TV Time Acquires Mediamorph
TV Time, a leading TV and film tracking and insights platform, has announced the acquisition of Mediamorph. Mediamorph’s Content Value Management (CVM) cloud platform powers the largest entertainment companies in the world. The acquisition will fuel the growth of both Mediamorph and TV Time and drive increased customer ...
Alchimie Acquires TVPlayer
Alchimie, the international content aggregation and dynamic digital distribution company, today announces the acquisition of UK based OTT provider, TVPlayer. The acquisition will accelerate Alchimie’s move into the UK, Europe’s most developed SVOD market, by introducing new UK distribution channels via the TV Player platform for Alchimie’s extensive ...
ZEE5 chooses Kaltura TV Platform Player for its Cloud TV service
ZEE5, India’s fastest growing ConTech brand today announced its partnership with Kaltura, the leading video technology provider, for the deployment of the Kaltura TV Platform Player. The Kaltura TV Platform Player provides ZEE5 with market-leading Quality of Experience (QoE), while supporting over 8,000 devices, and providing elastic scale ...
IBC 2019 Review
Another year, another IBC and my first impressions were that this one would be interesting only for its lack of interestingness. I was mistaken -- in a good way.
Channel 5 and Comedy Central Join BritBox Line-up
ITV today confirmed that a deal has been struck between Britbox and Viacom-owned Channel 5 and Comedy Central which will see hundreds of additional hours of both channels’ best British content available on Britbox from launch. The deal brings factual and entertainment content from Channel 5 plus original ...
Publishers Increase Ad Revenue with Video Player Bidding from JW Player
JW Player, the world's most powerful and flexible video platform, today announces the launch of an enhanced Video Player Bidding solution for all clients. Video Player Bidding provides media companies with an integrated solution to connect with high-quality advertisers and brands from across the globe. Since adding three ...
DAZN to Launch on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex
DAZN, the world’s largest sports streaming service, is now available to Comcast customers on Xfinity Flex and will be available over the Internet to millions more on Xfinity X1 this fall, marking DAZN’s first distribution deal with a major U.S. video and internet provider. “We’re thrilled to give ...
Vodafone Deploys TiVo’s Personalized Content Discovery Platform
TiVo has announced that Vodafone Group is deploying TiVo’s Personalized Content Discovery (PCD) to deliver engaging, highly-relevant entertainment experiences to its subscribers. Vodafone offers broadband, TV, mobile and telephone services to 640 million customers in 24 countries as one of the world's leading mobile communications providers. Vodafone is ...
Liberty Latin America Selects TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform for Puerto Rico Roll-Out
TiVo has announced that Liberty Latin America, a leading telecommunications company operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, has selected TiVo’s Next-Gen Platform to bring cutting-edge innovations to its customers in Puerto Rico. Over time, Liberty Latin America also plans to launch TiVo’s Next-Gen ...
ITV Leverages Imagine’s Landmark II for Enhanced Ad Management
Imagine Communications, which provides open, end-to-end ad-tech solutions for broadcasters, content owners, MVPDs and vMVPDs, today announced that a new generation of its Landmark™ Sales solution will improve advertising management for ITV, the UK’s largest commercial television network. In an extension of Imagine’s longstanding relationship with the network, ...
How Quickly is Linear Ad Revenue Falling for Broadcasters?
The world’s biggest broadcasters usually have four main revenue streams: Content production - which is either commissioned independently, in partnership, or self-funded; Content distribution - the content is sold to other broadcasters, perhaps in other territories, or aggregators like Amazon and Netflix; Digital revenue – which comes from ...
Apple TV+ to Launch on 1st November
Apple has announced that its new streaming service, Apple TV+, will launch November 1 in over 100 countries and regions. Apple TV+ will go live with a lineup of original shows, movies and documentaries, including “The Morning Show,” “Dickinson,” “See,” “For All Mankind” and “The Elephant Queen.” The ...
Vodafone Group and Kaltura Extend Partnership to Deliver Telco-grade Cloud TV Service
Kaltura, the leading video technology provider, announced today that its Kaltura Cloud TV technology is supporting the launch of Vodafone TV in Greece, Romania and Portugal, joining Spain and Italy. The service is a multi-country telco-grade TV service that relies on a single common cloud-based platform that allows ...
Globecast Expands SSDAI Capabilities by Partnering with Ad Insertion Platform in Europe
Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has announced that it’s continuing to expand its TV Everywhere OTT video platform via the integration of additional server-side dynamic ad insertion (SSDAI) capabilities, partnering with Switzerland-based Ad Insertion Platform (AIP) in Europe. Frédéric Torasso, Product Manager TV Everywhere OTT Video ...
Synamedia Launches New Video Network Solutions to Optimize Workflows, Cut Costs and Transform Video Services
At IBC, Synamedia, the world’s largest independent video software provider, will unveil a torrent of new additions to its video network (formerly video processing) portfolio designed to ratchet up the quality and cost effectiveness of live streaming. New solutions will also help customers make more intelligent use of ...
Kaltura@IBC19: “Are you ready for the Cognitive TV Era?”
Kaltura, the leading video technology provider, announced today that it is evolving its Cloud TV technology and enabling capabilities to meet the requirements of an upcoming new epoch in digital entertainment – the era of Cognitive TV. Having built the most widely deployed Cloud TV service in the ...
Another Pay-TV Operator Deploys 3SS’ 3READY Android TV with Technicolor to Power Next-Generation TV Service
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), a leading provider of software solutions for set-top box (STB) and multiscreen digital entertainment, has announced that a multiservice provider in Northern Europe has selected 3READY Android TV combined with Technicolor middleware and hardware to power its upcoming TV service. The operator is soon to ...
Next Generation Accedo One Platform to Grow and Scale Video Experiences
Accedo, the video experience pioneer, today announced it will preview its next generation Accedo One cloud platform at IBC ahead of market availability later this year. The latest version of Accedo One has been designed to address the increasingly complex multi-service media environment, which is making it ...
15 New Fire TV Devices Coming to Europe and North America
Amazon, in collaboration with several of the industry’s most recognizable brands, today announced a lineup of more than 15 new Fire TV Edition products for customers around the globe, including the world’s first Fire TV Edition smart TV with built-in far-field voice control, the first OLED Fire TV ...
ThinkAnalytics to Launch ThinkAdvertising at IBC 2019
At IBC 2019 ThinkAnalytics™ will launch ThinkAdvertising, a new addressable advertising solution that provides pay-TV and OTT providers with deep insights from rich viewing, behavioral and demographic data, supported by ThinkAnalytics viewer personalization and segmentation models. Available now, it will be demonstrated publicly for the first time on ...
















