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Playing it Safe: The Challenges of Testing ‘Presence’ in VR (Develop)

Julian Mower, Testronic: Without a doubt, we are entering one of the most exciting periods the games market has seen for many years – with the arrival of virtual reality, interac... More

Future Of Music Coalition CEO Casey Rae On The Value Of Universal Data Standards (Hypebot)

What are some immediate improvements that streaming services can make?: Future Of Music Coalition CEO Casey Rae: "The specific details of the recent meltdowns in the music royaltie... More

How Big Data And Analytics Are Transforming Supply Chain Management (Forbes)

Supply chain management is a field where Big Data and analytics have obvious applications. Until recently, however, businesses have been less quick to implement big data analytics ... More

TV Business Targets Digital Viewership Claims With Proposed Measurement Standard (AdAge)

The TV industry has long argued that reports of huge audiences for Facebook and YouTube don't tell the whole story. Now a TV trade group is proposing metrics that it says would put... More

Teradata Marketing Applications Business Sold for $90M (CMO)

Teradata has found a private equity buyer to purchase its marketing applications business firm for US$90 million in cash. The enterprise software vendor announced it had entered a ... More

Predictive Subject Lines Coming To Adobe Marketing Cloud (MediaPost)

Adobe recently revealed plans to release a new feature that predicts the best subject line to use in an email campaign by analyzing past consumer behavior. In addition to suggestin... More

Spotify’s CMO on Using Data to Learn About Millennials (Adweek)

How do those insights play into your pitch to advertisers? Seth Farbman: "The data shows high-tide engagement. People are listening to music for 2.5 hours a day. It is one of the p... More

Google Gives TV Advertising Another Try, Adds TV Listings to Search Results (Variety)

Google wants to bring some of the same principles that decide which ads consumers get to see online to TV advertising. The company unveiled a new program for addressable TV adverti... More

Nielsen Faces ComScore as Digital Ratings Wars Heat Up (Variety)

Last year, Nielsen began releasing total audience measurement data to clients who opted into the new product, which gauges viewership across television and digital. ComScore rolled... More

SAS: Mapping the Customer Journey in Seconds (CMSWire)

In the 40 years SAS has been around — yes it's a milestone anniversary for the company — its definition of speed and what constitutes "fast" has quite understandably changed wi... More

YuMe Extends the Reach of TV Campaigns With Launch of YuMe Cross-Screen Audience Guarantee (SCN)

Addressing the shortage of quality TV inventory during a crowded season such as this election year, YuMe, Inc. (NYSE: YUME), the global audience technology company powered by data-... More

NAB 2016: Microsoft Wants Companies to Take Video Pulse to Measure Engagement (VideoInk)

At the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it is releasing an open preview of Video Pulse, its new digital content rating tool tha... More

Inside Sony Music’s New Royalty-Tracking Portal (Billboard)

Sony Music Entertainment is rolling out a sophisticated online portal to its artists and their managers that will allow them to drill down and analyze each artist’s sales and str... More

comScore to Deliver Data From Facebook (B&C)

comScore said it made a deal that will enable it to report viewability data for video and display advertising on Facebook as part of its validated Campaign Essentials ratings produ... More

YouTube’s New Foundry Program Aims To Assist Up-And-Coming Musicians (Forbes)

YouTube’s relationship with the music industry isn’t in the best place at the moment, and while the major labels wrestle with the Google GOOGL +0.74%-owned property over financ... More

Starbucks to Start Sending Personalised Offers in Real-time (The Drum)

Starbucks will soon be targeting its consumers with real-time personalised offers across its entire digital offering after seeing targeted promotions help boost the success of its ... More

Intertrust Teams with Adobe for Multiscreen DRM (Rapid TV News)

Distributed computing firm Intertrust has announced a partnership with Adobe to provide cloud-based digital rights management (DRM) services for the latter’s Primetime media plat... More

Teradata Forms Global IOT Analytics Special Ops Team (CIO)

At the Teradata Universe 2016 event in Hamburg, Germany today, Teradata took the wraps off a new unit that it likens to the Navy SEALs of Internet of Things (IoT) analytics. The ne... More

OpenText Acquires HP Customer Experience Content Management for $170 Million (TechCrunch)

OpenText, the Canadian content management company, announced today that it was buying much of the customer experience content management business from HP Inc, the consumer printer ... More

BTI Studios Awarded a Content Protection and Security Certificate by CDSA (MESA)

Content is the most valuable asset most entertainment companies possess and BTI handles a vast amount of content for clients across the whole entertainment spectrum including Unive... More

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