Advanced Television

Samba TV partners With SpotX

Samba TV, a provider of real-time audience based advertising and insights, and video ad serving platform SpotX, have partnered to power custom audience targeting and segmentation for video ads across web, app and connected TV environments. SpotX will become Samba TV’s primary connected TV ad server, enabling brands and advertisers to buy across its connected […]

May 26, 2017

Amazon acquires Soderbergh movie

Amazon has agreed a deal to bring Steven Soderbergh’s newest film to Prime Video customers during its exclusive first-run streaming window. Logan Lucky will hit cinemas on August 18th and is expected to be released on Prime Video during the first quarter of 2018. Additionally, Amazon has signed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Fingerprint […]

May 26, 2017

Sunset+Vine to produce BT Sport America’s Cup coverage

Sunset+Vine, the UK-based TV sports production and media company which is part of the Tinopolis Group, will produce BT Sport’s coverage of the America’s Cup. Starting May 26th, BT Sport will be showing 22 days of coverage from Bermuda exclusively live in the UK. Sunset+Vine will have a team of 30 working on the production […]

May 26, 2017

Tata launches F1 IoT competition

Tata Communications, the official connectivity provider to Formula 1 and the Official managed connectivity supplier of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, is today launching the 2017 F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize and unveiling the first challenge of this year’s competition – with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). The first challenge, set by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, […]

May 26, 2017

iWedia upgrades its Teatro CI Host Software towards CI Plus 1.4 compliance

iWedia, a provider of software solutions for TV devices, has upgraded its Teatro CI Host Software towards CI Plus 1.4 compliance. The announcement was made to coincide with the opening of ANGA COM 2017, which is being held in Cologne from Tuesday, May 30th through to Thursday, June 1st and where iWedia exhibits (Koelnmesse, hall […]

May 26, 2017

Giglio Group joins IBAS through the M-Three Satcom division

The Board of Directors of IBAS – International Broadcasting Advanced Solutions – unanimously approved the entry of the Giglio Group to the consortium through the M-Three Satcom division. IBAS brings together highly eminent Italian enterprises engaged in the advanced technologies, telecommunications and broadcast fields, for the creation of teams to research new technologies and applications, […]

May 26, 2017

STN expands channel distribution services with 100 EXEcutor broadcast servers from Playbox Technology

Global teleport STN has further expanded its service capabilities using PlayBox Technology Europe’s (PBTEU) EXEcutor Broadcast Servers powered by Playbox Technology NEO software. STN’s CTO Tomasz Lovsin says, “Today’s channel-in-a-box solutions are as sophisticated as ever and offer a play-out facility with a myriad of elegant and simple solutions that ultimately serve the channel and […]

May 26, 2017

Research: Half UK VPN users access out of region content

A significant number of Britons are using either Virtual Personal Networks (VPN) or proxy servers, research from YouGov reveals. The Incognito Individual report explores the different ways people go undetected online. It shows that 16 per cent of British adults have used either a VPN or proxy server, with the main motivation for doing so […]

May 25, 2017By Colin Mann

Spain: Sky plans NOW TV September launch

Sky is reportedly finalising plans to launch its NOW TV on demand service in Spain in September as a test bed for its expansion into other European countries. The service is currently available in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Sky plans to offer the pay-TV service with TV series and films, among other […]

May 25, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

FACT welcomes Facebook streaming device ban

UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) has welcomed the recent move by Facebook to update its Commerce Policy to ban the sale of illicit streaming devices from its site. According to the site,items, products or services sold on Facebook must comply with its Community Standards, as well as the Commerce Policies, with […]

May 25, 2017By Colin Mann