FreeWheel, a provider of video ad management and monetisation solutions for media and entertainment companies, has announced that the pay-TV market leader in Germany & Austria, Sky Deutschland, has chosen FreeWheel to support the management of its digital ad inventory across its platforms. Building on FreeWheel’s longstanding relationship with Sky UK, Sky Deutschland will use […]
Mariner, a global player in Software Defined Monitoring (SDM), has announced significant growth in tier-1 operators using its xVu software, with more than 30 million devices now under management. That’s an increase of over 50 per cent year over year. Currently processing over 18 billion events per month, the Mariner xVu solution identifies over 100 […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, has released an unbundled version of its Ooyala IQ video analytics product, which can now be used to measure content performance and audience engagement alongside other video players including those from JW Player, Brightcove, Kaltura, thePlatform, Flowplayer and YouTube. Internet-delivered video continues to […]
Association of TV Organisations (ATO), the industry body responsible for Television ratings in the Czech Republic, has appointed Kantar and comScore to deliver a cross-platform measurement pilot of TV and video content. This announcement follows a competitive pitch involving four other bidders including GfK and Nielsen. The pilot service, planned for later this year, will […]
The Danish TV audience measurement steering committee has awarded Kantar Media and TNS Gallup the new contract for the provision of TV Ratings. The service will run for five years initially from 2017, with the option to extend until 2024. From 2017 the TV currency in Denmark will include major enhancements to measure TV content […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI and mobile telephony operator TIM have partnered for LTE Broadcast trials. On occasion on the closure of the 2015 Milan Expo, the two partners jointly offered visitors the possibility of trying out a Mobile TV service that provided access to live and on-demand content in HD, via the 4G network. Using […]
Korean telco SK Telecom is to acquire the country’s largest cable MSO CJ HelloVision as it seeks to extend its involvement in the media platform business. SK Telecom will take over a 30 per cent stake for 500 billion won (€400m) in CJ HelloVision from its parent firm CJ O Shopping, with plans to buy […]
TVbeat, the cross platform real time TV audience measurement platform, today has confirmed the release of its Live TV audience measurement module in Slovenia and Croatia. For the first time ever, local broadcasters, international networks, agencies and advertisers are able to rely on TVbeat’s census TV audience measurement at the time of broadcast. Live data […]
Video inventory management platform, SpotX, has partnered with independent ad analytics company, Moat, to measure viewability and performance metrics across inventory sold through its platform. The partnership adds additional insights to help SpotX platform customers optimise their inventory, target their campaigns, and meet the viewability demands of buyers, which are rapidly increasing, according to VP […]
Tony Cross, Chief Architect of Australia’s nbn (National Broadband Network), has announced in his Keynote Address at the Broadband World Forum 2015 event in London that the company has conducted its first trial of new copper acceleration technology G.Fast and hopes to be in a position to launch the technology in 2017. “We have conducted […]