partnered with Ticketmaster to integrate the latter’s ticket listings into artist pages, emails and its recommended concerts feat... More

Spotify is serving its first vertical video ads through a new "branded moments" offering that gives people 30 minutes of commercial-free listening music afterward. The streaming mu... More

Spotify and Apple are divided on how to make finding music easier. Apple Music relies heavily on human curators to pick songs. Spotify has those, too, but it’s more focused on al... More

Think of the Yahoo purchase as doubling down on a risky but necessary bet. With the U.S. wireless phone market at saturation point, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam needs to squeeze addit... More

Apple Inc. has brought a much-needed fix to its Apple Music service that, in its one year of existence, prompted many complaints from users who found songs in their iTunes librarie... More

GrayMeta, a provider of metadata and digital asset management solutions to the world's leading media companies and the only authorized provider of SAMMA support for hardware and so... More

Mobile VR will be the growth market in terms of VR’s installed base, with prices from $99 down to free – free is a pretty compelling price point. The question for mobile VR tod... More

Where is the best starting point for tackling the issue of copyright enforcement and fair artist compensation on digital platforms (artist in every sense of the word, including mus... More

Music publishing desperately needs some form of public ledger withholding all records of whom is owed what. Blockchain -still- seems to radiate the best potential solution for an e... More

Rovi has formed a strategic alliance with leading Brazilian metadata provider, Revista Eletrônica, to offer an advanced metadata solution targeted at pay-TV and entertainment cont... More

Pinterest is launching three new types of targeting aimed at helping brands fine-tune their Promoted Pins, the site's two-year-old ad product. Up until now, brands have primarily u... More

Programmatic advertising relies on real-time bidding for inventory in order to secure the best price whereas brand campaigns require the human touch of copy, design and dedicated c... More

You can't escape discussions about digital transformation and customer experience these days. As the chatter intensifies — and both topics integrate more tightly in analyst tr... More