Parks Associates’ consumer survey work of 10,000 US Internet households shows that 38 per cent of households own at least one smart home device, up 2 per cent from a year ago. Consumers continue to buy connected products; 27 per cent of US Internet households report buying a smart home device in the past 12 […]
The Communications and Digital Committee of the UK’s House of Lords – the upper parliamentary chamber – is to hear from Ai-Da, a life size AI robot artist, on October 11th, as part of its inquiry into the future of the UK’s creative industries. The committee will also take evidence from industry and academic experts […]
Entertainment technologist IMAX has acquired AI-driven video quality solutions specialist SSIMWAVE. IMAX says the move marks a significant expansion of its strategy to deliver the highest quality video images on any screen; to drive new, recurring revenue; and grow its global leadership in entertainment technology. Under the terms of agreement, IMAX acquired SSIMWAVE for $18.5 […]
The September 2022 AI/ML Adoption Trends report from broadcast and media technology supply industry trade body IABM reflects the rapid uptake of these technologies to automate what were previously labour-intensive tasks in a media landscape where data volumes are growing exponentially while speed and accuracy are ever more important in the battle for viewers. Key […]
DISH Media has unveiled what it says is a first-of-its-kind solution enabling advertisers to access premium linear TV inventory through a real-time, programmatic buying model. The solution, National Linear Programmatic (NLP), will work across DISH TV’s 7+ million households nationwide. NLP is enabled by Beachfront, the sell-side ad server built for convergent TV, and video […]
Digital transformation software solutions specialist Skyline Communications and Qvest, a systems architect, ICT integrator and developer of software products, have agreed on a multi-year global strategic partnership with the aim of allowing customers in the ICT, media and entertainment industry to benefit from an acceleration of their digital transformation programmes. With this strategic agreement, Qvest […]
Personalised recommendations and hyper-targeted advertising provider ThinkAnalytics, has revealed that Castoola, a targeted TV advertising platform and an expert in TV ad tech and ad sales, used the ThinkAdvertising solution to boost the purchases from contextual hyper-targeted advertising campaigns for a European pay-TV operator by over 10x. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ThinkAdvertising generated […]
TVision, the company measuring every second of TV and CTV viewer engagement, and attention measurement specialist Lumen Research, are partnering to bring cross-platform attention measurement to US and UK customers. TVision is developing a UK-based, opt-in panel to measure person-level TV viewing and engagement. When combined with Lumen’s digital measurement, this collaboration will enable UK […]
Eleven Portugal, the sports media platform in Portugal, has announced a partnership with WSC Sports, a specialist in AI sports video technology, to bring automated real-time highlights to football fans in Portugal across Eleven Portugal’s OTT platform and social media channels. This collaboration will include the creation of highlights for UEFA Champions League, LaLiga, Premier […]
Say It Now, the voice assistant adtech firm, has partnered with Pizza Hut, the pizza chain with 18,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries, and Navigate Digital, the performance marketing agency, to create a new smart speaker advertising campaign that enables customers to claim a discount via the Alexa voice assistant. Amazon smart speaker listeners […]