Media Management
ProSiebenSat.1 moves content supply chain to the cloud
"This accelerates both the development of new products, for example through the integration of artificial intelligence, and their launch," said ProSiebenSat.1
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Media Management
Banijay Entertainment selects AWS as preferred cloud provider
Work is now underway to migrate Banijay's 200,000+ hours of content to the cloud
Artificial Intelligence
Looking forward: key industry figures on AI and media tech in 2025
As we say goodbye to 2024, TVBEurope hears from key figures from across the industry who share their expectations for the new year ahead....
Media Management
AWS supports Telenor’s streaming service across Norway, Sweden, and Finland
The telco intends to use Amazon S3, Amazon EC2 and AWS Direct Connect to build its streaming service
Media Management
How entertainment industry convergence is accelerating technology innovation
Samira Bakhtiar, general manager of media & entertainment, games, and sports at Amazon Web Services (AWS), highlights why diversification is becoming mission critical for...
Business
BBC expands cloud migration with SAP on AWS
Further migration to cloud will enable the corporation to streamline processes and workflows, allowing it to focus on improving audience engagement
Artificial Intelligence
Prime Video beta-tests AI-powered recap function
AWS said the solution aims to provide users with spoiler-free catch-up content summaries
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Domain and AWS scale up virtual human growth
The collaboration aims to propel the evolution and global reach of Digital Domain's AVH technology, expanding the use of virtual humans across a wide...
Media Delivery
AWS Elemental MediaLive adds bandwidth reduction filter
According to AWS, the new filter reduces bandwidth and storage while maintaining comparable video quality
Live Production
BBC, Sky, AWS, Adobe partner on open source fast-turnaround workflows project
The interoperable framework provides a single virtual store for live content, making it easier to migrate production to the cloud and rapidly create video...
News Releases
AWS to highlight generative AI, cloud advancements at IBC2024
With the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) around the corner, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is gearing up to showcase the latest media & entertainment (M&E)...
Live Production
The race to remote
Jenny Priestley sits down with Dean Locke, director of broadcast and media at Formula One, to hear how the sport continues to adapt to...
Media Management
AWS, Ateme partner on media processing efficiency
According to the two companies, the integration delivers up to a 60 per cent gain in energy efficiency for AWS media customers
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Catapult partners with BBC, AWS on AI prototypes for content production
The prototypes include a tool to streamline film, TV and media sector workflows, an iPhone app to improve operations across location research and organisation...
Media Consumption
Prime Video employs Amazon Bedrock to power new user experience
Prime Video is utilising Large Language Models (LLMs) to simplify the synopses for TV series and films
Live Production
Sky News UK among global broadcasters hit by IT outage
The issue is thought to have originated from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike when a flawed update was rolled out globally, shutting companies out of access...
Virtual Production
Dimension expanding cloud operations with AWS and Arch
The collaboration aims to establish the largest virtual production operation in the cloud
People
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky steps down
Selipsky will leave the company on 3rd June, and will be succeeded by Matt Garman, a senior vice president who has overseen sales and...
Artificial Intelligence
Brightcove integrates AWS’ generative AI assistant
Brightcove has created the Brightcove Expert Bot, an AI-powered chatbot embedded into internal tools
Business
Amazon CEO: AWS has multi-billion dollar revenue run rate in AI already
Sales rose to $25bn during the first three months of 2024, up 17 per cent year-on-year
Live Production
Opinion: charting a cloud driven future
M2A Media's Matt Hughes asks, is it time for news broadcasting to shift to the cloud?
Business
Editor’s choice: Ten things to look out for at 2024 NAB Show
From artificial intelligence and an autonomously AI-powered humanoid robot, to an immersive golf experience and our first proper look at Sphere, this is what's...
Artificial Intelligence
How GenAI can create personalised viewer engagement for streaming services
Peter Docherty, founder and chief technology officer, ThinkAnalytics, talks to TVBEurope about how GenAI helps with personalisation, and why it's so important in the...
Live Production
Carrying a torch for sustainability
France Télévisions is preparing to make broadcast history with a 100% cloud-based and 5G/Starlink network
Media Delivery
Ateliere, AWS agree five-year media solutions development deal
The Strategic Collaboration Agreement will drive new product and feature development, and boost customer adoption of the Ateliere platform, said the company
Media Consumption
AWS Elemental MediaLive adds image overlay support, colour space conversion
AWS said users will be able to map the larger colour space gamut in an HDR source to an SDR output
Media Management
The trends of 2023: Cloud production, monetisation and generative AI
Samira Bakhtiar, director of global media and entertainment, Amazon Web Services (AWS), explains how the company is seeing the industry truly embrace end-to-end productions...
Media Consumption
How data ‘heartbeats’ are at the centre of DAZN’s customer experience
Stefan Kalcher, SVP data and analytics at DAZN, talks exclusively to TVBEurope about the streamer's use of data to enhance its customer experience
Live Production
Bundesliga and AWS introduce Shot Speed stat ahead of Der Klassiker
Shot Speed data gives fans the ability to track which players have achieved the highest shot speed on a single match day or during...
Artificial Intelligence
How data and artificial intelligence are giving rugby fans the advantage
TVBEurope speaks to the team at Oval Insights to find out how their machine learning models are helping to enhance the broadcast experience for...
Live Production
Warner Bros Discovery puts fans in the director’s chair with UCI Track Champions League coverage
The broadcaster will be employing 20 cameras including Spidercams, five on-board rider cameras, two behind-the-scenes and trackside cameras to take viewers to places they...
Media Management
Formula cloud
As the Formula 1 season winds down towards its conclusion next month, TVBEurope recently caught up with F1's director of innovation and digital technology...
Media Delivery
How OTT providers can stay ahead of the game with user recommendations
By Simon McGrath, VP strategy and portfolio, Merapar
Media Management
Cloud companies respond to CMA referral
Ofcom said the decision to refer the UK's cloud market for investigation is a "significant step" for it to take
Artificial Intelligence
AWS makes generative AI application builder available to all
Among the first organisations to use the technology is the PGA Golf Tour, which is employing Amazon Bedrock to create engaging fan experiences
Business
Leading with inclusion: How AWS is driving diversity in the media tech industry
Continuing TVBEurope's look at drivers of change in the media tech industry, Samira Bakhtiar, director of global media and entertainment, Amazon Web Services (AWS),...
Media Delivery
Amazon Interactive Video Service able to deliver streams with less than 300 millisecond latency
Amazon IVS is a managed live streaming solution that is designed to make low-latency or real-time video available to viewers around the world
Artificial Intelligence
‘Every single’ Amazon team is working with generative AI says CEO
Andy Jassy told investors AWS and the company's entertainment division are exploring how the technology can help it be "more cost-effective and streamlined" in...
Media Management
Playback health analytics comes to Amazon IVS
Bitmovin announces its playback health analytics will now complement Amazon Interactive Video Service metrics
Artificial Intelligence
How artificial intelligence is helping Formula 1 expand its audience
TVBEurope speaks to James Bradshaw, Formula 1's head of digital technology, about how the sport is using AI to create localised subtitles for its...
Media Management
Swisscom launches world’s first large-scale CDVR in a public cloud
The company employed Ateme’s end-to-end OTT solution for the migration, which aimed to streamline its operations, optimise its hardware pool, and achieve greater scalability...
Media Management
How the cloud gives Sky Italia the X-Factor
The broadcaster has worked with AWS to introduce near real-time voting to its version of the hit singing show