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Veritone One Launches Pay-Per-Performance Advertising Platform for Podcast, Social Media Influencers (MESA)

Veritone One announced the launch of Influencer Bridge, the first of a series of innovative new advertising services. Influencer Bridge is a pay-per-performance advertising platfor... More

Sony Music, FC Barcelona Partner For ‘Entertainment Experiences’ Combining Music, Soccer (Billboard)

The deal combines “big-name football stars and big-name music artists," according to Sony. FC Barcelona will also make use of the Sony Music catalogue for promotional content pro... More

Enabling a Future-Ready Business With AI, IA (The Telegraph)

If organisations are to be future-ready, data and intelligence must permeate their core. Digital transformation is no longer a competitive advantage but a necessity: According to a... More

Cloud Gaming is Big Tech’s New Street Fight (Fortune)

Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake? Billions of dollars and the future of a fast-growing... More

IBC 2019: Veritone to Tout Digital Media Hub, Attribute (MESA)

At IBC2019, Veritone will highlight Veritone Digital Media Hub, focusing on two main use cases: access and delivery, and monetization. Digital Media Hub is an intuitive white-label... More

Once Upon AI Time in Hollywood (IT Pro)

Cinelytic is one of the companies offering AI tools to the film industry to help predict box office success. Founded by producer and director Tobias Quesisser (CEO) and former NASA... More

Adobe Integrates Sign With Reader for Small Business Customers (PCMag)

Adobe combines its Adobe Sign digital signature service with the company's Adobe Reader client to attract small to midsize business customers, and it's throwing in a healthy dose o... More

Videocites AdTrack Revealing True Reach of Promotional Videos, Power of Their Organic Boosts on Social Media (MESA)

Videocites Organic Boosts refer to re-uploads of a video Ad that are published proactively by the audience and boost its exposure and distribution organically. Current video Ad ana... More

Report: AI the Holy Grail for Enhanced Sports Viewing (TVB Europe)

A new report from NTT has found that sports organisations need to invest in artificial intelligence in order to create the best viewing experience for fans. The company surveyed 3,... More

EY Acquires C Centric to Enhance Customer Experience for Businesses (Livemint)

EY announced it has acquired C Centric, a provider of customer relationship management solutions and services to help businesses rethink, redesign and deliver better customer exper... More

Amazon Prime Video Launches VR Streaming (CNET)

Amazon Prime Video is now available for viewing on virtual reality headsets. The Oculus Quest, Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR can all be used to watch the streaming service. The VR ... More

Expert System Adds MovieLabs Creative Works Ontology to AI Platform (MESA)

Artificial intelligence firm Expert System has a new feature to its Cogito AI platform, one powered by the Creative Works Ontology developed by MovieLabs, the nonprofit research an... More

Microsoft Invests $1B in AI Project Co-Founded by Elon Musk (CNBC)

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in Elon Musk’s OpenAI to build artificial intelligence that can tackle more complex tasks, the companies announced Monday. Through the partnersh... More

Disney’s New Lion King is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema (Wired)

The Lion King was filmed entirely in virtual reality (well, save a single photographed shot). All the locations you know from the original exist, but not as practical sets or files... More

Verizon Launches Fifth Mobile 5G City, First MiFi Device (Light Reading)

Verizon lit up St. Paul, Minn., as its fifth mobile 5G city, along with its first 5G MiFi device, designed to serve the milllimeter wave network. As is typical of higher frequency ... More

How ‘Fortnite’ Fans Can Earn Loot by Watching YouTube Videos (Variety)

Epic Games and YouTube have teamed up with a special offer for “Fortnite” players — giving players of the popular battle-royale game rewards when they watch “Fortnite”-pr... More

AI Turns Casting Director, Can Now Decide the Perfect Blockbuster Movie Cast (Analytics India)

Cinelytic is one of the firms that is making the most of AI. The company is not making robots to serve in hostels or chatbots but has built a platform that can now tell you how a m... More

Salesforce Launches Einstein Analytics for Partners (VentureBeat)

Most businesses — a whopping 92%, by some estimates — make a killing from partner sales but ultimately fail to empower their channel partners with the tools and information the... More

GrayMeta, Dropbox Team to Bring the Power of AI, Machine Learning to Dropbox Customers (MESA)

GrayMeta announced a partnership with Dropbox, designed to provide content creators with insights needed to modernize workflows and add value throughout content lifecycles. Dropbox... More

Deepfakes Pose Increasing Legal, Ethical Issues for Hollywood (THR)

Ultra-realistic manipulation of digital imagery could open up new horizons for filmmaking, but lawmakers are only beginning to grapple with the issues and unanswered questions it p... More

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