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Live sports production has followed the same formula for decades. To send broadcasts out to fans, production teams have relied on massive production trucks to distribute game feeds from arenas to a fixed control room with workstations and production gear. The National Hockey League (NHL), one of the biggest sports leagues worldwide, is shaping the […]

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe, a group of television networks including TNT Sports and Eurosport, broadcasts a wide range of sports coverage across the continent, including some of the world’s most watched events. Starting several years ago, WBD Sports decided to take bold steps to migrate its legacy media workflows to the cloud, which […]

Generative AI offers exciting new possibilities for creatives. In this blog series, we explore different generative AI models for image editing. In Part 1, we developed an AI-powered eraser using Segment Anything Model (SAM) and Big LaMa model hosted on Amazon SageMaker. In just a few clicks, we can remove any unwanted objects from an image. […]

Reader engagement is key for any publisher and directly correlates to revenue growth. One of the best mechanisms to increase reader engagement is personalization. Prior to the mainstream availability of generative AI foundation models (FMs), personalization was, and still is, achieved by understanding patterns in reader behaviour and surfacing content relevant to them. Amazon Bedrock […]

HiLYTE is an all-in-one digital platform dedicated to creating premier digital experiences through grassroots sports events and seasons. The company aims to make better technology available for all youth sporting organizations by creating contextual, personalized experiences using thousands of pieces of media. Providing an end-to-end digital ecosystem for participants and spectators in two of the […]

Catching the action of a European football (or soccer) match is easy today, with no shortage of available streaming platforms and services to watch players from all leagues go head-to-head. Yet, when it comes to other sports—like handball, basketball, volleyball, hockey, and table tennis—fans have fewer options. To level the playing field for these enthusiasts, […]

Virtual production has reshaped movie making in many different ways, providing filmmakers with unique capabilities ranging from remote collaboration and pre-visualization to final pixel in-camera visual effects (ICVFX). In the last three years, virtual production has catapulted into the mainstream. While technological advances have made the process more accessible, complex virtual production techniques continue to […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce support for HLS Interstitials for video-on-demand (VOD) workflows in AWS Elemental MediaTailor. The implementation of support for interstitials introduces server-guided ad insertion (SGAI) in MediaTailor, which complements existing server-side ad insertion (SSAI) support. HLS Interstitials offer a versatile and efficient solution for managing and integrating advertising content […]

Open Job Description (OpenJD) is a new open specification introduced by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January, 2024 that makes job submissions portable across any rendering pipeline. OpenJD includes three Python libraries and tools packages that anyone can use to create integrations with their render pipeline. Openjd-cli provides a command-line tool to develop and run […]

Nonprofit broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is on a mission to serve Americans with trusted programming and resources that educate, entertain, and inspire. By building on Amazon Web Services (AWS), PBS is able to continually innovate while delivering high-quality broadcast and streaming content to more than 100 million viewers across 350 member stations and online, […]