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NAGRA powers Claro Box TV

Content protection and multiscreen television solutions provider NAGRA has confirmed that Claro Colombia, the largest mobile telecommunications provider in the country, has selected the NAGRA OpenTV Video Platform to power its newly-launched Claro Box TV. The Android TV-based set-top box enables Claro Colombia’s clients to watch the content they want, when they want, with advanced […]

July 30, 2021

Law&Crime launches on Samsung TV Plus in Canada

Law&Crime, the legal and true crime network, is now available on Samsung TV Plus in Canada further accelerating its reach across the country and joining The Roku Channel and River TV as partners providing broad access to the network for Canadian viewers. Along with original true crime programming, Law&Crime features multiple live trials daily along […]

July 28, 2021

Forecast: Ecommerce, online video fuel global adspend recovery

Global advertising expenditure will grow 11.2 per cent in 2021, driven by exceptional demand for performance-led ecommerce advertising and brand advertising on online video, according to Zenith’s latest Advertising Expenditure Forecasts report. Advertising expenditure will total $669 billion (€569bn) this year, $40 billion more than was spent before the pandemic in 2019. Growth in advertising […]

July 26, 2021

Forecast: Global Smart TV ownership to top 50% by 2026

Strategy Analytics reports that more than 665 million homes worldwide owned a Smart TV at the end of 2020. This equates to 34 per cent of global households, a figure that is set to rise to 51 per cent by 2026 when Smart TV ownership will reach 1.1 billion homes. Sales of Smart TVs grew […]

July 26, 2021By Chris Forrester

TheViewPoint unlocks OTT space for Caracol TV

TheViewPoint, a SaaS video ad monetization platform for CTV/OTT publishers, has teamed up with Caracol TV, one of Colombia’s most popular national television networks, to provide the broadcaster with the retrofitting opportunities of the OTT advertising. Caracol TV is a well-established television company, which has a broad range of successful programming across various verticals, including […]

July 23, 2021

Plume shares smart home insights

Personalised smart services specialist Plume has released data and insights into smart home trends resulting from increases in the number of devices, types of devices, hours used and data used across smart homes. This comes as it surpasses what it says is a major milestone: more than 1 billion unique client devices have been managed […]

July 22, 2021By Colin Mann

Astro launches OTT device

As part of the new Astro experience to offer customers more choices, real value and flexibility in a streaming world, Malaysian multiplay operator Astro has launched the new Ultra Plug & Play Box, which it says offers customers an uninterrupted experience of the best of international and local content without a satellite dish. The device […]

July 22, 2021By Colin Mann

VIZIO adds CoComelon, iFood.tv

Future Today, the streaming solution that packages branded channels, has announced the launch of streaming CoComelon, the world’s most-viewed YouTube channel with over 3.5 billion average monthly views, and iFood.tv, an online food community, for VIZIO’s SmartCast TVs. With addition of the new channels, Future Today has launched 13 AVoD streaming apps and four Free […]

July 22, 2021

TCL passes ETSI EN 303 645 global standard

TCL Electronics has received the TÜV Rheinland /Privacy By Design logo, which confirms its fulfilment to cybersecurity standard ETSI EN 303 645, the first globally applicable standard designed to encourage a security baseline for consumer IoT devices. Headquartered in Germany, TÜV Rheinland is an international third-party testing and certification organisation. TCL is the first batch […]

July 21, 2021

Altice USA unveils Stream OTT device

Multiplay telco Altice USA has unveiled Optimum Stream and Suddenlink Stream, a new 4K streaming device available to the company’s broadband-only customers. Powered by Android TV OS, the new streaming experience provides what the operator says is a best-in-class and user-friendly solution for broadband-only customers to have access to a wide variety of video content, […]

July 20, 2021