ThinkAnalyticstoday has announced that Deutsche Telekom AG is deploying ThinkAnalytics for personalised content discovery on its pay-TV and OTT services in what will be one of Europe’s largest rollouts of advanced search and content discovery platforms. First to go live with the cloud-based service, in July 2019, was Croatia Telecom (Hrvatski Telekom, HT) on its […]
Netflix is developing A Time Lost based – an original story written by Millie Bobby Brown (star of Stranger Things) and her sister Paige Brown. The movie will tell the story of a long-standing feud between two Long Island families which comes to a head when one of their teenage daughters is diagnosed with cancer. […]
Input device and interaction mechanisms specialist ruwido is expanding into the Asian market via a partnership with Astro, the leading content and consumer company in Malaysia. The cooperation with Astro has seen the first remote release to public beta participants in August 2019, with the latest generation of 4K Ultraboxes (hybrid set-top boxes). The new […]
Imagine Communications, a provider of open, end-to-end ad tech solutions, has announced that core OTT monetisation functionality from its Targeted Delivery portfolio is now available as OTT Monetization Service, powered by Amazon Web Services,(AWS). Based on proven broadcast and multiscreen distribution offerings that have been deployed globally, the cloud-based, cross-platform managed service features proven functionality […]
Israel’s Spacecom satellite operator, which owns the Amos fleet of spacecraft, says it is now putting the challenges of the past few years behind it and is returning to normality. Its latest craft, Amos-17 launched on August 6th, is safe in orbit and is racking up business. Spacecom CEO David Pollack says Amos-17 has booked […]
Tremor Video is bringing its video advertising platform to webOS smart TVs from LG Electronics. Tremor Video provides entertainment advertisers and apps with highly visible placements that are native to the smart TV experience across millions of connected TV devices – helping them to stand out with content discoverability in the battle for share of […]
V-Nova, a provider of video compression technologies, has announced that it is the key enabler for a new streaming service, MVMO, due to launch in Africa in late 2019. Partnering with next-generation OTT TV pioneer Simplestream, the service will combine the V-Nova P+ codec-agnostic enhancement and Simplestream streaming platform to deliver a wide range of […]
Kaltura, a video technology provider, has announced that its Kaltura Cloud TV technology is supporting the launch of Vodafone TV in Greece, Romania and Portugal, joining Spain and Italy. The service is a multi-country telco-grade TV service that relies on a single common cloud-based platform that allows Vodafone OpCos to launch the Vodafone TV service […]
Qwilt, a provider of content delivery and edge cloud solutions, has announced that Globo, Brazil’s leading media company, has partnered with Qwilt to optimise content delivery and improve Quality of Experience (QoE) across Brazil. Globo will use Qwilt’s Content Delivery Sharing solution, deployed in Tier 1 service provider networks in Brazil, to support growing demand […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and Samsung Electronics, have announced that HD+, a subsidiary of satellite provider SES, is the first operator to deploy TVkey Cloud on its HD+ satellite platform. TVkey Cloud is the cloud-based direct-to-TV security solution co-developed by NAGRA and Samsung that […]