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KKBOX enhances music recommendations with Amazon Personalize

This blog is co-authored by Abbie Lin, Assistant Manager, KKBOX. KKBOX, the leading music streaming platform in Taiwan and across Asia, is using Amazon Personalize to elevate its recommendation engine—delivering more relevant, diverse content with less operational overhead. Serving over 12 million users across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, KKBOX aims to deepen user […]

How Prime Video delivers AI-powered real-time insights for NASCAR fans

In the high-stakes world of NASCAR, fuel management can make the difference between victory and defeat. Recent races have demonstrated how critical fuel calculations are, with multiple top drivers experiencing last-minute fuel shortages, dramatically altering race outcomes. NASCAR broadcasts have historically provided limited visibility into fuel consumption—one of racing’s most crucial strategic elements. While announcers […]

Edit in the cloud: Nine Network modernizes edit suites with AWS

This blog was co-authored by Jun Ye, Graphics and Automation Technology Manager of Nine Network. When Nine Network (Nine) faced the dilemma of aging edit suites and mounting hardware costs in their Brisbane studios, they didn’t just see a problem—they saw an opportunity. The traditional approach would have been straightforward: replace hardware (server, processor, memory, […]

CoStar Group reduces costs by 80% using AWS Elemental MediaConvert

This blog is co-authored by Mark Osborn, Principal Software Engineer at CoStar Group. Seeking greater control over their video transcoding capabilities while reducing costs and enhancing quality for their customers, CoStar Group embarked on a transformative solution. Let’s dive into how CoStar brought their video transcoding and distribution backends in house using Amazon Web Services […]

Bundesliga Data Story Finder: Delivering fans the stories they love

Football is about passion and broadcasters use storytelling to transmit their football passion to the fans. Every moment, or insight, of a match could turn into an iconic story. Being able to extract meaningful insights from football’s ever-growing data landscape continues to intensify. Capturing event data for significant moments in the game (such as shots, […]

Racing against time: How SRO Motorsports cut inspection time by 83% with AWS

In the high-octane world of racing, precision and fairness are non-negotiable. SRO Motorsports America (SRO), the organization behind GT World Challenge America, partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services to revolutionize how race car compliance is verified—transforming a 90-minute manual process into an automated system that takes less than 15 minutes. This collaboration not […]

Automating audio editing and transcoding using AWS

Audio editing and transcoding are crucial processes for content creators, broadcasters, and media professionals who need to convert audio files from one format to another and automate basic audio editing tasks. With Amazon Elastic Transcoder scheduled for deprecation, in November, 2025, it is important to understand the alternatives for implementing audio-only workflows in Amazon Web […]

New guidance and tools: Cloud-native fast-turnaround media workflows on AWS

At NAB 2025 (April 6-9, 2025), Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching new guidance and tools for cloud-native fast-turnaround media workflows as part of the Cloud-native Agile Production (CNAP) program. The CNAP program is a collaboration project between AWS, the BBC, Sky and AWS Partners. CNAP is based on BBC Research & Development’s (BBC R&D) […]

AWS Audio Innovation showcase at NAB 2025

At NAB 2025, April 5-9 in Las Vegas, NV, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will present four integrated demonstrations focused on audio innovation that feature AWS Cloud services and AWS Partner solutions. These demonstrations bring together complete audio workflows including podcast and radio programming creation, content analysis and summarization, metadata creation and tagging, and live transcription […]

Cleeng’s ChurnIQ AI-ssistant: Subscriber Analytics Powered by Amazon Bedrock

This blog is co-authored by Jakub Abramczyk, Data Scientist, Sebastian Boruch, ChurnIQ Product Manager, and Kirstin White, Growth Marketing Manager from Cleeng. In the competitive direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming market, understanding subscriber behavior is essential for increasing engagement, optimizing content, and reducing customer churn. According to Forbes, acquiring new customers costs 5-7 times more than retaining […]