Digital video viewing saw double-digit growth in 2013 according to Nielsen, making cross-platform insights critical for marketers — particularly when it comes to marquee events such as the Olympics. To better understand exactly how consumers watched the 2014 Winter Games across TV, online and mobile, NBCUniversal participated in an exclusive pilot using soon-to-be-released Nielsen Online […]
S3 Group, a specialist in enhancing the performance and service readiness of video platforms across connected devices, has been selected by Germany’s largest cable MSO Kabel Deutschland, to help it scale and validate video services on various consumer premises equipment (CPE). Kabel Deutschland will use S3 Group’s video test automation platform, StormTest Development Center, for […]
Ericsson is a partner in the first LTE broadcast trial in the Netherlands. KPN is the first network operator in the Netherlands to conduct live tests with LTE Broadcast in collaboration with Amsterdam ArenA and communications technology and services provider Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Samsung and IBM. The trial took place on May 3rd during a […]
Witbe, the next generation quality monitoring company, has announced that Altibox, a provider of triple-play solutions in Norway, has deployed its Video Quality Assurance solution to automate testing of all their OTT Video Contents and services on PC, smartphones and tablets. Altibox has been working on perfecting their Quality of Experience with Witbe’s solutions since […]
Further to its recent update on the commercial availability of its Tablet TV service and announcement of its first full market beta test this summer in San Francisco, digital TV software solutions provider Motive Television has revealed that it has received confirmation that testing of its technology for Freeview Tablet TV by the UK’s Digital […]
Multimedia content management specialist VSN has acquired M-Fact, an R&D Enterprise that has developed a unique real time ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) system. M-Fact’s technology facilitates the unification of the Offline and Online worlds (TV/Radio and Internet). Based on its content recognition system, it is possible to monitor and audit in real time all content […]
Nielsen has announced that Syncbak— the US media technology company that enables users to watch live, in-market broadcast television— has successfully integrated Nielsen’s proprietary Software Development Kit (SDK) for Syncbak’s portfolio of client applications. The Nielsen SDK will allow clients in local markets, who are encoding with Nielsen Watermarks, to measure audiences across mobile platforms […]
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has confirmed that BAFTA Research, a commercial business unit operating within the organisation, has won funding from the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, for its latest research project entitled ‘Resolving Visual Quality for Media’ (REVQUAL). Following BAFTA’s success in the Technology Strategy Board’s ‘Cross-platform […]
Satellite operator Thaicom is starting its DTT re-transmissions today (April 1st) and in accordance with the national ‘must carry’ rules set by Thailand’s Broadcasting & Telecoms Commission (NBTC). Free-to-air DTT signals will now also be carried by Thaicom’s satellite transmissions.. “Thaicom recognises that this is an important step for Thailand’s broadcasting industry, and we are […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has announced an important audience measurement “first” in delivering a single unduplicated multi-platform global audience metric across desktop computers, smartphones and tablets. This global audience number leverages comScore’s proprietary multi-platform audience de-duplication methodology combined with comprehensive tagging to produce a measure of unique people being reached across […]