Verizon Digital Media Services has acquired broadcast monitoring and content archiving company Volicon, the terms weren’t disclosed. According to Bob Toohey, president of Verizon Digital Media Services, Volicon will improve Verizon’s ability to offer a ‘seamless option’ for repackaging existing broadcast feeds and channels for cloud-based OTT services. A key Verizon offer for all kinds […]
Tail Target, a provider of DMP (Data Management Platform) and Behavioural Data in Brazil, and Cisneros Interactive, the corporate division of the Cisneros organisation dedicated to investing in digital advertising businesses with great potential of growth and expansion, announced a multi-million dollar joint venture to launch Tail Target Latino, which will operate throughout Latin America […]
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing an open standard for the delivery of broadcast and broadband services through connected TVs and set-top boxes, announced that it has received all the test material for the first release of a test suite for HbbTV 2.0 implementations. The current HbbTV test suite (V8.1) is suitable […]
Fresh from its merger with Rentrak, cross-platform measurement specialist comScore has revealed that its planned Total Home Panel measurement platform will enable the measurement of over-the-top services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime with title level information. Speaking on comScore’s Q4 2015 Results Earnings Call, Serge Matta, Executive Vice Chairman and President of comScore, said […]
Netflix has confirmed it has finally completed its cloud migration and shut down the last remaining data centre bits used by its streaming service, having begun the process in August 2008, when it experienced a major database corruption and for three days could not ship DVDs to its members. It suggests the development moves it […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and an expert in premium video publishing, analytics and monetisation, is providing Meredith Corporation, one of America’s leading media and marketing companies, with real-time video engagement and performance analytics with Ooyala IQ. Choosing Ooyala IQ, Meredith becomes the first Ooyala customer to utilise its unbundled analytics solution with Ooyala as well […]
The ASPEN Community is proud has announced that Phabrix, a specialist in test and measurement instruments, has joined the community. The ASPEN Community is a growing coalition of industry leading manufacturers and end users who are adopting the ASPEN framework for building state of the art IP facilities. ASPEN (Adaptive Sample Picture ENcapsulation) is an […]
OzTAM has announced the initial phase of its Video Player Measurement (VPM) Report would launch the week commencing February 7th. This means the first public reports – which encompass rolling seven-day data (i.e., cumulative viewing during the previous seven days) – will be available the following week. OzTAM’s VPM Report is a separate and complementary […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, will be providing security solutions and services to Caspio HD, a new private DTH satellite operator in Kazakhstan. Irdeto Cloaked CA provides Caspio HD with a highly secure and cost-effective solution to launch its new TV service, featuring premium movies and sports content in HD. “As a DTH […]
VeEX, a global player in Telecom, CATV, Fibre, Transport and Broadband Access, has added the MTTplus test platform to its modular multi-service platform portfolio. Building on the legacy of the legendary SunSet MTT family, the MTTplus modular and highly portable test platform provides a compact, powerful and cost-effective test toolkit for today’s wide range of […]