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Veritone achieves AWS M&E Services Competency 

Veritone, a specialist in designing human-centered AI solutions, has achieved AWS Media and Entertainment Services Competency in Media Supply Chain and Data Science & Analytics, recognising the company’s specialised expertise, technical proficiency and proven success in helping customers transform their media and entertainment operations with cloud-based AI solutions. Veritone achieving the AWS Media & Entertainment […]

November 13, 2024

Bitmovin launches AI Contextual Advertising

Bitmovin, a provider of video streaming solutions, has announced the launch of Bitmovin’s AI Contextual Advertising that combines the Bitmovin Playback Solution and Bitmovin’s Encoding to provide hyper-personalised adverts for audiences based on the content they are viewing. Bitmovin’s AI Contextual Advertising optimises ad placement for users based on a machine learning model that extracts […]

November 13, 2024

Forecast: Internet space race heats up in 2025

From mining on the moon to humanoid robots, DE-CIX experts Ivo Ivanov (CEO) and Dr Thomas King (CTO) evaluate some of the biggest trends and the essential interplay with communication technology. Below are 5 trends they believe will shape the connected business world, the further evolution of technology, and the interconnection business in 2025. Trend […]

November 12, 2024

Prime Video rolls out X-Ray Recaps feature

Prime Video has announced its new generative AI feature, X-Ray Recaps, which is powered by Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed AWS service for building and scaling generative AI applications with foundational models. Using a combination of Amazon Bedrock models and custom AI models trained on Amazon SageMaker, X-Ray Recaps analyses various video segments, combined with […]

November 5, 2024By Nik Roseveare

Report: The role of AI in TV ad strategies

The latest TV Key Facts report from RTL AdAlliance, the international sales house of RTL Group, highlights the synergies between technology and human creativity in the evolving advertising landscape. Despite the growing influence of digital platforms, television maintains its strength, adapting to new technologies while preserving its unique ability to connect with audiences. In this […]

November 4, 2024

Apple reports record Q4 services revenue

Apple has reported financial results for its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter ended September 28th 2024. The company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion (€87.3bn), up 6 per cent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 per cent year over year when excluding the […]

November 1, 2024

CMS Committee launches film and high-end TV inquiry sequel

The UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to continue work from the last Parliament examining the challenges faced by the British film and high-end television industry and how the sector and its workforce can be better supported. The British film and high-end TV inquiry follows on from the previous inquiry started […]

November 1, 2024By Colin Mann

BT expands Carbon Network Dashboard

BT has expanded its Carbon Network Dashboard to give business customers visibility of electricity consumption and carbon emissions at an individual workload and application level. The insight will allow them to optimise their data-centre and network infrastructure to manage emissions as they adopt AI applications at scale. AI can have significantly different impacts on networks […]

November 1, 2024

Survey: Bundling increasingly important to consumers

Households are keen on having a ‘digital detox’ with 40 per cent of consumer respondents concerned about the amount of time their household members are spending online. This is according to the latest EY decoding the digital home study, which surveyed 20,000 consumers on their attitudes toward technology, media and telecoms experienced in the home […]

October 31, 2024

C4’s Katz: ‘No AI-generated drama’

Ian Katz, Chief Content Officer at UK PSB Channel 4, has said the channel is not planning to follow the lead of fellow PSB ITV in seeking to recruit a Head of Generative AI to help create ‘shows, films and digital-first content’. Addressing a meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild in London, Katz said that […]

October 29, 2024By Colin Mann