All posts by Jeff Berman

Virtual reality (VR) apps, an online video series from Comcast’s NBC Universal and Fandango in which Olympics athletes talk about the movies that have inspired them, and an onlin... More

Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts (EA) and Zynga executives had nothing but praise for rival Niantic’s hit augmented reality (AR) mobile game “Pokemon Go” in their latest ... More

The importance of subscription video on-demand (SVOD) services was a common theme during the latest earnings calls of AMC Networks, 21st Century Fox and Viacom. The significance of... More

Time Warner’s decision to take a 10% equity stake in Hulu and provide content to the streaming video service “fits our strategy like a glove,” Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes sai... More

The proliferation of multiple video platforms and over-the-top (OTT) services have made it more important than ever for advertisers to use a standard identifier for the assets used... More

For the foreseeable future, we’ll be seeing the continued popularity of mobile devices and over-the-top (OTT) services for viewing TV content, as well as more cord-cutting and 4K... More

It’s still “really early” for Facebook when it comes to virtual reality, but the company is already “hitting some important milestones,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.... More

By Jeff Berman Nielsen continues to make strides in its ability to measure TV content regardless of where it’s being viewed and when, but there are still concerns among advert... More

NEW YORK -- Contracts are a necessary part of licensing content and data, but contract language that is overly broad can be a “recipe for disaster,” according to Chey Blake, fo... More

NEW YORK -- Creating rights metadata standards are important for industries that use such information, but not all standards have been successful to date because some of them haven... More

NEW YORK — Collecting metadata is essential for companies who handle content, everything from movies and TV shows to baseball games, but there are still many challenges when it c... More

NEW YORK — The Rights & Metadata Madness conference kicked off July 20 with a detailed explanation by Greg Cram, associate director of copyright and information Policy for th... More

Nintendo and game developer Niantic aren’t the only companies benefiting from the craze around the augmented reality (AR) mobile game “Pokemon Go.” GameStop disclosed July 18... More

New security threats are one of “four major driving forces” that are changing business as we know it today, according to Katie Ellis, senior partner marketing manager at Box. ... More

Even if Screening Room’s planned streaming service wouldn’t hurt movie theaters as much as some exhibitors may think — as Stifel analyst Benjamin Mogil argued July 13 — one... More

In another example of IBM’s efforts to expand its initiatives around blockchain record-keeping technology, the company said July 14 that it launched cloud services to be used by ... More

New security threats are one of “four major driving forces” that are changing business as we know it today, according to Katie Ellis, senior partner marketing manager at Box. ... More

Dolby Cinema continues to represent a major growth area for Dolby Labs, and the expansion of Dolby Cinema in China and other overseas markets is a key part of the company’s strat... More

CenturyLink unveiled a location-based analytics service July 11 at Cisco Live, Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, in Las Vegas. The new service provides mobile enga... More