Advanced Television

Civolution category ad-targeting

Civolution, a provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetising content, has announced that its real-time TV-Synced Ads platform has been extended to offer category targeting across all top product categories, including automotive, pharmaceutical, entertainment, quick-service restaurant (QSR), fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and consumer packaged goods (CPG), and more. Civolution’s TV-Synced Ads platform […]

September 30, 2014

AOL, Publicis Groupe expand ad partnership

AOL and Publicis Groupe have announced an expansion of their multi-faceted six–year relationship into programmatic video and linear TV. The move will provide VivaKi, and effectively all agencies inside Publicis Groupe, greater access to premium reserved – including private marketplaces – and non-reserved video environments through AOL Platforms. According to eMarketer, digital video is growing […]

September 30, 2014

MTG launching new branding

Modern Time Group (MTG) is launching a new corporate identity and core values, complemented by a new logo. “Our new identity and values are there to inspire and guide us, every day. It’s important to not only understand the values we need to succeed, but to make sure that the whole organisation lives those values. […]

September 30, 2014

Skyline listed in Deloitte Technology Fast50

Skyline Communications, global player in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the satellite, broadcast, IPTV and HFC broadband industries, announces that as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Belgium, it has been included in the Deloitte Technology Fast50 competition. Based on their percentage of growth in turnover during the […]

September 30, 2014

Celeno announces latest in over 75 design wins

Celeno Communications, a provider of high-performance Wi-Fi chips and software for home networking applications, and Compal Broadband Networks (CBN), has announced that Compal’s 24×8 DOCSIS 3.0 Wireless Gateways will be powered by Celeno’s CL2330 3×3 and CL2340 4×4 802.11ac solutions. Along with Celeno’s unique OptimizAIR 2.0 airtime management technology, these solutions will add enhanced bandwidth […]

September 30, 2014

Netflix Digital Media Player viewing surges

A growing number of US households are relying on dedicated set-top/plug-in devices (otherwise known as Digital Media Players) to watch Netflix on a TV set, according to a GfK study, Over-the-Top TV 2014. By contrast, video game systems – while still the most common hardware for Netflix viewing on a TV screen – are used […]

September 29, 2014

Russia: Over 40m pay-TV subs by 2018

A report from J’son & Partners Consulting says that Russia’s pay-TV subscribers will expand to some 40.9 million by 2018, up 17 per cent on the December 2013 figure, and reach a penetration rate of 75 per cent by 2018. Typical growth rates will be 3 per cent per annum, says the research. Russia’s three […]

September 29, 2014By Chris Forrester

Fastweb NGN for 27% by 2016

Italian broadband operator Fastweb plans expand its Next Generation Network (NGN) to cover 27 per cent of the Italian population, or 7.5 million households and businesses in over 100 cities, by 2016. By that time, about 5.5 million households and businesses will have access to the Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) infrastructure, in addition to […]

September 29, 2014From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Netflix coming to Proximus TV

As Belgian telco Belgacom adopts its new identity as Proximus, it has revealed that it plans to add entertainment streaming service Netflix to its Proximus TV offering. Netflix started offering its service in Belgium on 19 September, giving people access to a wide variety of TV shows, films, documentaries and other programming. Installation of the […]

September 29, 2014By Colin Mann

TF1 to close lifestyle Stylia

TF1 is to close Stylia, the female lifestyle pay-TV channel, launched in 1996 as documentary-oriented Odyssée before being repositioned and renamed in 2010. According to BFM Business website, after the closure of channel TF6, and the pending shutdown of news channel LCI at year end,  TF1 is making further cost cuttings with Stylia. Twenty per […]

September 29, 2014From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris