People
Richard Perkett joins Amagi as chief product officer
Perkett joins the company following a 25 year career in product management, product marketing, engineering and user experience (UX) across multiple industries
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Business
BBC, Amagi, Sony, Broadcom among Technology and Engineering Emmy winners
The awards are presented to a living individual, company, or scientific or technical organisation for developments and/or standardisation involved in engineering technologies that have...
Media Consumption
Report: 2024 will be a ‘pivotal’ year for FAST
Amagi's report found the news is the most-watched genre globally, put falls to second place behind films in EMEA
Media Delivery
TAG Video Systems, Amagi partner on QoS
The initial launch leverages TAG’s APIs to allow Amagi to efficiently monitor substantial amounts of streams for key customers, said the companies
Media Delivery
Amagi, Nevion partner on pop-up channel creation
The combined solution allows production teams, wherever they are located, to spin up and tear-down pop-up channels in the cloud which can be used...
Media Consumption
The trends of 2023: Ad-supported streaming and FAST
Sri Hari Thirunavukkarasu, SVP sales, EMEA, Amagi, discusses the growing adoption of advertising-supported models by the major streaming services, as well as how traditional...
Business
Amagi to acquire Tellyo’s business
In bringing together Tellyo’s product development centre in Poland and its own technology centres in India and Croatia, Amagi said it expects to drive...
Media Management
Amagi announces cloud-based live production and playout system for single live events
Amagi DYNAMIC aims to eliminate the need for upfront hardware investments, said the company, allowing users to spin up cloud infrastructure only for the...
Media Delivery
Channel 4 expands into the US with FAST channels
The broadcaster has partnered with Amagi and Gracenote to support the technical delivery of its content on the FAST channels
News Releases
Amagi demonstrates cutting-edge solutions for enhanced content management and monetisation at IBC 2023
Amagi will be demonstrating how its solutions maximize content libraries and drive better ROI at IBC 2023. With the different pathways offered through the...
Media Delivery
Amagi and 24i help Virgin Media go FAST
The company has rolled out an initial selection of 14 channels across its V6, TV 360, and Stream set-top boxes
Media Management
Imagine Communications, Amagi form strategic partnership
The collaboration intends to provide broadcasters with a better-managed path for cloud migration, hybrid operations and orchestration and improved monetisation from streaming services
Business
Amagi opens first European R&D hub
Amagi delivers linear channels in over 40 countries, with customers including A+E Networks UK, Cinedigm, Fremantle,NBCUniversal, and The Roku Channel.
Media Delivery
Report: FAST viewing in Europe grows 50 per cent YoY
The cost of living, the quality of content and the entry of more prominent content brands into the FAST landscape are helping to drive these...
Business
Amagi raises over $100 million in funding to ‘propel growth as next-gen media technology platform’
Company says it intends to use the investment to develop "futuristic technology solutions: that can helps media companies
Media Management
Banijay Rights goes FAST with Amagi
Amagi has facilitated channel creation, distribution and monetisation for Banijay Rights on key FAST platforms
Business
Amagi to use $100 million funding to accelerate cloud innovations for media and entertainment
Accel, Avataar Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and existing investor Premji Invest have collectively invested over $100 million in the company
Media Management
NBC Olympics selects technology vendors for Tokyo 2020
NBC Olympics is working with Xytech. Telestream, Sony, MediaKind, Signiant, TAG Video Systems, Amagi and Ross Video
Media Management
Vice TV transitions linear playout to the Cloud
Broadcaster has deployed Amagi's cloud-based channel playout platform CLOUDPORT
Media Management
A&E Networks UK heads to the Cloud with Amagi, AWS
Playout and service delivery for 30 channels moved to the Cloud
Media Management
Amagi lifts Insight TV into the Cloud
Amagi CLOUDPORT features automated scheduling, dynamic graphics, live controls, 4K UHD playout and 24/7 monitoring
TVBEverywhere
Amagi sets UHD Playout on AWS
Cloudport UHD playout platform was first showcased at NAB
TVBEverywhere
DOGTV moves rover to Amagi cloud platform
Channel will employ cloud playout platform, Cloudport
Technology
Amagi debuts live events orchestration platform
Blizzard employs cloud-based technologies
Technology
The Young Turks selects Amagi for linear channel
Amagi to provide broadcast services for TYT
Technology
Amagi employs machine learning for new content preparation service
Tornado allows content owners to scale their operations, accelerate broadcast workflows, generate new revenues and reduce operational costs
IBC
Amagi to offer Cloudport virtualised playout on Microsoft Azure
Amagi has announced that its Cloudport multichannel cloud playout platform can now be deployed on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, one of the most...
IBC
Machine learning to bolster linear services
Augmented content services that make use of machine learning are being showcased on the Amagi stand. The services being demonstrated include content segmentation and...
IBC
Dim Sum TV invests in Amagi Cloudport
Hong Kong broadcaster Dim Sum TV is using Amagi’s Cloudport cloud-based channel playout platform to deliver its Cantonese satellite TV entertainment channel to audiences...
IBC
Codec holds promise for UHD sound
While the world is moving to UHD TV what is happening on the audio side? Most broadcasters, it is feared, will be content to...
IBC
OTT on the cloud
Broadcasters are being given the opportunity to launch live and linear OTT channels on the cloud, and to operate a unified platform for linear,...
Features
NAB 2016 preview
Vegas baby! The ever-expanding NAB show is upon us once again, with a total of 1789 companies pitching their stands over one million square...
News
Production & Post
Amagi unveils Cumulus
Amagi has announced CUMULUS, its new cloud-based broadcast platform
News
IBC
Regionalisation removes extra satellite feed needs
Broadcasters looking to insert local advertising and local content into their output, without the need for separate satellite feeds, are the target audience for...
IBC
Hybrid playout service reflects Broadcast 2.0 shift
Reflecting its theme for IBC of ‘Broadcast 2.0’, Amagi is displaying what it describes as a ‘next generation’ managed playout service for the very...
IBC
OPINION: Playout strategy calls for Cloud
Cloud has emerged as the most affordable, flexible and scalable approach to managed playout services, says KA Srinivasan, co-founder, Amagi The broadcast environment is evolving...
NAB
NDTV gains new ad revenue stream with Amagi STORM
India’s English news channel NDTV 24x7 will use Amagi’s STORM regionalisation platform to insert regional ads in the Middle East on the channel’s Asia-Pacific...
NAB
Amagi’s CLOUDPORT 2.0 is OTT-ready
Amagi will be launching an advanced version of its flagship cloud channel playout platform, CLOUDPORT, at the NAB Show.
Features
People on the move – February
All the latest appointments and movements in the broadcast industry
News Releases
Amagi Expands into UK, opening London office
Amagi, specialist in cloud-based TV broadcast infrastructure and content regionalisation platforms, has announced the launch of its office in London.
News
TVBEverywhere
Horse & Country chooses Amagi for cloud-cast
Equestrian sports and lifestyle network, Horse & Country TV, used the Amagi cloud-based broadcasting platform to broadcast the Rolex Grand Prix Live to the...