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How Machine Learning is Changing the Game for Content Metadata (MCN)

Roz Ho, TiVo: These are the best of times for entertainment content owners and distributors—but they are also very challenging times. There is more content—often great content�... More

CES 2018: CES a Reminder of How Far TV Tech Has Come (Variety)

Online video has exploded, creating a golden age of content we couldn’t have imagined 20 years ago. Today, you can seamlessly switch from watching live sports on a national netwo... More

How Turner’s Casting Experiment Just Might Revive Second Screen (Forbes)

One of the biggest trends we’ll see in 2018 will be an increase in ad-supported OTT viewing. While much of this will come from OTT-only services like Hulu and Crackle, we’ll al... More

Apple’s App Store Generated Over $11 Billion in Revenue for the Company Last Year (Forbes)

Apple reported that its App Store generated over $26.5 billion in revenue for developers in 2017, which was up about 30% year over year. This means that the App Store created appro... More

CES 2018: What to Watch For: Apple HomeKit, Voice Assistants and Google Tech (Billboard)

What's the hottest thing in the world of technology these days? Your voice. Some of the most popular gadgets over the holiday season were smart speakers with digital assistants fro... More

Kaleidescape Adds NexGuard Tech to Protect Movie Server Content (SSN)

High-end home entertainment movie server company Kaleidescape has announced a new partnership with NexGuard, integrating the Kudelski-owned content protection company’s forensic ... More

Opinion: Big Data Works Only for Those Who Hype It (Bloomberg View)

Margrethe Vestager, the Europen Union's competition commissioner challenging tech giants on several fronts, has opened another: "big data." In an interview with The Wall Street Jou... More

What Blockchain Has in Store for Media and Entertainment in 2018 (Forbes)

Crowdfunding Of Creative Productions - 2017 marked the uprising of blockchain start-ups across industries, often funded with initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs use cryptocurrencie... More

British GQ, Universal Music Test Shareable Podcast Formats (Digiday)

Universal Music and Condé Nast men’s magazine British GQ are testing podcast formats that can be broken down into chunks for sharing and include images and graphics to accompany... More

The Race for AR Glasses Starts Now (Wired)

Though the Next Big Thing won’t appear for a while, we know pretty much what it will look like: a lightweight, always-on wearable that obliterates the divide between the stuff we... More

Streaming to Broadway: How New Titles, Talent Grow Buzz Online (Variety)

It’s been a year and a half since “Hadestown” was an Off Broadway hit, but fires are still burning for the folk-rock musical. They’ve blazed up online, where the show’s s... More

Nagra Content Protection Added to Technicolor Set-Tops for Euskaltel (SSN)

Content protection firm Nagra has had its NAGRA Connect content protection solution for connected networks deployed by Spanish cable TV provider Euskaltel, for use on the company�... More

Blockchains Poised to End the Password Era (MIT Technology Review)

The massive password heists keeping coming, and one thing is certain: the way we prove our identities online is in need of a major upgrade. A growing chorus of technologists and en... More

‘AR is the Next Internet’: Snapchat Gets $1 Million a Day for Branded Lenses (Digiday)

Snapchat’s 3-D augmented reality lenses are the newest marketing ploy that allows people to put virtual avatars or Bitmojis in a real-life setting. Brands like Budweiser, BMW and... More

Netflix Evaluating AI for Personalized Trailers (Light Reading)

One of Netflix's many accomplishments is really driving personalized recommendations for its viewers. Given the growing breadth of digital libraries, navigation and discovery are b... More

Facebook Sound Collection Lets You Add No-Name Music to Videos (TechCrunch)

The right soundtrack can make a boring video interesting. So after years of reported discussions with the record labels, Facebook is launching video editing tool Sound Collection f... More

Listen Up, Retailers: Don’t Ignore Voice Shopping (Bloomberg Gadfly)

With another Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the books, Amazon.com Inc. has issued a self-congratulatory press release about how it fared during the shopping frenzy. As is typical... More

How Far Can Voice Recognition Go? 7 Marketing Implications (Forbes)

Voice recognition tech comes in many varieties, and despite being less than a decade old (in its modern form), we’ve already started to get used to it as an essential technologic... More

ITV Studios Daytime Taps Avid Maestro for HD Workflow (SSN)

The U.K.’s ITV Studios Daytime, which broadcasts more than 1,500 hours of live programming a year, has tapped Avid and its Maestro graphics solutions to enhance its live programm... More

Big Screen Fever: Phablets to Overtake Regular Smartphone Shipments by 2019 (Twice)

Overall smartphone shipments are expected to steadily grow from 1.5 billion units in 2017 to 1.7 billion units in 2021, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corp... More

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