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Advertising revenue reductions have hurt Europe’s commercial broadcasters badly during 2020. Indeed, it is a near-miracle that Europe’s broadcasters have managed the ad-downturn so well and still succeeded in delivering solid ratings and even much-delayed Covid-sanitised drama and variety shows.

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Well, what a great year it’s been for everybody, so long as by ‘everybody’ we mean Zoom shareholders, Jeff Bezos and Joe Biden. Usually, the end of December is “the most wonderful time of the year.” Future-gazing in a time of pandemic, regime change, populism and wave after wave of new technologies. Piece of cake.

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TV advertising revenue plummeted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, prompting broadcasters to slash content budgets and review spending. Tim Dams examines the extent of the decline in ad spend and assesses the likely rate of recovery.

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The world has changed, Dalet has evolved, and just last month, Dalet has revealed its new brand identity. Along with this rebranding, Dalet introduced Dalet Pyramid, the pinnacle of mobility, agility and flexibility for content production, offering collaborative, digital-first workflows that reimagine storytelling to deliver content anywhere, anytime, any screen.

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Remote video production is growing in popularity because it can simplify certain aspects of the workflow. New technology makes it possible for remote video production to take place, but there are some important strategies that can be used to fully take advantage of this technology.

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MediaPower's Arkki EVO Digital Asset Manager gets new features that let you manage your videos, photos, and documents even more easily! We've launched the new release of Arkki EVO 1.1. It includes support for Quantum Stornext libraries and full integration with LDAP protocol and Active Directory.

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Not too long ago when broadcasters, movie studios and other media and entertainment organizations were reluctant to store valuable content assets in the public cloud and leverage the workflow benefits of remote production. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all that. How will the broadcast industry balance COVID restrictions and keeping business going?

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In the age of eager reporters surfing the internet for scandalous scoops, who is helping defend TV station newsrooms by detecting and tagging fake pictures and videos before they air, and how are they doing it? Hint: It’s not ‘golden eyes’ or government regulators.

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Despite COVIDs impact on many economies, a lot of companies in the data ecosystem have not just survived but thrived. In this guest post by Matt Turck for VentureBeat, he explores some some key areas to watch in the world of AI.

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In the course of a year, the shift to streaming has gone from “coming soon” to “happening now.” How is the industry going to handle this new interim period, where traditional pay TV is far from dead, but streaming is rapidly growing an audience?

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The rise of OTT video services has often opened discussions of a battle between streaming and cinema. But if it was a war between streaming and cinema as the platform of choice for media companies, then coronavirus may have just made the decisive contribution.

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For an industry that has relied on a relentless, almost weekly, beat of conferences and exhibitions that serve a variety of purposes, it is worth asking what lessons have been learned from this year, what 2021 has in store and what is the long term future of trade shows?

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Netflix still has the most U.S. subscribers, and Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+ round out the top 4 SVOD services. But how have these market leaders been impacted by new entrants HBO Max and Peacock? New data suggests that Netflix and Hulu have been hit the most.

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There’s been a great deal of hype and excitement in the artificial intelligence (AI) world around a newly developed technology known as GPT-3. Put simply; it's an AI that is better at creating content that has a language structure – human or machine language – than anything that has come before it.

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