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DAM RightWasabi AiR and the Future of Object Storage with Aaron EdellHost Chris Lacinak is joined by Aaron Edell, SVP of AI at Wasabi to talk about the recently launched Wasabi AiR, AI, object storage, and more. Wasabi AiR is an innovative and strategic development in the DAMosphere that aims to change business as usual and push boundaries with what Aaron describes as redefining object storage. This is a fascinating deep dive and behind the scenes look into an important milestone in the intersection between AI and digital asset management from a leader and expert in the field.Disclaimer: Neither Chris nor AVP can be held responsible for...
2024-08-081h 29
Revenue AcceleratorsUnlocking the Power of Metadata: An Interview with Aaron Edell, CEO of GrayMetaDeep Trikannad interviews Aaron Edell, the President and CEO of GrayMeta, on the Revenue Accelerators Podcast. Aaron shares his background, starting as a filmmaker before transitioning into tech. He explains how he ended up in the CEO role at GrayMeta and gives an overview of the company, which primarily serves the media and entertainment industry. GrayMeta offers solutions for migrating video cassette tapes to digital formats, as well as tools for video quality control and review. Their core product, Curio, is a data platform that uses machine learning to extract metadata from files and make it searchable.
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2023-08-1436 min
Art of the FrameThe Alan Smithee Round Table (“HPA, NAB, Genitive AI and Bullying”)Welcome to the next episode of our monthly round table podcast where hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen & Michael Kammes talk about the latest news in production, post production, entertainment tech and beyond. Among the conversations this week the gang share their thoughts on the recent HBA Retreat and, what they expect from the upcoming NAB conference. There’s a deep dive into Genitive AI and, a healthy discussion on post production bullying. And, of course they each get to share their favorite ‘one cool thing’.
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2023-03-2355 min
KitPlusKitPlus News IBC2022 Preview News - Show 2In our second show specifically for IBC 2022 preview news we feature KILOVIEW who have just revealed the new N50, Densitron and their groundbreaking Tactile Technologies and GB Lab's HyperSPACE Generation 3, the latest version of FastNAS, along with the new Unify Hub data management system, as well as GB Labs’ intelligent storage technology, such as Cloak DR, Mosaic, and the latest CORE.4, all on show at IBC.Angekis Technology will present its newest camera, the Saber IP20X Full NDI, Dejero will introduce its new EnGo 3 and EnGo 3x 5G mobile transmitters and Clear-Com will be showing the hig...
2022-08-1806 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 24: Metadata & FTI ConsultingThis week we speak to Carl Jones, Senior Director at FTI Consulting about some of the key trends he's seeing in terms of metadata management in the Media & Entertainment industry. Carl shares his perspectives based on his work in the Media & Entertainment industry providing advisory services around OTT technology, metadata management and digital supply chain. FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes. In the TMT space, FTI Consulting provide a combination of corporate strategy, business transformation and digital transformation, as well as evaluating...
2021-05-2416 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 23: Metadata & Knowledge GraphsFlorian Bauer, Chief Solutions Officer at Semantic Web is our guest this week and he helps us explore the topic of metadata and knowledge graphs. Semantic Web has a knowledge graph product called Pool Party, which helps companies structure their metadata and understand their content better.During this episode, Florian discusses:How knowledge graphs help make better decision making, improving content discovery, and increase end-customer satisfaction through personalisation.The challenges faced by many content companies - such as the lack of a controlled media vocabularySome great practical advice to start creating a control vocabulary.
2021-05-1729 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 22: Metadata & Meta!This week, we talk to Rob Tucker, Founder & CEO at Meta about how their film & broadcast content metadata platform is helping customers manage their data. We discuss a range of topics including:the impact of bad data to a media organisationshow metadata drives viewer engagement and reduces churnand some exciting example of how using different types of metadata could improve content personalisation
2021-05-1037 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 21: Metadata & SigniantWe speak to Margaret Craig, CEO of Signiant this week about how Signiant is helping meet their customer's metadata challenges. Signiant is a trusted broker in the exchange of media files across the content supply chain and Margaret discusses a range of topics including:- chain of custody metadata allowing content owners to know where the content has been and where it is going- How products like CloudSpex are helping checking expected metadata is present before moving files- using machine learning to optimizing movement of content based on the package being...
