China’s most popular online video site, Youku.com, is trying to shed its reputation for abetting piracy by taking a page from YouTube’s playbook: using technology to ‘fingerprint’ videos, making it easier to find unlicensed copies. The Beijing-based company, which has been sued over pirated videos, has developed a content-filtering system that generates identifying codes based […]

YouTube wants viewers to stay on the site for much longer giving the video platform the opportunity to garner more TV advertising spend. Chad Hurley, CEO, says he wants users to become more like TV viewers with the ultimate aim of getting them to spend nearer five hours at the site, rather than the current […]

TalkTalk has confirmed that content from its TV service – TalkTalk TV – will be available on the Project Canvas TV when the platform is launched and added it wouldn't be “pushing further sales of TalkTalk TV”, and is instead waiting for the launch of Project Canvas, on-demand TV service. Meanwhile, TalkTalk will open a […]

Arab Radio and Television Network (ART), the leading Arabic language television network in the Middle East, and NeuLion, an end-to-end IPTV service provider, have inked a long-term partnership to distribute ART channels using NeuLion’s IPTV platform in Canada. The partnership names NeuLion as the exclusive IPTV technology provider and ART/IMD as the exclusive Arabic content […]

Amis Telekom has selected Swedish firm Edgeware to provide its video servers to power the on-demand element of the telco’s IPTV services, which it operates in Slovenia and Croatia. The telco’s IPTV service, called ‘Amis TV’, offers linear channels and on-demand video, network personal video recorder features and time-shifting capabilities, courtesy of the Edgeware servers.

Irdeto has confirmed that Netflix has licensed Irdeto's Cloakware Embedded Security as part of its suite of content protection tools for the tens of thousands of TV episodes and movies it streams instantly to its members. Irdeto provides an advanced content protection solution that allows application developers to rapidly deploy leading software security.

Kyte, the 360° social video platform for live and on-demand content, has extended the Kyte Platform to support Boxee. The Kyte Boxee App Framework provides an easy way to deliver fully-brandable content to Boxee, which audiences are then able to browse and view through the Boxee interface on their PC or television. Content can be […]

Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter editions of two video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers. “In the ongoing battle between cable and telco IPTV operators, both continue to spend furiously to add video-on-demand and streaming content server capacity to support the rollout of on-demand HD […]

AirTies, the wireless home networking vendor, has signed a strategic partnership with GooMe Interactive, a provider of over-the-top (OTT) media solutions for operators, to deliver an end-to-end, content-rich TV experience. The combined solution offers a STB with advanced graphics capabilities, supporting Pause-LiveTV and progressive download using Flash memory without the need for costly hard drives. […]

Civolution and Gracenote have announced an expanded long-term agreement by jointly launching and selling Mediahedge, the next generation audio and video content identification platform that enables content filtering, monitoring and monetisation for content owners and service providers. The Mediahedge platform combines Civolution’s video fingerprinting and Gracenote's audio fingerprinting identification technologies with extended content registration and […]