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Cinelytic: P2P Data Shows Strong OTT Demand for Films with Shortened Windows
With theaters shuttered due to COVID-19 and studios moving their content quickly to digital outlets, there is more correlation than ever before between what people are watching ill... More
5th Kind to Debut CORE’s Real-Time Collaboration with Secure Sharing Features
Digital asset management (DAM) specialist 5th Kind has been rolling out the sixth version of its centralized, multi-solution platform CORE platform to studios for a bit now. Wit... More
DAM, MAM Specialists to Share Insights April 16
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will host its seventh annual Take the DAM(n) Tour events April 15-16, this time as live e-tours, instead of as the guided NAB Sho... More
Hollywood Innovation and Technology Summit (HITS) Spring Goes Live May 27
This year’s Hollywood Innovation and Technology Summit (HITS) Spring event — the industry’s annual gathering of media and entertainment’s CIOs and top technology minds— i... More
DAM, MAM Specialists to Share Insights April 15
The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will host its seventh annual Take the DAM(n) Tour events April 15-16, this time as live e-tours, instead of as the guided NAB... More
Teradici Helps Crafty Apes Remote Transition; Transitions Its Own Staff
Teradici recently helped visual effects and production studio Crafty Apes transition to remote work during the coronavirus crisis, while at around the same time transitioning its o... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: April 13-17
A fireside chat with the chief evangelist of Amazon Web Services, in-depth SQL server, data warehouse and Internet of Things (IoT) presentations from Microsoft Azure, a long-antici... More
Salesforce Exec, Mark Cuban: Now is a Good Time for Companies to Share Best Practices
As businesses continue to navigate through the current uncertain landscape that has been created by the coronavirus pandemic, now would be a great time for companies – even rival... More
Whip Media Examines Short-Form Viability in New Report
Whip Media Group has set out to discover if consumers are ready for Quibi, the newly launched paid streaming service that aims to capitalize on the popularity of short-form video c... More
Rights, Royalties, and the Data That Can Save Periodical Publishers
By Richard Whittington, SVP, Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head, Rights and Royalties, Vistex — This is the sixth in a series of exclusive industry ins... More
Take the DAM(n) Tour Returns (Digitally) April 15-16
For six years, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and its content solutions strategists have led content owners and other NAB Show attendees on two-hour guided ... More
Adobe CEO: COVID-19 ‘Changing Everything About Life and Work as We Know It’
The growing importance of digital experiences are only being amplified amid the current coronavirus crisis, according to Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO and president, as his company u... More
Tape Ark Details Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Data Migration Process
Faced with the daunting challenge of preserving video content trapped on old, decaying tape media and an obsolescent infrastructure, the archives of Cleveland’s Rock & Roll H... More
Caringo, Wasabi Execs Tout ‘Friendly Coopetition’ Between Cloud, On-Prem Storage
Depending on your organization’s storage needs, it sometimes still makes sense to keep your data on-prem and it sometimes makes sense to shift your storage entirely to the cloud.... More
Business as Usual: More Important Than Ever, Even If It Takes Extra Planning
By Jack Wyrick, Business Development, Chesapeake Systems - Coffee: check! Power cable plugged in: check! Favorite home-office chair: check! Remote access to media: check? Wh... More
MESA Launches Free Global Member E-Calendar
With in-person events on hold and more companies offering online events to replace them during the pandemic, the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) has launched a compl... More
M&E Journal: Applying Intelligent Analytics to Greenlighting and Marketing
By Timothy Sheehy, VP M&E, Birlasoft - Need a reason to pay attention? Let’s start by looking at the numbers: 80 percent of films lose money. 64 percent of TV shows are cancel... More
Digital Offering, Expanded NAB NY Show to Replace NAB 2020 Vegas
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) announced March 20 that the 2020 NAB Show, originally scheduled to be held in April in Las Vegas, will not be rescheduled this year, ... More
BeBop, Sony, NHRA Tout Benefits of Moving Post-Production to the Cloud
Sports brands need to increase the value of their assets while keeping their fans engaged in compelling content and there are several advantages for them to move their post-product... More
MESA Members Go Remote, Offer Free Product Access in Response to COVID-19
With the continued spread of the coronavirus, members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) have responded with free offerings of their top products, moves to f... More