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Brightcove launches AI Content Suite

Brightcove, the intelligent video engagement platform company, has announced the launch of its AI Content Suite, the company’s first official general availability release following a successful customer pilot programme in 2024. This suite introduces a range of AI-powered tools to increase the impact of video content while also improving business productivity. The Brightcove AI Content […]

January 29, 2025

The Stargate Project building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI

The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion (€480.1bn) over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US. The company will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and seek to generate economic benefit for the entire […]

January 22, 2025

Report: Half of marketers increasing programmatic CTV budgets

Proximic by Comscore, a division of Comscore, and a provider of audience and content targeting solutions for programmatic activation, has released its third annual State of Programmatic Report for 2025. A key finding shows that 72 per cent of respondents are planning to increase programmatic investments in 2025, demonstrating advertisers’ continued reliance on programmatic strategies. […]

January 22, 2025

Report: AI can drive major sustainability gains for telcos

A report from Liberty Global and EY suggests that the strategic adoption of AI in the telco sector has the potential to drive major sustainability gains over the next decade. The report – Smarter networks, greener planet – takes an in-depth look at how the telecommunications industry can harness AI in the coming years to […]

January 21, 2025

Study: AI-powered cyber threats drain security budgets

Research from post-quantum security speacialist, Naoris Protocol, highlights a stark reality: IT directors at major global firms are preparing for an unprecedented surge in cyber threats driven by AI, machine learning,and the Metaverse. As cyber criminals deploy increasingly sophisticated attacks, organisations plan significant security budget increases over the next two years. A global study of […]

January 21, 2025

Apple suspends AI news after BBC complaints

Apple is suspending an AI feature that made inaccurate summaries of news headlines. It had received complaints from the BBC after the AI-generated service issued a news alert with the corporation’s logo falsely telling some iPhone users that Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, Brian Thompson, had shot himself. Other […]

January 17, 2025

Report: Media in 2025 driven by algorithms

WARC’s latest forecasts show that global advertising spend surpassed $1 trillion (€0.97tn) for the first time in 2024, and is expected to grow 10.7 per cent this year, to a total of $1.08 trillion. Global ad spend has more than doubled over the last decade, growing 2.8x faster than global economic output since 2014, with […]

January 16, 2025

Deepdub opens access to Hollywood-vetted voiceovers

Deepdub, a specialist in AI-powered voice solutions, has announced the launch of its AI Audio API, an enterprise-grade platform designed to deliver Hollywood-vetted audio experiences. Leveraging Deepdub’s proprietary Emotive Text-to-Speech (eTTS) technology, the API facilitates seamless real-time voice generation with advanced customisation parameters such as accent, speed, tempo, and variance. AI voiceover options are plagued […]

January 16, 2025

Research: Consumers don’t understand AI yet

AI is rapidly changing the way people are interacting with entertainment and companies are embracing AI to streamline operations and improve efficiencies in producing, marketing and distributing content. While AI tools are being used to create images, music, scripts, ads and other video content, the lines between what’s ‘real’ and ‘fake’ are becoming even blurrier […]

January 14, 2025

Survey: 37% Brits envisage no terrestrial TV in 20 years

Research commissioned by Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) polled the nation to discover how Brits envisage everyday life in 20 years’ time, with 61 per cent believing that life will be unrecognisable from the way we live today. Half (49 per cent) think social media will be banned for under sixteens, while 37 per cent believe […]

January 14, 2025