Genius Sports, the official data, technology and broadcast partner that powers the ecosystem connecting sports, betting and media, has expanded its Official Tracking Data partnership with Football DataCo (FDC), the data rights holder of UK football, to capture sub-second and skeletal tracking data across the Premier League. Genius Sports will continue as the Official Tracking […]
Liberty Latin America (LLA) and Plume, the personalised communications services pioneer, have announced a strategic partnership to bring new digital subscriber services to Puerto Rico, with the launch of the new WOWfi powered by Plume HomePass service to consumers throughout the island. The launch includes the deployment of Plume’s SaaS Experience Platform—including Plume’s HomePass Smart […]
Roku and Walmart have announced the launch of Roku’s new suite of smart home products, including security cameras, video doorbells, lighting, plugs and more, available exclusively in nearly 3,500 Walmart stores in the US beginning October 17th. “As the #1 selling smart TV OS in the US, the Roku platform is used by tens of […]
Parks Associates’ consumer survey work of 10,000 US Internet households shows that 38 per cent of households own at least one smart home device, up 2 per cent from a year ago. Consumers continue to buy connected products; 27 per cent of US Internet households report buying a smart home device in the past 12 […]
The Communications and Digital Committee of the UK’s House of Lords – the upper parliamentary chamber – is to hear from Ai-Da, a life size AI robot artist, on October 11th, as part of its inquiry into the future of the UK’s creative industries. The committee will also take evidence from industry and academic experts […]
Entertainment technologist IMAX has acquired AI-driven video quality solutions specialist SSIMWAVE. IMAX says the move marks a significant expansion of its strategy to deliver the highest quality video images on any screen; to drive new, recurring revenue; and grow its global leadership in entertainment technology. Under the terms of agreement, IMAX acquired SSIMWAVE for $18.5 […]
The September 2022 AI/ML Adoption Trends report from broadcast and media technology supply industry trade body IABM reflects the rapid uptake of these technologies to automate what were previously labour-intensive tasks in a media landscape where data volumes are growing exponentially while speed and accuracy are ever more important in the battle for viewers. Key […]
DISH Media has unveiled what it says is a first-of-its-kind solution enabling advertisers to access premium linear TV inventory through a real-time, programmatic buying model. The solution, National Linear Programmatic (NLP), will work across DISH TV’s 7+ million households nationwide. NLP is enabled by Beachfront, the sell-side ad server built for convergent TV, and video […]
Digital transformation software solutions specialist Skyline Communications and Qvest, a systems architect, ICT integrator and developer of software products, have agreed on a multi-year global strategic partnership with the aim of allowing customers in the ICT, media and entertainment industry to benefit from an acceleration of their digital transformation programmes. With this strategic agreement, Qvest […]
Personalised recommendations and hyper-targeted advertising provider ThinkAnalytics, has revealed that Castoola, a targeted TV advertising platform and an expert in TV ad tech and ad sales, used the ThinkAdvertising solution to boost the purchases from contextual hyper-targeted advertising campaigns for a European pay-TV operator by over 10x. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ThinkAdvertising generated […]