Alchimie, the content aggregation and dynamic distribution company, has announced a new agreement with French media and entertainment conglomerate, Mediawan, extending its current partnership to include a replay / catch up service for nine themed Mediawan linear channels to subscribers on Alchimie’s Watch-It OTT platform. The catch-up service allows content on AB3, ABXPLORE, RTL9, Action […]
V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has announced the launch of its cloud-based SaaS transcoding and delivery platform for enhanced PERSEUS Plus h.264 and native h.264 encoding. The platform enables service providers and third party streaming platforms to rapidly launch PERSEUS Plus enhanced services offering higher quality video at up to 50 per cent […]
ViewLift has announced that its OTT streaming and monetization platform has been selected by Nexstar Media Group to power KRONon, a new digital video subscription service recently launched by the leading local TV broadcaster’s flagship San Francisco station, KRON4. The Nexstar/ViewLift collaboration makes the Bay Area’s leading news and community coverage available to viewers anywhere, […]
Borderline Media, founded in 2017 by Guillaume Roussy and Jérémy Klif, is a company specialised in digital production and format creation for various brands, artists, platforms, producers and broadcasters in France and internationally. Borderline Media already produced various digital content : music vidéos, advertising, brand-content, webseries. The company affirms its presence in a booming market […]
Edgeware has announced the launch of its new Virtual Channel Creation solution that will enable broadcasters to offer a tailored ‘lean-back’ OTT TV experience to its viewers, and increase the value of their existing live content. This new Virtual Channel Creation solution can be used to create alternative OTT versions of linear channels that are […]
Make.TV, used by leaders in news, esports, sports and entertainment to handle live video in the cloud, announces that its partnership with the world’s largest esports company ESL will see the two companies distribute esports content to fans and enthusiasts worldwide during ESL One Mumbai (April 19-21, 2019). ESL and Make.TV have been distributing content […]
Red Bee Media will be showcasing Live Automatic Captioning in real time at NAB Show 2019. Using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology by Speechmatics, the 24-hour online news stream from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) will be captioned live on the Red Bee Media stand. The solution is part of a three-month trial with the […]
Dr. Zhou Wang, the Emmy Award-winning video quality measurement inventor, will discuss how optimising consumer Quality of Experience (QoE) can boost media industry revenues on a SPROCKIT Innovation Pipeline panel next week at the NAB Show 2019 in Las Vegas. Dr. Wang – co-founder and Chief Science Officer of SSIMWAVE and inventor of the next […]
Searches for flights to Dubrovnik in Croatia – the setting for King’s Landing on Game of Thrones – increased by 240% in the month of March, with the premiere of the final season scheduled for the 14th April. The team at flight-comparison website www.Jetcost.co.uk analysed the number of searches for flights to airports closest to […]
Utelly, a provider of video search and curation services, today announced that it will collaborate with Altice Labs in Portugal, a division of the largest telecom operator in Portugal, on an Horizon 2020 project to determine TV viewer recommendations, based on set-top boxes’ subscriber behavioral data. The project, sponsored by the European Union’s research and […]