By Ross French, Senior Director, and Alex Akers, Manager, Consulting, KlarisIP - Sam leads the sales team for a media content company — a well-oiled machine that has been maki... More
Tag Archives: digital distribution
M&E Journal: The Rights and Metadata Agility Imperative
MovieLabs on the Importance of EIDR to the Future Media Supply Chain
Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system, which plays an important and relevant role in the future m... More
M&E Journal: Upping the Monetization Game During Live Sports Broadcasts
By Mike Arthur, SVP, Sports, Live Events Content Licensing, Wazee Digital, a Veritone Company - For years, sports properties and rights holders— such as golf, football, tenni... More
M&E Journal: Digital Screeners: Walking the Security-Playback Tightrope
By Alex Nauda, Chief Technology Officer, MediaSilo - With piracy an ever-growing problem and high-profile hacks affecting multiple networks and streaming services, security is t... More
A Different Way of Doing Things (ZOO Digital Blog)
So last week ZOO was named a top ten technology innovator of 2016 alongside the likes of Amazon and Apple. This caught the eye of the BBC who dropped in to find out more about how ... More
Letting it Go: The End of Windowing (and What Comes Next) (REDEF)
There are few concepts more fundamental to the video media business than that of content "windowing" – yet even this strategy is crumbling under the pressures of digital distribu... More
Has Entertainment Failed Brian Dunn and Best Buy?
by Marty Porter Hollywood could have done a lot more to help keep Brian Dunn his job. You don't need to be reading this newsletter to find out that the Best Buy CEO was shown the d... More
Cinram Taps Warner Exec For Digital Operations
Packaged media distributor Cinram International continues to expand its digital operations with the hiring of studio veteran John Crosier as senior VP of digital architecture and d... More
Level 3 Calls Out Comcast Over Streaming Video Fees
A dispute between Level 3 Communications and Comcast over content delivery fees may prove to be less about net neutrality principles and more about securing leverage and position i... More
iTunes Finally ‘Compleat’
As it turns out, Apple didn’t have much of a surprise in store for those who closely watch the digital space — but it’s good news nevertheless. At long last, the Beatles hav... More
Why Your CFO Is So Cranky: The Digital Sales Data Problem
By John Konczal Digital distribution and sales models are top of mind for almost everyone in the media business. While I believe the potential for new business models enabled by d... More
Hackers Claim To Have Purloined Pre-Release Digital Copy of ‘Halo: Reach’
Microsoft’s decision to distribute review copies of its hotly anticipated “Halo: Reach” as secure downloads via the Xbox Live Marketplace appears to have had unintended conse... More
Digital Distribution Edges Blu-ray In First Half
Digital distribution platforms for home entertainment (including video-on-demand) outpaced Blu-ray Disc in consumer spending during the first half of 2010, passing the $1 billion m... More
Testronic To Launch Quality Assurance Lab For Digital Content
Testronic Laboratories plans to open a new Digital Entertainment Test Lab to provide quality assurance services for a range of digital entertainment platforms, including web portal... More
Wal-Mart And Vudu: Movie Streaming Service Ranks High In Studios’ New Distribution Heirarchy
Wal-Mart is getting back into the digital entertainment distribution business with its planned acquisition of the Vudu movie download and streaming service. The deal, which is expe... More
Netflix Plans Streaming To Wii Consoles Via Disc
Netflix plans to offer movie and TV show streaming services to subscribers via Wii videogame consoles this spring, in a new deal that could bring digital video distribution to mill... More
‘DECE’ Consortium Unveils Digital Entertainment Standard
The major studios, technology providers, and other companies comprising the 48-member Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) together announced on Jan. 4 an open “common ... More
Steam’s ‘Call of Duty’ Exclusive Draws Fire From Digital Game Retailers
Several digital videogame distributors are refusing to sell Activision’s hotly-anticipated “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” this week, in a conflict-of-interest battle with ... More