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Fortinet: Cybersecurity Vital to Close Growing Skills Gap (TM)
Cybersecurity in 2024 continues to be a crucial concern for businesses around the world. The cost of data breaches and cyberattacks is high, as companies experience financial losse... More
AI Raises the Bar for Deep Skills in Jobs (AIM)
Until about 40 years ago, it was commonly estimated that skills had a 'half-life' of at least ten years before needing refreshment. Today, that figure stands at four years.... More
Adobe: An Insider’s Look Into the World of Live Sports Editing with Premiere Pro
We wanted to know just how these jaw-dropping videos come together, so we sat down with Markus Bledowski, co-founder of all media agency framefloor in Cologne, to find out how he u... More
What’s Driving Revenue in the Creator Economy (NAB Amplify)
Although sponsored content remains the top revenue stream (followed by ad revenue sharing and creator funds, considered platform payouts) for content creators on social media, “a... More
Asian Cinemas and Qube Cinema to Expand Footprint of EPIQ Premium Large Format Across South India
Qube Cinema and Asian Cinemas have entered a partnership to set up 10 screens of the premium large format cinema EPIQ, across key cities in Telangana and Karnataka within the next ... More
Why the ‘Year of Gaming’ Might be the Ad Industry’s Next ‘Year of Mobile’ (Digiday)
Following a rise of gaming activity in 2020 and 2021 sparked by Covid-19 lockdown, industry observers have increasingly speculated about an impending explosion of brands into the s... More
Bonprix Catwalks Onto Business Intelligence with SAP
Based in Hamburg, Germany, Bonprix has over 16 million active customers in more than 25 countries. The company looked to SAP solutions for a simplified IT architecture, a faster ti... More
DAZN to Show Action Sport for Free (BTN)
DAZN has signed a multi-year agreement with the action sports brand X Games. The streamer will show the best action from the live events as well from archive and short and long-for... More
FIFA Aims to Raise $2B for Its Streaming Service (TVBE)
Launched in April 2022, the global OTT service provides access to live matches from “every corner of the world”, as well as interactive games, news, tournament information, vid... More
Esports World Cup Partners with WBD (Advanced Television)
Harnessing WBD’s network, the partnership will lean on the Eurosport and CNN brands to help the Esports World Cup reach new audiences across the globe through a multi-platform ap... More
Verbal Intelligence AI Leader Verbit Names Yair Amsterdam as CEO
A seasoned senior executive with nearly two decades of leadership experience, Amsterdam has a proven track record of driving positive change and operational excellence in the techn... More
Brightspot Named as One of the Nation’s Top Workplaces by The Washington Post
The annual award is determined solely by employee feedback gathered in an anonymous survey by an outside market research firm. Brightspot stands out for its commitment to a support... More
What are Marketers’ Biggest Video Content Hurdles? (CMS Wire)
The results of the recent Cloudinary Global Video Survey are in and the sentiment is clear: Video content must be central to any effective customer experience strategy but maximizi... More
NBCUniversal to Use AI Host for Olympic Highlights (TVB Europe)
Personalised recaps will provide fans with their own highlights package, narrated by the AI recreation.... More
AWS Announces $50M Generative AI Impact Initiative for Public Sector Organizations
As part of this initiative, AWS is committing up to $50 million in AWS Promotional Credits, training, and technical expertise across generative AI projects. Credit issuance determi... More
Cognizant’s CTO of AI on How His Lab is Crafting Generative AI Agents for Companies (Tech Brew)
Tech Brew caught up with Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI, who’s credited with helping to invent the NLP tech that paved the way for Siri, about what his new San Francisco-b... More
Streamlining VOD Operations: HOT’s Integration of OOONA’s QA Manager
With over tens of thousands VOD assets at any given time, HOT was in need of a robust solution to manage and monitor frequent asset updates and ensure quality control. (more&hellip... More
CAA Launches Media & Entertainment Partnerships Division for Financing Deals (THR)
The newly formed department, led by NBA and Disney veteran Libby Bush, is on hunt for new sources of production financing with IP in mind.... More
How Do You Deliver Sports Personalization at an Olympic Scale? Yiannis Exarchos Is Warming Up for Paris (NAB Amplify)
Next month, the host broadcaster for the Paris 2024 Olympics plans to produce 11,000 hours of content, compressing the equivalent of 450 days of content into just 17 days. This inc... More
Hallmark Media Names Anaïs Lempereur CFO (Next TV)
Hallmark Media said it named Anaïs Lempereur chief financial officer, effective in August. Lempereur had been VP of finance and CFO for Paramount Global’s Pluto TV.... More
