OTT provision is now part of the mainstream – but is also still evolving rapidly. All TV providers, pay and FTA, now feel obliged to supply catch up and back catalogue services. Mainly they are cost centres without much prospect of becoming profit centres. What next? And where will the money come from? Advanced Television […]
Kannuu, a provider of search, discovery and personalised recommendation solutions for the connected television and media industry, has announced an expansion of its Discovery API Services portfolio for MVPD and OTT providers looking to enhance their service with advanced search and discovery features. “Kannuu continues its move to revolutionize how online video service providers interact […]
Describing it as “the biggest reimagining of Sky in its history”, Jeremy Darroch, CEO of the UK pay-TV operator, has launched Sky Q, a family of products which it says are designed to reflect the way people consume content nowadays. It also confirmed that Sky Q would be UltraHD ready in advance of the launch […]
Kannuu, a provider of search, discovery and personalised recommendation solutions, has announced the release of COMPASS, an API plugin for MVPD and OTT providers that it claims improves consumers content search and discovery speeds dramatically, reducing time to discover content up to 95 per cent, or greater. COMPASS enhances and improves existing search and discovery […]
Panasonic has selected Rovi’s multi-platform interactive programme guide, G-Guide xD, for the new version of the Panasonic Media Access mobile app launching this month. With the Panasonic Media Access application powered by G-Guide xD, users of VIERA Smart TVs and DIGA Blu-Ray Recorders now have the ability to discover, record and view entertainment content on […]
Rovi has confirmed the extension of a multi-year, multi-territory patent licence agreement with Sky. The renewal extends Sky’s previous licence agreement and offers the provider continuous access to Rovi’s entertainment discovery patent portfolio. “It is increasingly important for businesses to provide their customers with the latest innovations in entertainment search and guidance,” said Samir Armaly, […]
@IBC Advanced Television talks to Sylvain Thevenot about #Telco TV its proposition for TV as a cloud service for telcos and ISPs. It provides multi-screen provision, a proven UI and search and recommendation and a road map for rapid and seamless service innovation. [bitsontherun 1CI5axCW-ni7dlelE]
ThinkAnalytics, developer of a TV search and recommendations engine, has announced that Belgian cable operator Voo has gone live with ThinkAnalytics personalised recommendations across its .evasion service. Voo’s .evasion set-top box gives users access to personalised recommendations based on their viewing behaviour across linear TV, pay/transactional VoD, catch up content. “The ThinkAnalytics Recommendations Engine works […]
Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and specilaist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, announces a strategic partnership with joiz, the creators of community marketing and social TV platform, to provide third parties video, interactive and analytics technologies. Additionally, Ooyala is now powering video and advertising solutions for two social TV channels, joiz Switzerland and joiz Germany, operated by joiz Group. […]
Personalised entertainment experience specialist Rovi Corporation and voice and language solutions provider Nuance Communications have revealed a joint initiative to deliver an end-to-end solution for conversational entertainment discovery. Nuance and Rovi will provide a fully integrated conversational voice interface that ultimately delivers a personalised entertainment experience where people can speak naturally to quickly and easily […]