Telstra has launched its Global Media Switch – a professional video delivery platform that allows broadcasters and content creators to schedule, manage and distribute video in real-time across the world. A highly resilient, IP-based delivery network, Global Media Switch provides customers with codec-level connectivity directly from the originating content source all the way to the […]
Spanish sports channel GolT has expanded its continuity system, based on VSN’s automation module software VSNMULTICOM. The project has been carried out by the integrator Unitecnic, official distributor of VSN’s solutions, and has been completed in a record time of only two weeks. For this project, new VSNMULTICOM modules have been added to the already […]
The Gone Viral Network of pay-TV channels has added Gone Viral X-treme to its line-up; Gone Viral TV, Gone Viral Music, Gone Viral Vogue, Vamos Viral TV (Spanish) and now Gone Viral X-treme. Gone Viral X-treme will kick off its launch at the Caribbean Cable & Telecommunications Association (CCTA) Feb. 3rd to 5th, 2015 in Montego Bay, […]
Net Insight, a provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks and ScheduALL, a global player in Enterprise Resource Management software for Media, Broadcast and Transmission, will take to the road in North America and Europe to jointly present a series of symposia demonstrating the power of automated self-provisioning in […]
In the run-up to Cable Congress in mid-March in Brussels, Matthias Kurth, Executive Chairman, Cable Europe, has suggested that Europeans might have the opportunity to lead the way when it comes to investment in broadband and digital infrastructure. In a blog post, Kurth noted that in the last few years, the cable sector had been […]
The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) has confirmed that all of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have now signed up to a voluntary Code of Practice in support of the Open Internet. The Open Internet Code was launched in 2012, building on previous work on the transparency of traffic management. EE, Virgin Media and […]
Fox Broadcasting and Dish Network, up to now both serious litigants in their arguments over Dish’s AutoHop ad-skipping technology, have jointly asked a California judge to pause their actions. Currently, the two are working to a 2010 provisional agreement which allows broadcasting – and the AutoHop/Hopper technology – to continue. A full trial was slated […]
User-generated content (UGC) or more broadly speaking, short-form video (from services such as YouTube and Dailymotion), has become far more than cats playing the piano, according to ABI Research. The firm notes that companies are using viral ads to extend brands and reach a wider breadth of customers than traditional media channels. Professionally-generated short-form content […]
Spain’s top football league La Liga is breaking records with its YouTube channel which has reached over 100 million plays since its launch two years ago. La Liga channel, operated by Mediapro, owner of the football TV rights, currently has 560,000 subscribers and has distributed 250 million minutes of video since 2012. Mediapro is intensifying […]
The measurement firm comScore plans to introduce a new measurement for tracking video audiences across computers, mobile and other streaming devices. ComScore previously measured digital video audiences only on desktops and laptops. The new metric should provide additional information for television networks and advertisers. ComScore’s initial research revealed that by counting the number of people […]