In a joint mission to make content more easily accessible for the user and to bring back the joy into navigation, ruwido is pleased to be working in partnership with TiVo. TiVo has decades of experience in shaping, designing and managing entertainment discovery. TiVo offers flexible advanced search, dynamic, personalized recommendations and natural-language voice-control capabilities […]
Rovi has closed its $1.1 billion acquisition of TiVo, and the new company will become TiVo. Tom Carson, president and CEO of the newly combined business, said the deal “passed with flying colors” during shareholder meetings and said company will now move forward to act on assumptions that went into the integration planning phase. “The […]
Entertainment data provider Gracenote has unveiled new music offerings that let pay-TV providers deliver rich, interactive music experiences to their subscribers. By integrating Gracenote Music data and technologies, operators can create their own music video channels and services, help viewers identify artists featured on TV and enable search for related artist appearances on linear TV […]
Multi-screen cloud video software company Easel TV has made its OTT platform Suggested TV available on the fourth-generation Apple TV box and on Google Cast. The first use of these latest Suggested TV device players will be for the Curzon Home Cinema service. Curzon Home Cinema Director Phil Mordecai said the company’s investment in the […]
Amazon is bringing more voice control and universal search functionality to its Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. Alexa voice control support for Amazon Video will also lets users navigate through a video by giving instructions such as “skip ahead two minutes”, “rewind 30 seconds” or move to the next episode by saying “next”. […]
Amazon has confirmed that new features are coming to the best-selling Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. These features will be enabled automatically as part of a free, over-the-air software update currently being delivered to customers. Through this update, customers can now easily use their voice to search for favourite content, find the best […]
End-to-end video entertainment provider and #TelcoTV solution specialist Netgem has launched the Music Avenue, a multi-room music aggregation and playout service for music lovers. Forming part of Netgem’s strategy to move from connected TV services into connected entertainment, the Music Avenue is an integral component of Netgem’s range of content services, representing the first step […]
Digitalsmiths, a TiVo company, and specialist in personalised content discovery technology, has released the 14th edition of its quarterly Video Trends Report covering key topics across pay-TV, VoD, PPV, OTT, TV Everywhere, connected devices, and content discovery. Based on a survey of
FOTV Media Networks Inc., the interrelated group of digital media companies which produces and distributes hologram, virtual reality, 360 and premium Hollywood content globally with an over-the-top (OTT) audience of more than 75 million monthly unique users of its live and on-demand movies and television, has confirmed the launch of its initial public offering of […]
Jinni, a specialist in semantic video discovery and targeted advertising solutions for entertainment brands, has announced Telefónica Spain’s launching of Jinni powered discovery across both its OTT and STB platforms in a move geared at expanding on Yomvee’s success with Jinni to Moviestar+. “What sets entertainment recommendations apart from other products and services is that […]