A collaboration between Ocean Blue Software (OBS) and the Service List Registry (SLR) will bring together client software and platform infrastructure to build a scalable ecosystem to support the DVB-I service discovery standard. Ocean Blue Software develops smart television software used by device manufacturers and platform operators to accelerate product development, together with validation services […]
SonicWall has released its UK cyber threat data from 2025, revealing that the number of UK organisations successfully compromised rose by 20 per cent, even as overall ransomware volume fell by 87 per cent. SonicWall’s data stems from measuring network-perimeter detections which are threats identified and blocked by SonicWall firewalls at the point of delivery. […]
During the 2025 off-season, VIDI completed a major upgrade of the broadcast infrastructure across all 36 stadiums in Germany’s 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. The project included a full modernisation of network connectivity and media adaptation systems, bringing the leagues production environment up to current IP standards. To meet the enhanced production and associated IP media […]
Enteractive, a Splendid Group company, will take over content management services on behalf of Beta Film. As part of the collaboration, Enteractive will be responsible for services such as ingest (material delivery), archiving, package & distribution, metadata management, content processing (enhanced video and audio editing, subtitling), as well as analysis & reporting of media files […]
Open Broadcast Systems, a specialist in software-based professional video transport, has added support for 200 Gigabit Ethernet to its range of encoders and decoders. This update enables media companies and broadcasters to achieve unrivalled video processing capabilities in a single server, allowing bulk transport to and from the cloud at an unprecedented scale. The move […]
The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) has published its first annual Flash Report on the European audiovisual market. The report reveals that audiovisual authors’ royalties collected by SAA members amount to just 0.53 per cent of a sector worth €141 billion, while non-European players capture 89 per cent of streaming and video sharing platforms (VSPs) […]
Bloomberg Media has announced the launch of its new digital video experience, a redesigned one-stop home for premium live and on-demand content. Viewers globally can access all of Bloomberg’s video on its site and at the new ‘Stream’ tab on the Bloomberg mobile app that brings together video and audio in one destination. The new experience […]
MediaKind, a specialist in cloud-based video streaming technology, has entered into an agreement to acquire the video business of Harmonic for approximately $145 million (€124.5m). Following a French employee works council consultation process, the companies will immediately execute a purchase agreement, and the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026, subject […]
Global, the Media & Entertainment group, has unveiled plans to expand into video-first podcast brands and branded entertainment in sport, while launching a new suite of data-led tools to prove advertising effectiveness. At its first-ever Audio & Entertainment Upfronts, Group CEO Simon Pitts presented the company’s new creative powerhouse for video-first podcast brands, and announced […]
Novaspace’s 32nd edition of the Satellite Connectivity and Video Market report reveals a significant shift in satellite service economics. Data applications are set to overtake video services by 2033, with their share of total service revenues rising from 21 per cent in 2024 to 55 per cent by 2034. This transformation marks a fundamental rebalancing of the […]