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Our Finest Hour Season 1, Episode 4: ‘The Colossal Opportunity’ (‘Sailing into the Storm’)
If COVID-19 has taught us anything thus far, it’s that things we were told weren’t possible — like widespread telecommuting, remote staff meetings and keeping the car in the ... More
Goodwill Streaming: Media Businesses With a Heart
Richard Whittington, Senior Vice President of Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head of Rights and Royalties, Vistex — This is the seventh in a series of e... More
M&E Journal: Unlocking the Power of AI to Solve Media and Entertainment Use Cases
By Muralidhar Sridhar, VP AI and ML, Prime Focus Technologies - Artificial intelligence (AI) offers tremendous promise for the M&E industry. From enabling content creators to au... More
M&E Journal: Data Availability, Done Right
By Tobias Queisser, Co-Founder, CEO, Cinelytic - It’s Monday evening at 7 p.m. and a senior executive at a movie studio has asked for a cross-divisional green light analysis o... More
Rights, Royalties, and the Data That Can Save Periodical Publishers
By Richard Whittington, SVP, Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head, Rights and Royalties, Vistex — This is the sixth in a series of exclusive industry ins... More
The Truth About Rights and Royalties: What Publishers Need to Know Now
By Richard Whittington, SVP, Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head, Rights and Royalties, Vistex — This is the fifth in a series of exclusive industry in... More
Business as Usual: More Important Than Ever, Even If It Takes Extra Planning
By Jack Wyrick, Business Development, Chesapeake Systems - Coffee: check! Power cable plugged in: check! Favorite home-office chair: check! Remote access to media: check? Wh... More
M&E Journal: Applying Intelligent Analytics to Greenlighting and Marketing
By Timothy Sheehy, VP M&E, Birlasoft - Need a reason to pay attention? Let’s start by looking at the numbers: 80 percent of films lose money. 64 percent of TV shows are cancel... More
Rights and Royalty Management: Taming the Digital Supply Chain Headache for Record Labels
By Richard Whittington, SVP, Media and Entertainment, SAP, and Amos Biegun, Global Head, Rights and Royalties, Vistex — This is the fourth in a series of exclusive industry in... More
SAP, Futurum Report Examines ‘What’s Next for Content Streaming Services’
A new white paper from SAP and analyst firm Futurum asks the all-important question “‘What’s Next For Content Streaming Services?” At a time when millions of people have ca... More
Update on Tap for Language Metadata Table
Enhancements continue to be made to the Language Metadata Table (LMT) open-source table of language metadata codes geared toward the broadcast and entertainment industries, and the... More
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
Sohonet CEO Explores Challenges, Solutions for Today’s Remote Post Collaboration
It used to be that working remotely in the media and entertainment space was a luxury. However, with those working on productions spread all across the world and amid ever-increasi... More
M&E Journal: Unlocking OTT Stream Data to Improve Monetization
By Jesse Michelsen, Ad Proxy Technical Lead, Verizon Media - OTT enables broadcasters and content creators to go well beyond the traditional linear TV experience, making it poss... More
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
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
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
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
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
