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Snell Advanced Media has announce the launch of SAM VIBE, its new real-time news and sports production solution. SAM VIBE has the fastest workflows to enable a single team to create and deliver high quality news and sports content to social media, the web and TV. SAM VIBE combines the agility of SAMs sQ Servers with the flexibility of standard IT storage for a fully scalable platform. The solution is to be demonstrated on SAMs NAB booth SL1805.

In todays media driven world, where mobile devices are increasingly used for content consumption, the ability to turn news stories and programmes around quickly, and from a single production team, is essential for competitive advantage. Not only that, but user-generated news content is now part of the production fabric, and SAM VIBE allows input from any device to reach multiple destinations first.

Neil Maycock, EVP and General Manager, Media Software Solutions at SAM commented: In the past decade mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, have revolutionized the way consumers view content. Watching TV, especially news and sports, has evolved from a fixed pastime into an on-the-go, mobile occurrence where consumers are in control. The challenge for content providers is to meet this demand for content anywhere while keeping quality at a premium. SAM VIBE facilitates this by offering a flexible, cost-effective system that delivers a tightly integrated single platform approach to creating and distributing content rapidly so that it reaches every screen first. This is truly a modern platform for efficient news delivery.

The SAM VIBE realtime production solution is a scalable combination of media storage, production tools, and a fully customizable workflow engine. The solution utilizes standard IT storage and SAMs sQ servers and is governed by the VIBE Core, a unified orchestration layer, which manages and controls media wherever it resides. All content is stored and maintained in its original format. Packaging and delivery is fully automated for consistent, high-quality output.

SAM VIBE offers three types of user interfaces:

Creative applications a choice of SAMs Rio editor or Adobe Premiere;

Browser-based editing the SAM Go! editor for use in the studio or anywhere with an Internet connection

PAM (production asset management) tools including ingest, media management and publishing control.

Maycock adds: We built SAM VIBE for the speed of the web and based on the technology of the web so that it delivers a unique combination of high production value and editorial intelligence. With this breakthrough solution, our customers get a unified system that places any content in front of their audience rapidly and reliably anytime and anywhere.

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Next year, when Spike rebrands as Paramount Network, one of its first projects will be Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. The six-part documentary miniseries will look back to 2012, when the unarmed black teenager was shot by Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder after claiming he fired in self-defense. It will also follow the outrage surrounding the shooting.

The authorized miniseries is being produced by, among others, Jay Z and the Weinstein Company, who recently bought the rights to two books, Lisa Blooms Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It and Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Martins parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Jay Z and Weinstein are also planning to develop a scripted feature film about Martin. This is an important American story, Jay Z said in a statement. Were honored that Trayvons family has entrusted us to share the truth with the world.

The miniseries announcement arrives as real crime continues to have a TV moment, thanks to Netflixs Making a Murderer, ESPNs O.J.: Made in America, HBOs The Jinx, and FXs American Crime Story. Why are we so drawn to these ripped-from-the-headlines stories right now? It may have something to do with the growing lack of trust in our criminal justice system by many Americans, particularly after Zimmermans trial and the onslaught of YouTube videos featuring police brutality. These documentaries tend to be about the flawed legal process as much as theyre about the details of the crimes themselves.

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A network effect is arguably one of the most powerful competitive advantages a business can have. While network effects can come in different forms, the concept is simple: A business benefits from a network effect when the value of its platform increases with each additional user that joins.

Social networks are great examples of businesses with network effects. But which social networks are the largest? Measured by their monthly active users, the top 10 social networks range from user counts of 313 million all the way to an impressive 1.9 billion. Here are world's top social networks, along with some interesting takeaways about this list.

(Data is culled from SEC filings and company press releases. Youtube hasn't shared any recent updates but is likely larger than Messenger today. Platforms without reliable user data or insignificant social characteristcs were excluded)

WhatsApp and Facebook messenger icons are seen on an iPhone in Manchester , Britain March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Facebook absolutely dominates this list. Not only do the 1.9 billion monthly active users on the company's core Facebook app beat out the rest of the world's social networks by 700 million users or more, but also three of the top four social networks are all Facebook properties. Facebook's messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, have 1.2 billion and 1 billion monthly active users, respectively. And Facebook's photo- and video-sharing app Instagramat 600 millionusersmade the list as well.

In addition, Facebook's social networks continue to grow rapidly. Even the company's core Facebook app saw its monthly active users grow a nice 17 percentyear over year in the fourth quarter of 2016. This growth rate easily beatsTwitter 's 4 percentyear-over-year growth in the same period, despite the fact that Twitter's growth is on a much smaller base.

But there's another dominant company on the list. While many people in North America may be unfamiliar with its social networks, Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings owns three of these 10 social networks: WeChat and Weixin (essentially different modes of the same app), QQ, and Qzone. These social networks are the fifth, sixth, and seventh largest social networks in the world.

Notably, the fact that Facebook and Tencent together account for a whopping seven of the top eight social networks reinforces how strong of a competitive advantage social networks have. By flexing the significant reach and breadth across their platforms and integrating features across the networks under their name, Facebook and Tencent offer significant value to their users and to the businesses who make money on their networks.

One surprising social network that didn't even make the list is Snapchat, owned by parent companySnap, which just went public in March. Despite being one of the biggest IPOs in recent history, Snapchat has about 301 million monthly active users, according to estimates by Statista.

But Snapchat could make it onto this list soon. Though Snap opts to only share its daily active users with investors, this metric was up sharply in the fourth quarter of 2016, suggesting Snapchat still has some growth ahead of it. Snapchat's daily active users hit 158 millionduring this period, up 48 percentyear over year.

Can Facebook and Tencent continue to dominate the list in years to come, proving the staying power of a network effect? Or are the world's biggest social networks more susceptible to disruption than might be thought? For now, Facebook and Tencent's prevailing presence on this list suggests the biggest social networks won't be knocked from dominance easily.

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MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. The proposals to prohibit children under the age of 14 to use social networking websites and introduce registration in social networks on the basis of one's passport information look unrealistic, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday commenting on a bill on the issue submitted to Russias State Duma (lower house of parliament).

"We have not seen the essence of this bill. We only read in the media the provisions it could possibly contain, something we are not sure about," the Kremlin said. "The provisions that are discussed in the media are, of course, unrealistic, so it is hardly necessary to have any stance on the issue," Peskov underscored.

"Member of Russias State Duma, Vitaly Milonov (the United Russia political party), earlier submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament a bill on the legal regulation of social networks, which envisages, in particular, a ban on the use of social networking websites for children under the age of 14. Those who would like to register in social networks will also be required to provide their passport information.

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