How Data Can Settle the Debate Over Music Ownership, Rights, and Royalties
By Richard Whittington, SVP, Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head, Rights and Royalties, Vistex – This is the second in a series of exclusive industry in... More
ShortsTV CEO: Short-Form Content Going Beyond Cat Videos
LOS ANGELES — Carter Pilcher, CEO of global TV network ShortsTV, was recently at a friend’s house, and watched as his friend’s four-year-old daughter went up to the living ro... More
Shazam Founder: Building to Scale Takes Perseverance … and a Bit of Luck
LOS ANGELES — When Chris Barton and his friends came up with the idea of Shazam in 1999 — to allow for mobile identification of any song, anywhere — it was years before smart... More
Sony NMS Head of Platform Services Sees Opportunity Among OTT Options
LOS ANGELES — The data is pretty well-known by now: every U.S. household has an average of two OTT subscriptions today, and there are more services joining the ranks of options a... More
EIDR 2.5 to Launch April 25
LOS ANGELES — The latest significant stack improvement to EIDR, EIDR 2.5, will launch on Saturday, April 25, bringing with it reliability and resilience for both registry and de-... More
Whip Media to Stress Importance of Consumer Insights at Smart Content Event
The explosion of direct-to-consumer offerings has also seen a major jump in media companies creating their own distribution platforms. And with that growth, data-driven decisions a... More
BeBanjo to Examine Streaming Metadata, Rights Conundrum at Smart Content Summit
The growth of direct-to-consumer and other OTT services has led to some interesting challenges for content owners: how do you manage the sheer volume of content that’s being deli... More
NASA JPL Discussion to Take Smart Content Summit Out of This World
It takes a lot to pull off live-streaming well for a major tech organization. Imagine how much work is involved when those live streams are coming from space. At the March 4 Sma... More
EIDR Participant March 3 Event to Celebrate Major Milestones
Celebration of EIDR’S first decade of existence, the introduction of the 2020 EIDR board of directors, the upcoming launch a significant stack improvement (EIDR 2.5), and EIDR’... More
Tape Ark to Talk Cloud Migration at Smart Content Summit
For the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making its content accessible while also preserving it for future generations hasn’t been the easiest thing, considering how much video content ... More
Shazam Founder to Keynote Smart Content Summit
Bringing a concept from idea to reality is difficult. Getting that reality up to proper scale in today’s consumer environment can prove downright daunting. To share his experi... More
M&E Journal: What Will 2020 Bring to Media and Entertainment?
By Mary Yurkovic, Director, Smart Content Council, MESA - Now that 2020 has arrived, it’s time to reflect: Has your organization met its expectations for the last decade? Was ... More
