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Category: Messaging

F1 revs up race day broadcasts with real-time data storytelling

Enhanced story identification enables production team to create a more immersive fan experience. On a FORMULA 1® (F1) race day, the broadcast control room is pressure-packed as production personnel seek to keep pace with all the action on the track and behind the wheel to relay impactful stories to viewers around the world. On track, […]

Powering Fan Engagement for Racing Events with Amazon Location Service

For race organizers and sports teams, providing near real-time participant tracking across vast distances has traditionally required extensive physical infrastructure. With Amazon Location Service, you can now deliver immersive fan experiences by tracking athletes from motorsports to marathons at scale in the cloud. Whether it’s motorsports, cycling, running, or sailing, knowing participants’ locations in near […]

How Swimming Australia uses machine learning for real-time training pool analytics with AWS Panorama

In this blog post, we explore how Swimming Australia uses AWS Panorama from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to perform real-time computer vision (CV) inference at the edge with state-of-the-art computer vision models. We describe how to integrate an end user application with AWS Panorama along with the rationale for design strategies and their impact. This solution features services such as AWS Panorama for machine learning (ML) at the edge, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for messaging, Amazon Kinesis Video Stream for video streaming, and AWS App Runner for the end user application.

Identifying music in audio files and streams on AWS

In today’s digital age, where music is readily accessible through a myriad of platforms and devices, the ability to accurately identify songs is important for customers across many industries. From entertainment and broadcasting to streaming services and beyond, there is a need for accurate music identification solutions in order to detect unauthorized uses of content, […]

Analyze content using AWS Elemental MediaLive thumbnails with Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently launched a Thumbnail Image Preview feature as part of the AWS Elemental MediaLive service. This new feature not only provides a mechanism for quality control of live content, but also enables integration with media analysis services, like Amazon Rekognition, to automate content review and validate workflows. MediaLive automatically generates thumbnails […]

Unlocking cloud-based quality of experience (QoE) management with TAG and AWS

This blog was co-authored by Paul Schiller, Product Marketing Manager, and Golan Simani, Director, Cloud & Tech Operations, TAG. In the rapidly evolving world of broadcast, the bar for quality is set higher than ever. Viewers, armed with an expanding choice of content and platforms, demand consistent and superior experiences. Within this context, the value […]

How Anywhere Real Estate is modernizing property search, marketing, and transaction experiences with AWS

For real estate brokerages and agents, establishing credibility and producing standout listings requires dynamic marketing. Anywhere Real Estate’s Listing Concierge app fills this niche, providing an intuitive toolset for promoting listings. It’s one of many technologies developed by the leading residential real estate services provider, whose offering also includes national title, settlement, relocation companies, and […]

Ticketmaster optimizes add-on offers for fans with a unified, serverless data stream powered by AWS

For avid enthusiasts, seeing their favorite team, performer, or celebrity in person is the ultimate thrill. The journey to these experiences almost always begins with an online ticket purchase, and this is where Ticketmaster, the global ticket marketplace, delivers on its mission of creating seamless, personalized experiences that connect fans with the events and services […]

Monitor video content and encoding quality with Media Metrics in AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Introduction When designing and operating video-on-demand workflows at scale, customers require rich metric data to gain insight into the performance of their transcoding pipelines. AWS Elemental MediaConvert is natively integrated with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge, providing customers with the necessary tools to create actionable and observable systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS). MediaConvert now […]

Photo of judges on "X-Factor”,the award-winning TV music competition

Sky Italia improves performance, lowers costs 84 percent by insourcing its voting platform for live TV productions with AWS

Sky Italia is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and the largest pay TV provider in Italy. One of the biggest draws to the service is “X-Factor,” the award-winning TV music competition. A key part of the show is that the home viewing audience votes for their favorite performers, with the results tabulated […]