When Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive became law on April 15th, 2019, it followed some major controversy. The opposition among tech firms was so extreme, that the CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, backed a petition against it. So what’s the big deal with Article 17? If you work in any kind of role […]
Things You Need to Know about Article 13
If you happen to spend most of your life surfing websites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch, you may have already seen the term “Article 13” many times since last September. Many Internet content creators, especially those active on YouTube, have already made hundreds of videos explaining the “hazardous” effects and outcomes of this legislation on […]
The pros and cons of in-app ACR vs linear broadcast monitoring vs smart TV ACR for Marketers
This is a guest post by Ronan Higgins – Founder of TVadSync, the leading provider of TV-to-mobile ad retargeting for agencies and marketers in the US. Automatic content recognition technology, also known as “ACR”, has advanced significantly in the past couple of years; and the uses of ACR have diversified as quickly. ACR enables computers to recognize […]
Choosing an audio fingerprinting service
This is a guest post by Dan Gravell – Founder of OneMusicAPI Picture the scene: someone installs the music app you’ve developed, and they copy some of their own music files to the player. They open up your app and… they’re presented with a bunch of garbled album titles and generic images to represent what-should-be album covers. The users’ first […]
Identify Songs Like Shazam Anywhere
Identify Songs by Sound “What is this song?” is a question people ask all the time. As the development of Audio Fingerprinting technology and music Identification cloud service, intelligent softwares have been developed to answer it. Try a online music recognizer. Music Identification Apps Shazam: One of the world’s most popular apps, used by more than 100 million people each month to […]