SPI/FilmBox and Canal+ Group have announced the launch of SPI’s combat sports entertainment destination FightBox on the latter’s platform in Ethiopia. FightBox will be offered in the English language and will be available to subscribers in the basic ‘DESTA’ package. “I am very happy to be supporting Canal+ Group in this new adventure. We have […]
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has partnered with Viaccess-Orca (VO) and MainStreaming to provide a new end-to-end OTT platform, app and associated backend infrastructure. Alessandro Alquati, MD of Globecast Italy, who has been leading the creation of the partnership, said, “Globecast is dedicated to continuing to enhance its OTT solutions portfolio to satisfy demand […]
On June 17th, BT Sport will air the first episode of The Rugby’s On, a new chat show giving a humorous and informed take on the week’s news from the world of rugby. The Rugby’s On will be hosted comedian and Saracens fan Hal Cruttenden, alongside his guests, the former England and Lions back Ugo […]
MadHive, the enterprise software platform that powers modern media, has announced it will be the first partner to license HyphaMetrics’ panel data, a cross-screen and cross-walled garden dataset in the ecosystem. Combining MadHive’s proprietary OTT-first device graph with Hypha’s panel data gives MadHive customers exclusive access to robust cross-screen insights, allowing them to seamlessly prove […]
According to findings from revenue and device security specialist Trustonic, there is widespread confusion among consumers in the UK around whether or not they have taken out financing on their mobile phones. In the survey, only 27 per cent of respondents stated they had taken device financing as part of an operator package. In contrast, […]
ATEME, a specialist in video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable TV, DTH, IPTV and OTT, has achieved breakthrough performance increase of its video encoders. By closely collaborating with Intel and harnessing the combination of Intel processors and ATEME encoders, ATEME’s customers will benefit from the delivery of up to 2x higher-performance encoding for OTT, resulting […]
LiveU, a specialist in live video streaming and remote production solutions, and Blackbird, developer and seller of the multi award winning cloud-native video editing and publishing platform, Blackbird, have announced that Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland chose their newly pre-integrated live news solution to enhance live coverage of this year’s regional elections. The project was managed by CBC, […]
mediaSaaS.tv, the company bringing a transformational change in broadcast technology through its app platform, has added the digital archive transformation and migration capabilities of Cloudfirst.ioto its platform. Cloudfirst brings an unrivalled depth of knowledge and experience in archive modernisation, transformation and migration services, which is now available to mediaSaaS users. mediaSaaS.tvturns broadcast technology on its […]
Disney+ has revealed that original series “Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life,” will premiere July 28th. Comprised of three seven-minute stories, each episode follows two tiny troublemakers, Chip and Dale, trying to live the good life in a big city park while having giant-sized, sky-high adventures. Nervous worrier Chip and laid-back dreamer Dale make the perfect […]
The SRT Alliance, the open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming, today announced that this year’s SRT InterOp Plugfest will take place from Monday, June 21 – Friday, June 25. The annual event will kick off with a webinar featuring a special guest speaker from AWS Elemental, at 11am EST/5pm CET […]