Sidekicks and RTL Deutschland, part of RTL Group, have announced the launch of a dedicated AI infrastructure. Hosted by RTL Technology, a subsidiary of RTL Deutschland, the infrastructure is designed to support Sidekicks – the agentic AI platform developed by smartclip for the media industry. Sidekicks combines media intelligence with process automation, embedding AI agents […]
Aprecomm, a provider of intuitive, self-healing network and customer experience solutions, has announced the launch of AIVRA (Aprecomm Intelligent Virtual Response Assistant), a continuously learning AI agent designed to transform how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) interact with their data. With AIVRA, Aprecomm says ISPs gain “real-time access to their entire operational ecosystem through a unified, […]
Fox Entertainment has announced an equity stake investment in Holywater, a specialist in the vertical video market. Fox says the deal will help “advance its tech growth strategy and will help shape its forward-looking model as a modern, next-gen entertainment studio”. Fox Entertainment added that its investment in Holywater “accelerates the company’s long-term growth trajectory […]
Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) are overwhelmingly planning to move to Broadband Forum’s User Services Platform (USP/TR-369) standard in order to introduce AI, Wi-Fi sensing, L4S, and more into their home broadband offerings. This is part of their ongoing drive to deliver differentiated services and boost customer revenue, a report has revealed. The Future of the […]
PubMatic, an independent technology company delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future, has announced the latest results of a multi-year integration of NVIDIA technology to leverage accelerated computing for programmatic advertising’s unique requirements across the open internet. By working with NVIDIA as an early adopter through an iterative process of testing, data sharing and […]
FastStream Interactive has announced the introduction of its first AI-generated virtual TV presenters to host a TV music channel, on its free interactive TV music channel, ROXi. The virtual hosts will introduce music videos on ROXi, initially on US broadcast TV and on Sky in the UK and Ireland. ROXi’s AI-generated TV presenters will host […]
Vibe.co, the ad platform bringing hyper-targeting to connected TV (CTV) for performance marketers, has closed $50 million (€42.6m) in Series B financing led by Hedosophia, an early investor of Spotify, Uber and Airbnb. The financing also includes participation from previous backers including Elaia and Singular; in addition to Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky’s fund QuantumLight; Supercell […]
Adlook, the self-driving, AI-powered, outcomes-focused brand growth platform, has announced its integration with smartclip, RTL Group’s adtech business and a provider of adtech solutions across Europe. This cooperation enables advertisers and agencies partnering with Adlook to activate campaigns across smartclip’s Connected TV (CTV), Addressable TV (ATV), and digital video inventory in Europe. By combining Adlook’s […]
Locality, the local video solutions provider, has announced the launch of its Advanced Audience Engine, a proprietary identity and activation solution developed in collaboration with Lovelytics, Newton Research, and Databricks that redefines how advertisers engage local audiences. The engine integrates generative AI, automation, and directly incorporates Locality’s historical local media intelligence and viewership data to […]
Fairground Entertainment, an AI studio and streaming distribution network, and Rogue Matter have announced a multi-deal partnership that will translate Rogue Matter’s graphic novels and ecomic book properties to fully AI-based programming for streaming TV. The first programming slate in this collaboration includes episodic TV shows based on Rogue Matter’s Ketcher: Origins; Don’t Tell My […]