Arris has annouced that its Merchandiser content marketing solution is fully integrated with content recommendation platforms: ThinkAnalytics, Digitalsmiths, and other leading recommenders. These key integrations give service providers and content programmers a one-stop solution for marketing their entire catalogue of content while utilising their recommendation platform of choice. According to the Fourth Annual Media Engagement […]

ThinkAnalytics has expanded the functionality of its ThinkCloud hosted solution. With ThinkCloud, operators and content providers can now deploy ThinkAnalytics’ Search and Recommendations Engine via a ‘pay as you grow’ business model, choosing perhaps to start out with basic recommendations and introduce more advanced recommendations down the road, when they are ready. The hosted solution […]

Simple.TV has selected Gracenote eyeQ to power the electronic programme guide for all digital basic cable and over-the-air programming for Simple.TV users in North America.  With Gracenote eyeQ, Simple.TV premium subscribers will see what’s playing now and view listings with programme-related photos and imagery for upcoming shows from major broadcast networks, as well as select […]

DirecTV has partnered with two digital technology companies, LiveClips and i.TV. The LiveClips technology platform aggregates live, post-game or archived sports feeds to create, digitise and deliver discrete searchable video clips of every playfor delivery to linear broadcast and digital devices. LiveClips’ unique technology system delivers immediate personalised sports highlights for the DirecTV NFL Sunday […]

Entertainment navigation specialist TMS and semantic discovery engine for video Jinni have agreed a deal that will see Jinni use TMS’s OnEntertainment metadata to provide availability information for linear TV and OTT content on its new ‘My TV & Movie Guide’ iPad app and web service. As a result, once consumers find something they wish […]

UK open IPTV platform YouView has released the second in a series of updates designed to deliver better accessibility for blind and partially sighted customers as well as those with motor skill and cognitive impairment, to improve the journey for this audience to find their favourite TV. YouView has improved the zoom functionality which now […]

Pace has announced another successful deployment resulting from its global, strategic partnership with TiVo. One of the largest US cable operators, Mediacom Communications Corporation, has chosen to deploy the Pace MG1 Multi-tuner Media Gateway with TiVo’s Advanced User Interface (UI) as its flagship platform. Mediacom will begin the roll out this month of Pace’s MG1 […]

Online entertainment service Netflix has unveiled what it describes as the biggest update to its TV experience in the service’s history, a “radically new look” that makes Netflix on TVs a much richer and more immersive experience, according to the company. The new design was created specifically for the big screen, featuring multiple cinematic images […]