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Advertising Week Europe 2024: Navigating the new media landscape

Media and entertainment (M&E) companies have experienced rapid change in recent years, driven by the accelerated adoption of new viewing platforms, changing consumer behavior, and evolving business models. M&E organizations recognize the need for data-driven advertising and increasingly focus on monetizing content while containing costs. At the same time, the more things change, the more […]

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment gains an edge with an assist from AWS

This blog is co-authored by William Reyes, Data Engineer, MLSE, Sport Performance Lab. How MLSE developed a cloud-based rapid prototyping solution to reduce time-to-insight In the dynamic world of professional sports, analytics and data-driven decision-making offer competitive advantage to sports teams and leagues. New avenues for competitive advantage have emerged as the varieties of performance […]

AWS brings generative AI to the FORMULA 1 AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2024

This year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) debuts the first-ever generative AI-inspired trophy at the FORMULA 1 AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2024 June 7 – 9 in Montreal, Canada. AWS designers and marketers collaborated with FORMULA 1 (F1) and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to explore trophy designs that capture the elegance of F1 […]

How GoPro optimized its media transcoding pipeline at scale with Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

This blog was co-authored by Vlad-Alexandru Voinea, DevOps Engineer at GoPro, and Zaven Boni, DevOps Manager at GoPro. GoPro helps the world capture and share imagery in immersive and exciting ways. Since its founding in 2002, the brand has produced versatile cameras and software tools to help its customers get the most value and enjoyment […]

How Warner Bros. Discovery uses audio analysis to improve data accuracy and enrich the fan experience

This blog is co-authored by Steve Cockett, Sports Data Adviser – Tech, at Warner Bros. Discovery and Andrea Fanfani, Principal Product Manager – Tech, at Warner Bros. Discovery. In this blog post, we explain how Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a global media and entertainment company, used serverless components from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve […]

Bundesliga boosts app engagement with Shorts powered by Amazon Personalize

Millions of Bundesliga (also known as Deutsche Fußball Liga or DFL) fans from around the world rely on the German soccer league’s official Bundesliga App for insights into real-time match statistics, in-depth player and club profiles, and more. Fans use it daily to follow their favorite team and players—especially during a match. The app is […]

Gaining media insights while protecting customer data with Amazon Publisher Cloud (APC) powered by AWS Clean Rooms

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers in media and entertainment (M&E) today work with Amazon Publisher Services (APS), part of Amazon Ads, which helps publishers build, grow, and monetize their digital businesses through a suite of tools and cloud services. These customers also run broadcasting, streaming, and analytics workloads using AWS Media Services, such as […]

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.

Highlights from NAB Show 2024

More than 61,000 media and entertainment (M&E) industry professionals from 163 countries gathered in Las Vegas, Nevada, earlier this month to network, explore emerging technologies, and discuss the trends shaping the future of content production, delivery, and monetization at NAB Show 2024. Amazon Web Services (AWS) pulled out all the stops for the show, including […]

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports implements further live cloud-based production using AWS

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe, a group of television networks including TNT Sports and Eurosport, broadcasts a wide range of sports coverage across the continent, including some of the world’s most watched events. Starting several years ago, WBD Sports decided to take bold steps to migrate its legacy media workflows to the cloud, which […]