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EWE TEL assures IPTV service quality with Agama

Agama Technologies, the video service quality assurance expert, has announced that EWE TEL GmbH, one of the largest regional telecommunications service providers in Germany, has chosen to deploy an Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for quality assurance of its IPTV service. With refined head-end and network monitoring, EWE TEL aims to make service operations more effective […]

August 27, 2013

Bridge Technologies Android PocketProbe

Bridge Technologies has launched PocketProbe for Android to complement the iOS version of its remote monitoring app. Featuring Bridge Technologies’ second-generation OTT Engine, the new PocketProbe for Android delivers digital media monitoring and analysis capability right to the engineer’s pocket. Expanding its compatibility with popular formats, PocketProbe now provides comprehensive analysis of HLS, Smoothstream, RTMP […]

August 27, 2013

Rentrak acquires iTVX

Rentrak, the specialist in measuring TV everywhere, serving the advertising, TV and movie industries, has acquired iTVX, a global palyer in measuring branded entertainment analytics, insights and research across TV, Movies, Internet and Social Media. iTVX serves some of the largest advertisers, including Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota, Pepsi, Subway and Telemundo, with advanced analytics for branded […]

August 20, 2013

Korea’s KT SkyLife Ultra-HD in 2014

South Korean satellite broadcaster KT SkyLife will commence test transmissions of 4K/Ultra HD programming next year, according to Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency. Local cable operators are also planning test-streaming of 4K programming to a handful of subscribers in order to test systems. While further details are sketchy, it is known that Korea Telecom’s SkyLife DTH […]

August 19, 2013By Chris Forrester

Twitter tests trending TV links

Twitter is testing a new feature that sees links to popular TV shows appear as Twitter cards at the top of user’s Timelines, complete with related Tweet data and show information. The cards themselves link through to pages dedicated to the programme in question, with more information about the show and related Tweets The click-through […]

August 16, 2013

Kantar Media takes stake in SecondSync

Kantar Media, a specialist in audience measurement, has acquired a minority stake in SecondSync, a UK-based social TV analytics company. The move extends the existing relationship between the two companies, who entered into a data sharing agreement earlier this year. The two companies will now work closely together to deliver a range of TV measurement […]

August 8, 2013

S3 StormTest for Sky Deutschland

S3 Group, an international digital TV company that enables operators and infrastructure vendors to accelerate the end-to-end delivery of multiscreen TV, has unveiled a new product model in the StormTest Development Center family, designed to address large scale test automation of up to 64 devices simultaneously for stress, performance and reliability use cases. Digital TV […]

August 6, 2013

OTT ‘offers more opportunities than risks’

Incognito Software, a global provider of broadband software provisioning and service activation solutions, has released The Growth of OTT Content: Opportunities and Challenges for Service Providers, a report detailing the findings from its recent ‘OTT Challenges and Opportunities’ survey, which examines the impact that over-the-top (OTT) content is having on the current business models of […]

August 1, 2013

Verimatrix selects S3 Group

S3 Group has been selected by Verimatrix to manage its partner pre-certification service and provide integration support for the Verimatrix ViewRight client security library and its Video Content Authority System (VCAS) solutions. Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, has awarded S3 Group a multi-year, […]

July 29, 2013

ZO and Collective deliver ROI for TV advertisers

Global media services company ZenithOptimedia (ZO) and multi-screen multi-format company Collective have reached a multi-year agreement that provides ZO with preferred access to new solutions from Collective’s data-driven, multi-screen analytics platform. These solutions enable ZO clients to identify TV preferences of online audiences who are currently in-market for a product category, are actively shopping for […]

July 25, 2013