This year marked the biggest CES in the show’s 44-year history, with over 153,000+ attendees making the trip to Sin City to take in the latest gadgets and gizmos. For Digitalsmiths, this was also our biggest CES to date.  Over the course of five days, the Digitalsmiths team conducted over 60 demonstrations of our Seamless [...]

Today’s video viewers have a multiplicity of options for watching their favorite shows and movies.  Pay-TV, video on demand, blu-ray and online streaming just to name a few.  And there is proof – from viewers and content owners – that viewers are taking advantage of this explosion of video options. Just read the following: A 2010 Forrester study showed [...]

Last Friday with the temperature hitting 105, Digitalsmiths employees and their families turned out in record numbers for Family Night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.  Everyone had “tons of fun” and enjoyed the all-you-can-eat picnic style buffet, complete with chicken, burgers, ice cream and beer.  The mighty Durham Bulls pulled out a 4-3 win over the pesky Toldeo [...]

The way we watch and interact with video continues to change.  At Digitalsmiths, we know how the use of search and discovery technology will increase viewer engagement, enhancing the viewer experience and opening doors for greater content monetization.  Being video discovery fanatics, we’re always excited when we see new examples of search and discovery technology being used [...]

Continuing our award-winning work with Turner, we are thrilled to be contributing to their latest cool interactive video application - TNT’s RaceBuddy on NASCAR.COM. As described by Turner: “TNT RaceBuddy on NASCAR.COM was fully-enhanced this season, allowing fans to choose from a total of 10 camera views, twice as many as last year, including two Mosaics and eight individual camera angles with four In-Car [...]

Ben Weinberger, co-Founder and CEO of Digitalsmiths, was invited to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness meeting held this week here in North Carolina.  This committee was formed to focus on figuring out ways to grow the economy.  Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, chaired the meeting.  The full list of attendees included: Steve [...]

The Digitalsmiths Gives Back program consists of a different charitable initiative every quarter where Digitalsmiths employees donate their time and / or money to help others in need.  This quarter, our focus was on recent devastation caused by the tornados in North Carolina. Digitalsmiths employees reached into their pockets to help those that lost family members, homes, [...]

Congratulations to Digitalsmiths’ customers the PGA and Turner Sports, who have received the People’s Voice Webby Award for Best Use of Interactive Video for the 2010 Ryder Cup LIVE Video production in Wales. For the 2010 Ryder Cup, Digitalsmiths provided live video metadata generation services during the event, allowing viewers to jump back to a favorite golfer, [...]

It is a well known secret here at Digitalsmiths that our Chief Operating Officer, Gregg Hodges, leads a double life:  video discovery fanatic by day and racecar driver by night. Ever since he was 13 years old, Gregg has had a passion for the high speed thrill of racing, starting in motocross during his teen years until [...]

Yes, we are fanatical about video discovery! And to show you just how fanatical we are, Digitalsmiths took video tagging to a whole new level this week at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas – the biggest show of the year. Check out the Live Scene Discovered by Digitalsmiths.