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ITV 2018 Results – Long Form Online Viewing up 32%

ITV, the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster, has today released its financial and performance results for 2018 and reports that long-form online video views on ITV Hub, Hub+ and other ad-supported platforms have increased 32% from 337 million hours in 2017 to 446 million hours last year. ITV Hub, ...

BBC and ITV Confirm Proposals for BritBox UK

The BBC and ITV are in the concluding phase of talks to establish a strategic partnership to bring a new streaming service, BritBox, to UK audiences. The broadcasters are have agreed a joint vision for the service and are now working on a formal legal agreement.  They anticipate ...

BBC Speeds Up Delivery of Flagship Content with Bitmovin

Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, announces that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is using the Bitmovin Encoder to speed content preparation and maximise quality for selected live and UHD content on Catch Up TV and Video on Demand (VOD) services. The Bitmovin solution enables the ...

Kaltura Enhances Cloud TV Platform SDK for Superior Mobile TV Viewing

Kaltura, the leading video technology provider, announced today the release of a new version of its Cloud TV Platform SDK, including a unique feature to provide faster, smoother playback on low internet connectivity for mobile devices. The enhanced SDK now also includes HEVC support, real-time analytics, as well ...

Answering Some Questions about Brightcove’s Ooyala Acquisition

2019 has already been a busy year for industry mergers, acquisitions and funding rounds. In January, Accedo raised $17m in equity to drive growth; Sky took a stake in Synamedia (which itself was created last year from the sale of Cisco's Service Provider Video Software Solutions business) and RTL Group ...

Brightcove to Acquire Ooyala’s Online Video Platform Business

Brightcove, the global provider of cloud services for video, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the online video platform (OVP) business of Ooyala, a provider of cloud video technology. Brightcove is acquiring Ooyala’s OVP technology, including video content management and publishing platform ...

How UKTV Used AI in its New VOD Apps Suite

Last month, Britain’s biggest multichannel broadcaster, UKTV, announced that it had added elements of machine learning and AI - specifically in terms of personalisation, content recommendation and building up taste profiles – to its iOS, Android and Amazon FireOS VOD apps. AI is a hot topic in the ...

SeaChange Acquires Xstream

Adds more than 5 million active subscribers; transaction expected to increase revenues and be accretive to SeaChange in current fiscal year

Darren Childs to Step Down as UKTV CEO

The Board of UKTV has announced that Darren Childs has decided to step down from his role as CEO of UKTV, Britain's biggest multichannel broadcaster. He remains in his post until 1 July and the Board, will in parallel, explore new leadership options for the next phase of ...

Qvest Media equips ORF with new Studio Control System

Qvest Media, the systems architect and ICT integrator, has been commissioned by Austrian public broadcaster ORF to equip the station with new studio automation systems. Qvest Media will be integrating automation solutions tailored to the broadcaster’s work processes for the control of five studios at the ORF centre ...

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