Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that Finland’s Elisa has extended its existing Agama DTV Monitoring Solution deployment to also cover quality assurance of its pioneering OTT service EpicTV. With Agama, EpicTV can now ensure that the premium streaming service, offering live and on-demand extreme sports content to multiple connected viewing […]
Bridge Technologies has launched a new version of its OTT Engine featuring the industry’s first implementation of full MPEG-DASH monitoring. The new OTT Engine makes MPEG-DASH support a core part of of the user’s OTT monitoring capability, is compatible with all Bridge Technologies 1G and 10G probes, and is embedded within the iOS and Android […]
Tremor Video, a US provider of technology-driven video advertising solutions, has integrated On TV and Movie data from TMS into its in-stream video ads. Through its proprietary VideoHub technology, Tremor Video will pull TV listings and movie showtimes from TMS into its advanced video ad formats. This marks Tremor Video’s first integration of third-party entertainment […]
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that EWE TEL GmbH, one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in Germany, has chosen to deploy an Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for quality assurance of its IPTV service. With refined head-end and network monitoring, EWE TEL aims to make service operations more effective […]
Bridge Technologies has launched PocketProbe for Android to complement the iOS version of its remote monitoring app. Featuring Bridge Technologies’ second-generation OTT Engine, the new PocketProbe for Android delivers digital media monitoring and analysis capability right to the engineer’s pocket. Expanding its compatibility with popular formats, PocketProbe now provides comprehensive analysis of HLS, Smoothstream, RTMP […]
Rentrak, the specialist in measuring TV everywhere, serving the advertising, TV and movie industries, has acquired iTVX, a global palyer in measuring branded entertainment analytics, insights and research across TV, Movies, Internet and Social Media. iTVX serves some of the largest advertisers, including Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota, Pepsi, Subway and Telemundo, with advanced analytics for branded […]
South Korean satellite broadcaster KT SkyLife will commence test transmissions of 4K/Ultra HD programming next year, according to Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency. Local cable operators are also planning test-streaming of 4K programming to a handful of subscribers in order to test systems. While further details are sketchy, it is known that Korea Telecom’s SkyLife DTH […]
Twitter is testing a new feature that sees links to popular TV shows appear as Twitter cards at the top of user’s Timelines, complete with related Tweet data and show information. The cards themselves link through to pages dedicated to the programme in question, with more information about the show and related Tweets The click-through […]
Kantar Media, a specialist in audience measurement, has acquired a minority stake in SecondSync, a UK-based social TV analytics company. The move extends the existing relationship between the two companies, who entered into a data sharing agreement earlier this year. The two companies will now work closely together to deliver a range of TV measurement […]
S3 Group, an international digital TV company that enables operators and infrastructure vendors to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of multiscreen TV, has unveiled a new product model in the StormTest Development Center family, designed to address large scale test automation of up to 64 devices simultaneously for stress, performance and reliability use cases. Digital TV […]