8 Cycles of the Media Supply Chain
Media technology has always been intertwined with society and civilization.
The technology has progressed from discrete electromechanical devices under manual human control, single function devices to automation to digital to current AI augmented creative craft and technical specialists. Each of these 8 sequences of 8 workflow components in MEPD.

Business Development
Media & Entertainment Production
Where creative, engineering and crafts the sports news and entertainment payload.
Live Production
Entertainment
News
Sports
Scripted
Documentary
Asset Management -production workflow images, sound, and metadata. Distribution content delivery networks where did I put how do I find it
Post - What can I do with it what I find. How can AI help in the versioning and versioning
Process & QC
Format encoding, transcoding, and transmuxing.
Quality and Monitoring
Distribution & Delivery - launch and deliver the payload to Multiple media platforms.
Viewer Engagement
Interactive and social media
Business Analytics - what are they watch tracking individual and demographic groups. Value extraction and monetization.






