PlaceIQ, specialists in audiences analysis, and Media Storm, the second largest independent media agency in the US, have announced today a unique campaign with a major sports network. The campaign, first to use new PIQ PrimeTime Measurement, was designed to drive viewership of Major League Baseball (MLB) on the network. Leveraging a cross-section of location-based […]
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, has issued a Request For Information (RFI) soliciting members of the industry to comment on and register to receive a Request For Proposal (RFP) to be issued at a […]
Facebook launched its Atlas advertising service, enabling it to better track its 1.3 billion users’ web browsing activity. Facebook claims it has rebuilt Atlas from the ground up since it acquired the software from Microsoft earlier this year. A Facebook blog post reads: “Today, we are announcing the launch of Atlas. We’ve rebuilt Atlas from […]
BT is claiming to have made a “big breakthrough” with fibre broadband, which could see homes and businesses have access to speeds of 1Gbps. Speaking at the Huawei Ultra-Broadband Forum 2014 in London, Tim Whitley, Managing Director, Research and Innovation at the telco, revealed that a trial of so-called G-Fast technology has managed download speeds […]
VeEX, a global player in Telecom and CATV test solutions, has added OTDR capability to the TX300S, the company’s flagship 10G multi-service tester. The TX300S integrates an impressive arsenal of physical layer optical test tools, including a full featured OTDR, a power meter, a light source and a visual fault locator. Fiber inspection probes provide […]
French telco Bouygues Telecom is testing 4K transmission using its ‘Miami’ hybrid set-top box. The Android-based box blends all incoming source signals from the basic IPTV head-end transmission as well as live DVB broadcasts, OTT and Internet on Demand source material. It can also handle 4K signals. The 4K Ultra-HDTV signals are full 3840 x […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has announced that M7 Group has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to provide enhanced security for its Online.nl service, which offers a large number of linear TV channels and multiple on demand services on STBs […]
Conax, part of the Kudelski Group, and a specialist in total service protection for pay-for-media, content owners and entertainment services, is providing the international telecommunications and media company, Millicom, with content protection for its expanding cable and satellite pay-TV operations under the Tigo Star brand. Conax has entered a Supply Agreement with Millicom for its […]
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced that Swisscom, the leader of the Swiss digital TV market, has selected the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) to provide enhanced revenue security for its new Swisscom TV 2.0 service offering, which offers integrated live and […]
Witbe, the next generation QoE testing and monitoring company, has announced that Liberty Global, the international cable company, has deployed Witbe’s monitoring solution for interactive services on its digital TV platforms including Horizon. With a strong experience on monitoring the live streams of their digital TV offer, Liberty Global are now using Witbe’s technology to […]