Discovering The Next Apple TV
By Paul Sweeting Apple will hold its fall media event on September 9th, where it is expected to unveil an array of new hardware, including a new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. One item th... More
Comcast Doubles Down on Data
By Paul Sweeting That $45 billion Comcast did not get to spend on Time Warner Cable seems to be burning a hole in its pocket. On Monday, Comcast announced it would invest $200 mi... More
The Marriage of Content and Contract: Linking Asset and Rights Management
To paraphrase The Bard, let us not to the marriage of content and contract admit impediment. That sentiment is animating growing interest in workflows that can integrate media ass... More
Cheap TVs: The Plunge in Pay-TV Stocks Could Have Lasting Effects
Last week's meltdown among media stocks left many Wall Street professionals scratching their heads. Objectively speaking, the earnings news that triggered the sell-off, first from... More
Logged In: Live Sports Metadata Still Needs the Human Touch
NEW YORK -- Creating usable metadata from live sports broadcasts is a labor intensive operation. Whether done in real time or after the fact the process still involves teams of hum... More
Social Media a Boon and a Challenge for Sports Leagues and Broadcasters
By Paul Sweeting NEW YORK—As with most parts of the media and entertainment business, social media has become an important source of incremental revenue for sports leagues and t... More
Chipping Off the Ol’ Geo-Block
By Paul Sweeting The practice of restricting access to digital services outside their home markets in order to protect exclusive territorial content licenses came under fire this... More
Hulu and the Limits of Targeting
Hulu is very popular on Madison Ave. Media buyers looking to reach viewers that are drifting away from traditional television in favor or digital platforms find in Hulu a safe, fam... More
Musical Numbers: Data Driving Music Industry Deals
The National Music Publishers Association agreed this week to sell the Harry Fox Agency, the music industry's dominant clearing house for mechanical rights, to Seasac, the No. 3 pe... More
TEMIS: Helping Make Content Smarter
By Chris Tribbey Since day one, Paris-based TEMIS has had a vision: enable organizations to better exploit their unstructured content, with the goal of helping them manage their b... More
Quantifying Discovery
The headline finding from Ooyala's Q1 2015 Global Video Index report was the explosive growth in mobile video consumption over the past two years, now up to 42% of all online video... More
S3 Panelists Progress with Broadcasters
Looking at the projected media and entertainment (M&E) growth of 30 major metro cities, PwC’s “Cities of Opportunity: The Urban Rhythm of Entertainment & Media” will ... More
