Branded Entertainment: A New Production Financing Paradigm

In White Paper 1, we presented the current landscape for the fast-growing branded entertainment sector, largely drawing from US market experience. In White Paper 2, we examined the Canadian market and found branded entertainment at a more nascent stage.

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Decentralized Finance: (DeFi) Policy-Maker Toolkit

whitePaper | June 8, 2021

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging and rapidly evolving area in the blockchain environment. Although examples of DeFi have existed for several years, a sudden upsurge of activity in 2020 has simulated interest from the private and public sectors. This toolkit highlights DeFi’s distinguishing characteristics and opportunities, while also calling attention to the new and existing risks. As well as providing an overview of the DeFi space generally, it maps out the potential legal and regulatory responses.

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Web3 video streaming platform

whitePaper | January 17, 2023

Web 3.0 and blockchain has shifted power dynamics, from concentrated, centralized power, to diffused, decentralized power. Fundamentally, consumers can now become direct owners, and have direct influence in the products and services they give their time to. This is the power of web3 and of blockchain. We have seen web3 and blockchain changing industries, but now, we are changing the video streaming industry. We are driving the content revolution by enabling viewers to earn every time they watch video content. Every time a viewer watches content on our platform, they earn our native cryptocurrency token -MContent. Our token has immense potential to grow as it is tied to a real-world asset, content.

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5G cloud gaming

whitePaper | August 24, 2022

North American communications service providers have invested substantially in 5G networks to enable multiple use cases, leveraging capabilities like network slicing and edge computing. As service providers seek to monetize 5G in the short term, cloud gaming, the technology that allows subscribers to play games anywhere and from any device, presents a new and exciting opportunity to drive revenue growth.

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ENGAGE CONSUMERS WITH IMMERSIVE MEDIA

whitePaper | January 8, 2020

Immersive media delivered as virtual reality (VR),full 360°I 180" video streaming and VR commerce can be embedded into the lifestyle of digital consumers. Digital technologies break barriers between consumer platforms and pave the way for applications across media and entertainment, telecommunications, sports, retail, and education. Incumbent telco’s and media companies are exploring innovative methods to adopt immersive technol09 es and grow the r business.

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Uncompressed Media Over IP On Amazon Web Services (AWS)

whitePaper | October 6, 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. It also provides details around Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) registration and discovery on an IP network.

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NVIDIA STUDIO EDUCATION PARTNER PROGRAM

whitePaper | March 10, 2020

NVIDIA GPUs are used by the world’s top creative professionals to create stunning content and visual effects. GPUs with NVIDIA RTX™ technology help artists work seamlessly and produce works that practically cannot be done on any other platform. From film and television to animation, interactive media, and game design, the industry relies on NVIDIA GPUs.

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At PlaySimple Games, we are on a mission to create engaging mobile products to connect people. We are a bunch of engineers & product people from companies like Zynga, Bain, Walmart Labs & Yahoo. We love games, and have built & run popular titles such as Mafia Wars, Farmville, Bubble Safari, Vampire Wars, Yoville and many more.

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