NAB Amplify

Jonathan Glazer’s 1999 “Surfer” Guinness commercial, with visual effects by Framestore created using the Quantel Paintbox

Why We Like to Revisit the Early Days of Digital Production

Who remembers Kiki Stockhammer? If you do, the chances are you are middle-aged, and you would definitely have been at an NAB Show or an IBC in the mid-90s. Technology commentator Lance Ulanoff says memories like these are precious to anyone who has lived the majority of their lives growing up and changing with technology.

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The Economy Part of the Creator Economy

If you believe in the promise of Web3, then creators are no longer just the product — they are the new economies.

Venture capitalist Ollie Forsyth makes a persuasive argument: “The new creator economy encompasses everything creators have always craved — ownership and community-led platforms where all community members are compensated for their time and contributions.”

AR, VR & Alternate Reality

“Stray,” from Annapurna Interactive 5G VR — 5G Can Deliver the VR Adoption We’ve Been Waiting on

Virtual celebrity Lil Miquela, an online persona who does not exist in the real world, but has become one of the world’s most popular virtual influencers on Instagram, with three million followers. — Everything Is Fake. It Makes This an Interesting Time for Media.

In an Era of Alternate Realities, Do We Ever Know What’s Actually Real?

Streaming, OTT, AVOD and FAST

television TV viewing — Why “Time Watched” Should Be the Universal Metric

lips TV television social media engagement — SVOD vs. AVOD Today, All Connected TV Tomorrow

streaming content creators — We Know About Streaming and Consumers, So Let’s Talk About Streaming and Content Producers

connected TV television — More Consumers Are Headed Into the FAST Lane

streaming video SVOD AVOD — Why Audiences Are Moving to AVOD

newsroom, news operations, remote production — Is Local TV News Moving Toward OTT and NextGen TV?

Maude Apatow in HBO’s “Euphoria,” photo by Eddy Chen/HBO — What Gen Z Wants (and Why)

connected TV screens converged TV mobile TV connected television — Online Video Subscriptions to Top Two Billion by 2027

Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard in “Stranger Things,” Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022 — Have Streaming Platforms Reached Their Peak Subscription Numbers? Let’s Check.

Metaverse

metaverse multiverse web3 — What Will Work for the Metaverse… at Work

metaverse multiverse web3 — Matthew Ball and Metaverse Expectations vs. Reality

metaverse multiverse web3 — Metaverse Interoperability: Utopian Dream, Privacy Nightmare

Content Creation

It took more than a decade for the hybrid stop-motion/live-action “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” to move from his DIY origins to a full-length feature. Cr: A24 — Tiny Is Beautiful: The Magic of Making “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

“Nope:” Jordan Peele, Social Commentary and Cinema Spectacle

Adapted by novelist and screenwriter Dennis Lehane, the six-part Apple TV+ series “Black Bird” stars Taron Egerton as charismatic drug dealer Jimmy Keene (pictured above) and Paul Walter Hauser as serial killer Larry Hall, with Keene’s father played by Ray Liotta in his final TV role. Cr: Alfonso Bresciani/Apple TV+ — True (True) Crime: Making Dennis Lehane’s “Black Bird”

Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase in “The Old Man.” Cr: Kurt Iswarienko/FX — “The Old Man:” Measured, Methodical, and Jeff Bridges Punches Everybody

Zahn McClarnon as Joe Lepahorn in season 1 of “Dark Winds.” Cr: AMC — “Dark Winds:” Developing a New (Overdue) Detective Genre

From “Minority Report.” Cr: DreamWorks/Paramount/20th Century Fox — “Minority Report” and Our Paranoid Panopticon

Are You a Content Machine Or a Content Consumer? Both?

Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan in “Ms. Marvel.” Cr: Marvel Studios — “Ms. Marvel” Brings Some Girl Power (Literally) to the MCU

Alicia Vikander as Mira in writer/director Olivier Assayas’ “Irma Vep.” Cr: Warner Media — “Irma Vep:” A Series About Making a Movie (That’s Also a Remake) (and, Yes, It’s Meta)

Our 5G Present and Future

Why is 5G Advanced So Important to 5G Adoption?

mobile video streaming 5G — Why 5G is the Cool Thing That Still Hasn’t Happened

data 5G — Without a Killer App, What is 5G?

Cloud & Innovation

cloud workflows — Get Your Head in the Cloud! (Some Considerations)

technology — Technology Is Good. Here’s Why Things Will Be OK

cloud workflows — Get Onto My Cloud: Remote Production Tools Are Used by 90% of Video Professionals

Intelligent Content

artificial intelligence AI — Digital Content at Scale Will Require Creative Use(s) of AI

TV television — Binge Watching as an Applied Science

AI machine learning artificial intelligence — Don’t Worry About Sentient Robots. Worry About Silicon Valley

Creator Economy

YouTube You Tube — Pop Culture and Video Consumption: This Time, It’s Personal

creator economy — We Have 200 Million Content Creators. Now Let’s Talk About Making Money.

creatory economy — Why Community Is Everything for the Creator Economy

Live Production

Kendrick Lamar headlined the final night of Glastonbury 2022, closing his set with the words, “They judge you, they judged Christ, Godspeed for women’s rights.” Cr: Getty Images/Samir Hussein — Live Production at Glastonbury for a World Stage

Hey, Sam! What Is a Popup Production?

Remote Recording Network, TV Skyline, and Riedel and partners collaborated for a landmark remote virtual live concert event in November, crossing three continents and four countries. — Research IDs the Five Key Models of Live Remote Production

Podcasting and the Future of Audio

podcasting podcast digital audio spoken word — Who Are the New/Next Podcast Listeners?

podcast podcasting — When Podcasting Collides With Commercialization

How Now, Smart Speaker?

M&E TikTok-ifcation

TIkTok Tik Tok social video — TikTok is Not a Social Media Company (According to TikTok)

TIkTok Tik Tok — TikTok May Have Won the Streaming Wars. Here’s How.

TIkTok Tik Tok — TikTok is Coming After TV. Can It Be Stopped? (Should It Be?)

Web 3 (And Beyond)

Charting the Digital Transformation of the Broadcast Industry

TV television — This Is the Future of TV (Until Everything Changes Again)

Courtesy of Decentraland — A Model for Making Money in the Metaverse: How It Works at Decentraland

metaverse web3 — Wait, We’re Up to Web5? Yep.

metaverse multiverse web3 — Web3: There’s a Crack in Everything

creator economy — Why the Creator Economy Hinges on the Success of Web3