Tag: AI in media

Kirby explains that the media industry’s biggest constraint isn’t AI or labor, it’s fragmented workflows that were never designed to support today’s multi-model distribution environment. AI’s real impact is accelerating high-friction steps like metadata, packaging, and publishing, which exposes bottlenecks…

AI adoption in media isn’t driving widespread job replacement, it’s accelerating workflow throughput as teams are pushed to produce more content across more endpoints without added resources. The real impact is happening inside the content lifecycle, where AI reduces friction…

In The Streaming Wars first Industry Guide, The Future of Media Jobs, we show how consolidation, distribution volatility, and margin discipline are structurally repricing media employment. Layoff data from 2023 through 2025 points to sustained contraction, with AI raising throughput…

The E.W. Scripps Company is restructuring its local broadcast operating model around AI, automation, and centralized production to drive $125 million to $150 million in incremental annualized EBITDA by 2028. With Q3 2025 revenue down 19% and local media revenue…

Kirby breaks down how media companies’ current operating model of flattened orgs, overreliance on metrics, and escalating routine decisions to execs undermines speed, quality, and alignment. As middle managers vanish, early decision-making disappears, pushing rework and delays downstream while output…

AI transformation in media isn't flashy generative content, but generative questions that collapse the gap between intent and insight. By enabling anyone to ask natural-language queries and receive trustworthy answers, AI shifts power away from gatekeepers and towards decision-makers.

Annual wraps have become one of the most effective retention tools in media, not for their shareability, but for how they reframe user behavior into identity and habit. The missed opportunity for most media companies isn’t the lack of flashy…

Kirby outlines 7 pragmatic predictions for where streaming is headed, spotlighting shifts in spending, control, and what success actually looks like. The real power isn’t in content libraries but in owning access, distribution, and the customer relationship. As the dust…

Ask Skip confronts the tough state of the media industry, layoffs, mergers, and AI upheaval, with a reminder of what still matters. Despite the chaos, Skip argues that talent, honest audience feedback, real brands, and scrappy leadership remain key assets.…

Ay Yapim is debuting Castle Walls, its first AI-generated series, produced by its new Singapore-based subsidiary AI Yapim. The three-episode short series, inspired by Iran’s Alamut Castle and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage, was fully developed using generative AI tools like…