Vimeo, the ad-free open video platform, has confirmed an agreement to acquire Livestream, the live video solution that powers over 10 million events a year. Vimeo has also rolled out its own Vimeo Live product, offering live streaming capabilities directly through its platform for the first time. Following completion of the acquisition, Livestream’s offering will […]
Motion Picture Laboratories, the studio-backed research and development venture, has announced the appointment of Richard Berger as President & Chief Executive Officer. Berger will lead MovieLabs’ cross-industry initiatives focused on next-generation content platforms and products, automated digital workflows, content security and digital analytics. Berger brings over 20 years of experience in digital innovation, with more […]
Boeing says it has completed the Critical Design Review with client ViaSat of California for its ViaSat-3 class of satellites, and is now moving forward with construction of the first craft. ViaSat is partnering in a joint-venture with Eutelsat of Paris to place a ViaSat-3 craft operating over Europe. Currently the schedule calls for the […]
TVT/DMC, the new global content services platform, has been selected to enable the delivery of FOX channel content to Dutch audiences. The Dutch FOX television channel becomes the latest addition to TVT/DMC’s fully operational, virtualised ‘private broadcast cloud’. FOX broadcasts a wide range of general entertainment content in the Netherlands, featuring leading TV series, including […]
Alticast has announced that KT Skylife, the largest satellite broadcasting operator in South Korea, has selected the Alticast Ambient TV platform as the foundation for TELEBEE, a new end-to-end turnkey OTT service that will provide a competitive edge against Netflix, Hulu and other SVoD services. Ambient TV has been specifically designed to allow fully-featured OTT services […]
Lotame, the independent data management platform (DMP), has announced the launch of its aiTV suite of new products focused on bringing greater audience intelligence to television and video. These offerings will live under Lotame’s newly formed aiTV division, led by General Manager Doug Pollack. “Lotame’s proven onboarding, mapping, and managing of audience and viewership data […]
Findings from streaming video infrastructure technologies provider Bitmovin suggest significant regional differences among the most popular OTT devices, including Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Roku. The survey of 380 video developers in more than fifty countries, analysed what kinds of platforms and video infrastructure technologies developers are using to provide the best content […]
Information, data, and measurement company Nielsen has filed a lawsuit to stop rival media measurement and analytics company comScore from using its technology to launch a competing service for measuring television audiences. The complaint, filed with the US District Court in Manhattan, seeks an injunction to stop the launch of comScore’s Extended TV service, which […]
Indian DTH pay-TV service DishTV has launched an initiative to offer HD access for all its users, with the goal of making the HD viewing experience mainstream and accessible to all users across India. All subscriber set-top boxes are now HD-enabled. “HD space has been fast evolving, making significant in-roads into Indian households,” noted Anil […]
Global sports provider Eleven Sports has secured the rights to Serie A in Italy. The platform will show three games live every match week on mobile, tablet and online as part of a pay offer for fans across the country. The partnership begins on October 1st. The live games will typically include the 6pm Saturday […]