By Chris Bray, the founder and CEO of BiG Media, an innovation firm that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue streams for content creation and distribution companies. If you’re like many, you entered 2019 with noble resolutions for yourself and the best intentions to […]
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CuriosityStream Expands Its Universe
Documentary on-demand streaming service CuriosityStream, from Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, is expanding its kids’ programming library with four series from Litton Entertainment. Clint Stinchcomb, CEO of CuriosityStream, explains the deeper dive into children’s content, and shares what’s next. Cynopsis: What prompted CuriosityStream’s push into kids’ content? Clint Stinchcomb: Teens and children are a large […]
Mobile Video: How to Create a User Experience that Drives Revenue
In a consumer world, where devices are constantly in transit with limited connectivity, watching high quality video with no interruptions is mission critical. In the Cynopsis webinar, “Mobile Video: How to Create a User Experience that Drives Revenue,” Penthera’s Dan Hurwitz, Chief Revenue Officer and Josh Pressnell, Chief Technology Officer, offered insights into the importance […]
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AccuWeather Charges Into Content Creation
John Dokes, recently promoted to Chief Content Officer and President of AccuWeather Network, is leading the company’s aggressive move into content creation. Dokes talked to Cynopsis about evolving audience behavior, digital tools – and all that jazz. Cynopsis: What are the biggest challenges facing the industry right now?John Dokes: The biggest challenge for the industry […]
Nat Geo Launches Genre-Busting Hostile Planet
Nat Geo nature doc-series Hostile Planet premieres tonight, April 1 at 9p. Geoff Daniels, EVP of Global Unscripted Entertainment at the network, shares how the series is refreshing the genre – and why its host was a Bear necessity. Cynopsis: How is Hostile Planet pushing the boundaries of the genre? Geoff Daniels: By combining the […]
Facebook Watch Goes to the Dogs
The season finale of Facebook Watch’s new interactive competition series, World’s Most Amazing Dog, which features Facebook users uploading “auditions” of their dogs performing, drops today, March 28 (the competition’s final results will be revealed April 4). 3 Ball Entertainment President Ronak Kordestani breaks down the format. Cynopsis: This is the first series of its […]
Listening to Latinx Voices
LA-based production company Campanario Entertainment is working to change the way Latinx voices are being presented in entertainment, with projects like Bravo’s Mexican Dynasties, as well as the Netflix scripted series on Selena Quintanilla, Selena: The Series, and the Spanish-language format of Nailed It! for Netflix Mexico. After a bidding war, Amazon recently acquired a Campanario property, […]
HITN Grows In Brooklyn
What prompted Spanish-language public broadcast network HITN to expand its headquarters in Brooklyn, NY? “Our growth as an organization started four years ago when we determined that in order for HITN to remain a relevant source of smart programming for Hispanic families we would need to adapt to the evolving habits of ‘anytime, anywhere’ media […]
Blockthrough’s CEO Makes the Case for Ad Recovery Solutions
Publishers could recover millions of dollars they are currently losing to adblockers, according to Blockthrough CEO Marty Kratky-Katz. Here, he makes a case for ad recovery solutions like his company’s. Why have publishers given up on adblockers? For one, there’s a valid concern about category fatigue. Because many of today and yesterday’s adblock recovery tools failed […]
A Digital Revolution Is Coming for Local News
By Ish Harshawat, Co-Founder of Haystack TV, an app for news A digital revolution is coming fast for broadcast TV, changing the way a new generation of viewers are connecting with local news. And it couldn’t happen at a better time, as traditional local news audiences are shrinking and aging, and broadcasters are struggling in a […]
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