Kantar Media has secured a multi-year audience measurement contract in partnership with Tata Sky, one of India’s fastest growing DTH TV providers. The company will measure the behaviour and viewing habits of Tata Sky’s rapidly increasing number of pay TV subscribers. The service, launching later this year, will take full advantage of Kantar Media’s return path data technology – RapidView [...]
Witbe, the leading provider of quality management solutions for interactive services over any network, to any device, is launching at the NAB Show its new Analytics Solution dedicated to give service providers and content owners full visibility and control when delivering video and applications-based services to any screen, including set-top boxes, PCs, smartphones, tablets, connected TVs, etc. Witbe’s analytic [...]
India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B) says cable MSOs, now beginning to make progress with digitisation of its signals, must also fully embrace the obligatory encryption of signals (via Conditional Access). I&B is setting up a centralised monitoring system to check that MSOs are keeping their word. This is a major step forward in a country where under-reporting of actual [...]
Crackle and comScore have announced an all-platform audience measurement deal for Sony Picture Television’s free ad-supported video streaming service, Crackle. This initiative will leverage comScore’s audience measurement techniques to produce unduplicated audience size and demographics across the entire Crackle entertainment network, which includes all screens and platforms – online, mobile/tablet, connected TV and game consoles. Data will be available during [...]
Edgeware, a specialist in distributed video delivery, has released the latest multiscreen version of the Edgeware Distributed Video Delivery Network (D-VDN) Solution. The new release includes intelligent session and content management options that enable increased savings in backhaul costs when delivering large back-catalogues, catch-up TV or network PVR services. It also includes new, advanced monitoring features to enable true, real-time [...]
Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that B.net, Croatia’s leading cable operator, has expanded its Agama quality monitoring set-up with Agama’s Embedded Monitoring Solution to cover the complete end-to-end cable TV service distribution. The deployment will empower B.net’s organisation to be more systematic and proactive in ensuring service quality. B.net, owned by Telekom Austria backed mobile [...]
The increasing number of fibre cable network deployments has spurred demand for fibre optic test equipment (FOTE) globally. fibre optic communication is quickly becoming the future of network and communication, and the optic network will soon be the framework of every industry. As such, testing for insertion loss and bandwidth is vital in order to ensure effective real-time operations. This [...]
At TV Connect 2013, Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance experts, will present cutting edge business supporting services QA for IP, cable and OTT video. At stand 179, Agama will showcase live end-to-end monitoring set-ups for video distribution, including for multiplatform and multiscreen environments. Visitors can preview the upcoming Version 4.4 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution, with all [...]
Witbe, a provider of Quality of Experience monitoring solutions for multimedia services, over any network, to any device, will be showcasing its range of expertise during the TV Connect exhibition. Witbe’s latest innovations and client wins will also be announced during TV Connect, from 19 to 21 March, at London’s Olympia exhibition centre. Witbe offers a global approach to ensuring [...]
TiVo Research and Analytics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TiVo, has announced the launch of TRA Cross Media Measurement, which enables advertisers, agencies and television networks to measure household-level exposure across TV and online advertising campaigns and content for more than 100,000 households – the industry’s largest single-source, naturally occurring data set of its kind by a significantly wide margin. As [...]
