Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, has announced its expanded TV measurement footprint driven by a new partnership with Samba TV, a global cross-screen television data and analytics provider. The launch of international Smart TV measurement capabilities will begin in select European markets. By working with new and existing partners, […]
Red Bee Media is delivering OTT services for a new partnership between the state-owned Swedish casino operator and gaming company Svenska Spel Sport & Casino and French sports and horse betting company Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU). Through the partnership and by using Red Bee’s OTT platform, Svenska Spel Sport & Casino is now able to […]
A survey from Edgeware and streaming media expert Dan Rayburn has highlighted streaming TV providers’ limited visibility into their customers’ QoE and means to correct quality-impacting problems in real time. The survey, conducted in May 2020 with 250 leading broadcasters, OTT service providers, cable companies, publishers and brands, explores the video quality issues facing streaming […]
Satellite operator SES has created a new facility at its Stockley Park premises, in Hayes, West London. SES says that as remote production for sports ramps up around the globe, SES is providing broadcasters with a newly opened, full-service sports and events facility in Greater London. “Apart from handling downlink, decoding, processing and recording, SES’s […]
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE and Google have reached an agreement to use Google Cloud’s Artificial Intelligence and machine learning tools to translate subtitles of TV content from RTVE into different languages (English, Italian, French, German) aiming to reach an International audience. Currently, RTVE is subtitling in English its newscasts (Telediario 1 and 2 also in […]
Global media services provider Red Bee Media has renewed its relationship with multinational video applications developer Dotscreen. Red Bee will continue to deliver TV and movie metadata for Dotscreen’s multiscreen applications, showcasing how viewers can discover content, no matter the device they’re watching on. Red Bee’s metadata portfolio offers access to a database of 10+ […]
ITV says it will become a Net Zero carbon business by 2030, as part of its ongoing commitment to creating the biggest shows with the smallest footprint. The business will work alongside colleagues, suppliers, programme makers and the albert consortium to achieve net zero across it’s scope 1&2 emissions, business travel and all produced and […]
According to a new YouGov survey, the majority of Premier League fans still dislike VAR – but the percentage who think it has “done badly” has fallen. The percentage of those who think Video Assistant Referees have worked well in the Premier League has gone up from 27 per cent to 36 per cent. There […]
As the latest NFL season kicks off, Verizon Media has announced the launch of two new features, Watch Together and Sports PlayA, for fans watching games through the Yahoo Sports app. The new Watch Together is a co-viewing experience designed to innovate live events by providing fans the ability to co-watch, interact and immerse themselves […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon company, and the National Football League (NFL) have announced they will debut six new insights through the NFL’s Next Gen Stats platform powered by AWS during the September 10th season kick-off game between the Houston Texans and the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. The new advanced stats will […]