MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT BENCHMARKS REPORT

April 19, 2018

In the early part of this century, everything started going wrong for the media & entertainment industry. No, Y2K didn’t hit, but plenty in legacy media—for our purposes, that means the audio, gaming, video, and written media companies that are competing for users’ free time—probably felt like it had.Legacy media companies had gotten fat and happy. Remember: this was a time when “It Wasn’t Me” was enough to catapult Shaggy to literally 10 million album sales. It was a time when a movie could be sold for a hefty price again and again: in theaters, on pay-per-view, on DVD.

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Audacy, Inc.

At Audacy, we are unapologetic champions of audio everywhere, on every device. We are a multiplatform audio powerhouse, home to the country’s most compelling personalities and the most influential collection of broadcast and digital content, podcasts and premium live experiences. What makes us special is our deep connection with the communities we serve. They are diverse, mass and niche, bound together by shared geography and through shared experiences and passions across distances. Wherever they are and wherever they go, we are with them, In moments big and small. In the ones that matter most.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS
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CADUCEUS WHITE PAPER The world’s first decentralized edge rendering metaverse protocol

whitePaper | August 29, 2022

Since blockchain came into existence, several distributed ledger technologies have been developed for various purposes. Starting with the basic architecture, several modified versions such as Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), distributed hash table (DHT), Time To Live (TTL), decentralised applications (dApps) etc have entered the blockchain ecosystem. However, as with every new technology, blockchain comes with unique challenges and technical issues

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Innovation in Smart Video Storage; How WD Purple™ Intelligently Manages Video Data

whitePaper | April 15, 2022

This paper discusses an intelligent approach to storing video surveillance data on Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), utilizing on-drive Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. In today’s video surveillance environment, high-definition cameras with video analytic capabilities send multiple streams of video data to network recorders and drives, causing new storage complexities.

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A whole new world? Exploring the metaverse and what it could mean for you

whitePaper | April 6, 2022

Remember when the first smartphones were launched without a keyboard? Many people wondered whether they would ever take off. But in just a few years, smartphones changed the experience of the internet for billions1 of people and enabled new business models that transformed transportation, hospitality, food delivery, personal entertainment, social interaction, and more.

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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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VIRTUAL REALITYFOR ARTS & CULTURE

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.

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SPORTS OF META

whitePaper | May 25, 2022

Sports Of Meta is an AI-based universe of sports games that is guaranteed ownership with blockchain technology infrastructure and NFT (non-fungible token). Sports Of Meta is a paradigm that reimagines the sports enviroment, paying attention to the experiences, needs, challenges faced by gamers in the world of classic esports, and shortcomings in the rapidly evolving world of nftgames. Within the Sports Of Meta ecosystem, which is designed as a distributed structure, organizations belonging to many sports will be organized and participants will be effectively involved in different roles in these organizations.

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Spotlight

Audacy, Inc.

At Audacy, we are unapologetic champions of audio everywhere, on every device. We are a multiplatform audio powerhouse, home to the country’s most compelling personalities and the most influential collection of broadcast and digital content, podcasts and premium live experiences. What makes us special is our deep connection with the communities we serve. They are diverse, mass and niche, bound together by shared geography and through shared experiences and passions across distances. Wherever they are and wherever they go, we are with them, In moments big and small. In the ones that matter most.

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