By admission of its own founding fathers, ThinkAnalytics—of content recommendations engine fame—has done a poor job of vocalizing to the world that this company is not a one-trick technology pony. With launch of ThinkMediaAI, a new unified offering built to optimize content monetization, contextual advertising, and content curation, ThinkAnalytics might have finally found its Excalibur—with potentially limb-lopping consequences for companies not even considered direct competition. Succinctly, ThinkMediaAI claims to streamline workflows for video service providers while driving viewer engagement and reducing churn through AI applications. It promises to remove vendor complexity (and therefore costs) by shifting workflows to a unified platform, where a smorgasbord of AI models will unlock untapped monetization opportunities across editorial and advertising. The dark magic does…