Business
Piksel expands into content acquisition services
Piksel has launched its Piksel Content Services. The company will manage all stages of the content acquisition process for new OTT players.
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Business
SVOD represents three per cent of pay-TV market
Subscription video on demand (SVOD) services will account for just three per cent of the global pay-TV market this year, reports Deloitte.
Business
Cellcom Israel partners with Vubiquity for OTT and VoD
Cellcom Israel, Israel's largest cellular operator, has launched Cellcom tv, a new subscription Over-The-Top (OTT) TV and Video on Demand (VoD) service. Vubiquity is...
News Releases
Harmonic optimises security with Microsoft PlayReady
Harmonic's ProMedia Origin and ProMedia X Origin multiscreen media servers have been integrated with Microsoft PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology for content access...
News Releases
Hollywood Blockbusters get Dolby Vision release
Dolby Vision, a complement to both HD and 4K, is a new imaging technology that helps content creators and television manufacturers deliver a dramatically...
News
Business
SeaChange to acquire Timeline Labs
SeaChange to acquire California-based SaaS company in deal potentially worth up to $25 million
Business
Business
Africa’s MultiChoice picks Clearleap multiscreen platform
African pay-TV provider MultiChoice has selected Clearleap to help it to deal with the rapidly increasing amount of content it needs to process.
Business
TVbeat announces partnership with Telekom Slovenije
TVbeat, a SaaS company delivering a real time TV audience measurement solution has signed a deal with Telekom Slovenije.
Opinion
The future of OTT
Gene Hoffman, chairman and CEO of Vindicia, talks to TVBEurope about the predicted growth of VoD services, the power of Netflix, and the future...
Production & Post
Wuaki.tv integrates Civolution’s watermarking for UHD content
Civolution and the European streaming service Wuaki.tv have announced the integration and deployment of Civolution’s content protection technology NexGuard, which is enabling Wuaki.tv to...
Videos
Business
Plans to ‘re-invent’ BBC Three unveiled
A proposal was announced yesterday announced a to relaunch BBC Three, including a move online
Business
Winch Capital 3 joins Thomson Video Networks in growth plan
WINCH Capital 3, run by Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, has bought a 49 percent stake in Thomson Video Networks.
News
Business
Mobile and tablet viewing to reach 50 per cent in 2015
Ooyala has issued its Q3 2014 Global Video Index Report into the way people consume TV and video across different devices throughout the day
Videos
Production & Post
T-Mobile chooses nangu.tv for mobile TV
nangu.TV has further expanded its relationship with telecoms operator T-Mobile Czech Republic, which is now using the company’s Media Platform to provide OTT mobile...
Videos
TVBEverywhere
Southern Cloud to rely on Level 3 CDN
Southern Cloud, an OTT platform provider specialising in premium diaspora content, has selected Level 3 to provide Content Delivery Network (CDN) services.
Interviews
Will network operators count on STBs in the future?
As IPTV is moving from a linear to a complete TV experience incorporating live TV, on-demand services and third party content, the new world...
Business
Premium OTT market to experience rapid growth by 2017
Vindicia and Ooyala have announced the results of a qualitative pan-European study
Interviews
Watching TV ‘when, where, what and how you want it’
Amir Aharonovitch, VP of marketing for VBox Communications, spoke with Holly Ashford about the new system, and changing trends in TV consumption
TVBEverywhere
90% to own mobile phone by 2020
Ninety per cent of the world's population over six years old is predicted to have a mobile phone by 2020, according to the latest...
News
Business
Artesyn and Intel to present free webinar
Linsey Miller (pictured), director of marketing at Artesyn Embedded Technologies, and Rik Dunphy, senior software architect at Intel’s Data Center Group will present a...
Data Centre
SNL predicts significant OTT growth in Poland
Poland had an 88.7 per cent multichannel penetration rate at the end of 2013, the highest in the Eastern Europe region, reports SNL Kagan
Business
Cennarium signs connected device deal with Samsung Brazil
Following its successful launch, Cennarium, dubbed as the world’s first global performing arts streaming service, has secured a deal with Samsung to provide its...
Business
Online TV viewers prefer dynamic advertising
Dynamic ads and viewer control (eg., the option to choose the product categories of ads you see) lead to greater sponsor recall, according to...
TVBEverywhere
PerceptionTV launched
PerceptionTV has been unveiled, following a demerger from Vision 247 to market and sell its IPTV/OTT cloud-based multiscreen platform Perception
Opinion
TV and convergence – does satellite have a future?
More service providers than ever are now entering the broadcast space and the technology landscape for content distribution can be highly confusing. David Crawford,...
Opinion
The transformation of entertainment content delivery
Dror Gill, CTO, Beamr, examines the major trends in delivering entertainment content to consumers, and their impact on all industry players.
TVBEverywhere
HBO goes OTT
US cable network HBO will launch an internet on-demand service in 2015, the company has revealed.
News
TVBEverywhere
Telekom Romania goes Everywhere with Viaccess-Orca
Telekom Romania, part of Deutsche Telekom, has selected Viaccess-Orca’s Voyage-TV Everywhere solution to drive its upcoming new IPTV and OTT multiscreen service, Telekom TV.
News
TVBEverywhere
Hungary’s TARR chooses Appear TV to deliver new multiscreen services
Hungarian multi-service operator TARR has chosen to deploy systems from Appear TV to increase channel capacity and power its new linear multiscreen services.
Business
Imagine Communications creates a TV Everywhere future
Imagine Communications has unveiled its vision for enabling Communications Service Providers to gain strategic advantage in offering over-the-top (OTT) video and IPTV services.
Business
Second screen losing ground in emerging markets
The second screen is increasingly losing favour in emerging markets, according to the results of an OTT TV survey unveiled by OTT, IPTV and...
News
Production & Post
Levira opens new playout facility in Bratislava
Levira, an independent TV playout service provider in northern Europe, has installed a new playout facility in Bratislava, Slovakia.
News
Opinion
Television evolves into the many
Disruption is part and parcel of the television industry, and today’s disrupters are the Hulus, Amazons and Googles of the world, offering over-the-top (OTT)...
Features
Business
OTT and TV Everywhere provider Xstream hires new Global Alliance director
Morten Søger has joined Xstream as its new director of Global Alliance. Prior to joining Xstream, Søger held senior roles for SAP and Microsoft.
Production & Post
Screen Systems announces subtitling ‘Holy Grail’
Subtitling technology specialist Screen Systems will be offering a realtime demonstration of their live web video subtitling solution at IBC.
News
Business
First African VOD Hollywood premium service
Aflix by SmartVOD, dubbed the ‘first OTT Hollywood premium service in Africa’, is now available on smartphones and tablets across sub-Saharan Africa.
TVBEverywhere
AirTies and Norigin Media partner for IBC launch
AirTies Wireless Networks has joined forces with Norigin Media, to launch a new multi-media casting set-top box.
TVBEverywhere
Piksel unveils Video Platform for OTT services
Piksel has announced the launch of the Piksel Video Platform multi-screen solution enabling content owners, aggregators and distributors to quickly launch OTT offerings
News
Business
Cloudio TV to migrate Brazil’s Globo subs to OTT
Brazil’s commercial broadcaster Globo has embarked on a programme to migrate its subscribers to the international TV multiplatform Cloudio TV using OTT services.
Interviews
Imagine: A bold vision of the future
Charlie Vogt sits on the FCC Advisory Council, and is an important member of both the IABM and TIA on the supplier side. He...
TVBEverywhere
AirTies launches portable wireless STB
AirTies Wireless Networks has announced its portable wireless set-top box, measuring 10x10cms. The miniature STB attaches wirelessly to the IP gateway, and features RF...
Opinion
The mobilisation of TV
TV has gone mobile, thanks to Twitter and Facebook, writes Gareth Capon, CEO of social video company, Grabyo.