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AI in streaming: investment set to soar as new applications solidify
Exciting opportunities for automating workflows, enhancing personalisation and repurposing existing content mean that AI has a very bright future in streaming, writes David Davies.
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Content Everywhere: Disruptive forces in streaming, and not just AI
Looking back over 2024 to date, it’s clear that many Content Everywhere companies view the growing implementation and use of artificial intelligence as one of the most disruptive developments for streaming platforms this year.
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Opinion: With AI, MAM systems can finally deliver on their potential
Next-gen AI tools have become integral to media asset management systems. Transitioning to advanced capabilities with multimodal and generative AI unlocks enhanced searchability, contextual insights, and new ROI opportunities. Frederic Petitpont, Co-Founder and CTO of Moments Lab, explains more.
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Camerimage: “We have to be part of the change”
A usually quiet show dedicated to cinematography erupted into controversy around female representation.
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Bridging the divide: challenges in cross-platform advertising
Second screening may have interactive advantages for content platforms but for advertisers, multiple devices means multiple players and a whole host of challenges.
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6G: media should plan for the internet-of-senses
Developers believe 6G will usher in photo-realistic holographic communication complemented by multisensory extensions - and experiments are already happening today.
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Behind the Scenes: How sound and vision get under the skin in Nickel Boys
Re-recording Mixer Tony Volante and Cinematographer Jomo Fray explain how they told a drama from the perspective of its lead characters.
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High standards: live production and the move to IP
Improved standards are helping to drive the migration of live production to IP and the cloud, whilst greater personalisation, extended coverage and higher-quality video all remain high on the wish list.
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Sports piracy: who’s pulling ahead in the AI arms race
Live sports is the battlefield as AI plays both sword and shield in the ongoing war with piracy. Adrian Pennington reports.
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Behind the Scenes: Gladiator II
In a world of green screen and AI, the sets for Gladiator II might be the last great build in movies.
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The shoppable TV revolution: will consumers buy it?
Brands increasingly seek data on attribution of purchasing decisions to measure the value of advertising. Will ‘shoppable TV’ – prompting viewers of TV ads (or even programmes) to make an immediate purchase – supercharge measurement of RoI, or simply alienate consumers?
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Behind the scenes - Joker: Folie à Deux
Editor Jeff Groth asks for the film to be judged on its artistic merits and explains his process with flashbacks, story cards and musical numbers.
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TAMS: fulfilling the promise of IP interoperability
The transition to IP using SMPTE 2110 has been broadly successful in a studio environment but interoperability in the live and near live domain still has work to go. A recent innovation from the BBC could provide the answer.
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Content Everywhere: meeting the diversity challenge
In last month’s review of key trends at IBC this year, Mark Strachan, chief product officer at Telstra Broadcast Services, made the observation that the media and entertainment industry remains a “very male-dominated industry with more work needed to create change”.
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Behind the Scenes: Emilia Pérez
Cinematographer Paul Guilhaume explains how a transgender cartel musical is told with magical realism.
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Co-piloting the Olympics: “human-centric AI” as a creative partner
Olympic Channel Services created an AI tool to help its editorial team deal with the huge deluge of live content, supporting creative decisions rather than reducing headcount. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
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AI’s evolution in the ad space
AI has the potential to automate point tasks in the existing ad management chain and even to transform the entire way media is transacted.
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Project Lantern: TV ads and the outcomes business
In a world where 80% of ad spend goes to outcome-based performance channels, how can TV compete effectively?
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Behind the Scenes: Anora
Semi-improvised, guerrilla-style filmmaking brings gritty realism to Sean Baker’s beleaguered love story.