Liberty Global has selected Infosys as the strategic partner to ensure business continuity in the company’s transfer of approximately 300 roles across operations management and service delivery. Following the completion of the sale of its operations in five markets over the past two years, Liberty Global has been optimising its workforce to better deliver services […]
The UK government has confirmed that from April 1st 2020, the cost of the annual TV licence fee will increase from £154.50 to £157.50. The government is responsible for setting the level of the licence fee and announced in 2016 it would rise in line with inflation for five years from April 1st 2017. The […]
TVision, a specialist in TV performance metrics, and Vevo, the music video provider, have announced a partnership in which TVision’s data helps Vevo understand how viewers engage with their content. Users watch more than 1.1 billion hours of Vevo music videos per month, and engage with 450,000 videos across YouTube, Roku, Apple TV and more. […]
The BBC has responded to protests and suspended the closure of its red button text service just one day before it was due to start being phased out. The news comes after a petition, organised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK, was handed in to the BBC and Downing Street earlier […]
iProspect India, the digital performance agency from the house of Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN), will now be the search engine optimisation (SEO) in-charge for ZEE5 Global. As part of the mandate, iProspect India will offer its extensive SEO services to the OTT platform across international markets to help increase viewership sessions on ZEE5 from organic […]
Encompass Digital Media, a global technology services company that delivers end-to-end video solutions to television networks, broadcasters, sports leagues and OTT service providers, and Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) have signed an agreement to extend their current arrangement covering playout, media management and transmission services from Encompass’ facility in Singapore. “Encompass has been a valued partner […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and Guinness Six Nations are introducing five new, real-time, rugby statistics to give fans deeper insights into on-field action than ever before. The dynamic statistics powered by AWS, will take fans from their sofas and place them at the tactics board in the dressing room by revealing the […]
Imagen, the SaaS video management platform business, has been chosen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body of tennis, to manage and distribute its extensive content archive of 15,000 assets dating back to the 1940s from the Davis Cup and Fed Cup competitions. Following a project in which the ITF digitised its […]
BARB, the UK television audience measurement currency, has started to report unduplicated programme reach and time spent viewing figures across multiple screens, marking the third deliverable from the four-stage Project Dovetail initiative. The new figures are reported on a daily basis across three screens (TV sets, tablets and PCs), and are available through existing data-processing […]
Synamedia, the independent video software provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with USSI Global, a provider of network, broadcast and digital media services, to serve joint customers in the US. Through this collaboration, USSI will provide technical and logistics support, fulfillment and deployment services for both new and existing Synamedia video network customers. The […]