CSI Sports, a provider of premium fight content, has signed a new carriage agreements for its 24/7 HD Network Fight Sports in Portugal with NOWO, Indonesia with My Republic, Nepal with DISH and extended their Singapore SINGTEL agreement for multiple years after a long run with strong performance. These launches bring the network into over […]
NexGuard, a Kudelski company and provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, and Colorfront, the Academy and Emmy Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, high-end episodic TV and commercials, today released a number of key updates to their joint solution launched in 2016, which add support for multi-layer watermarking workflows and […]
Digital UK has selected Merapar as a technology partner to re-envision their critical Freeview broadcast infrastructure as a cutting-edge cloud based operation using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Merapar seamlessly combine on premise and public cloud infrastructure, dynamically targeting microservice containers to balance availability against cost. Broadcast availability expectations (>=99.99%) and typical cloud provider availability (99.95%) […]
Dutch interactive TV specialist Stoneroos is launching a white-label, al la carte product for OTT services. Called OTT Now!, the suite of solutions include Live & Catchup TV, On-Demand Library, Downloads, Smart Search, TV Guide, Parental Control, Picture in Picture, Promotional Area’s. The various features are available a la carte, as required by the client. […]
Internet Video Archive (IVA) has upended the entertainment data business with radically lower prices. Now it is taking this revolutionary change another step forward by eliminating the long term commitments that stifle innovation. Offering a month to month ad supported video and data service means startups and incumbents can experiment with new ideas and bring […]
According to digital consumer resource GlobalWebIndex, 20 per cent of Internet users watch Amazon Prime Video each month, whether on their own account or via someone else’s, but this is still a distance behind the 37 per cent who say the same about Netflix. As Amazon and Netflix continue
The annual IP crime and enforcement report: 2016 to 2017 from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office, which highlights current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, suggests that one of the biggest challenges facing the pay-TV industry is the sale and use of illicit streaming devices, commonly
SpotX, the video ad serving platform, has conducted research into the connected TV advertising ecosystem in Europe. Conducted by research and strategy consulting firm MTM, and compiled from interviews and roundtable meetings with experts in each country, the research and resulting white paper analyses the trends, enablers and barriers affecting connected TV advertising spend in […]
Confirming the pursuit of its multichannel strategy, French Media Group TF1 has revealed it will pour €1 billion into programming this season. €150 million will go on news content and news channel LCI, whilst €850 million will be spent on content production and acquisitions. TF1 will take the bulk of this budget, ahead of DTT channels […]
Israel’s Spacecom, which operates the ‘AMOS’ fleet of satellites, is suing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with a $138 million (€114.4m) compensation claim for its Amos-6 satellite lost in a catastrophic fire a year ago when the satellite was atop a SpaceX rocket being fueled. In an announcement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the […]