All posts by Chris Tribbey
IBC 2020 Amsterdam Canceled Due to Pandemic (SCN)
IBC announced May 18 that its annual September media, entertainment and technology conference in Amsterdam will not take place, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, IBC C... More
SHIFT’s Landauer: We’re ‘a Security Company That Makes Software’
JJ Landauer, information security analyst for SHIFT and Screeners.com, looks at his company in a unique way. “We’re a security company that makes software,” he said May 12... More
Whip Media Group Examines Outlook for HBO Max
Set to debut May 27 with a monster amount of content — 10,000 hours-plus, both TV and film — HBO Max is the latest entry into the streaming wars, and ahead of its launch Whip M... More
Best-Selling Team-Building Author Robyn Benincasa to Keynote May 27 HITS Live
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing entire media and entertainment teams to work remotely, managers are facing more than technological and organizational hurdles … they’ve lost ... More
Digital Nirvana Details Benefits of Trance Captioning Solution
Automatic transcriptions, localization translations, captioning converting, the ability to assess the actual quality of captions automatically, conformed to the style guides of var... More
Microsoft Azure’s Sloss Details the Tools Needed for the ‘New Normal’
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, would studios even remotely consider allowing their most valuable content assets be almost completely worked on, well, remotely? Joel Sloss, senior... More
IBC 2020 Amsterdam Canceled Due to Pandemic
IBC announced May 18 that its annual September media, entertainment and technology conference in Amsterdam will not take place, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, IB... More
MESA Member Webinar Week Ahead: May 18-22
How to leverage AI and the cloud for caption generation from Digital Nirvana. A look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is influencing customer experience in media and entertainment. And... More
May 27 Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS) Live to Dive Into Remote Work Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the game for media and entertainment, forcing industry players to quickly shift both their workflows — and mindsets — to keep business running... More
Eluvio: A New Age of Video Distribution
Join the co-founders of Eluvio May 20 for the free webinar “The Eluvio Content Fabric: A Live Webcast for Content Providers” In media and entertainment, sometimes the old wa... More
Richey May Tech: Remote Working a Daunting Security Challenge
Ransomware, piracy, spoilers, leaks … Hollywood’s list of concerns is a constant reminder to keep your security at the forefront. But while the protocols were pretty straigh... More
Technicolor Helps Out Charter With Device Donations to Provide COVID-19 Broadband Access
To help families without internet access during stay-at-home orders, Technicolor has donated 30,000 broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) devices to Charter Communications, t... More
Eluvio to Tout Benefits of New Content Fabric Offering During May 20 Webinar
All the benefits of content distribution, but without the cloud or a content delivery network (CDN). The ability to reliably move assets globally for live, VOD, and linear channels... More
Digital Nirvana Webinar: Leveraging AI, Cloud for Caption Generation
An enterprise-level, cloud-based web app for producing transcripts, captions and translations, backed by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, and ge... More
Keynoter Talks Hacking Motives at Cybersecurity, Content Protection Summit
When Ralph Echemendia — a cybersecurity specialist with the memorable moniker “The Ethical Hacker” — first got into hacking, it wasn’t with nefarious intent. “When I... More
Zendesk Webinar: Maintaining an Exceptional Viewer Experience in Times of Change
Shuttered productions, shortened release windows and an industry that’s gone almost completely to a work-from-home model. Media and entertainment has felt the impacts of the pand... More
TPN Security Experts: Global Pandemic Proves Importance of Remote Assessment Options
Just a few months ago, media and entertainment vendors could treat remote security assessments under Trusted Partner Network (TPN) guidelines as a nice-to-have option. The ongoing ... More
Entertainment Security Watchdog ME-ISAC Talks National Outlook
The Media & Entertainment Information Sharing Analysis Center (ME-ISAC) — operating as an initiative within the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) for the benefit of ... More
Gracenote Audio On Demand Launches for Podcast Search, Discovery
Nielsen has launched a new search and discovery offering for podcast, offering streaming music platforms, MVPDs, automakers and consumer electronics companies the ability to search... More