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M&E Journal: Diversity Drives Engagement in Period Content and Beyond
The hardship, stress and pain the global population collectively endured during 2020 is almost unimaginable. The confluence of a global pandemic and a reckoning with deeply ingrain... More
Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) Names Hollie Choi Executive Director
The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), the source of universal identifiers for digital distribution of movie and television assets, appointed Hollie Choi to lead the organization as... More
EES 2021: Whip Media Stresses the Importance of Data and Thinking Globally
As Netflix and other major companies expand their streaming platforms and their footprints in global markets, the need to create and find content that attracts and retains audience... More
Virtual Repertory Theatre Founder to Deliver Keynote July 21 at EES
Kiira Benzing, executive creative director of next-generation production firm Double Eye Studios, and founder of the XR and virtual reality entertainment group Virtual Repertory Th... More
Robots Writing Code
I’ve written before about how machine learning may impact you, but after a conversation with Metal Toad CTO Tony Rost things have gotten even more interesting — machines are no... More
Tech Evangelist Wolf to Keynote July 21 Entertainment Evolution Symposium
Media technology evangelist Michael Wolf, president of Activate Consulting and former head of McKinsey & Co.’s entertainment practice, will deliver the keynote address July 21 at... More
Visual Data Media Services: An Unwavering Commitment to Quality, Service
What started in 1995 as a small editing facility in Burbank today has become one of the biggest multichannel media management firms, with Data Media Services helping content owners... More
Hold the Popcorn: The Content Secret Sauce Won’t be Secret for Long
The world has undoubtedly changed forever. Before 2020, media was already in transformation. Distribution windows were on the precipice and the streaming wars were heating up. T... More
M&E Journal: Virtual Creative Economies: Blockchain NFTs and the Future of Digital Media
Over the past few months, blockchain non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have rapidly moved from its incubation period within the community of crypto artists and developers into one of the ... More
How AI Can Be Used to Help M&E Companies Gain Audience Insights
Media and entertainment companies have a unique opportunity to analyze changes that have taken place in viewing behavior, sentiment and the associated implications on programming c... More
Meta CEO: How to ‘Turbocharge’ EIDR Workflows
The Meta Data Systems EIDR matching and registration module is effectively “turbocharging” the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) workflows of some of the world’s largest studi... More
How MicroStrategy Helped ABC Unlock the Power of Real-Time Data
Real-time data analytics are empowering on-air news decision-making, according to Jim Whelehan, senior account executive, M&E at MicroStrategy. Speaking during the Security ... More
HITS Spring: Genpact M&E Head Examines Remote Work Sustainability
M&E companies transformed on the fly this last year, by responding to both the industry shift for consumers and the content workforce, with more at-home content consumption by the ... More
The Impact of Machine Learning
I talk to many executives about technology, and there is one term that is at the top of everyone's list: machine learning (sometimes ML for short). There’s a good reason for t... More
Howie Mandel Brings Bobby Back at May 12 HITS Spring
Actor, comedian and producer Howie Mandel will take the stage May 12 at the Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS) Spring event to introduce new technology that reim... More
Zendesk Details Customer Engagement Trends at May 12 HITS Spring
On May 12 at the annual Hollywood Innovation and Transformation Summit (HITS) Spring event, Joe Jorczak, enterprise account executive and industry lead for Zendesk, will broach a c... More
How FlickShow Makes it Easier to Register Content on Universal AV Databases
EIDR universal IDs are becoming mandatory for some content buyers before they agree to purchase a movie or TV show, and they will often use the various universal audiovisual databa... More
EIDR and DDEX Tout the Benefits of Venue ID
The movie, TV and music industries all need to identify venues where content is created and where content is used. To help achieve that for the music industry, EIDR has teamed up w... More
BB-Media CEO Touts Metadata Benefits at EIDR Annual Participant Meeting
Finding something to watch used to be pretty simple. A limited number of channels, a limited number of shows (all airing at predetermined times) and simple, hand-held paper guides ... More
Adobe: AI, Machine Learning Can Enrich Your Content
Metadata is a crucial component of media and entertainment companies’ content strategies but it is a component that all too often relies on manual intervention from content creat... More