Category: Technical How-to

Introduction The blog post Better understand sports fan data with Fan360 on AWS introduces how a Fan360 data mesh architecture can help sport entities enrich insights through data collaboration within the organization, with third parties, partners, and sponsors. Insights and collaboration can be used to build new avenues for monetization. Creating an effective data product in your Fan360 data […]

Introduction Companies and businesses of all sizes across industries now consider acquiring data-driven insights from their customer base as a key priority. Sports entities (teams, leagues, sport broadcasters and partners) are no different. Understanding their global, diverse, and distributed fan-bases is critical to their business strategies. Sports fans interact with their favorite sports and teams […]

This blog demonstrates how to use Large Language Models (LLMs), Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to create a movie recommendations chatbot. The demonstration uses the IMDb and Box Office Mojo Movies/TV/OTT licensable data package, which provides a wide range of entertainment metadata. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) media and entertainment (M&E) customers license IMDb […]

With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), you can now can start your contribution broadcast live stream directly from web browsers using the IVS web broadcast SDK. Amazon IVS is a managed live streaming solution that is quick and easy to set up, and ideal for creating interactive video experiences. Send your live streams to […]

As viewers shift from passively viewing into actively engaging with content during video playback, content providers can design and build interactive and actionable experiences for their audiences. Actionable video is context-aware and time-specific, allowing the viewer to respond to prompts about a person, place, or object while watching and interacting with video as it plays. […]

Our customers with rights ownership to stream video-on-demand (VOD) content are monetizing their libraries in one of two ways: subscription-based VOD (SVOD) or advertising-based VOD (AVOD). With SVOD, they generate revenue from monthly subscriptions, letting their subscribers access and consume their content libraries for fixed fees. This model usually means that their subscribers can consume […]

During these peculiar times and with the accompanying difficulties of organizing live events, streaming of live proceedings, such as music concerts, sporting events, and linear television, has exploded since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. An increased amount of content is available exclusively through over-the-top (OTT) live streaming on mobile phones and desktop browsers or […]

Media companies continuously look for opportunities to increase revenue from content they already own, either by scheduling older content during nonpeak hours or by delivering premium content as video on demand (VOD). Although both methods bring revenue for high-demand content, they do not give companies the option to make the most of low-demand content—specifically, content […]

Digital media publishers are reinventing their user experiences to meet their customers’ needs. Especially when multitasking, on the go, or interacting with smart devices, readers are looking for alternative ways to consume content. Infographics, photo stories, podcasts, audiobooks, visual narrations, and social media stories are only a few examples of emerging content types that adapt […]

In our second installment of Edit in the Cloud series, we covered getting started with virtual workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)—a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud—to meet the needs of creative workloads (for example, Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve) for media and entertainment (M&E). In this […]