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Novocomedy partners with Tessact

Novocomedy, a specialist in short, funny content, has announced a technology partnership with Tessact, an enterprise‑grade AI platform for modern media supply chains, to speed up how the company ingests, enriches and versions its dialogue‑free comedy for every window–from 10–30 second vertical clips to 11’/22′ episodes and compilation specials. “Novocomedy’s promise is simple: make people […]

November 5, 2025

Interra Systems enhances ORION

Interra Systems, a provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions for the digital media industry, has announced a significant enhancement to its flagship real-time monitoring platform, ORION, with the introduction of stream recording support as well as seamless integration with BATON Media Player (BMP). This powerful combination enables broadcast engineering and operations teams to perform deep, […]

October 30, 2025

France: Free launches OTT offering

French telco Free has announced the launch of Free TV (formerly OQEE), a subscription and commitment-free streaming offering accessible to all users. The dedicated app allows to watch TV from a smartphone, a tablet or a smart TV. Free TV offers more than 170 channels, including 16 DTT networks (but notably not TF1 or M6 […]

October 22, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

AVIA: Asian video market reinventing for growth

The Archipelago Video Summit, held last week in Jakarta, brought together over 150 senior executives from across Asia to explore the future of the video markets in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. In the opening keynote, Hermawan Sutanto, Managing Director of Vidio, shared how the platform is building a local streaming powerhouse around sports rights […]

October 14, 2025

Ateme unveils DR5000e KYRION line of contribution decoders

Ateme, a specialist in video compression, delivery, and streaming solutions, has unveiled the DR5000e, the latest evolution of its acclaimed KYRION line of contribution decoders. Designed for premium live sports and event delivery, the DR5000e combines exceptional video quality, ultra-low latency, and rock-solid reliability in a compact, quick-to-start, and energy-efficient design. Building on the success of the CM5000e encoder, the DR5000e works seamlessly across satellite, ASI, […]

October 14, 2025

France: Ligue1+ exceeds 1m subs

At a meeting of the board of directors of the LFP, Nicolas de Tavernost, MD of LFP Media, announced its in-house Ligue 1+ OTT platform has surpassed 1 million subscribers just one month into the new football season. LFP initially indicated that it was targeting 1 million subscribers by the end of the season. As […]

September 17, 2025

Gcore, Touchstream partnership

Gcore, the edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, and Touchstream, a specialist in cloud-based OTT monitoring for video streaming, has announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration is aimed at improving the quality of Live and VoD content delivery through Gcore’s edge global network, which includes 210+ points of presence and 200+ Tbps of […]

September 12, 2025

Kiswe brings Jamaican football to global fans with 1LUVTV

Kiswe, a global player in direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming technology, has announced a multi-year partnership with PPIVOTT, a strategic brand identity development agency, to stream the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) worldwide via 1LUVTV, a new digital platform with ambitions to become a destination for Caribbean sports, music, and culture. During the first year of this partnership, […]

September 12, 2025

UniqCast delivers CityNet’s next-generation IPTV/OTT platform

UniqCast, a provider of end-to-end IPTV/OTT solutions, has successfully replaced CityNet’s IPTV/OTT platform, delivering a state-of-the-art solution within a rapid four-month timeline. CityNet, providing high-speed internet in Azerbaijan, also offers fixed telephone and digital TV services. Its extensive service network covers Baku and various other regions throughout the country. Driving Innovation in IPTV/OTT Services The […]

September 9, 2025

Arte advances Euro platform project

European cultural channel Arte has been preparing the structure of a European platform for the past five years, but a recent Franco-German council of ministers has brought a new perspective to the project, whose ultimate objective is to integrate 24 European languages. A declaration of intent on Franco-German cooperation in supporting the media and fighting […]

September 5, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris