Business
Confidence-boosting $215 million funding package announced for Cinesite
Coming at a "pivotal" time for the sector, the funding underscores Cinesite's ambition and confidence in the media and entertainment industry
generative AI
Artificial Intelligence
Opinion: Streamers take generative AI leap
TVBEurope's AI columnist Graham Lovelace looks at how generative AI is about to offer radically new opportunities for streamers and new experiences for audiences
Live Production
EVS upgrades XtraMotion with AI-driven replay effects
XtraMotion 3.0 aims to expand creative capabilities with new replay effects and faster turnaround times, said the company
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual production cleared for takeoff with Vu Technologies’ Runway partnership
Aligning with Vu Technologies’ aim to expand access to its suite of creative solutions, the partnership combines its network of virtual production studios with...
Artificial Intelligence
Hub: Viewers happy for AI to replace humans in dubbing, video editing
The research found attitudes varied according to task, with consumers preferring human creativity but comfortable with automation
Media Delivery
Quickplay debuts short-form content Gen AI tool
Quickplay Shorts can be integrated into existing OTT ecosystems and apps enabling streamers to reach younger audiences
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....
Artificial Intelligence
UK government consults creative industry on AI copyright exemption
The consultation aims to give creative industries and AI developers clarity over copyright laws
Artificial Intelligence
AI: will the winner take it all?
Launching the first global survey into the impact of gen AI on creator revenues, CISAC's Bjorn Ulvaeus calls for action from policymakers around the...
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon takes on OpenAI with new AI video generation capabilities
Amazon Nova Reel can provide what the company describes as "studio-quality" video, with features such as camera motion control, 360-degree rotation, and zoom
Artificial Intelligence
Deloitte: Hollywood concerned over maturity of AI, but cost savings fuelling adoption
TV, film studios apprehensive over costs, liability and tech maturity
Artificial Intelligence
UK’s Sky News partners with ‘ethical AI’ firm
ProRata’s technology ensures that publishers and creators are credited and compensated, on a per-use basis, in the world of generative AI
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
Opinion: Action! AI strikes landmark deal
TVBEurope's artificial intelligence columnist Graham Lovelace explains why a landmark studio pact is a big deal for AI
Artificial Intelligence
Tech start-up offers filmmakers $1 million if they use AI
The fund is open to creatives who are currently working on features, shorts, documentaries, experimental projects, music videos and more, with the caveat that...
Artificial Intelligence
ITV debuts first GenAI-created adverts
Both ads were created by augmenting ITV Commercial’s normal creative process, using licenced Generative AI images and video tools alongside ITV’s voice-over artists
Artificial Intelligence
AI: More WALL-E than Skynet
As AI continues its relentless march through the media and entertainment industries, every new innovation creates a multiplicity of questions. To try to demystify...
Production & Post
V-Nova Studios launched to drive innovation in immersive XR
The business unit aims to leverage the technology of the company's V-Nova PresenZ compressed volumetric media format
Media Management
Seven.One Studios Connect2 content with VIDA
The Connect2 self-serve media asset management platform aims to streamline content workflows
Virtual Production
dock10 funding award lights the way for virtual productions
The funding will be used in the creation of AI-driven tools that deliver realistic light interactions for programmes filmed in virtual studios
Artificial Intelligence
BBC: AI will be a growing disrupter in the media sector over the next few years
The BBC said it is running a number of Gen AI innovation pilots that will identify "where there is real audience and operational value...
Business
PWC: Ads will make up of a quarter of streamers’ revenues by 2028
In its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2024-2028, PWC analysts suggest that by 2028, advertising will contribute almost 28 per cent of all the...
Business
Ateliere boosts IP flexibility with Agile Live
The Generative AI media software solutions provider said it aims to leverage the Agile Live platform as it shifts away from reliance on proprietary...
Media Consumption
Wimbledon serves up latest technologies to keep fans engaged
The BBC has confirmed it is once again making every Centre Court match available in Ultra HD on iPlayer
Artificial Intelligence
NBCUniversal to use AI host for Olympic highlights
Personalised recaps will provide fans with their own highlights package, narrated by the AI recreation
Features
How TF1 is exploring an AI-driven future with Moments Lab
Olivier Penin, director of innovation at TF1 and Moments Lab's head of science, Yannis Tevissen, outline some of the findings from an ongoing research...
Virtual Production
Dimension expanding cloud operations with AWS and Arch
The collaboration aims to establish the largest virtual production operation in the cloud
Artificial Intelligence
WSC Sports boosts customisable content with AI product suite expansion
WSC Sports' In-App Stories allows rights holders to insert a vertical video experience within owned and operated digital platforms
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
Production & Post
Adobe previews generative AI tools to streamline professional video workflows
New generative AI tools will enable users of Adobe Premiere Pro to streamline editing all videos, including adding or removing objects in a scene...
Artificial Intelligence
TF1 among first members of new AI research programme
R&D focus includes long-form video understanding, vision-language models and information retrieval with a strong emphasis on building low energy consumption AI indexing models
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...
Media Management
Scaleable rendering with AWS Deadline Cloud
The fully managed service aims to help customers set up, deploy and scale rendering projects in minutes
Production & Post
Adobe reveals Gen AI solutions for content supply chain
Elsewhere, Adobe revealed a new feature in Adobe Firefly, which uses the company's generative AI to easily apply the structure of an existing image...
Artificial Intelligence
Veritone enables media organisations to talk to their data
Ask Veri leverages generative AI to swiftly respond to voice queries and provide customers with in-depth analysis, insightful summaries and key findings for their...
Artificial Intelligence
Industry’s first end-to-end Generative AI media supply chain launches
The new platform will bring intelligence automation to end-to-end workflows including ingest, management and monetisation of content at scale, said the company
Artificial Intelligence
YouTube launches new tag for AI-generated content
The labels will appear in the expanded description or on the front of the video player, said YouTube
Audio
Dubbing company uses AI to modify characters’ accents
Deepdub's Accent Control technology leverages custom generative AI models to manipulate and control the accents of characters in dubbed content, said the company
Artificial Intelligence
BBC details first plans for generative AI use
Plans include trialling Gen AI to reformat existing content that widens its appeal, and using it to help teams find and create new forms...
Artificial Intelligence
Watch: Sky Sports uses AI to create ‘The Greatest Track on Earth’
The broadcaster's digital designers used specific prompts in generative AI creative platform Midjourney to visualise how the track might look
Artificial Intelligence
Tyler Perry pauses Atlanta studio expansion after seeing OpenAI’s Sora
"I had gotten word over the last year or so that this was coming, but I had no idea until I saw recently the...