Category: AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Overview Contextual advertising matches advertisements to the content a user consumes, creating a personalized advertising experience. It involves three key players: publishers (website or content owners), advertisers, and consumers. Publishers provide the platform and content, while advertisers create contextually tailored ads. Consumers engage with the content, and relevant ads display based on context. A challenge […]

This blog is co-authored by Jessica Powell, AudioShake. Introduction A significant market opportunity exists for individual creators and organizations to provide transcription, dubbing, and captioning services to reach global audiences rapidly. By quantifying demand and optimizing these services, providers can deliver high-quality viewing experiences for consumers worldwide. Automated speech recognition (ASR), artificial intelligence (AI), and […]

What is IMF? How does it differ from traditional files? The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a standardized system for organizing and sharing digital content, which brings significant benefit to the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. It works as a universal framework that simplifies distribution of file-based audio and video across different platforms, devices, and […]

Introduction The quantity of video content is expanding rapidly, driven by both professional publishers and the contributions of social media users. As users increasingly demand content that resonates with their interests, the role of recommendation engines becomes critical. For video, these engines rely on rich meta-information to deliver relevant suggestions. However, the sheer volume of […]

HiLYTE is an all-in-one digital platform dedicated to creating premier digital experiences through grassroots sports events and seasons. The company aims to make better technology available for all youth sporting organizations by creating contextual, personalized experiences using thousands of pieces of media. Providing an end-to-end digital ecosystem for participants and spectators in two of the […]

Nonprofit broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is on a mission to serve Americans with trusted programming and resources that educate, entertain, and inspire. By building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), PBS is able to continually innovate while delivering high-quality broadcast and streaming content to more than 100 million viewers across 350 member stations and online, […]

AWS Elemental MediaConvert provides broadcast-grade video and audio file transcoding that customers can automate with code to suit their media workflows. With optimized integration for AWS Step Functions in MediaConvert, it is now possible to orchestrate using the low-code visual tool Workflow Studio. This makes building and customizing media workflows accessible even with limited coding experience. This blog post […]

We are pleased to announce the official release of Guidance for Media2Cloud on AWS version 4.0. This release offers enhancements that assist Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in monetizing their media archives, generating content metadata more cost effectively, and leveraging generative AI to produce new kinds of content metadata. The new version of Media2Cloud still […]

Introduction AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based video transcoding service with broadcast-grade features. The service can create on-demand video assets for playback on virtually any device. Because video processing with MediaConvert is managed and the service scales with fluctuations in demand, customers need granular observability of their encoding jobs. For example, customers may want to […]

With the release of program rules, it is now possible to define alternate media for audience cohorts using AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly. This provides customers with an easy and cost effective way to create up to 50 unique audiences on a channel, for use cases such as market-based localization according to content rights or segments of […]