Advanced Television

Extreme E LatAm broadcast deal with ESPN

Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, has confirmed a partnership with ESPN in Latin America. ESPN will broadcast live racing action as well as highlights, magazine, preview and review shows across Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile in English, Spanish or Portuguese. This is a particularly important territory for Extreme E […]

November 24, 2020

Verizon Media selects 24i solutions

Verizon Media which has selected 24i’s Smart OTT and Backstage solutions as part of the Verizon Media Platform for OTT and streaming services. Backstage eliminates the need for device-specific engineers, reducing the time to launch on new platforms and devices, a significant OPEX benefit, whilst Smart OTT is a turnkey video application development platform that […]

November 24, 2020

Meetrics partners with Xandr

Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company and Meetrics, the European measurement and analysis company, are developing a joint solution for more precise control of the programmatic purchasing of advertising displays. With the integration of Meetrics’ technology into Xandr’s purchasing platform, Xandr Invest, advertisers and agencies now have the ability to control the effectiveness of their advertising […]

November 24, 2020

Viant awarded US Patent for ICH Identification

Viant, a people-based advertising software company, has been granted a patent (US Patent No. 10,764,240) for “Internet Connected Household Identification for Online Measurement and Dynamic Content Delivery.” This patented technology, which has been integrated into its Adelphic Platform, enables Viant to identify an internet connected household (ICH). Once Viant has identified the ICH, Viant is […]

November 24, 2020

MultiChoice picks Metrological to deliver OTT

Metrological has been selected by MultiChoice Group to bring premium OTT services, international apps and localised content to its subscribers across Africa on its new Explora Ultra set-top box as well as its new Streama OTT platform. MultiChoice leverages the Metrological Application Platform to package MultiChoice’s content with apps and premium OTT services from the […]

November 24, 2020

DAZN launching Yabecchi Stadium series

DAZN, the sport streaming destination, will launch the iconic football entertainment series, ‘Yabecchi Stadium’, in Japan as the platform increases its commitment to original content. The series was unveiled today during a press conference featuring J.League Chairman Mitsuru Murai, and is the first original content to be announced as DAZN continues its focus on its […]

November 24, 2020

ViacomCBS and Morena Films to co-develop The Kellys

ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) and production company Morena Films have announced a co-development deal for dramedy TV series The Kellys. Héctor Lozano (Merlí, Merlí. Sapere Aude) is the creator and showrunner of this production following a group of cleaners in a Spanish coast’s hotel. The protagonists have different European and Latin American backgrounds, but all […]

November 24, 2020

paus partners with Adventure Uncovered and Salford University

paus, the streaming app for independent films, has announced official partnerships with both Adventure Uncovered and Salford University. The partnerships will bring award winning adventure-focused content, as well as the best of student filmmaking, curated exclusively by the new partners onto the paus app. Adventure Uncovered is on a mission to deliver positive social and […]

November 24, 2020

NetRange VISNOS launched to drive Smart TV adoption

NetRange, the global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, has launched its cloud-powered VISNOS (Virtual Smart TV NetRange OS) platform to slash CE device manufacturers’ Smart TV costs and enable existing low-powered TVs to receive Smart TV services. The NetRange VISNOS platform removes the requirement for a browser in the TV, a […]

November 24, 2020

BritBox launches in Australia

BritBox, the SVoD service created by the BBC and ITV, has officially launched in Australia. The launch is the next step in the global expansion of the platform, following its earlier launches in the US, Canada and the UK. ITV and BBC Studios announced in August 2020 plans to invest more than A$35 million (€21.2m) […]

November 23, 2020By Colin Mann