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Media Distillery and Nielsen’s Gracenote partner

Media Distillery, a provider of AI technology enabling visibility into what’s inside video content, and Gracenote, the content solutions pillar of Nielsen, have integrated their respective technologies and datasets to create a powerful solution to optimise Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) utility. Available immediately, this offering helps pay-TV operators including cable, satellite, terrestrial, IPTV, streaming and […]

November 16, 2021

Gamut expands measurement capability with iSpot

Gamut, a specialist in local OTT, has announced an expansion of its measurement capabilities via a partnership with iSpot, the real-time TV ad measurement and attribution company. Gamut, which recently integrated iSpot’s unified, cross-platform measurement featuring location data from PlaceIQ, can now measure the ability of local OTT and linear TV campaigns to drive visits […]

November 12, 2021

LTN adds Zixi Access to LTN network

The LTN Network allows customers to reliably deliver content anywhere in the world with guaranteed reliability and at low latency. It is the foundation for the LTN Ecosystem, which powers integrated workflows from cloud production and content aggregation to signaling and monetization through delivery. The LTN Ecosystem incorporates a broad portfolio of acquisition, decoration and […]

November 10, 2021

Amino launches operator ready RDK-V

Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, has become an RDK Video Accelerator (RDK-VA) member and now has RDK-V devices and software systems ready for deployment. The first device to receive RDK-VA certification will be the R180. The R180 is one of the first devices to be powered by RDK on the next-generation […]

November 9, 2021

Forecast: Telecoms, pay-TV services spending to reach $1.5trn

Worldwide spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services is forecast to reach $1.5 trillion (€1.3trn) in 2021, representing an increase of 1 per cent over 2020, according to the Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker from market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The latest forecast is more optimistic than the May 2021 forecast as it presumes […]

November 8, 2021

Redge Media and Beacon partnership

Redge Media video software and Beacon STB hardware have come partnered together to decrease time to market and deployment costs. The partnership will cover primarily the Android and RDK ecosystems for online or hybrid environments. Redge Media is the comprehensive technology platform for building online TV. For Video Delivery it provides encoders, origin, CDN, Multi-DRM […]

November 8, 2021

Comscore selected by Univision

Comscore, the media measurement and analytics company and Univision Communications, the Spanish-language media and content company in the US, thave announced an agreement for Univision to leverage Comscore’s local audience measurement in three of the Company’s newly acquired markets. Under the agreement, Univision will now begin exclusively using Comscore’s next generation audience measurement service as […]

November 5, 2021

SES Q3: Still under pressure

SES has released its 9-months trading update. Revenues (as reported) were down 6.5 per cent at €1.319 billion (€1.410 billion same period last year). SES says that its underlying revenue (excluding periodic and other) was lower by 2.7 per cent year-on-year (at constant FX) at €1,318 million. SES says that in July it spent €94 […]

November 4, 2021By Chris Forrester

AccuWeather launches on The Roku Channel with Amagi

Amagi, a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV, has announced that AccuWeather, the world’s most accurate weather source, has partnered with Amagi to launch its 24/7 linear channel, AccuWeather NOW, and create a differentiated offering of the channel for distribution to The Roku Channel in the United States. AccuWeather is […]

November 4, 2021

Viant partners with Beachfront

Viant Technology, a people-based advertising software company, and Beachfront, the convergent TV advertising platform, have announced the integration of Beachfront’s premium linear and connected TV (CTV) inventory into Viant’s Adelphic advertising software. With the integration, Adelphic becomes the first demand-side platform (DSP) to support Beachfront’s unique linear TV inventory, which is enabled for real-time bidding. […]

November 3, 2021