PILOT Pitch Prize 2018
PILOT held its first ever Pitch Prize competition at NAB Show NY. Five startups pitched, and three of them - Airwavz.tv, PolyPort and Teamium - won the prize of a $50,000 investment in SAFE note. The [...]
PILOT Pitch Prize: Fourteen Companies Advance
The application submission phase of the 2018 PILOT Pitch Prize, a pitch competition that will award $50K SAFE note investment to each of the three winners at the pitch event held at the 2018 [...]
PILOT Launches Pitch Prize Competition
Last week PILOT launched the PILOT Pitch Prize 2018 to foster innovation in the broadcast and media industry. Seed level startups focusing on broadcast and media will submit their applications to enter the competition, and five [...]
The Big Data Problem
We've been looking at some of the best papers from the Proceedings of the upcoming 2017 Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEITC). In this post, Tariq Islam looks at Aaron Edell's paper: All Media and Entertainment Companies [...]
Desire to Get Free Content Opens up New Opportunity for ATSC 3.0
Nielsen recently published a report entitled Video on Demand: How Worldwide Video Viewing Habits are Evolving Amid an Evolving Media Landscape. The report reveals that 68% of North Americans don't mind viewing advertisements as long [...]
Beyond 5G: Technical and Regulatory Trajectories
Beyond 5G: Technical and Regulatory Trajectories As 5G mobile broadband service is on its course to be deployed later in this decade, researchers and industry visionaries have started thinking about what might follow [...]
Multi-Screen Advertising is the New Norm
Multi-Screen Advertising is the New Norm The broadcast industry is moving towards integrated multi-screen advertising. Recent Nielsen and comScore studies have shown that viewers are more engaged and more likely to watch TV programming [...]
Engaging TV Audience with Social Media: Statistics and Opportunities
Engaging TV Audience with Social Media: Statistics and Opportunities Studies show that the TV audience’s size and engagement are highly correlated with the audience’s social media activities about the show. Recent data also show [...]
Media Monitoring with Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges
Media Monitoring with Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges What would marketing strategists do if every second of all broadcast television, broadcast radio, and social media posts were available in real time for analysis? How [...]
Is Broadcast Part of the Solution to Internet Traffic Congestion?
Is Broadcast Part of the Solution to Internet Traffic Congestion? Akamai’s Chief Architect Will Law talked about the trends of Internet connectivity at the ATSC Broadcast Television Conference held on May 14, 2015 in [...]