ScheduALL, a global provider of resource scheduling solutions for media, broadcast and transmission businesses, has been awarded the 2015 Product of the Year Vision Award for their revolutionary new product ScheduALL Portal. Portal is user-friendly, online platform that heightens Occasional Use booking efficiency and automates the entire end-to-end booking process. Now on its fourth year, the Product of […]
Alsbridge, a global outsourcing consultancy, has strengthened its UK team with the appointment of Elesh Khakar, as a Managing Director in the UK office. “Elesh Khakhar brings a new level of depth and breadth of experience and expertise to our UK and European operations,” said Chip Wagner, CEO of Alsbridge. “His demonstrated success in planning, negotiating […]
MediaMelon, the smart streaming company, and NexStreaming, a provider of multiscreen HLS player SDK NexPlayer, today announced a collaboration that improves adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming to consumer devices. The integration of MediaMelon QBR™ technology with the NexPlayer SDK for mobile apps enables video service providers to deliver premium quality in network-constrained situations, lowering costs and […]
Over the course of 2015, Intelsat has forged strategic partnerships with leading networking hardware and antenna manufacturers as it implements its strategy to drive performance, improve economics and simplify access to the company’s next-generation high throughput satellite platform, Intelsat EpicNG. Building on that momentum, the company today announced that it has appointed long-standing Intelsat executive […]
Intelsat has confirmed that Intelsat 29e, the first of the Intelsat EpicNG high throughput satellites, is scheduled to launch on January 27th 2016, aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. “This is an exciting time for our company, with Intelsat leading the way with new […]
As media viewing habits continue to trend away from traditional television and towards streaming video on mobile and Internet-connected devices, brands and publishers are striving to stay ahead of the tectonic shifts in behaviors and business models. Eager to match this demand, Verizon Digital Media Services is helping content owners seize emerging distribution and monetisation […]
Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, IPTV and mobile industry, announces that, for the second year in a row, it has been ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. This prestigious and widely recognized competition puts the spotlight on the fastest-growing technology companies, […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and a leading innovator in premium video publishing, analytics and monetisation, hired Scott Braley as its new general manager of programmatic advertising. Braley was formerly the senior vice president of demand at OpenX, and prior to that, the head of US sales and global agencies for Facebook’s Atlas division, the social […]
ESPN has partnered with EA and FIFA 16 to produce an amusing new video series which uses the market-leading game to simulate the Premier League season. FIFA Fantasy League combines games highlights with mock commentary and fake studio analysis to take an alternative and comedic look at the beautiful game. Hosted on ESPN.co.uk and ESPNFC.co.uk, […]
Intelsat has announced that Brian Jakins has been named as the company’s Regional Vice President of Sales in Africa, effective immediately. Jakins will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa and report to Jean-Philippe Gillet, Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector, including services to enterprises […]