SMT: winning by enhancing sports viewership & content with technology
SMT has positioned themselves as media incumbents' solution in the race to keep up with technology for sports broadcasting applications. This strategy has made SMT a winner!
Entertainment
Live inside your content: The future of entertainment
Rct studio is creating a fully immersive, AI-driven movie experience that adapts to the player's reactions, with each story creating thousands of permutations. Is this the prelude to a world of AI-driven characters that continuously evolve? Will such characters force us to confront the very idea of what makes us human?
“They’re not looking for a story that tells them who they are. They already know who they are. They’re here because they want a glimpse of who they could be.”
Deezer’s Spleeter: Deconstructing music with AI
Deezer, an online music streaming service recently released Spleeter, an ML tool used to deconstruct music into its constituent instrumental tracks.
Kanga – Creating the Ultimate Destination for Gaming Fans
Kanga is an early stage New York-based company creating the ultimate destination for gaming fans. The company’s consumer products help fans discover content through aggregation and real-time metadata and drive user engagement through gamification.
Steam
How a tool for fixing an annoying problem for an online game became a money printing press (literally billions of dollars)
Kobalt: Transforming the Music Industry through Transparency and Accountability
Music’s digital revolution has not only transformed the way we consume, but also paved the way for new business models to develop on the back-end.
Twitch: The Future Is Streaming, Live
Twitch, a wildly popular live-streaming platform for gamers, looks to become the next major broadcaster of our lives
VIPKid – “Ubernization” in EdTech
Uber matches drivers and riders. An EdTech startup matches students in China with English teachers in North America via its live streaming platform.
Battle.net, Activision’s Answer to the Age of Platforms
Activision Blizzard attracts hundreds of millions of gamers every month and has engagement levels that rival those of Facebook. As platform's continue to dominate the global economy, it is important ATVI leverages this amazing fan support to thrive in this new environment.
Upgrading the (Smart)House of Mouse for the Digital Age
Disney has dominated the entertainment industry for decades but now struggles as the internet allows for new video services to disintermediate historical channels and directly form relationships with viewers. To succeed in this new arena, Disney will need to aggressive pursue these new opportunities, likely at the expense of its legacy business.