2021-05-0429 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 20: Metadata & Knowledge Management at the IABMThis week we're looking at how metadata can be used as part of knowledge management platform and industry research. To help me explore this topic, I talk to Ben Dales, Head of Digital & Lorenzo Zanni, Head of Knowledge at the IABM. The IABM's use of GrayMeta's Curio platform is a great example of how the same machine learning metadata can be used by different functions within a company. Lorenzo and Ben also share some practical advice on adopting machine learning technology.To find out more about the IABM, their website is: https://theiabm.org/
2021-04-2624 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 19: Metadata & the Media Workflow PuzzleChris Lennon, Office of CTO, Director of Standards Strategy at Ross Video talks about metadata and his new book, co-written by Clyde Smith, "The Media Workflow Puzzle: How it all fits together". We discuss a wide range of topics including:- the role metadata plays in interoperability and standards- editorial metadata and driving discoverability- how capturing metadata within production is key to drive usage downstream- IMF format as a key enabler for repurposing and versioning content based on metadata- globalisation and consolidation of...
2021-04-1235 min
The Learning Hack podcastNo Filter with Toby Harris John talks to Toby Harris, Product Marketing Manager at Filtered. Filtered is an innovative company that uses AI to help large organizations deliver relevant learning content to the right people at the right time, using personal recommendations to help build the skills they need. FIltered is rated a 'specialist' in Fosway's 9-grid for learning systems, so where does it sit within the learntech ecosystem? Filtered is all about categorizing information and knowledge for organizations – but is 'learning' really the right category for what FIltered does? 02:43 - How did he get into Learntech? 07:57 - What does Filtered do? 14:07 - How do you...
2021-04-1248 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 18: A+E Networks and MetadataThis week, we talk to Matt Westrup, VP Technology & Operations at A+E Networks UK about the importance of metadata to a multi-territory broadcaster. A+E Networks UK's brands include HISTORY, CI, Lifetime, H2 and BLAZE.During the interview Matt discusses:- their pragmatic approach of continuous improvement to metadata- the 3 big challenges to metadata - the past, the present & the future- sharing corporate knowledge and the impact of COVID- the growing importance of archives and metadata enrichment to find relevant content quickly. ...
2021-03-3030 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 17: All3Media International and Metadata
This week GrayMeta interviews Sarah Nichol, Senior Business Architect and Claire Feeney, Head of Technical Operations at All3Media International, the distribution arm of the global content producer.Matt Eaton talks to Claire and Sarah about a broad range of topics from the multi-faceted role metadata plays in rights & availabilities to metadata as customer service and the economics of metadata in distribution. We discuss:The challenges working with a lack of international delivery standard for metadataOpportunities for improving metadata in the future, for example, by having metadata follow the content through the s...
2021-03-2235 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 16: Arrow International Media and Metadata
In this week’s podcast episode, Matt Eaton talks to Dan Carew-Jones, Post Production Consultant about how the leading factual producer, Arrow International Media, has been using the GrayMeta Curio Platform and machine learning to log and access its catalogue of unused content. The adoption of machine learning involves a lot more than just technology decisions - it involves people, skills and new competencies, and being open to try new ways of working to improve processes. Arrow International Media is a great example of how to successfully adopt machine learning and use this as a spring board for further inno...
2021-03-1625 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 15: Metadata and Retail Brands
This week, we speak to Eric Fulmer, VP Operations at Shotflow, a company that delivers Studio Production Management solutions to retail and apparel brands. We thought it would be fun to talk to Eric to compare and contrast metadata in Shotflow's world of retail brands with metadata in the media and entertainment world.Key parallels we discussed included the importance of capturing metadata as early as possible in the production process and how metadata plays an important part in delivering quality and optimizing speed to market.
2021-03-0130 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 14: Metadata and Post ProductionWe discuss how machine learning generated metadata can help editors be more efficient, using metadata to generate new revenue streams, and some of the challenges & opportunities for metadata management working with remote teams.
2021-02-2215 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 13: Finding Content in Exabytes of DataThis week's podcast guest is James Whitebread, Chief Digital Officer at Masstech Innovations. Masstech creates intelligent, hybrid cloud-based storage and asset lifecycle management solutions for the Media & Entertainment industry.James talks about how Masstech helps clients manage Exabytes of data on-premise and in the cloud.We take a brief trip down memory lane and discuss how the concept of industrializing the content supply chain has changed and in some ways hasn't changed in the past 20 years. James discusses the need for time-based enriched metadata to drive content discovery to repurpose and maximize libraries. And the opportunities around...
