The European Parliament has approved the first legal framework aimed at constraining the risks of AI. The AI Act works by classifying products according to risk and adjusting scrutiny accordingly. EU law makers said it would make the tech more “human-centric.” “The AI act is not the end of the journey but the starting point […]
This blog post from Paul Pastor, Chief Business Officer at Quickplay, outlines some of the key challenges Tier 1 technology buyers are currently facing in the streaming industry. Now that 95 per cent of American households have at least one streaming subscription, providers face new challenges in a nearly saturated market. On the one hand, […]
Pixellot, the AI-driven sports video technology player, has announced strategic partnerships with two key organisations in German basketball: the Baden-Württemberg Basketball Association (BBW) and the Westdeutscher Basketball Association (Basketball WBV). Both BBW and WBV are leading organisations in promoting and developing basketball at all levels in their respective regions overseeing more than 600 clubs. The […]
In response to Google launching a program for news publishers which offers access to AI tools in order to help them produce content, Bynder has conducted a survey of 2,000 consumers in the UK & US, which uncovered that news articles are the form of written copy that consumers believe should be written by a […]
Yahoo has released survey findings showing how advertisers are thinking about dynamic creative optimisation (DCO) for 2024. As rapid advancements in AI evolve and impending cookie deprecation refocuses energy on performance creative, Yahoo surveyed over 300 brand and agency advertisers to understand their current use of DCO. Powered by AI and machine learning technology, DCO […]
Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organisations, and Veritone, a specialist in designing human-centered AI solutions, has announced a technology partnership that integrates the Dalet Flex media workflow ecosystem with Veritone’s AI-powered Digital Media Hub (DMH), featuring its commerce and monetisation capabilities. The integration enables a seamless workflow from content creation through production, […]
Pictory, a player in the AI-powered video industry, has announced the granting of a patent for its video synopsis system. The model utilises a novel algorithm and custom large language models (LLMS) to generate video summaries from transcriptions. It’s essentially a special tool that turns long-form raw videos (webinars, lectures, meetings recordings) into short shareable […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS), the media measurement and optimisation platform, has announced the expansion of its Made for Advertising (MFA) AI-driven solution. With this enhancement, IAS says it now provides advertisers with a solution that can measure and optimise against both MFA and Ad Clutter sites to drive maximum efficacy across the programmatic buying process. […]
Yahoo, in collaboration with Publicis Media, has released Trust Through Transparency: The Future of AI and Advertising, a new study exploring consumer and advertiser perspectives, acceptance, usage and trust of artificial intelligence in the advertising industry. Polling over 1,200 US consumers and more than 350 US advertisers, the survey revealed a disparity in AI sentiment between […]
Tyler Perry, the US film and TV entrepreneur, has paused the $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio complex after the release of OpenAI’s video generator Sora and warned that “a lot of jobs” in the film industry will be lost to artificial intelligence. Perry said he had been in the process of adding 12 […]