The democratisation of pro-grade production technology and access to high-quality streaming has prompted a massive step-change for the quality and impact of corporate media, writes David Davies.
Perfectly summarising the impulses driving many companies’ approach to the production and dissemination of content at present, Steve Wind-Mozley, Chief Marketing Officer of live video transmission and video streaming solutions provider LiveU, proffers: “Content is a vector of value, and whether it’s audio, visual or video content forms – I’m going to call them all ‘stories’ – they can be massively powerful communication tools. Put the right piece of content in front of the right customer at the right time, and good things happen.”
But as Wind-Mozley also notes, there is more competition for eyeballs than ever before, not least on smartphones where...
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