I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Signiant works with some of the coolest companies in the world, literally. Today I opened up my Sports Video Group newsletter and thought…wow, the top three items are about companies that we work with. I’ve copied them here…
CBS Sports To Rely on PACE ShadowD [...]
I received an email newsletter today from IBC, it started off with…
IBC starts in just a matter of days. Now covering thirteen halls at the RAI in Amsterdam and featuring over 1,300 of the world’s key international suppliers operating in the electronic entertainment industry, it is THE destination for [...]
Congratulations to BSkyB!
BSkyB is to receive a special award at IBC2010 for its initiative in launching the world’s first commercial stereoscopic 3D channel, Sky 3D. To do this it has tackled a huge number of challenges in a very short space of time. What content will work best in the stereoscopic 3D home, and how [...]
The MIT Sloan Alumni School of Boston has pulled together a panel for students who are interested in getting hired into an “in-bound” marketing role. For those of you in the Boston area looking for a career in marketing, you should go, it sounds interesting. And oh yeah, I’m one of the panelists.
More info….
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We’ve got great customers…
“The benefits that Signiant offered made the choice pretty easy. Firstly, the solution will vastly reduce the amount of content delivered via tape, thus saving us significant time and money by reducing manual processing, and streamlining the entire process. It will also provide a homogenous platform for all inbound and outbound electronic [...]
Like so many of you, I have really got into Steig Larsson’s books this summer. I’m now on number three and so far it’s as good as the other two. I’m a week behind here when I say that I just read that Daniel Craig has signed on to play Mikael Blomkvist in “The Girl [...]
I was excited to read this article today, suggesting that there will be some decent (hopefully better than decent) television coming this fall. The author lists out these six new shows…
The Defenders – I’ve liked Jerry O’Connell since Stand By Me
Hawaii Five-0 – Now I’ll finally know what my mother was talking about when she [...]
It’s getting very close now. We at Signiant are always thrilled to be a part of IBC. We’re excited to be demonstrating new products to such a great, massive crowd that always shows up in Amsterdam. The new products will suit organizations regardless of where they are in their transformation to file-based workflows. We’ll be [...]
Great segment on NPR last night about what’s news and what isn’t. Shirley Sherrod loses her job over a botched video and thousands and thousands of documents are leaked to Wikileaks: these are a couple of recent “news” items that were talked about in the segment.
As I sit here typing away on this corporate blog [...]
Very cool…
“Nation Geographic Channels Alien Earths, created by director/producer Dana Berry of Skyworks Digital, has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Animated Program. Point 360 West and animation director Jason Hearne, as well as animation director Dave Jerrard of Radical 3D, worked with Berry creating stunning [...]
Last night NPR aired a story – “Summertime And The Cable Is Boring” – and while I was listening on my ride home from work, I thought to myself, is this guy in my brain or what? I couldn’t agree more. Don’t get me wrong, I like to be outside in the summertime just [...]
Each month, HubSpot publishes a list of 100 customers enjoying the most success using their software. Signiant is in this month’s group of customers who earned this honor.In fact, we’re at the top of the list.
If you have no idea who Hubspot is or what they do, take a look at the list and peruse [...]
This post is a steal, literally, from Will Richmond’s VideoNuze newsletter today. Everyone loves statistics and as I’ve mentioned before, people are always asking us for numbers to compare one online event to another, here’s what Will had to say…
FIFA World Cup: ESPN3.com (7.4 million unique viewers, 15.7 million hours viewed), UnivisionFutbol.com (10 million hours [...]
According to Broadcasting & Cable, “more than two million people watched [the] live feed of [the] starlet’s day in court”. I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, I might have taken a peak on People.com, but if she had known THAT many people would be watching it live (not to mention on [...]
There’s an article today on paidContent.org called… Oxygen: Women Are Addicted To Facebook, But Unsure Where To Draw The Lines and it lists out some surprising statistics about my gender and its love of Facebook. I suppose that more than 400 million active FB users can’t be wrong about Facebook but seriously, checking updates [...]
For those of us in the US, it’s the Friday before our 4th of July long weekend so things are a little quiet. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind you all that plans are already underway for our participation in IBC. Each year, IBC hosts 1,300+ exhibitors, 1,000+ journalists and 45,000+ attendees from around [...]
If you haven’t already heard, Hulu announced Hulu Plus this week. Below you’ll find an overview of what the service is so I won’t go on about it. I have requested an invitation to subscribe to Hulu Plus but I haven’t heard back yet. When Hulu was first launched I also had an early subscription [...]
Okay, I admit it. I’m the one that put “Books” in the title of our press release today about how we’re working with the Library of Congress (or LOC), but it’s kind of clever. It’s not easy issuing a press release on a day like today, when everyone is talking about Landon Donovan, but it [...]
Since Signiant was involved in both the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics, we’re constantly being asked…”how do you compare the two?” And now that we’re involved with the World Cup, the question is starting to come up…”how does this compare to your involvement with the Olympics?”
paidContent ran a great article today that lays out some very [...]
As I mentioned earlier, we attended Will Richmond’s VideoSchmooze in LA on Tuesday. The panel was entitled: How Hollywood Succeeds in the Digital Distribution Era and had some great panelists. Here’s a video of the panel…
Next week Broadcast Engineering is hosting an event in NYC – IT & Digital Workflow Boot Camp. They say…“Learn how you can build, manage and improve digital workflow throughout your facility – from the experts leading the way!” So we think it makes a lot of sense for us to be there, and we [...]
A short while ago, Signiant published a press release about our involvement in moving files for the World Cup. We got a notice shortly thereafter saying that we didn’t have proper permission to use “World Cup” in our press releases – so we pulled it. But now publications are talking about our involvement with different [...]
How cool is that? Yes, Signiant is helping ESPN move files between the sports network’s HD production facilities in South Africa and its headquarters in Bristol, CT. Signiant software is also facilitating the transfer of audio and video files between venues and production facilities in South Africa.
“The is by far the largest [...]
As I was driving into work this morning, I heard the results of an interesting poll on NPR. And I quote…”A poll among English fans revealed that one-third of them would agree to do housework for a year and 12 percent of them would give up all sex for a year if, by [...]
A few weeks ago Akamai hosted a live online panel that was broadcast over the Akamai Network; it was entitled “Constructing the ultimate online video experience…from the inside out”. It is very interesting and definitely worth watching. Panelists are from NBC Sports, EPIX, MTV and IDC.
Hear how they are using new technology to raise the [...]
VideoSchmooze…I think I just like to say it, although I had to check the spelling. Will Richmond has pulled together another fantastic panel discussion – “How Hollywood Succeeds in the Digital Distribution Era” – with panelists from Disney/ABC, Warner Brothers, Netflix and more. The event is being held in LA on June 15, 2010 at [...]
Check out this article in TV Technology…written by by Claudia Kienzle
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
With an estimated worldwide viewership of 1.5 billion, the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 11-July 12 will arguably be the world’s largest sports broadcast in history.
The greatest challenge broadcasters face is providing all 64 matches [...]
If you don’t know about EPIX yet, you really have to check them out. Some say they are akin to Hulu, they are to movies what Hulu is to television shows. Not exactly but that gives you an idea. EPIX delivers its extensive library of HD movies, concerts, and original content to subscribers across its [...]
Did you know that the Library of Congress is going to be archiving your tweets? Check it out…
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