Digital TV News: Nex

Nexxen empowers Australian advertisers using VIDAA ACR data
Apr 22, 2024 – Nexxen has launched TV Viewership Audiences in Australia. TV Viewership Audiences leverages exclusive ACR data from VIDAA to create custom segments based on viewership patterns.
News categories: Nexxen, VIDAA, Josif Zanich, Guy Edri, Advertising, Australia, Big Data, Digital TV, Smart TV, TV OS

Meta opens Quest OS to third-party hardware makers
Apr 22, 2024 – Meta has announced that it is opening up the operating system that powers its Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving developers a larger ecosystem to build for.
News categories: Meta, Qualcomm, Apps, Gaming, Metaverse, Semiconductor, Worldwide

Paramount to exclusively represent SkyShowtime advertising sales
Apr 22, 2024 – SkyShowtime has concluded an exclusive deal for Paramount to handle SkyShowtime's advertising sales across all of its markets, providing access to advertising in 20+ European markets.
News categories: SkyShowtime, Paramount, Monty Sarhan, Hristina Georgieva, Lee Sears, Advertising, Digital TV, Europe, Streaming

Sky Sports Main Event latency reduced on Entertainment OS devices
Apr 18, 2024 – Sky Sports Main Event viewers will soon be able to watch the channel in low latency, reducing the time between the action on the pitch and watching on Sky Glass and Stream.
News categories: Sky, Digital TV, Gaming, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, UK, UX

Yahoo brings identity solutions to CTV
Apr 16, 2024 – Yahoo Advertising has announced that Yahoo Identity Solutions is to launch within connected TV (CTV) environments including Paramount, Tubi, NBCUniversal, and FreeWheel.
News categories: Yahoo, Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, Leo O’Connor, Jeff Lucas, Ryan McConville, Jon Mansell, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Streaming, USA

Interactive TV news channel unveiled by ROXi and Sinclair
Apr 15, 2024 – At NAB, ROXi and Sinclair unveiled 3 News Interactive Las Vegas. Powered by ROXi's FastStream, the NEXTGEN TV-delivered channel has the interactivity of an app without the need for an app on the TV.
News categories: ROXi, Sinclair, Rob Lewis, Skip Flenniken, ATSC 3, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, USA, UX

Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile CZ upgrade video streaming with 24i
Apr 16, 2024 – Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile Czech Republic have extended their engagement with 24i to add new value-added content libraries and streamline the UX on their current streaming services.
News categories: 24i, Slovak Telekom, T-Mobile Czech Republic, Donald McGarva, Marcel Satanek, Content Distribution, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Slovakia, Streaming, UX

WISI Communications initiates restructuring in self-administration
Apr 15, 2024 – The Pforzheim Local Court has granted WISI Communications's application to initiate a debtor-in-possession restructuring. The reorganisation was needed due to a drastic slump in incoming orders.
News categories: WISI, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Finance, Germany, Worldwide

Akamai rolls out NVIDIA-powered Cloud services optimized for video processing
Apr 15, 2024 – Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) has added a media-optimized offering based on NVIDIA GPUs to its cloud portfolio, aimed at companies that need to process video content faster and more efficiently.
News categories: Akamai, NVIDIA, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Semiconductor, Software, Worldwide