This Briefing focuses on identifying the most important investment drivers in content distribution & monetization derived from a mixture of sources, including survey data on technology priorities, company announcements, and financial data.
Adoption Trends: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
IABM Adoption Trends reports annually track the adoption of specific emerging technologies within the broadcast and media sector.
ELEMENTS BOLT & BeeGFS set a new SPEC SFS performance high score
We are proud to announce that ELEMENTS has achieved the highest results in the SPEC SFS VDA storage performance benchmark. This has been done together with our new technology partner ThinkparQ and their BeeGFS file system, which is well established in High Performance Computing, AI and Deep Learning, and Science. After introducing this file system to the Media and Entertainment industry, it was vital that we proved its capabilities in video production workflows. In this article, we will explain how we have achieved the high score, examine and compare benchmark outcomes in detail and discuss what these results really mean.
How Bulb & Agama’s innovative solutions support A1 Hrvatska in its digital transformation
Over the past few years, customer habits and expectations have changed rapidly, and operators and service providers must now deliver the highest quality content across multiple devices. To achieve customer satisfaction, video service operators and providers must collect huge amounts of user data in real-time.
AMC Networks implements ‘many to many’ digital transformations
The new content demands that emerged during the pandemic have underlined the validity of the US-based entertainment company’s powerful new media supply chain, which was designed by AMC Networks in partnership with leading consultancy Three Media and implemented with a number of best of breed vendors.
Managing the Unpredictability of Live Cricket During the Pandemic
Cricket, like many other sports, has been seriously impacted by the social distancing restrictions imposed by the pandemic. The postponement and cancellation of matches at the height of lockdown, through to the more recent challenges of positive Covid tests, all caused a huge amount of disruption.
Democratization of Business Improvement
In a recent report “The Evolution of Production Workflows”*, MovieLabs asks "Would it be nice if software-defined workflows could be assembled as interconnecting children’s blocks, where integration is as simple as connecting the pieces in the desired configuration?” To make workflows in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) market more flexible, it proposes defining a minimum set of standards and practices for workflow interactions, thus promoting interoperability and minimising the work required to quickly create a custom workflow. In this way, "the creatives decide what must be done and which workflow components are interconnected to them".
Meaningful metadata – the international standard
In the last 36 months, the way in which machine learning technologies have advanced is incredible. As the world moves to more automated ways of working, I’m going to dive into how media supply chains are shaped, driven and limited by data.
How to attract, acquire and retain subscribers to your OTT service
One of the constant challenges of OTT services is how to attract and acquire new subscribers while holding on to existing subscribers. Thanks to improvements in technology, user behavior can now be better forecasted and anticipated with help of predictive analytics, using advancements in ML and AI.
Taking on the growing challenge of rising content volumes and a spiking carbon footprint
The amount of video content being distributed is only going in one direction – and that is up. Over half the global IP video traffic (56.8%) will be HD and around a quarter (22.3%) will be Ultra HD by 2022 according to Cisco.