Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) are overwhelmingly planning to move to Broadband Forum’s User Services Platform (USP/TR-369) standard in order to introduce AI, Wi-Fi sensing, L4S, and more into their home broadband offerings. This is part of their ongoing drive to deliver differentiated services and boost customer revenue, a report has revealed. The Future of the […]
ITV is leveraging Magnite’s streamr.ai technology as the basis of its new ITV GenAI Ads Manager production service to make it easier for SMEs to create their own advertising of a high enough creative threshold to run across ITV’s broadcast and streaming platforms. Following the expansion of ITV’s commercial creative production service to include the […]
Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), has criticised OpenAI’s stance on copyright responsibility following the recent release of video production tool Sora 2. “Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media,” he noted. “While OpenAI clarified […]
FastStream Interactive has announced the introduction of its first AI-generated virtual TV presenters to host a TV music channel, on its free interactive TV music channel, ROXi. The virtual hosts will introduce music videos on ROXi, initially on US broadcast TV and on Sky in the UK and Ireland. ROXi’s AI-generated TV presenters will host […]
Vibe.co, the ad platform bringing hyper-targeting to connected TV (CTV) for performance marketers, has closed $50 million (€42.6m) in Series B financing led by Hedosophia, an early investor of Spotify, Uber and Airbnb. The financing also includes participation from previous backers including Elaia and Singular; in addition to Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky’s fund QuantumLight; Supercell […]
Fairground Entertainment, an AI studio and streaming distribution network, and Rogue Matter have announced a multi-deal partnership that will translate Rogue Matter’s graphic novels and ecomic book properties to fully AI-based programming for streaming TV. The first programming slate in this collaboration includes episodic TV shows based on Rogue Matter’s Ketcher: Origins; Don’t Tell My […]
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can now create personalised AI-generated ad campaigns and optimise them for maximum impact, through a new partnership between AdGreetz, the ad-tech/martech personalisation platform, and creative data provider DAIVID. The collaboration utilises AdGreetz’s video generator, BizGreetz AI, which empowers SMBs to produce ads in minutes (in 31 languages with AI-activated voice […]
CEOs of a number of Europe’s leading telos have used the occasion of the Connect Europe public event in Brussels to issue an open letter affirming their support for European industrial leadership in Artificial Intelligence and security technologies. The letter reads: “Today, we gather in Brussels to mark our support for European industrial leadership in […]
Nvidia has announced an investment of £2 billion (€2.3bn) in the UK market to “catalyse the nation’s AI startup ecosystem and scale the next generation of globally transformative AI businesses”. Nvidia said the new capital will be used to foster economic growth, develop more innovative AI technologies, create new companies and jobs, and empower the […]
ThinkAnalytics, a specialist in video content discovery and persaonalisation, has announced that Dish TV India has chosen ThinkMediaAI to provide personalised recommendations across its Watcho OTT platform. ThinkAnalytics’ ThinkMediaAI product suite includes personalised content discovery, search, editorial curation, UX orchestration, A/B testing and business insights. ThinkAnalytics will provide search and personalised content discovery across more […]