Papercup, a UK artificial intelligence start-up, has set an ambitious goal of bringing human emotion to AI dubbing services, as it receives a $20 million (€18.6m) Series A investment round. The company intends to use the funding to make global video content watchable in any language through emotive and realistic synthetic voices and AI dubbing. […]
Togetherr, a new platform for building world-class creative teams and connecting them with global brands and agencies, has gone live. The platform, designed and built by Fiverr, and backed by industry leaders, uses proprietary technology, the Creative Genome, to construct award-winning teams, from an exclusive group of creative talent. These teams will be curated and […]
WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, has announced that its platform will be used by FC Barcelona to create automated basketball highlights and engaging social content, from both the Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey competitions, to be shared across FC Barcelona’s owned and operated platforms. Powered by WSC Sports’ award-winning […]
Synamedia, the independent video software provider, has announced the acquisition of Utelly, a UK-based privately-owned content discovery platform provider with products targeted at the entertainment industry. Its offerings include metadata aggregation, search and recommendations, as well as content management and a content promotion engine. Utelly’s solution simplifies the complexity of users’ content discovery across TV […]
Data solutions expert, Sagacity, has revealed that >20 per cent of newly acquired telecom customers have a forecasted negative lifetime value and drain around 40 per cent of company profits every year. While the remaining > 80 per cent of new customers turn a profit, Sagacity emphasises their value still varies widely, with the top […]
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a provider of software solutions for STBs and multiscreen entertainment, and ContentWise, a provider of user experience (UX) personalisation and audience analytics technologies, have announced their new partnership. Together they intend to transform UX personalisation possibilities through the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to the benefit of […]
Watching That, the independent monitoring and optimisation platform for the streaming video industry, has announced the addition of a new Monitoring Module with machine learning-powered alerts to its platform that allows ad operations teams to simplify tracking of ad inventory performance and speed up response time to any issues, ensuring continuous peak ad performance, even […]
Lega Serie A, the top flight football league in Italy, has announced a three-year partnership with WSC Sports, a global player in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sports video technology, to automatically create highlights in real-time of all Serie A, Supercoppa Frecciarossa, and Coppa Italia Frecciarossa matches. WSC Sports’ machine learning technology analyses actions as they happen, […]
The global market for smart home devices grew 11.7 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020 with more than 895 million devices shipped, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Notwithstanding the market volatility due to the pandemic and its impact on supply chains as well as demand-side shocks, IDC […]
Imagen, the cloud media asset management platform, has announced a partnership with WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, bringing WSC Sports’ highlights and automated indexing and tagging capability to the Imagen media management platform. WSC Sports uses AI to create video highlights automatically and in real-time by analysing actions as they […]