SeaChange International and ThinkAnalytics, developer of the world’s most deployed multiplatform TV search and recommendations engine, have announced their global reseller agreement and integration of the SeaChange Adrenalin multi-screen video platform with the ThinkAnalytics Search and Recommendations Engine. The joint solution will enable video service providers and content owners to deliver multi-screen television with the […]
Jinni, the creator of the Entertainment Genome and semantic video discovery, is to team up with Ooyala, an innovator in video streaming and analytics, to deliver advanced video discovery technology for media companies, broadcasters and pay-TV operators everywhere. The technology will integrate Ooyala’s machine-learning big-data analytics systems with Jinni’s semantic discovery to deliver a powerful […]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has expressed worries that over personalisation of media services will lead to a kind of Balkanisation with people never sampling new material and an end to ‘audience events.’ At a panel session about digital delivery at a meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors in Washington, Hastings said that personalisation is […]
ThinkAnalytics has expanded the functionality of its ThinkCloud hosted solution. With ThinkCloud, operators and content providers can now deploy ThinkAnalytics’ Search and Recommendations Engine via a ‘pay as you grow’ business model, choosing perhaps to start out with basic recommendations and introduce more advanced recommendations down the road, when they are ready. The hosted solution […]
Entertainment navigation specialist TMS and semantic discovery engine for video Jinni have agreed a deal that will see Jinni use TMS’s OnEntertainment metadata to provide availability information for linear TV and OTT content on its new ‘My TV & Movie Guide’ iPad app and web service. As a result, once consumers find something they wish […]
UK open IPTV platform YouView has released the second in a series of updates designed to deliver better accessibility for blind and partially sighted customers as well as those with motor skill and cognitive impairment, to improve the journey for this audience to find their favourite TV. YouView has improved the zoom functionality which now […]
Online entertainment service Netflix has unveiled what it describes as the biggest update to its TV experience in the service’s history, a “radically new look” that makes Netflix on TVs a much richer and more immersive experience, according to the company. The new design was created specifically for the big screen, featuring multiple cinematic images […]
Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, has reiterated his stance that search engines play a significant role in introducing audiences to infringing movies and TV shows online and has urged Google to step up its fight against film piracy. Interviewed by the Financial Times, Dodd said that in […]
Jinni, the advanced TV and movie discovery engine available, has launched a new, free iPad app and web site. The new platforms deliver intuitive, personalised recommendations for movies, television and streaming content that match a user’s tastes and moods. “In viewing one’s own entertainment personality a user inevitably learns more about their own tastes. Jinni […]
UK TV listings publication Radio Times has launched Radio Times DiscoverTV App, a new daily TV and radio recommendations and discovery service designed to help viewers discover favourite programmes wherever they are – on TV, catch-up or on-demand. The App aims to cut through the ever-increasing broadcast choices with daily categorised recommendations to the best […]