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Streaming guide Minnow goes live

Minnow, a next generation streaming video guide, has launched in the US combining all of the popular premium VoD services including Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu and Amazon Prime into one unified application on TV and mobile. Minnow will support emerging streamers HBO Max, Peacock and Quibi as soon as and when they launch in […]

November 12, 2019

BBC, Sky content and technology partnership

Sky and the BBC have agreed a new partnership that will see the two broadcasters collaborate across content and technology. As part of the wide-ranging partnership, the BBC iPlayer app and connected red-button service are launching on Sky Q, Sky’s next-generation TV platform, offering Sky customers the full BBC iPlayer and red-button experience. Sky viewers […]

November 11, 2019

GoMedia Yahoo Search boost for Greyhound passengers

Transport infotainment platform specialist GoMedia has signed a multi-territory deal with Verizon Media to bring Yahoo Search, a Verizon Media brand, to the onboard infotainment systems on Greyhound buses in North America. The Yahoo Search function will be built into Greyhound’s GoMedia-developed infotainment solution, which enables passengers to browse the Internet through a reliable connection, […]

November 7, 2019

Survey: 70% US struggle to decide what to stream next

As the streaming wars are heating up, Likewise, the smart recommendation app, has published research,which reveals that over half of Americans with a streaming service (57 per cent) believe that there are too many streaming services. The average streaming household has three streaming services and 70 per cent of those surveyed agreed that despite having […]

November 1, 2019

Wyplay selected by South American operator

Wyplay, a global TV services and video platform solutions provider, has been selected by a major South American Tier-1 Operator for their next generation hybrid Android TV 4K-DVR set-top box platform. Wyplay will provide its FROG middleware to address all broadcasting standards and to support the conditional access system. Additional Wyplay back-end components will be […]

October 29, 2019

Alticast, LowaSIS partner to power Next-Gen TV

Alticast, an end-to-end media solutions provider, has formed a partnership with LowaSIS, a commercial hardware provider at the forefront of bringing ATSC 3.0 to fruition. In an agreement aimed at helping broadcast customers seamlessly make the transition to ATSC 3.0, Alticast’s modular, client-side software stack will be pre-integrated onto LowaSIS’s dongles, set-top-boxes and home-gateways. Alticast […]

October 22, 2019

Research: Quality of UI more important than content recommendation

Research from Parks Associates finds 70 per cent of US broadband households with a major video service consider its user interface to be good, with 48 per cent rating it “very good,” and these scores impact their willingness to recommend the service to others. Analysis of

October 15, 2019

Research: TV preferred media access device

Research from Amdocs Media which explores the media consumption preferences of UK consumers suggests that the television is the most popular means of accessing their media subscription services (video, music and gaming). Fifty per cent of consumers surveyed selected

October 15, 2019By Colin Mann

Liberty Latin America selects TiVo

TiVo has announced that Liberty Latin America, a telco operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, has selected TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform to bring cutting-edge innovations to its customers in Puerto Rico. Over time, Liberty Latin America also plans to launch TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform in other markets across Latin America. TiVo’s Next-Gen […]

September 13, 2019Colin Mann @ IBC

Vodafone deploys TiVo’s Personalized Content Discovery

Entertainment technology and audience insights specialist TiVo has confirmed that multiplay operator Vodafone deploying TiVo’s Personalized Content Discovery (PCD) to deliver engaging, highly-relevant entertainment experiences to its subscribers. Vodafone offers broadband, TV, mobile and telephone services to 640 million customers in 24 countries.. Vodafone is introducing PCD as part of the new Vodafone TV service […]

September 13, 2019Colin Mann @ IBC