Advanced Television

Kaltura raises $47m

Kaltura, the open source video platform, has secured an additional $47 million of funding. The financing round was led by new investors SAP Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Commonfund Capital, and Brazil-based Gera Ventures with participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment and Silicon Valley Bank. Kaltura […]

February 12, 2014

Comcast adds Warner Bros to Digital Store

Comcast has signed an agreement with Warner Bros to start selling the studio’s titles through the Xfinity On Demand digital store. Effective immediately, Xfinity TV customers in the US are able to purchase Warner Bros movies and TV shows to own and access anytime, anywhere, on any device, often several weeks ahead of DVD release. […]

February 12, 2014

Grabyo appoints BSkyB director as CEO

Grabyo, the real-time TV clip sharing platform has revealed that Gareth Capon has left his role as Product Development Director at BSkyB, – where he led all Social TV initiatives including its investment in zeebox – to join the London-based startup as CEO. “The broadcast industry is now seeing a new content format open up […]

February 12, 2014

‘Future TV Anywhere’ from Ericsson

Ericsson is launching its Future TV Anywhere platform, bringing modern Web technologies to the TV operator world. This will enable operators to combine the quality of service and content depth of pay-TV with the interactivity and multi-screen capabilities of OTT video start-ups. Ericsson is building an end-to-end integrated platform for pay-TV service providers based entirely […]

February 12, 2014

Towercom renews Astra capacity

SES has signed a long-term renewal with Towercom, a Slovakian telecommunications and TV operator, for the use of a transponder on the Astra 3B satellite at SES’s 23.5 degrees East orbital position. Towercom utilises multiple transponders at 23.5 degrees East, delivering TV services, including HD content distribution, to the Czech and Slovakian markets. Towercom provides […]

February 12, 2014

New Wowza streaming engine

Wowza Media Systems, a provider of Simply Powerful Streaming media server software, has launched its new Wowza Streaming Engine, with more powerful performance capabilities and a new intuitive management interface for easily deploying, managing and monitoring live and VoD streaming to any device. The customisable and scalable Wowza Streaming Engine software is the newest version […]

February 12, 2014

Brightcove Once for Chromecast

Brightcove, a provider of cloud services for video, has announced that content providers developing apps for Google Chromecast can now use Brightcove Once to deploy and monetise feature-rich video on Chromecast, including personalised video ads. Coming on the heels of Google’s recent announcement that it has unlocked its Chromecast software development kit (SDK), Brightcove Once […]

February 12, 2014

80% of Facebook TV chatter from mobiles

Findings from SecondSync, the social TV analytics provider, in partnership with Facebook reveal how socially connected consumers in the US, UK and Australia watch TV programmes and engage in social chatter. With peoples’ online activity increasingly switching between devices and Facebook interaction moving to mobile, the report findings

February 11, 2014

Mobile video viewing to double by 2018

Annual increases in mobile online viewing (tablets and smartphones) are higher than any other category. Worldwide mobile views already constitute over 20 per cent of the total (in 2013) and this share will continue to grow – more than doubling during

February 11, 2014

65% of mobile media users use a second screen

MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, has released the second report in its Global Consumer Insights Series, focussing on international second screen behaviours and highlighting that the mobile handset complements, rather than replaces, other media channels. The report, carried out in partnership with On Device Research, analyses data from 10,000 respondents in

February 11, 2014