BearingPoint//Beyond has announced that Altibox, a Norwegian broadband provider, is using its Infonova digital business platform to connect its growing business partner ecosystem of regional service providers across Norway and Denmark and broaden customer access to its expanding range of services including full fibre broadband, TV and media. Using the BearingPoint//Beyond digital business platform, Altibox […]

The DPP, the media industry’s business network, has released two documents that extend the functionality of the Interoperable Master Format (IMF) through the development of an Auxiliary Image Sequence Plug-in. Recommendation DPP 006: IMF Plug-in for Auxiliary Image Sequences, and the accompanying white paper DPP Auxiliary Image Sequence, address the existing problem of managing sign […]

Back on November 6th, it was reported that Inmarsat faces a Court action that threatens the $6 billion take-over by a consortium headed by Apax Partners and Warburg Pincus. That Court action is still in place and has forced a delay to the originally-planned November 29th approval date. Some minority shareholders are arguing that the […]

The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) – an independent not-for-profit organisation which establishes and enforces responsible privacy practices for relevant digital advertising – has announced cross-industry tools for publishers, brands, agencies and adtech in the digital advertising supply chain to provide consumers a clear and recognisable mechanism to opt out under the California Consumer Privacy Act […]

To further advance its practice of commingling TV viewership data from Smart TVs (ACR) with the same from cable and satellite set-top boxes, VideoAmp is partnering with TiVo. The expanded data set extends VideoAmp’s TV Viewership data pool to cover 25 million devices in 19 million US households and gives marketers and media owners sophisticated […]

Médiamétrie has launched audience measurement for catch-up radio (content listened to after broadcast) and native podcasts (original audio content). This measurement provides subscribers with key indicators on the audience of this content, namely the number of listeners, listening times and amounts, and listener profiles. It is based on a 3,000-strong panel of people aged 13 […]

In its latest research, Euroconsult shows that 11 new FSS (fixed-satellite service) providers have emerged over the last five years including two in 2018. Many of these companies are state-owned national operators, which will mostly serve national interests. Twelve new satellite operators are planning to enter the FSS geostationary (GEO) market by the early to […]

MiQ, a specialist in marketing intelligence and connected programmatic solutions, extended its partnership with Inscape, a single source provider of smart TV viewing data in the US and a subsidiary of VIZIO. MiQ expanded its integration of Inscape’s Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), a content identification technology that matches opt-in viewing data from more than 12 […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) an Amazon company, has announced that Network 10, one of Australia’s largest TV networks, has selected AWS Media Services to support its video transport structure for remote production in South Africa for its upcoming season of the reality TV series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, and to enhance […]