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Whip Media: Streaming Wars a ‘Brute Force’ Game Today
LOS ANGELES — Dave Cornella, SVP of global strategic accounts for Whip Media Group, looks at the streaming landscape today, and sees a problem. “If you look at our industry ... More
Adobe CEO: Company Continued to See Document Cloud ‘Momentum’ in Q1
Strength in Adobe Document Cloud, as well as continued growing demand for Adobe’s mobile applications, provided a boost for the company’s results in the first quarter (ended Fe... More
MESA Update on COVID-19 Impact on Events
As news coverage of the impact and severity of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) unfolds, and reverberates in context to our industry, we will continue to provide updates to our rea... More
BeBop Technology Offers Remote Work Insights
To keep the industry working when remote is needed, what are some of the best practices needed to make that happen? That’s the question BeBop Technology is tackling in a serie... More
April NAB Show Postponed Over COVID-19 Concerns
The late-April NAB Show is the latest media and entertainment conference to be put on hold over concerns with the growing spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), with NAB presi... More
COVID-19 Statement to All MESA Communities
Over the past six weeks we have closely monitored the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as it has spread throughout the world. The cancelation of Mobile World Congress in ... More
NASA JPL CIO Explores Hollywood Similarities With Space Exploration
LOS ANGELES — Randi Levin, CIO for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), sees a lot of similarities between the technology needs for Hollywood and for space exploration. And not jus... More
Cinelytic CEO: Finding the Silver (Data) Lining in Pervasive Piracy
LOS ANGELES — Nobody in the industry is a fan of piracy and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. It’s billions out of the pockets of content owners, creators, and everyone associat... 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
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
Cinelytic CEO to Decode Streaming Audience Demand at Smart Summit
Both on the main stage and during a breakout session March at the at the Smart Content Summit in L.A., Tobias Queisser, co-founder and CEO of Cinelytic, will get a unique insight i... More
Sohonet CEO to Examine Remote Post Options at Smart Content Summit
It used to be that working remotely in the media and entertainment space was a luxury. But with those working on productions spread around the world, and ever-increasing travel cha... More
Whip Media to Talk Consumer Engagement at OTT Supply Chain Event
Sure, consumers are cutting the cord at an ever-increasing rate, thanks to the onslaught of direct-to-consumer choices available. But how do consumers actually feel about all these... More
CDSA’s Cybersecurity & Content Protection Summit Returns to NAB
With more cyberattacks dominating the news, more live broadcast streams being pirated, and more privacy concerns for consumers than ever before, media and entertainment executives ... 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
MESA’s OTT Academy Hits L.A. March 3
The afternoon of Tuesday, March 3 sees the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) return to its supply chain roots, hosting the OTT Supply Chain Academy at the Luxe Sunset ... More
Synamedia White Paper Looks at Impact of Credential Sharing
A new white paper from Synamedia estimates that since the start of 2019, 4.1 billion streaming video credentials have been breached, and that by 2024, pay TV operators will have lo... 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