Artificial Intelligence
Brightcove integrates AWS’ generative AI assistant
Brightcove has created the Brightcove Expert Bot, an AI-powered chatbot embedded into internal tools
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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...
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI introduces new tool to create video from text
The tool is capable of generating entire videos all at once or extending generated videos to make them longer, said the company
Audio
Report: Broadcast and film audio specialists could be most at risk from impact of AI
The report by analysts CVL Economics states that while the outlook seems gloomy, "the future is not yet written, and it needn’t be generated...
Artificial Intelligence
Netflix warns of generative AI risk
"If our competitors gain an advantage by using such technologies, our ability to compete effectively and our results of operations could be adversely impacted,"...
Artificial Intelligence
EY: M&E companies ‘zeroing in’ on AI to rekindle growth ambitions
More than four out of five executives surveyed (83 per cent) said their companies have initiated AI projects or plan to within the next...
Artificial Intelligence
The trends of 2023: Evaluating the impacts and benefits of generative AI
Neil Maycock, chief commerical officer, Pebble, takes a look at some of the major trends in the media industry in 2023, including a shift...
Artificial Intelligence
Ethical considerations of AI in newsroom workflows
Professor Markus Kaiser, director consulting expert at CGI, looks at how AI is finding its way into broadcasters' newsrooms and why media organisations will...
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 Management
The trends of 2023: Profitability, environmental considerations and ‘exploration and excitement’
In the second of TVBEurope’s new series looking at the key trends in the media and entertainment industry during 2023, Remi Beaudouin, chief strategy...
Technology
“Things are not normal”: BBC R&D publishes report into emerging technologies
Rather than one ‘next big thing’, the report's contributors suggested a complex set of factors will enable and catalyse one another
Artificial Intelligence
Telestream adds Generative AI assistant to Wirecast
The company is employing Generative AI to help users with technical advice, tailored troubleshooting in multiple languages, and walkthroughs of the software
Artificial Intelligence
ITV CEO reveals broadcaster is trialling AI
Carolyn McCall said the broadcaster is already working with a number of partners on trialling AI in post production use cases
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI: ‘neither as revelatory nor as scary’ as first thought
Framestore's chief creative officer Timothy Webber discusses some of the ways Generative AI is already impacting production workflows
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...
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
Opinion
IBC 2023: A showcase for how the media industry can evolve
Andy Walker, global communications and media industry lead, Accenture, outlines some of his key talking points at IBC 2023, including cloud, artificial intelligence and...
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI and its impact on content indexing
TVBEurope catches up with Newsbridge CTO Frederic Petitpoint about its generative AI indexing technology that generates human-like descriptions of video content and is capable...
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...
Artificial Intelligence
US news network to use AI to ‘personalise’ content for viewers
“We believe our AI-native approach to creating content is the biggest shift in the media landscape since the transition from broadcast to VoD,” said...
Artificial Intelligence
Could artificial intelligence be the future of news production?
TVBEurope talks to Sky News' Tom Clarke about how the broadcaster used AI to create a news package, from writing the text to presenting...
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI goes sci-fi in new film
Wayne Hills used artificial intelligence to write the script, while the video, images and subtitle production were all automated with AI
Artificial Intelligence
AWS invests $100 million in generative AI development
The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center will connect AWS AI and machine learning experts with customers to help them envision, design, and launch new...
Artificial Intelligence
Ace!: Wimbledon to leverage generative AI for video commentary
Generative AI is being applied to produce narration with varied sentence structure and vocabulary to make the clips informative and engaging, said IBM
Artificial Intelligence
AI, David Bowie, and the next Steven Spielberg
Neil Maycock takes a look at how generative AI could impact the broadcasting industry, and why vendors should be starting to use the technology...
Media Management
Avatar animation, AI-powered video production companies among AWS’ first generative AI accelerator cohort
AWS will provide the cohort with the resources, capital, and community they need to solve big challenges to scale and grow