Advanced Television

Romania: Dizi launches on Focus Sat

SPI/FilmBox continues to expand its footprint in Romania through new distribution agreements with key partners in the region. The new distribution agreement with Focus Sat, one of the biggest providers of digital satellite television services in Romania, renders SPI’s Dizi available to subscribers in the MozaicPlus extra-basic package. Dizi will be offered in the original […]

January 13, 2021

Firstlight Media and Evergent team up

Firstlight Media and Evergent Technologies are integrating their cloud-based capabilities to help OTT and pay-TV providers  deliver end-to-end solutions that optimize and monetize audiences. The partnership brings together the customer engagement power of Firstlight Media’s Content Management System (CMS) and integrated revenue and customer management of Evergent’s OTT and traditional video solution to significantly enhance […]

January 13, 2021

TF1 Group partners with Newsbridge

Newsbridge, the ultimate cloud platform for next-gen media valorization providing large-scale Multimodal Indexing for audiovisual content via AI, has announced a partnership with the french broadcast network TF1 Group, and the official launch of its advanced content monetization solution for audiovisual archives. This partnership stems from a merged actualization of the group’s intrapreneurial project to […]

January 13, 2021

Kantar announces expansion of TV Audience Measurement panel in Georgia

Kantar, the data, insights and consulting company is announcing a significant improvement to the TV Audience Measurement (TAM) service in Georgia. Since 2016, Kantar and its local licensing partner, Tri Media Intelligence (TMI), have provided the TV audience measurement currency to the Georgian market. This enhanced service will: Increase the size of the Georgian TAM […]

January 13, 2021

NDR integrates CGI’s StudioDirector 2.0

CGI, the newsroom system provider in Europe, has announced that Germany’s Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), a member of the ARD Group, has integrated StudioDirector 2.0 into its existing OpenMedia newsroom ecosystem. The public radio and television broadcaster NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, and first became a CGI (back then […]

January 13, 2021

24i partners with Float Left

Float Left and streaming video experience specialists 24i have announced that 24i will now leverage the power of Float Left OTT technology to offer advanced applications on Roku, one of the leading connected TV devices. Float Left has more than a decade of experience in the OTT space. They were Roku’s first development partners and […]

January 13, 2021

TNT to produce first annual AEW Dynamite Awards

TNT and Bleacher Report have announced the first annual “AEW Dynamite Awards,” a new awards show honouring the top AEW stars and viral moments of the past year. The show will livestream on January 27th exclusively on the Bleacher Report app. Fans can vote fnow or their favorites in a variety of categories – including […]

January 13, 2021

IMPACT Wrestling reveals new broadcast team

IMPACT Wrestling has announced that a new broadcast team will start on January 16th at the Hard To Kill pay-per-view, which will originate from Nashville, Tennessee. Matt Striker will be IMPACT’s new play-by-play announcer, while D’Lo Brown will handle color commentary duties. The two also will be the announce team for the flagship weekly TV […]

January 13, 2021

Campbell reaches final stage of ITV’s Studio 55 Ventures

In September 2020, ITV announced a new collaboration with Founders Intelligence called Studio 55 Ventures, which saw hundreds of applications from various business ideas from inside and outside of ITV. Paying homage to ITV’s origins and rich cultural history, Studio 55 Ventures is a scheme that eventually seeks to invest in a select number of […]

January 13, 2021

Forecast: India SVoD market at $1.9bn by 2025

India’s online video industry generated an estimated $1.4 billion (€1.1bn) in revenue in 2020 with advertising contributing 64 per cent and subscription 36 per cent, according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). While there are close to 60 platforms operating in the market, the top five platforms – YouTube, Disney+ Hotstar, Netflix, Amazon […]

January 12, 2021