HITS Spring: Cinelytic, MicroStrategy Bring AI, ML Know-How

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Experts from both Cinelytic and MicroStrategy were on hand May 23 at the annual HITS Spring event, bringing ideas on how machine learning (ML) and artifi... More

Qumulo Inks Deal with Industrial Brothers

Storage firm Qumulo has inked a deal with Toronto-based Industrial Brothers, with the digital studio using Qumulo’s hybrid cloud file storage solution to handle its growing busin... More

HITS Spring: Blizzard Entertainment Eyes AI, ML to Enhance eSports Content Offerings

Game maker Blizzard Entertainment — which relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to distribute content from its popular Overwatch League eSports competitions — will see its Activi... More

HITS Spring: MarkLogic, Sony Tout Benefits of Leveraging Curated Descriptive Metadata

Curated descriptive metadata can yield significant competitive business value for a media and entertainment company, according to MarkLogic and Sony. “We’re here to talk abo... More

HITS Spring: Spark Digital Touts Benefits of Geotargeting

Whether your organization is targeting content within the confines of a physical space or localizing content for global markets, using time and place data to deliver customers comp... More

Akamai: Credential Stuffing Attacks on the Rise

Credential stuffing attacks are becoming increasingly pervasive across multiple industries, especially media, according to Patrick Sullivan, Akamai director of security technology ... More

HITS Spring Presentations Now Available

More than a dozen breakout presentations from top Hollywood vendors at the May 23 HITS Spring event in Los Angeles are now available, covering the latest trends in metadata, cloud ... More

HITS Spring: Film, TV Companies Would Benefit from Going Paperless, Exactuals CEO Says

Going paperless enables media companies to keep pace with the rapidly growing volume of payments without increasing headcount or budget, according to Mike Hurst, CEO and co-founder... More

HITS Spring: Entertainment Partners Makes Data Central to Tools

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — In April, “Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) was on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” discussing the final season of the HBO hit,... More

Technicolor, NAB Celebrate Successful ATSC 3.0 Test

Technicolor, LG, two Korean technology providers and others are celebrating today, following a successful field test of ATSC 3.0 in Cleveland, one that proved the next-gen transmis... More

HITS Spring: Google Keynoter Shares How Search Equals Truth

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Qing Wu, principle economist for Google, earned some easy laughs to begin his keynote presentation May 23 at the annual HITS Spring event: his opening sl... More

Exactuals Celebrates SAG-AFTRA Success, Entertainment Partners Partnership

Los Angeles-based industry payments specialist Exactuals is celebrating sign-ups for its direct deposit service by many of the 160,000-plus union members with SAG-AFTRA, the compan... More

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