How Viacom Revolutionized Audience Experiences with Real-Time Analytics and AI
On-Demand Webinar
With 170+ global networks, Viacom is focused on providing an amazing audience experience to its billions of viewers around the world. Core to this strategy is leveraging big data and AI to offer the right content to the right audience and deliver it flawlessly on any device. To make this possible, Viacom set-out to build a real-time, scalable data analytics platform on Apache Spark™.
Join this webinar to learn how Viacom overcame the complexities of Spark with Databricks and AWS to build an end-to-end scalable self-service insights platform that delivers on a wide range of analytics use cases.
This webinar will cover:
Join this webinar to learn how Viacom overcame the complexities of Spark with Databricks and AWS to build an end-to-end scalable self-service insights platform that delivers on a wide range of analytics use cases.
This webinar will cover:
- The challenges Viacom faced building a scalable, real-time data insights and AI platform.
- How they overcame these challenges with Spark, AWS, and Databricks.
- How they leverage a unified analytics platform for data pipelines, analytics, and machine learning to reduce video start delays by 33% and improve content delivery with stream analytics at scale.
- What it takes to create a data-driven culture with self-service analytics that meet the needs of business users, data analysts, and data scientists.
Presenters
Mark Cohen
VP, Data Platform Engineering at Viacom
VP, Data Platform Engineering at Viacom
Mark is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment industry. As VP of Data Platform Engineering at Viacom, he leads a team of data engineers to build systems and applications that provide people across Viacom with the data they need for analysis, machine learning, and reuse in other applications. Mark has been a hands-on engineer on many applications from the early days of the Web and has lead the development on a number of critical initiatives at Viacom including their digital music platform, content recommendation engine, and Quality of Experience service used to provide internal teams with real-time metrics on streaming content.