2021-02-1622 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 12: Metadata and PBS
This week we talk to Sally Hubbard, Director of Media Management at PBS. We talk about the pilot she ran at PBS involving GrayMeta's Curio Platform. We discuss metadata standards, using time-based metadata to realize the full value of an archive, and the challenges & opportunities facing metadata management in 2021.
2021-02-0822 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 11: Content Localization
This podcast looks at metadata within content localization with Scott Rose, CTO of SDI Media. We talk about some of the different types of metadata involved in localization, the role machine learning services can help people focus on the quality of the translated material, and why understanding context is everything for translation.
2021-02-0126 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 10: Driving Personalization and Monetization
In this episode, we explore the importance of metadata at the consumer end of the supply chain - how enriched metadata is so critical for personalization and recommendation engines. Matt Eaton speaks to Jim Riley, Chief Revenue Officer from BitMax, a GrayMeta partner, that supports both content providers and downstream platforms to manage and monetize their content. We talk about how metadata has changed over the years, the challenges of delivering metadata based on complexity, variety and tight timescales, and the different types of metadata that need to be combined - editorial, technical and business (or rights...
2021-01-2515 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 9: A Look Back and Predictions for 2021
As it is the beginning of the year, this week's Metadata Matters podcast episode looks back on the guest interviews we've had so far and Matt Eaton provides two predictions for 2021.
2021-01-1908 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 8: Metadata & Content Operations
In our first podcast episode of 2021, we feature an interview with Dave Mace, who has designed, developed and implemented many cloud based content platforms over the years working on behalf of news, broadcasters and OTT organizations. We talk about how metadata has changed over the years, how machine learning has revolutionized metadata generation, and how to successfully implement machine learning solutions.
2021-01-1119 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 7: Metadata at the Boston Celtics
Welcome to our Holiday podcast special! We talk to Jay Wessland, CTO & VP Operations at Boston Celtics. We discuss how machine learning generated metadata helps increase productivity in marketing & basketball game analysis.
2020-12-2115 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 6: Using Machine Learning in GLAMs
This week we speak to Adrian Cooper, Chief Product Officer at Terentia. Terentia specializes in the modernization of collections and digital asset management for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM).
2020-12-1415 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 5: Metadata & Marketing Content
This week we interview Elisabeth Knulst, a Marketing Operations Consultant and owner of EMM Consultancy. EMM Consultancy provides specialist services for customers to help them improve marketing efficiency and effectiveness. In this interview we talk about practical ways of organizing metadata and using machine learning generated metadata to enhance search & discovery and increase the efficiency of marketing operations.
2020-12-0416 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 4: Metadata within an Archive
Matt Eaton talks to Lauri Saarikoski about the importance of metadata to different customer groups served by an archive, the place of machine learning, and tips for content archives looking to start using machine learning services.
2020-11-3014 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 3: Metadata and NewsMatt Eaton talks to Magnus Bjerg, digital journalist at TV2 Denmark about the importance of metadata within a news environment, where speed and relevancy is key to delivering information to your audience.Magnus talks about how metadata as a driver for personalization, the challenges of relying on journalists to manually tag news stories, and how using metadata can create new ways of covering stories - such as the US elections.
2020-11-2311 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 2: Creating Great Stories Using Metadata and Your ArchiveGrayMeta’s Matt Eaton speaks to Anne Adami, Co-Founder & Managing Editor of VideoFashion to discuss monetization and get advice on getting started with Kayne West.
2020-11-1619 min
Metadata Matters PodcastEpisode 1: How Humans and Machine Learning Deliver the Best Result
In this episode GrayMeta talks to Greg Detre, Advisor, Coach & Data Consultant – former Chief Data Scientist at Channel 4. Greg talks about how he’s worked with metadata and machine learning algorithms through his career. Greg describes the concept of Centaur Teams and discusses practical examples of where humans working together with machine learning have provided the best data results. We discuss some of the factors holding back faster adoption of machine learning and the opportunities of using AI within the media industry. To hear more from Greg, visit makingdatamistakes.com.
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2020-11-0522 min