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The Foundation for American Science and Technology Announces the Inaugural 'AI: Powering the New Energy Era' Summit in Washington, D.C.

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Monday, April 1, 2024

The 'AI: Powering the New Energy Era' summit will take place in Washington, D.C., on April 17.

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  • The 'AI: Powering the New Energy Era' summit will take place in Washington, D.C., on April 17.
  • The first summit dedicated to exploring the influence of AI on the Energy sector will take place on April 17.
  • The summit program focuses on different aspects of leveraging AI for enabling the clean energy transition, such as technology, policy, public-private cooperation, and investment.
  • The Foundation for American Science and Technology invites energy industry professionals, business leaders, investors, members of academia, and policymakers to visit https://cleanenergy-ai.com to learn more about and register for the 'AI: Powering the New Energy Era' summit.

Sunlight Entertainment & Pocket.watch Announce Wide Theatrical Release For Their First Feature Film, 'Ryan's World The Movie: Titan Universe Adventure,' Premiering on Over 2,100 Screens Nationwide August 16th

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pocket.watch, the leading kids and family creator content and IP company, and Sunlight Entertainment, the Kaji family owned production studio, announce today the wide theatrical release for their first feature film, Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure, premiering on 2,100 screens in theaters nationwide August 16th. The film artistically blends live-action sequences with captivating anime inspired by Ryan's World flagship series, Titan Universe. Here, viewers witness Ryan's thrilling metamorphosis into Red Titan, his beloved animated superhero persona. 

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  • The film artistically blends live-action sequences with captivating anime inspired by Ryan's World flagship series, Titan Universe.
  • Pocket.watch and Sunlight Entertainment, will release the independent film across the United States in all major markets.
  • In Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure, Ryan takes to the big screen for his most epic adventure yet.
  • Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure is produced by Sunlight Entertainment's Shion Kaji and Loann Kaji, along with pocket.watch's Albie Hecht, who also serves as director.

QYOU Expands Connected TV and QPlay+ Via Major New Channel and Distribution Partnerships

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

QYOU Media India's growing portfolio of seven FAST (Free Ad Supported TV) CTV channels - now includes: The Q, The Q Kahaniyan, Q GameX, Sadhguru TV, Bollywood Hungama, QToonz and RDCMovies.

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  • QYOU Media India's growing portfolio of seven FAST (Free Ad Supported TV) CTV channels - now includes: The Q, The Q Kahaniyan, Q GameX, Sadhguru TV, Bollywood Hungama, QToonz and RDCMovies.
  • The Connected TV (CTV) business in both India and globally continues to grow at an unprecedented rate with 9 out of 10 TV's sold in India last year being Smart TV's.
  • We are at the very beginning of this same shift in India and it is critical to get early channel distribution and positioning.
  • We will continue to grow our channel assets with unique and strong content partners like Toonz and RDC movies alongside our previous partnerships with major partners including Sadhguru.

PFT unveils CLEAR® AI innovations to enable revenue-generating opportunities for content at the NAB Show 2024

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

"Built upon our strategic investments in AI over the past six years, CLEAR® AI represents a perfect culmination of combining small models, LLMs, and multimodal Gen AI purpose-built for M&E.

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  • "Built upon our strategic investments in AI over the past six years, CLEAR® AI represents a perfect culmination of combining small models, LLMs, and multimodal Gen AI purpose-built for M&E.
  • AI Search: Intelligent semantic search behind a conversational interface swiftly delivering the content you seek with depth and relevance.
  • AI-driven Content Organization: Efficiently organize your content to compare versions, identify copies, and de-dup to remove redundancies.
  • Use conversational AI search powered by Gen AI to get instant access to content and package it for new audiences or markets.

PFT unveils CLEAR® AI innovations to enable revenue-generating opportunities for content at the NAB Show 2024

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

"Built upon our strategic investments in AI over the past six years, CLEAR® AI represents a perfect culmination of combining small models, LLMs, and multimodal Gen AI purpose-built for M&E.

Key Points: 
  • "Built upon our strategic investments in AI over the past six years, CLEAR® AI represents a perfect culmination of combining small models, LLMs, and multimodal Gen AI purpose-built for M&E.
  • AI Search: Intelligent semantic search behind a conversational interface swiftly delivering the content you seek with depth and relevance.
  • AI-driven Content Organization: Efficiently organize your content to compare versions, identify copies, and de-dup to remove redundancies.
  • Use conversational AI search powered by Gen AI to get instant access to content and package it for new audiences or markets.

