Independent Film and Television Industry Snapshot: New Media

whitePaper | April 1, 2021

Customer retention is important to every business, but loyalty is hard won – especially when a single bad customer experience can be broadcast to other consumers in just a few clicks. For the first time, Brandwatch has partnered with GWI to combine both our data sources and expertise to answer some of the big questions around customer advocacy and detraction for retailers.

whitePaper | May 27, 2021

These are exceptional times. Measures to control the coronavirus crisis are causing a major seachange in how we go about our social and business lives. This white paper looks at the challenges posed to cultural continuity by the closure of arts and events venues caused by the need for social distancing and the containment of COVID-19. Exceptional times require exceptional measures. This white paper will go on to propose the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology as a means of transforming the way we interact with art and culture whilst conforming to the proscriptions we need to live and work within.

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

As part of the ongoing transition to Internet Protocol (IP) networks for media workflows, the media and entertainment industry has developed new IP standards for transporting broadcast signals. This white paper offers guidance to help broadcasters and media organizations transition to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions when using the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP infrastructure. It provides details explaining why organizations transition from traditional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows using SMPTE 2110 standards and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, and clocking, including relevant standards to support uncompressed contribution.

whitePaper | February 12, 2022

How the latest standard enables TV broadcasters to mass distribute Internet Protocol (IP) data, creating new business opportunities and delivering critical public service improvements.

whitePaper | April 30, 2021

The accelerated development and expansion of cultural tourism in areas with unique tourist objectives, characterised by a high degree of risk in terms of their physical and chemical integrity, requires sustained efforts by all stakeholders to identify new methods, techniques, and procedures for their conservation, protection, and capitalisation, with respect to tourism. The aim of this study was to propose an optimal methodology for capitalising on tourism related to wooden churches, regarded as a structural item of tangible cultural heritage, with positive effects on theprotection, conservation, information, and awareness of all stakeholders in tourism development.

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

In recent years, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), entities that use blockchains, digital assets and related technologies to direct resources, coordinate activities and make decisions, have experienced explosive growth. According to the analytics service DeepDAO, in 2021 the total value of DAO treasuries surged fortyfold, from $400 million to $16 billion, and the number of DAO participants increased by 130 times from 13,000 to 1.6 million.1 As DAO innovation has largely been led by the private sector and DAOs are being developed for an increasingly wide variety of purposes, it is critical that policy-makers, regulators and senior executives develop a nuanced understanding of these entities