Advanced Television

Test & Monitor

StarHub trials Nokia’s Liquid Applications

StarHub has revealed details of its trial implementation of Nokia’s Liquid Applications solution at its 4G mobile base stations within the Indoor Stadium at Singapore Sports Hub For the trial, conducted on October 21st, four ‘live’ video feeds of the Rising Stars Finals played at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore were delivered concurrently to […]

October 24, 2014

Videology integrates Nielsen segments with BARB data

Videology – the video advertising platform – has announced a direct platform integration of Nielsen UK data, including the TV segments built from Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (BARB) TV panel data, that enables cross-screen planning, buying, delivery and measurement.  This will provide a single-source solution for advertisers to execute scalable cross-platform campaigns that can be […]

October 23, 2014

Tilgin gateway software with new monitoring features

Tilgin’s advanced gateway software, HGA is now available in a new release. It brings new features for monitoring and support of the connected home. The HGA2.5 release contains a unique Operator log that can follow and track home networking events and data. This gives Operators new tools to quickly detect and solve issues as well […]

October 21, 2014

Civolution’s audio watermarking bought by Kantar

Civolution has sold its audio watermarking unit to Kantar Media, a specialist in audience measurement.  Civolution says this transaction, which is scheduled to close in Q4 2014, will enable it to focus on two key growth markets – media protection and media data intelligence. The deal will strengthen Kantar Media’s audience measurement technologies and open […]

October 16, 2014

Nielsen wins Australia measurement tender

IAB Australia has confirmed that Nielsen has been appointed the sole and exclusive preferred supplier for the provision of digital audience measurement services in Australia, starting on January 1st 2015, for a three year period.  The contract will see a comprehensive overhaul of the existing digital audience measurement system, with a number of significant improvements […]

October 13, 2014

Rentrak buys Kantar’s US TV measurement assets

Rentrak, a specialist in measuring movies and TV everywhere, has agreed to acquire the US television measurement business of WPP’s Kantar business unit for $98 million in Rentrak common stock. The transaction, when closed, will include Kantar Media’s customer contracts and customer relationships involved in US television measurement. This transaction gives Rentrak and Kantar better […]

October 9, 2014

Specific Media expands partnership with Nielsen

Specific Media has expanded its multi-year strategic collaboration with Nielsen to integrate new sets of audience and segmentation data into its digital advertising offerings. The advanced data enhances advertisers’ ability to create and deliver online campaigns precisely aligned with consumer behaviors. “By tapping into Nielsen’s leading data-driven insights and newest cross-screen consumer segmentation, we can […]

October 9, 2014

Kantar Media expands Asian footprint

Astro, Malaysia’s integrated consumer media group that provides pay-TV and radio services, has signed an agreement with Kantar Media to design, deploy and manage a proprietary audience measurement service. This service is the first of its kind in Malaysia.  Astro will use Kantar Media’s return path data (RPD) research techniques to collect data from its […]

October 8, 2014

BT TV deploys StormTest

Techonlogy company S3 Group, has announced that BT has significantly scaled up its deployment of StormTest Development Center, and made S3 Group its preferred supplier for test automation and monitoring. S3 Group’s video test automation platform, StormTest, provides BT with advanced, end-to-end service validation capabilities that encompass CPE, headend, and Business and Operations Support Systems […]

October 7, 2014

Media Broadcast tests DVB-T2 standard

Media Broadcast, an operator of digital terrestrial TV and radio networks in Germany, has launched a pilot project in Berlin to test the new DVB-T2 standard. All leading TV broadcasters, relevant industry associations and many companies in the CE industry are involved as project partners. This trial is an important step on the way to […]

October 6, 2014