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MESA Members Out in Force at IBC

For the first time in three years, the IBC Show is live in Amsterdam, and MESA members will again be well-represented, with more than two dozen exhibiting, MESA holding a cybersecu... More

Iron Mountain Examines Digital Costs at Entertainment Evolution Symposium

At the Sept. 21 Entertainment Evolution Symposium (EES) in Los Angeles, Chris Pennington, director of energy and sustainability for Iron Mountain, will point out potential flaws in... More

Signiant Examines Cloud Pitfalls, Benefits at Entertainment Evolution Symposium

Most media companies are using the cloud in some way today, and the No. 1 challenge Signiant encounters is around managing and predicting costs. The company has been at the for... More

FPT Software Tackles Ethical Uses of Data, AI at Entertainment Evolution Symposium

Media and entertainment players are turning more and more to AI and machine learning to help streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve the richness of information that can b... More

M&E Journal: The Secret to Avoiding Data Fatigue

Digital transformation is not new. It’s been around for over 30 years. Despite being a buzzword, digital transformation should be a part of any IT leader’s strategy every da... More

MESA’s M+E Journal Scores APEX Award

The 2021 winter edition of MESA’s bi-annual M+E Journal has been honored by the APEX Awards with an “Award of Excellence,” honoring publications in a variety of businesses. (... More

AWS: Amazon SageMaker Canvas Enables Better Business Decisions Using ML

For organizations that are looking to make better business decisions using machine learning (ML) without writing code or requiring ML experience, Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides t... More

Cognizant CEO: Company Saw ‘Tremendous Momentum’ For Communications, Media, Tech in Q2

Cognizant reported strong results for its second quarter (ended June 30) that were helped significantly by continued growth in digital and its Communications, Media and Technology ... More

M&E Journal: The Cost of Bad Data

Data Management Review puts the financial impact of bad data within an organization at an average of 15 percent of net revenue annually. Let’s do a tiny bit of math. Variety ... More

Smart Content News Publishing Schedule

The Smart Content News e-newsletter will not publish Aug. 4 and Aug. 11. The MESA editorial department will also not be publishing on MESAonline.org between Aug. 1-12. Smart Conten... More

Microsoft CEO Touts New Azure Solutions and More at Inspire

Microsoft used the opening session on July 19 at its Inspire 2022 event, once again held online, to highlight several new and enhanced Azure and other solutions. (more…)... More

Changing the Way You Look at Your Media

Where is that media file? Where is that one asset you need right now, to give to that person way over on the other side of the world, so they can do their job on time? That is ... More

EIDR, ISAN Provide Updates on Their ID Standard Registries

Directors of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) and International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) International Agency provided updates on their respective identifier standard... More

Databricks: Data, Analytics, AI on One Platform

San Francisco-based Databricks is on a mission: to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. And with more than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including over 40... More

M&E Journal: Advanced Analytics: Unlocking Data’s Full Potential

Almost 15 million years. Approximately five billion days. Or 1.3 x 1,011 hours. That’s the amount of entertainment programming Americans collectively watched on streaming serv... More

HITS Spring: Sefleuria’s CEO Explores How the M&E Industry Can Build a Framework for Ethical AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way since its early introduction into mainstream information technology (IT). With increased usage and use cases, it is critical for... More

HITS Spring: LMT Metadata Table Continues to Make Strides

MESA’s Language LMT Metadata Table (LMT) Working Group is moving fast, with more languages being added to serve the media and entertainment (M&E) sector and beyond all the ti... More

HITS Spring: Data and AI Play Key Roles in Winning the Battle for Consumer, Advertiser Attention

Each content company today is engaged in a battle over audience attention for their direct-to-consumer businesses and their advertising ecosystem is under more pressure now than ev... More

HITS Spring: How Metal Toad, AWS Use Machine Learning to Moderate Online Content

Every individual and company today is creating more and more content and distributing that content faster than ever. But that increase in content creation and distribution is makin... More

HITS Spring: Epic’s Unreal Engine is the ‘Road to the Open Metaverse’

Epic Games is now incorporating its Unreal Engine more directly into not just post-production for visual effects but also the active filmmaking process, live broadcast and animatio... More

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