WSC Sports, a global player in AI-driven sports highlights, has closed a $100 million (€87.8m) Series D round, led by ION Crossover Partners (ICP). Existing investors, including Intel Capital, O.G. Tech and Detroit Venture Partners (Dan Gilbert), also participated in the round. The company plans to use the new funding to support its growth plans […]
Promax, the global association for the entertainment marketing industry, is making the library of winning creative from its annual awards competitions available to members via an easily searchable archive available on the newly-relaunched website. Using AnyClip’s proprietary Visual Intelligence Technology, each submission has been fully analysed, frame-by-frame, extracting all relevant data, to enable in-video search […]
Alfi, an AI enterprise SaaS advertising platform, has confirmed partnership with 22Miles, a provider of experiential and visualised communications in the digital signage industry. The collaboration will marry 22Miles’ content management system (CMS), PublisherPro.AioT, with Alfi’s SaaS technology, to provide brands and location owners audience data-driven experiences, audience matching, insights, and analytics in a privacy-compliant […]
Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has partnered with Morawa Digital, the Media subsidiary of Austria’s venerable Morawa publishing empire to bring quality sports content of the many teams and leagues that have not had coverage up until now. During the 2022 season, Morawa Digital will begin installing Pixellot systems with […]
Canela.TV, the AVoD services for US Hispanics, has expanded its partnership with Vionlabs, to offer subscribers personalised content discovery based on the emotions each content category evokes. This is Vionlabs first partnership in the US going live with Moods, which is part of Vionlabs Fingerprint+ product. Moods harnesses AI to analyse video metadata to extract […]
Etisalat Group has announced the appointment of Mikhail Gerchuk as CEO – International and Khalifa Hassan Al Forah Al Shamsi as CEO – Etisalat Consumer Digital. Reporting to Hatem Dowidar – Etisalat Group CEO, Gerchuk and Al Shamsi will help secure the organisation’s growth mandate. Gerchuk will be responsible for providing comprehensive direction to develop […]
IBM has acquired Sentaca, a telco consulting services and solutions provider. IBM says the acquisition will accelerate its hybrid cloud consulting business, adding critical skills to help communications service providers (CSPs) and media giants modernsze on multiple cloud platforms, innovate, and transform their businesses. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Sentaca’s team of technology consultants across the US […]
TheViewPoint, a SaaS video ad monetisation platform for CTV/OTT publishers, has partnered with Zone·tv, a pioneer of personalized pay-TV channels powered by AI, to provide it with refined ad management and optimisation solutions. Zone·tv is at the forefront of the transition that is taking place in media and TV today. By combining artificial intelligence with […]
Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC), the Italian Football Federation, has announced a 3-year collaboration with WSC Sports, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven sports video technology, to create AI-powered highlights of the Serie A TimVision, the highest league of women’s football in Italy. FIGC will be using WSC Sports’ full suite of automation tools […]
iconik, a cloud-native, SaaS media management solution, has released its annual media stats report detailing trends within its user-base for SaaS media management and video. This year’s report shows a dramatic increase in the use of AI services for media management, such as visual AI analysis and voice-to-text transcriptions. It also demonstrates further transition to […]