Digital TV News: Discovery

Paramount+ announces international rollout plan details
Mar 19, 2024 – Paramount+ (NASDAQ: PARA; PARAA) has announced launch timing and pricing for its international ad-supported subscription offering. Its Premium subscription plan is also to be rolled out in Europe.
News categories: Paramount+, Marco Nobili, Lee Sears, Australia, Canada, Digital TV, Europe, Streaming

Titan OS partners with European ad sales houses
Mar 19, 2024 – Titan OS has partnered with ad sales houses EXTE, Goldbach, Media16, RTL AdAlliance, ShowHeroes and Stamp to provide access to its inventory for advertisers in key European territories.
News categories: Titan OS, Tim Edwards, Advertising, Digital TV, Europe, Smart TV, TV OS

Verance shows HbbTV ADB2 watermarking at DVB World 2024
Mar 19, 2024 – At the 2024 DVB World Conference, Verance is showing a demonstration of its watermarking technology integrated into the HbbTV ADB2 application discovery ecosystem.
News categories: Verance, HbbTV Association, Nil Shah, Vincent Grivet, Advertising, Apps, Broadcast, Content Identification, Digital TV, Germany, HbbTV, Smart TV, Worldwide

Proximus launches multiscreen Pickx apps with 3SS
Mar 14, 2024 – 3 Screen Solutions (3SS) has announced that Proximus has launched several 3SS-developed apps to further enhance reach and device variety for its super-aggregated Pickx service.
News categories: 3SS, Proximus, Vantiva, Kai-Christian Borchers, Jim Casteele, Apps, Belgium, Digital TV, IPTV, Mobile, Set Top Box

Titan OS expands channel lineup
Mar 12, 2024 – Titan OS has expanded its channel lineup. Partnerships include Euronews, Bloomberg TV, Red Bull TV, CHILI, FUNKE Digital, Blue Ant Media, Insight TV and Love TV Channels, among others.
News categories: Titan OS, Lucas Llop, Digital TV, Europe, Smart TV, Streaming, TV OS

Bedrock to power M6+ streaming platform
Mar 7, 2024 – Groupe M6 is to release its M6+ platform in France, with Bedrock delivering the features and innovations that will enable users to enjoy the AVOD content on all platforms.
News categories: Bedrock, Groupe M6, Jonas Engwall, Henri de Fontaines, Advertising, Apps, Digital TV, France, Streaming

DoubleVerify unmasks CTV ad fraud scheme, CycloneBot
Feb 28, 2024 – DoubleVerify has revealed the identification and mitigation of CycloneBot, a malicious bot capable of generating up to 250 million falsified ad requests and spoofing around 1.5 million devices daily.
News categories: DoubleVerify, Roku, Mark Zagorski, Roy Rosenfeld, Louqman Parampath, Advertising, Digital TV, Streaming, Watermarking, Worldwide

Updates to DVB-I spec and implementation guidelines published
Feb 27, 2024 – DVB has updated two DVB-I BlueBooks: A177r6 is the latest version of the DVB-I service discovery specification; and A184r1 is the first revision of the implementation guidelines for DVB-I.
News categories: DVB Project, Broadcast, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Streaming, UX, Worldwide

Nexxen settles with Alphonso and LG, entering into three-year partnership
Feb 28, 2024 – Nexxen (AIM/NASDAQ: NEXN) has settled its dispute with Alphonso and LG. Alphonso will also allow Nexxen to monetize a portion of LG's CTV inventory and will use Nexxen's discovery and segmentation tools.
News categories: Nexxen, Alphonso, LG Electronics, Ofer Druker, Serge Matta, Advertising, Big Data, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide