If you are not already familiar with them, media cartographer Evan Shapiro‘s regularly updated Media Universe Maps reflect the evolving relationships and power dynamics among the world’s media organisations. They show how companies from different sectors — TV, streaming, gaming, and social media — are vying for consumer attention and revenue in a rapidly changing […]
One for the teenagers and anybody interested in how and where television graphics as we know it today began In the mid to late 1970s, three companies were fighting for dominance in the market to sell ever more sophisticated graphics generation and manipulation systems to broadcasters around the world. The US was a big focus […]
Moods is a new ad-focused AI tool from Vevo that has been created to group videos based on the emotions they represent. The aim is to help ad recall and brand favourability by creating more memorable overall experiences for viewers. Co-developer, music data company Musixmatch, score and label videos based on their energy and tone, […]
As demand grows for AI solutions that process images from cameras and other photo sensors, more efficient systems are needed. Like NVIDIA and others before it and drawing on its mobile technology developments, chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled an R&D project that reduces the compute power needed to handle visual AI, in turn reducing the […]
The streamer has published a post on its Tech Blog that explains how it uses transfer learning, a form of machine learning, to find and analyse the connections that drive audiences to its many hundreds of original shows. This in turn drives their marketing, analytics and forward planning In transfer learning the parameters learned from […]
8K production The transition from 4K UHD to 8K is well on schedule according to experts at The 8K Association, paralleling the move from HD to 4K. Sharp, Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic and Ikegami already have 8K-capable cameras and Blackmagic is working on one with 12K resolution. Ancillary equipment for both live and pre-recorded production workflows […]