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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