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