VAA Online Video Captioning Requirements and Deadlines

The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) is now the law of the land, requiring video programming that is captioned on TV to also be captioned when distributed on the Internet.This six-page brief breaks down the legal captioning requirements and clearly lays out which entities and types of content are affected or exempted. If you're a video content producer or distributor, this brief will help you comply with current FCC regulations and anticipate what is coming down the pike.

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AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres is the largest movie exhibition company in the U.S., Europe and the world with approximately 1,000 theatres and more than 11,000 screens across the globe serving approximately 350 million guests annually. In the U.S., AMC operates approximately 660 theatres with 8,200 screens serving 265 million guests.

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INSIGHTS 2019 Traditional TV, online video & streaming - Disney+ special

whitePaper | December 11, 2019

Despite Disney+ just now going live in the US and the release still months in the future in Europe, the new streaming service is already looking to become a challenger for the top spots in a crowded field. In the US, more than half have already heard about Disney+ and 43% intend to subscribe. Not surprisingly, especially families with children are expected to sign up to Disney+.

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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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2023 media & entertainment industry outlook

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

In 2023, indications show that change in the media and entertainment business is likely to continue. Studios and video streamers face the reality of their own market disruption, trying to find profits in a less profitable business. They compete with not only each other for attention, time, and revenues, but also with social media, user-generated content, and video games. The latter have evolved more quickly, staying close to younger demographics.

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Delivering the Entertainment Platform of the Future for Liberty Global

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

Liberty Global turned to longstanding partner EPAM for its integrated consulting, design and engineering capabilities to build this next-generation entertainment platform – known as Horizon 4. A set-top box (STB) with 4K Ultra HD picture quality and a voice-controlled remote, combined with the innovative Liberty Global ‘GO’ mobile app, was rolled out across seven European markets. Liberty Global’s customers gave the new viewing platform the highest NPS scores and praised the new features like the personalized viewing recommendations, cross-platform continuation of programs and the simplicity of the new interface.

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Deep dive into the virtureal world of Metaverse

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

The Web 3.0 is the concept of next generation internet. It brings decentralization to content, application, and infra layers. The users will be able to create, own and carry their assets, avatars, collectibles from one platform to another for various purposes, including trading, integration of their new business, and gaming. On the other hand platforms can provide services/APIs/storage that can be used across dierent metaverse platforms to provide seamless experience e.g. avatars as a service, crypto wallet service

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The Relationship Between Movie Theatre Attendance and Streaming Behavior

whitePaper | February 6, 2020

The survey included 2,015 respondents who saw at least one movie in theatres over the last twelve months and an additional 505 respondents who did not see any movie in theatres. Of the 2,520 total respondents, 79% of the respondents streamed at least one hour of online content per week over the last twelve months, and 69% saw at least one movie in theatres and streamed at least one hour of online content per week in the last twelve months.

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AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres is the largest movie exhibition company in the U.S., Europe and the world with approximately 1,000 theatres and more than 11,000 screens across the globe serving approximately 350 million guests annually. In the U.S., AMC operates approximately 660 theatres with 8,200 screens serving 265 million guests.

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