Veritone, Inc. (Nasdaq: VERI), the creator of the world's first operating system for artificial intelligence, aiWARE™, today announced that Solution Engineer Garron Bateman will give a joint presentation at the AWS M&E Symposium. Bateman will join fellow speakers including Golden Boy, a Veritone Digital Media Hub client and one of boxing's most active and respected promoters, for the session titled "Using AI/ML to Monetize Video Archives."

Today, Bitmax, the Hollywood-based digital media management and licensing company, announced a multi-year deal to provide digital media processing and licensing services for Here Media, a worldwide film and TV creator and distributor. Here Media is part of the successful portfolio of entertainment products run by industry icon and Academy-award winning producer Paul Colichman.

Never.no, the award-winning social engagement platform specialist, has today announced a series of customer wins as the company’s explosive start to 2019 reflect the recent expansion, with the addition of new offices and staff in the US, UAE and Australia, alongside offices in the UK and Norway. With the goal of making TV social and advertising dynamic, Never.no’s platform helps broadcasters and advertisers personalise their offer, increase TV viewership and engage audiences and consumers. STORY, the social TV platform used by the world’s top broadcasters and brands – including SKY, QVC, Televisa, Univision and PlayStation, Specsavers and Danone – features an ever-growing customer list within the key regions of EMEA, LATAM and APAC.

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) has announced partnerships with THEO Technologies and IRIS.TV to integrate their technologies with the VDMS platform, one of the world’s largest streaming networks. The addition of the THEOplayer Universal Video Player and IRIS.TV’s Video Personalization Platform continue to expand VDMS’ capabilities to deliver high-quality personalized experiences with a simple workflow on a single platform.

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) announced that it is working with Microsoft to deliver a simpler way for broadcasters, content owners or streaming services to deliver high-quality, ultra-personalized viewing experiences on Microsoft Azure.

Leading creative digital agency, DMS, is expanding its London headquarters to meet the growing demand from its global media and entertainment, sports and lifestyle brand clients for its insight-driven marketing services. Having only moved in to the 8000sq. ft purpose-built site in January 2017, DMS is now taking on an extra floor in the building. This will add another 4000sq. ft of space that will house over 60 people in the London Bridge facility as part of a six-figure investment for the business.

Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) will launch new platform capabilities, including 4k encoding, multi-CDN, QOS (quality of service), and tighter integration with key partners at NAB Show 2019 . Enhancements to the VDMS platform will enable content owners and service providers to connect with and entertain millions of concurrent users on one of the world’s top performing streaming networks.

Leading creative digital agency, DMS, has today announced the appointment of Alasdair Barley as its new Social Producer. Alasdair will work alongside the in-house digital and social teams to create full service social campaigns for DMS’ digital marketing clients. These include leading global entertainment, arts and culture, lifestyle and sports brands which benefit from DMS’ social insight and strategy services such as content creation, strategic insights, posting plans and community management.

At IBC2018, Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, and SoftAtHome, the technology company dedicated to the digital home, will jointly demonstrate an end-to-end, best-of-breed solution for addressable TV with their partner Viznet. The preintegrated solution enables household targeting on operator-controlled devices, including frame-accurate Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) on set-top boxes (STBs) for linear multicast and on-demand TV.