TCL Adds the NFL Channel to its Rapidly Growing TCLtv+ Streaming Service

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Monday, March 25, 2024

IRVINE, Calif., March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL®, one of the world's best-selling consumer electronics brands and leading technology companies, today announced an extension of its multi-year partnership with the NFL, bringing the NFL FAST channel and AVOD programs to TCLtv+, its rapidly growing streaming service. The NFL Channel on TCLtv+ marks the most comprehensive FAST sports content partnership for the new and expanding streaming service. More than 500 hours of original and live programing, such as the NFL Report, NFL GameDay Preview, weekly game highlights, full game replays and an always-on channel ticker with year-round NFL news coverage will be featured on the TCLtv+ app available on all TCL Google TVs. NFL Channel's coverage of NFL Draft in April will be the first major event for the NFL Channel and AVOD programs on TCLtv+.

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  • IRVINE, Calif., March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL ®, one of the world's best-selling consumer electronics brands and leading technology companies, today announced an extension of its multi-year partnership with the NFL, bringing the NFL FAST channel and AVOD programs to TCLtv+, its rapidly growing streaming service.
  • The NFL Channel on TCLtv+ marks the most comprehensive FAST sports content partnership for the new and expanding streaming service.
  • NFL Channel's coverage of NFL Draft in April will be the first major event for the NFL Channel and AVOD programs on TCLtv+.
  • "The addition of the NFL FAST Channel and NFL AVOD offerings highlights our unique approach to content collaboration with our trusted partners."

Super Bowl Sunday Sets Records, Streaming Climbs to Six-Month High, according to Nielsen's February 2024 Report of The Gauge™

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

due in part to carrying a livestream of CBS' Super Bowl broadcast, as well as from the 1.2 billion viewing minutes captured by Halo.

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  • due in part to carrying a livestream of CBS' Super Bowl broadcast, as well as from the 1.2 billion viewing minutes captured by Halo.
  • On Super Bowl Sunday, however, the broadcast category made up over 43% of total TV usage, led by Super Bowl LVIII on CBS which generated nearly 30 billion viewing minutes alone.
  • Linear (live TV) streaming via MVPD and vMVPD apps represented 6.2% of total television usage in February.
  • Linear streaming is included in the appropriate broadcast or cable category, and is not included in the streaming category.

Latin America OTT TV and Video Market Report: Seven US-based Platforms to Account for 83% of the Region's Paying SVOD Subscriptions by 2029

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

DUBLIN, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Latin America OTT TV and Video Market Forecast to 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • DUBLIN, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Latin America OTT TV and Video Market Forecast to 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Latin America will have 165 million SVOD subscriptions by 2029; up from 110 million at end-2023.
  • Brazil will provide 59 million SVOD subscriptions by 2029, with Mexico bringing in a further 43 million.
  • Seven US-based platforms (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Star+, Paramount+, Apple TV+ and Max) will account for 83% of the region's paying SVOD subscriptions by end-2029.

FAST Channel and AVOD Provider Video Solutions AG Selects Whip Media FASTrack for Content Performance Reporting and Partner Payments

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

LOS ANGELES, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Whip Media, the leading enterprise software platform and data provider to the world's largest entertainment organizations, and Video Solutions AG, a global FAST channel and AVOD provider today announced a partnership to implement Whip Media FASTrack™, the industry leading FAST channel and AVOD reporting and royalty payments system.

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  • Whip Media FASTrack will enable Video Solutions AG to manage detailed reporting of the performance of its sports and entertainment streaming network, wedotv.
  • It will also enable Video Solutions AG to accurately and efficiently gauge content performance in a centralized, actionable view, as well as automate partner royalties.
  • This single FASTrack view means we can track content performance at a title level and automate payments to content suppliers in a very simple way."
  • "Whip Media's solutions will help improve content engagement, optimize programming, and simplify operations, reaffirming their commitment to providing high-quality, accessible, and free entertainment to millions of viewers worldwide."

Gracenote Resolves Viewer Frustration Around Where, When and How to Watch Streaming Programming

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

NEW YORK, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is helping TV providers optimize their user experiences by providing the most accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive datasets covering subscription video on-demand (SVOD) and linear (FAST) content availability. The Gracenote solutions pair TV, movie and sports programming availability data with normalized program metadata to ensure that streaming aggregators, digital platforms and MVPDs offer content-first user experiences that facilitate universal search, discovery and tune-in capabilities to drive maximum audience engagement.

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  • According to Nielsen's State of Play report , 20% of consumers say they abandon a viewing session when they can't find something compelling to watch.
  • With content frequently moving between providers, a blockbuster movie that is available on a VOD platform one day could be gone the next.
  • Different streaming services may feature different seasons or individual episodes of a popular TV show hampering seamless viewing experiences.
  • With our unmatched availability and program metadata, Gracenote is uniquely positioned to help customers drive success in streaming now and into the future."