Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced the appointment of Juliet Walker as Chief Marketing Officer, effective immediately. In her new role, she will help diversify the company’s product and services portfolio, innovate into new territories and reinforce the Globecast brand within its various markets. She reports to Globecast CEO Philippe Bernard. “We’re […]
AdScribe, a subsidiary of Zenterio, has announced that Norwegian pay-TV operator RiksTV has deployed its audience measurement and analytics tool AdScribe Audience to measure live TV; time-shift TV; catch-up TV; and VoD content viewed on connected set-top boxes, Android apps and iOS devices. Running in the cloud, Audience collects data about what is being watched, […]
At NAB Show New York on October 18th, Crystal launches the Crystal Metadata Cloud, a patent-pending software technology to provide frame-accurate synchronisation of metadata with video and audio at any point in the distribution chain from the cable headend or DTH platform to the set-top box, computer, phone or tablet. Metadata has become critical to delivering video content and […]
Spanish regulatory body Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) is looking into the TV advertising agreement between Mediaset, owner of Tele 5 and Cuatro, among other channels, and Mediapro, owner of the football TV channel Gol TV, over a possible breach of free competition in the market. Both companies signed an agreement […]
The number of Italians using OTT services reached 19.1 million in June 2017, up by 2.9 million or 18 per cent on September 2016. This corresponds to 58 per cent of Italian internet users aged 16 years and over, according to a study on the online video content market in Italy by the EY consultancy. […]
TiVo COO Pete Thompson is joining Amazon as VP Alexa Voice Services. TiVo said CEO and president Tom Carson, who is also slated to retire, will assume the responsibilities while the company continues to search for a new CEO. Thompson was at TiVo for one year having joined to manage the product integration of the […]
OneWeb is a planned ‘mega- constellation’ of low-Earth orbiting satellites (at 1200 kms high), and designed to provide high-speed broadband to just about any point on the planet. It is backed financially by Virgin, Qualcomm, Japan’s SoftBank, Coca-Cola and Intelsat amongst others. Its first 10 prototype satellites are being built now in Toulouse, France, and […]
To badly paraphrase Archimedes: “Give me a leverage big enough, and I can move the world”, a sentiment that Ampere Analysis has identified as a key factor behind strategies from global media groups including Amazon, Altice, Netflix and Verizon – and to a lesser extent, players like Sky, ITV and Liberty Global. These groups have […]
Inflation in Spain’s football TV rights are becoming burdensome for TV operators. In the 2016-2017 season, the networks paid a combined €1.387 billion to the Spanish football teams, up €388.7 million than the previous year, according to La Liga. The centralised sale of the football TV rights in the domestic market and the exploitation of […]
MAGNA, the intelligence, investment and innovation unit within IPG Mediabrands, and IPG Media Lab, its creative technology arm, partnered with Tremor Video DSP for a scientific media trial that explored and measured the impact of interactive video ads across three screens, including tablet, PC, and mobile devices. The report, entitled The Interactive Effect: A Key […]