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TEMIS: Helping Make Content Smarter

By Chris Tribbey Since day one, Paris-based TEMIS has had a vision: enable organizations to better exploit their unstructured content, with the goal of helping them manage their b... More

Quantifying Discovery

The headline finding from Ooyala's Q1 2015 Global Video Index report was the explosive growth in mobile video consumption over the past two years, now up to 42% of all online video... More

S3 Panelists Progress with Broadcasters

Looking at the projected media and entertainment (M&E) growth of 30 major metro cities, PwC’s “Cities of Opportunity: The Urban Rhythm of Entertainment & Media” will ... More

ContentBridge Calls for Interoperable Master Format Standards

By Chris Tribbey Doug Reinart, COO of digital supply chain solutions company ContentBridge, looks at the current state of how the industry handles its digital supply chain and is ... More

Syfy Partners with Watchwith for LG Smart TVs

By Chris Tribbey During the heyday of physical disc, part of the reason it was so popular was the addition of bonus content. And though streaming, OTT, VOD and digital sellthrough... More

YouTube and Twitch Channel Cable TV

By Paul Sweeting With the upcoming launch of YouTube Gaming, YouTube will have dedicated apps for its three most popular categories of videos: music (Music Key), kids (YouTube Kid... More

Measuring the Measurers: Analyst Sees Upside for Data Providers

By Paul Sweeting The proliferation of screens and the fragmentation of audiences has made life orders of magnitude more complicated for marketers and programmers trying to get a f... More

Apple Music Has Got the Beat But Not the Algorithm

By Paul Sweeting Apple is thinking different about music streaming. As Apple prepares to take on Spotify, Pandora and their many rivals in the streaming media sweepstakes with th... More

Music Streaming Services Adding Analytics to Artistry

Internet radio service Pandora this week announced it has acquired Next Big Sound, a leading music analytics provider, as it seeks to bolster its big data chops amid growing compet... More

This Season’s Hot New TV Show: The Data Game

The annual TV upfronts presentations are traditionally the forum where broadcasters and cable networks roll out their new and returning series and bring out their on-air stars to s... More

Verizon Opts Into AOL

By Paul Sweeting Verizon is the largest wireless service provider in the U.S. with over 108 million retail connections as of the first quarter of 2015. But as the wireless busines... More

The New TV Metrics: Pick A Number, Any Number

With the major broadcasters gearing up to make their annual Upfront presentations to advertisers in New York next week the challenge of measuring program viewership across all of ... More

Ambrozic: A TV Subscriber Disconnect

By Chris Tribbey The price of a pay TV subscription continues to rise, as does the number of available channels and shows available to subscribers. Which makes recommendations and... More

Digital Hollywood Panelists Talk Importance of Social, TV Everywhere

By Chris Tribbey MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — After the season finale of the ABC reality series “The Quest” aired in September last year, something interesting happened, accordi... More

A Digital Disconnect

By Chris Tribbey We may be living in a digital age, but you wouldn’t know it when it comes to how consumers spend their entertainment dollars. The rise of all these over the to... More

Second Screen Experts Talk Sports at NAB

By Chris Tribbey As chief architect of media for Akamai, William Law has seen it all when it comes to handling sports video. The Super Bowl, the Olympics, the NCAA Tournament, the... More

Introducing Whipclip, Your New Favorite 2nd Screen App

By Alan Wolk While the industry may still be salivating over livestreaming in general and Meerkat in particular, a new app called Whipclip may well steal the thunder away from the... More

A Vue To A Kill

By Alan Wolk Like Dish’s Sling TV and Apple’s rumored new Apple TV package, Sony Vue, which launched this week in several cities, is not going to destroy the television indust... More

Meerkat Is The New, New Thing

By Alan Wolk Ever since Twitter “broke” at SXSW in 2007, industry observers have been looking for the new new thing, the technology that they can say “I was there first” a... More

Meerkat Is The New, New Thing

By Alan Wolk Ever since Twitter “broke” at SXSW in 2007, industry observers have been looking for the new new thing, the technology that they can say “I was there first” a... More

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