Tech Feed
FEED Staff - July 3, 2020
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is preserving rock music history with Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Nicole Kobie - June 25, 2020
TikTok is the social media playground du jour, but the social app could also be big business for broadcasters
FEED Staff - June 1, 2020
Video streaming is becoming an important part of every organisation and business. AJA has devices to make high-quality streaming easy for everyone
FEED Staff - June 1, 2020
New cloud solution helps Blizzard expand its broadcast offering during Covid-19 lockdown
FEED Staff - May 19, 2020
Organisation announces the show’s cancellation due to Covid-19
FEED Staff - May 4, 2020
The future of media storage may be on-premises infrastructures
FEED Staff - May 4, 2020
We talk with two media innovators working to unite the disciplines of broadcast and cloud
Adrian Pennington - March 27, 2020
What are the advantages of software-based systems and why should broadcasters consider them?
FEED Staff - March 23, 2020
Through a process of collaboration and experimentation, Sony is helping media companies understand the potential of 5G
Neal Romanek - March 17, 2020
RL streaming is booming – it’s becoming a great way for businesses to boost engagement and for people to share common interests
FEED Staff - March 15, 2020
Trouble-free, high-quality live streaming requires the right tools. AJA offers solutions for a range of live streaming workflows
FEED Staff - February 28, 2020
Head of Sky’s VR team, Kim-Leigh Pontin, reveals the future of virtual reality content and how an immersive experience was built around Sky’s Roman Empire drama, Britannia
Content Focus
Neal Romanek - July 15, 2020
When every platform is desperately competing for eyeballs, how do you put kids’ wellbeing first?
Nicole Kobie - July 14, 2020
Video for children has gotten better during the coronavirus lockdown. Can we keep it up?
FEED Staff - July 3, 2020
Qumulo harnesses the power of the public cloud to provide easy remote work and rapid scalability to top effects house, Cinesite
Chelsea Fearnley - June 24, 2020
A new streaming model called United We Stream is doing what it can to save Manchester’s nightlife culture in the wake of Covid-19
FEED Staff - June 24, 2020
Watching TV is not a green habit. And online TV is less Earth-friendly than old-school broadcasting. How do we make streaming sustainable?
FEED Staff - June 5, 2020
DRM is the most basic – and maybe the most important – building block for securing content. BuyDRM is helping provide peace of mind for a whole industry
FEED Staff - May 7, 2020
This year, the 2020 NAB Show 4K 4Charity Fun Run is going virtual
Neal Romanek - May 4, 2020
The coronavirus is going to change the media industry – and the world
Neal Romanek - May 4, 2020
Workers have been hit hard by the coronavirus, especially freelancers. FEED and Soho Media Club hosted an online summit about what can be done
Neal Romanek - April 14, 2020
FEED visits a new media industry networking event in London
Chelsea Fearnley - April 6, 2020
We look at the history of Freaks 4U Gaming, an esports agency that has become a media & entertainment success story
David Davies - April 3, 2020
Esports is becoming big business for audio providers, as well as offering the opportunity for innovative, highly integrated productions
Start-Up Alley
Ann-Marie Corvin - July 22, 2020
This month’s start-ups harness the power of AI for improved voice assistant technology, as well as a language tutor for kids
Ann-Marie Corvin - July 22, 2020
This month’s start-ups harness the power of AI for improved voice assistant technology, as well as a language tutor for kids
Ann-Marie Corvin - June 25, 2020
Marcus Box (centre) is the CTO of M2A Media
Ann-Marie Corvin - June 25, 2020
Christopher Kenna (centre) was inspired by his personal experiences to launch a diversity-driven media platform
Ann-Marie Corvin - June 25, 2020
Zencastr helps podcasters avoid bad sound quality for their remote guest speakers
Ann-Marie Corvin - April 6, 2020
This month’s issue looks at a company pioneering flexible LED backdrops as an alternative to VFX
Ann-Marie Corvin - March 3, 2020
When Christina Caljé joined Autheos as a founder, the company offered a content management platform that helped firms publish video on e-commerce sites
Ann-Marie Corvin - February 28, 2020
As a publisher of business magazine Die Macher (The Makers) David Böhm is keenly aware of the challenges facing the news industry
Ann-Marie Corvin - February 28, 2020
As a teen entrepreneur and self-taught web and streaming developer, James Mulvany was drawing a full-time income from his first start-up before he’d even finished secondary school
Ann-Marie Corvin - February 5, 2020
Antourage aims to enable football clubs or leagues who own video channels to manage and authorise who can stream, and to where
Ann-Marie Corvin - February 3, 2020
Media Distillery offers a suite of AI-based products to help with search, recommendations, a better UI and easier monetisation
Ann-Marie Corvin - January 17, 2020
Zappar develops interactive packaging and promotional materials to engage consumers in a new way
Genius Interviews
FEED Staff - July 14, 2020
Renard Jenkins has had a formidable career in broadcast technology. From CNN to PBS, and now WarnerMedia, he has helped build world-class infrastructures for world-class TV brands. We talk to him about his career, new possibilities in the cloud and his vision for a better media industry
FEED Staff - June 22, 2020
Lauren Klein is an associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University. We talk to her about the deceptive nature of data, how numbers aren’t neutral and about her new book Data Feminism, co-written with MIT’s Catherine D’Ignazio
FEED Staff - March 27, 2020
After a long career in football, including captaining the New Zealand national team, Rebecca “Bee” Smith is now working to bring women’s Football to the world at online football destination COPA90
FEED Staff - February 28, 2020
Gaël Seyoux leads the InterDigital Research and Innovation team responsible for immersive technologies. Here he talks to FEED about how to stay connected to the real world while a vast, confusing world grows around us
FEED Staff - January 31, 2020
Stuart Almond is Sony’s head of Intelligent Media Services and one of the Sony Professional Solutions’ most public faces. He talks to FEED about the astounding rate of change in the media technology industry and the importance of putting people before tech
FEED Staff - January 10, 2020
Martin Boudot is a French investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Recently, he teamed up with director of photography Mathias Denizo for Paraguay: Poisoned Fields
FEED Staff - December 11, 2019
Andrea Barrica is founder of sexual health site O.school – and people just can’t get enough
FEED Staff - December 9, 2019
Erika Lust is an icon of feminist porn filmmaking, she makes the films she would like to watch herself – but in a world of mass piracy, her artisanal approach …
FEED Staff - December 3, 2019
Vualto provides video on-demand services for big broadcasters and big government. FEED talks to company co-founder Camilla Young about the history of streaming, VOD developments and getting more girls into IT
FEED Staff - November 4, 2019
Dr Taha Yasseri from the Oxford Internet Institute discusses the influencer economy and how ‘group think’ affects us more than we like to admit
FEED Staff - October 9, 2019
Geert Lovink is a Dutch activist and writer on digital technologies. His Sad by Design book is a collection of essays on the evolving – or devolving – state of our digital reality
FEED Staff - October 8, 2019
Sabina Hemmi is co-founder and CEO of Elo Entertainment, the company behind gaming data sites Dotabuff, Overbuff, Fortbuff, Artibuff and Trackdota. She talks to FEED about being a tech entrepreneur, the beauty of data and negotiating sexism in the games industry