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Challenges Abound for Metadata Collectors
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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
M&E Journal: Virtual Reality Creates New Broadcast Opportunities
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By Nicole Greiner, Research Analyst, VAST Media Virtual reality is gaining momentum. While some years ago, the technology still seemed futuristic and inaccessible to consumers, ... More
CenturyLink Introduces Location-Based Analytics
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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
SyncOnSet: Digitizing Production Inventory is Just the Start
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A lot of media and entertainment companies come from more mundane origins. Los Angeles-based SyncOnSet (formerly Wymsee) started with a pair of sunglasses. Years ago, the founde... More
M&E Journal: Decoding the Intricate Web of Related Title Master Data
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By Nimish Gupta, Director Product Management, Riversand Technologies Digital is the main reason just over half the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2... More
From Data to Distribution: ‘M&E Journal’ Digital Edition Now Available
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The spring edition of the “M&E Journal: Navigating the Next New” magazine — featuring insights from dozens of media and entertainment industry executives — is now available... More
Microsoft Garage’s Legato Touts Importance of Experimentation, Collaboration
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Experimentation and collaboration are the keys to success when an organization is trying to innovate, according to Anne Legato, chief communicator at the Microsoft Garage, a projec... More
ZOO Digital: Using Technology to Work Smarter
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Every major studio (and more than one independent) looks to London-based ZOO Digital for subtitling, captioning and localization services. And what makes the company stand apart fr... More
Source Digital: Personalization and the Omni-Screen
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For Source Digital, the company’s technology and platform monetization strategies center around a simple combination of ideas: personalization, smart content, and the omni-screen... More
New Regency Looks for Simpler Film Production Tools
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If you want to make your film production life easier, you’re going to need the right tools. And the right partners. That’s according to Lulu Zezza, physical production execu... More
MarkLogic’s Turner: ‘Suitcase’ Project was ‘Hugely Ambitious’
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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — The film “The Suitcase” is less than a half hour long, but the amount of work that went into it was more indicative of a full season of a TV show. Th... More
The Cloud and Data Round Out HITS Conference Sessions
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Attendees at the May 25 "Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet" event in Los Angeles will have four different innovation and technology showcase tracks to choose from at the... More
Digimarc CEO Eyes Huge ‘Addressable Market’
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There is a huge “addressable market” for the Digimarc Discover platform, company CEO Bruce Davis told the Needham Emerging Technology Conference in New York May 19. He pointed ... More
HITS Keynote: Design Thinking can Apply to Media
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By Chris Tribbey When attendees at the May 25 "Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet" event return from lunch, they’ll be treated to a presentation on “design thinkin... More
HITS Panel to Look at Link Between Content, Technology
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It’s a content everywhere world, and getting that content everywhere isn’t easy. When Hollywood’s IT crowd gathers May 25 for the "Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment ... More
BTI Studios: When Local Means Global
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Dubbing and subtitling are a major part of bringing a show to as wide an audience as possible. But with the growth of anywhere, anytime viewing, they are central to the success of ... More
Pulitzer Winner Kaplan to Keynote May 25 HITS Conference
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When Fred Kaplan takes the stage May 25 in Los Angeles at “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet,” he’ll argue that — for purposes of helping to provide security fro... More
NAB Show: MESA Member Focus
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By Chris Tribbey The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) asked its members attending the NAB Show to highlight what they offered at the annual confab. This is the f... More
3rd i Selects GrayMeta to Solve Its Big Data, Metadata Challenges
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GrayMeta, a leading provider of metadata solutions that brings tremendous value to company assets, has announced that 3rd i, a pioneer in the field of 3rd party content and technol... More
Metadata Madness Speakers: Data is Money
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To put a point on the importance of metadata to your business, Cameron Davies, SVP of analytics for NBCUniversal, tends to look at it less like Field of Dreams (build it and the co... More