Agama Technologies, a specialist in video service quality and customer experience, has joined the Reference Design Kit (RDK) community as a licensee. The integration with the RDK pre-integrated software solution will further broaden the applicability of Agama’s assurance and analytics solution to RDK powered set-top boxes. Analytics and automation based on large amounts of data […]
OTT experience management specialist Conviva has announced Level 3 Communications as a content delivery network (CDN) collaborator for its QoE (Quality of Experience) Ecosystem Analytics initiative. OTT publishers often rely on CDNs to deliver seamless streaming video experiences, and through this collaboration, Level 3 now has visibility into the end user experience. By sharing video […]
Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of UK-based Quality Control (QC) technology specialist, Vidcheck. Established in 2009, Vidcheck is recognized as a leading developer in automated QC solutions within file-based production workflows. Its system solutions are used by broadcasters, facilities and content owners worldwide, such as ITV, […]
UK subscription-free satellite TV service Freesat has launched a live audience measurement service showing viewing behaviour in real time. The service, which runs on an audience attribution platform developed by TVbeat, shows viewer behaviour across channels and programmes to a high level of granularity, giving channel executives and other users new datasets on which to […]
Research released by AOL has revealed that access to first-party data is more important than ever for UK publishers, but this crucial currency is being hampered by a lack of effective analytical tools. AOL conducted one of the largest studies of its kind in the UK and US, surveying current publisher trends according to 600 […]
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services (formerly Testronic Labs Belgium), has joined the RDK (Reference Design Kit) Community as a licensee. Additionally, Eurofins Digital Testing has been selected by multiple operators to test and validate next-gen TV services and applications running on RDK-based set-top boxes. “By providing […]
The latest Global Internet Phenomena Report from intelligent broadband network solutions provider Sandvine suggests that efforts by Netflix to compress its video library have led to a decline in traffic on North American fixed networks, lower data consumption for subscribers, and decreased capacity-related costs for operators. Netflix represented 35.2 per cent of traffic on North […]
The Netherlands TV industry body Stichting KijkOnderzoek (SKO) is now reporting online TV ratings data for campaigns and commercials. Working in partnership with Kantar Media, SKO is the first TV currency in the world to deliver reach and GRP’s for advertising campaigns and commercials beyond the main screen. Data is now being released to the […]
Mariner xVu, a global provider of IP video solutions and technologies, has announced a new sale to and partnership with Vodafone Ireland to deploy its Mariner xVu Software Defined Monitoring (SDM) platform. Vodafone Ireland will be using the analytics software across its IP video service to enhance subscriber quality of experience (QoE) and customer quality […]
Eurofins Digital Testing, a global player in end-to-end quality assurance (QA) and testing services (formerly Testronic Labs Belgium), has been selected by Freesat, the joint venture between ITV and the BBC, to automate monitoring of service availability across Freesat’s subscription-free satellite TV service in the UK. In addition, Freesat will use Eurofins’ TestWizard suite and […]