Media and Entertainment

News, trends, and insights about the media and entertainment industries.

Human Resources

Understanding the Whole Consumer: Digital Monetization for Media and Entertainment

Media and entertainment companies work hard to paint a complete picture of consumers, build loyalty, and satisfy their ever-changing desires. It’s all part of an effective digital monetization strategy.

Jeremiah Barba
Human Resources Planning

Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies Explore the Future of Hybrid Work

At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.

Jeremiah Barba
Customers and Community

Workday Industry Insights EMEA: Accelerating the Journey to Becoming a Digital Enterprise

Businesses must continue to accelerate their journey to become agile, digital enterprises that are primed to respond to unseen challenges. On 18 November, Workday Industry Insights EMEA will bring together a cross-section of industry experts who will share valuable insights on thriving in such uncertain times.

Subarna Ganguly
Customers and Community Finance

Communications, Media, and Technology Summit: Why Innovation Is the Only Way Forward

Business leaders in the communications, media, and technology industries at a recent Workday summit discussed what matters most as they find new ways to reach their customers.

Jeremiah Barba
Customers and Community Finance

Workday Podcast: A Tech CFO Looks to the Future

The disruption of the pandemic affects tech, media, and entertainment companies in many different ways, and the office of the CFO is adapting through it all. On this episode, our guest is Liz Brittain, CFO of cybersecurity company HackerOne.

Jeremiah Barba
Finance

Tech, Media, and Entertainment: Transformation in Real Time

The tech, media, and entertainment industries are changing by the minute with some changes sparked by the pandemic and others accelerated by it. Let’s take a look at the transformation and what it means for the future of these industries.

Jeremiah Barba
Analytics and Insights Workday News and Culture

Announcing the Winners of the Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards

The Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards honor industry-specific solutions from our services partners built on top of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community

Workday Podcast: Global Media Giant Improves Business Insights

Media-insights company Kantar is connecting the dots among its workforce’s tools, processes, cultures, and skills across 77 countries. Nadia Hutchinson, an HR leader at Kantar, explains how.

Greg Thomas
Customers and Community Finance

Workday Podcast: Why Data Matters to Tech and Media CFOs

CFOs are always looking for new ways to mine value, and data is often an untapped treasure chest. Eric Noren from Accenture shares how CFOs in the technology and media industries can gain better insights from data—including some innovative examples.

Mary Hayes Weier
Human Resources Planning

Workday Podcast: Media and Entertainment: Lessons From Adversity

Mike Chapman, managing director of media and entertainment at Accenture, joins us to talk about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on media and entertainment companies and how the industry is looking to the future.

Jeremiah Barba
Human Resources

Tech, Media, and the Gig Economy

The gig economy is having a big impact on businesses. Here's what it means for tech and media companies.

Jeremiah Barba
Customers and Community Workday News and Culture

Top 10 Workday Podcasts of 2019

Here's a look at some of our favorite Workday Podcasts of the year. Topics include building a collaborative culture, managing risk, charting the future of artificial intelligence, and much more.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

How the Platform Effect Is Changing Tech and Media (And Beyond)

The platform effect, when enterprises create innovative ways for buyers and sellers to match supply to demand, is rewriting the rules of how companies operate and how business gets done. At the heart of the platform effect are technology and media companies.

Jeremiah Barba
Technology Innovation

What Tech and Media Can Learn From Each Other

Every company wants to be a tech company to a certain degree. More than most industries, tech and media's goals are often next-door neighbors, and these two powerful industries are embracing opportunities to learn from each other.

Jeremiah Barba
Customers and Community

Industries at Workday Rising: Collaboration and Connection

This year, we’ve significantly expanded the number of industry-specific sessions we’ll have at Workday Rising. Here’s a sample of some of the stories our customers will share about successes in their industries.

Jeremiah Barba
Human Resources

Workday Podcast: Find, Engage, Retain: Building a Culture of Harmony at Warner Music Group

In the latest Workday podcast, discover how one of the world's largest entertainment and record label companies finds, engages, and retains its employees at a time when the battle for talent makes it really tough.

Steve Dunne
Finance

Political Scientist Ian Bremmer: How CFOs Can Navigate Today’s World

What are the biggest risks CFOs face? What should they be optimistic about? Ian Bremmer, political scientist, author, and frequent news and talk show guest, shared his insights at our CFO dinner in Washington D.C. Read his thoughts on the rise of China, the G7 and Trump-Kim summits, technology innovation, and how CFOs can best prepare—and make a difference—in today’s turbulent world.

Mary Hayes Weier
Human Resources

HR Transformation Fit for a King at Cambridge University Press

As the oldest media business in the world—founded by King Henry VIII in 1534—you might not associate Cambridge University Press with the idea of HR transformation. But with 2,723 colleagues across 50 offices in 40 countries, the organisation knew it was time to make a change. Cathy Armor, director for people at Cambridge University Press, shares how they moved from dated HR systems to a single, unified system with Workday.

Steve Dunne
Human Resources

Former Netflix Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord on How to Redefine HR

When it comes to a successful reinvention of HR, few companies have done it as well as Netflix. In this video, Patty McCord, former chief talent officer at Netflix and mastermind of the most famous slide deck on culture in recent business history, shares her thoughts on how to hire in a much more strategic way.

Aly Mackenzie
Customers and Community

Leadership Through Innovation: A Discussion with Walter Isaacson

At Workday Rising, Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former Chairman and CEO at CNN, spoke to a group of senior executives about the role of leadership in nurturing innovation and collaboration. This blog covers the takeaways from their discussion.

Workday Staff Writers
Human Resources

HR Innovation: An Inside Look at How Sony Brought Five Companies Together on Workday

On April 2, five Sony companies all turned on a single instance of Workday Human Capital Management, allowing us the benefits of a modern HR system to support our collective workforces. We’ve learned a lot through the process, and this blog is an opportunity to share some of those things with other business leaders.

Donna Kaptain