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Mercedes-Benz brings movie magic into the car with Sony Pictures
Dec 18, 2024 – Mercedes-Benz has introduced a RIDEVU app from Sony Pictures Entertainment, enabling its customers to access content across a wide range of genres, as well as rent or buy from a catalog of movies.
News categories: Mercedes-Benz, Sony Pictures, Magnus Östberg, Apps, Automotive, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide

Two Wheels Motor Racing selects Harmonic for live sports distribution
Dec 18, 2024 – Two Wheels Motor Racing (TWMR) is using Harmonic's (NASDAQ: HLIT) media SaaS, contribution encoder and IRD to deliver video streams to affiliates in Malaysia over the internet.
News categories: Harmonic, Two Wheels Motor Racing, Tony Berthaud, Mohd Noorharif Jaafar, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Malaysia

Bell Media and Shopsense AI bring shoppable TV to Canada
Dec 18, 2024 – Bell Media has partnered with Shopsense AI to bring second-screen shopping experiences to Canadian viewers. The partnership will debut on CTV's daily shows The Good Stuff with Mary Berg and Etalk.
News categories: Shopsense, Bell Media, Glenn Fishback, Stewart Johnston, Advertising, Canada, Digital TV, UX

UK consults on legal framework for AI use of copyright material
Dec 17, 2024 – The UK has launched a consultation on plans to give certainty to the creative industries and AI developers on how copyright material can be used to train AI models.
News categories: UK Government, Big Data, Digital TV, Regulation, UK

Smartclip and M6 Publicité announce ad-tech partnership
Dec 17, 2024 – Smartclip’s advanced ad-tech solutions will progressively be integrated into M6 Publicité’s ad-tech stack, supporting Groupe M6’s ambition to triple its streaming revenues to €200 million by 2028.
News categories: Smartclip, M6 Publicité, Thomas Servatius, Hortense Thomine-Desmazures, Advertising, Digital TV, France

ACAM selects HR Media for video audience measurement in Mexico
Dec 16, 2024 – HR Media has been selected by the Alianza para la Calidad de la Medición Multimedia en México (ACAM) to provide video audience measurement services for 2025 and 2026.
News categories: HR Media, ACAM, Rodrigo Gómez, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Mexico

TCL adds NBCUniversal channels to FAST offering in Europe
Dec 17, 2024 – TCL and NBCUniversal have announced a new agreement to introduce a range of NBCUniversal TV shows to audiences in Europe via branded FAST services on TCL Channel.
News categories: TCL, NBCUniversal, Howie Li, Rob Bell, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Smart TV, Streaming

Moments Lab metadata-generation integrated with Bitcentral asset management
Dec 16, 2024 – Moments Lab has integrated with Bitcentral, enabling Bitcentral media asset management software users to enrich their assets with Moments Lab's AI-generated metadata.
News categories: Moments Lab, Bitcentral, Frederic Petitpont, Sam Peterson, Big Data, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Worldwide

Glance and Airtel turn idle TV screens into smart experiences
Dec 11, 2024 – Glance has unveiled Glance TV, a feature that transforms idle TV screens into AI-powered smart surfaces. The platform has launched in India on Airtel Xstream devices powered by Android TV OS.
News categories: Airtel, InMobi, Siddharth Sharma, Piyush Shah, Android TV, Digital TV, India, Set Top Box, UX