With the continued spread of the coronavirus, members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) have responded with free offerings of their top products, moves to f... More
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MESA Members Go Remote, Offer Free Product Access in Response to COVID-19
Cinelytic CEO Looks to Make Most of P2P Piracy Data
Most media and entertainment companies lack insights into global OTT audiences, despite how fast the business is growing. The industry spends $200 billion annually making and mar... More
April NAB Show Postponed Over COVID-19 Concerns
The late-April NAB Show is the latest media and entertainment conference to be put on hold over concerns with the growing spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), with NAB presi... More
Cinelytic CEO: Finding the Silver (Data) Lining in Pervasive Piracy
LOS ANGELES — Nobody in the industry is a fan of piracy and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. It’s billions out of the pockets of content owners, creators, and everyone associat... More
CDSA’s Cybersecurity & Content Protection Summit Returns to NAB
With more cyberattacks dominating the news, more live broadcast streams being pirated, and more privacy concerns for consumers than ever before, media and entertainment executives ... More
IBM X-Force: Phishing Down, Credential Attacks Up in 2019
Phishing as a successful, initial infection vector was reported in less than a third of cyber incidents (31%) against businesses in 2019, compared to half in 2018, but scanning and... More
Synamedia White Paper Looks at Impact of Credential Sharing
A new white paper from Synamedia estimates that since the start of 2019, 4.1 billion streaming video credentials have been breached, and that by 2024, pay TV operators will have lo... More
NAB 2020: NAB Affirms Show Set for April; Devotes Resources to Address Coronavirus Concerns (CDSA)
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), organizer of NAB Show, affirmed the 2020 NAB Show is set to take place as planned, April 18-22 in Las Vegas. The association is clos... More
Mobile World Congress Canceled Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Due to global concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, this month’s scheduled Mobile World Congress (MWC) and International Content Protection Summit (CPS) in Barcelona have been ... More