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The Form Factor of UltraHD TV Will Be Its Undoing (Broadcast Engineering)

While the production community has gone 4K crazy, broadcasters I speak to on a regular basis are sitting back and scratching their heads wondering what all the fuss is about. Sure,... More

Flingo Adds Targeted Ad Insertion for Online Video Via Unicorn Partnership (Rapid TV News)

Smart TV apps publisher Flingo is adding in-stream targeted advertising via a partnership with Unicorn Media. The Unicorn Once technology will give Flingo dynamic ad insertion tool... More

HTC One Is Putting 40% of Its Ad Buy Into Digital (Adweek)

Erin McGee has been North American vp of marketing for HTC for three months, and she's dead-set on taking the brand in a new direction. In an advertising world still dominated by T... More

2nd-Generation Video Multiprocessing Gateway from RGB (Advanced Television)

RGB Networks, the provider of scalable multiscreen IP video delivery solutions, has confirmed the availability of its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) Gen 2, the second generati... More

Is Amazon the Sleeping Giant of Media? (Digiday)

Slowly but surely, Amazon is inching towards becoming a full-out media company. Amazon began selling ads six years ago. But through its Amazon Media Group, it now offers brands and... More

Cloud-Based TV Service Revenue To Reach $700m By 2017 (Broadband TV News)

Cloud-based TV service revenues will increase from nearly $120 million in 2013 to more than three-quarters of a billion dollars by 2017, according to Multimedia Research Group. Gar... More

Study: Nearly $2 Billion in Potential Disc Sales Lost for Top Pirated Movies (HMM)

Movie studios lost nearly $2 billion in revenue on potential disc sales for the top 10 pirated movies of 2012, according to a new report. Video software company Ooyala estimates th... More

KIT To Showcase Next-Generation Social Electronic Program Guide with Remote Control at NAB 2013 (Market Wire)

KIT digital, Inc., a leading video management software and services company, will debut 2Si, a major upgrade to their white label social program guide app that aims to be the premi... More

Tubetime Integrates Civolution’s SyncNow Ad Identification for its All-In-One TV App Ecosystem (Broadcast Engineering)

Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing content, today announces its integration by Tubetime, the entertainment techno... More

DirecTV’s First Original Show ‘Rogue’ to Debut with a Second Screen App (Lost Remote)

It seems like everyone is jumping into original programming these days, including DirecTV with its first show, Rogue, premiering this Wednesday night. Just like House of Cards on N... More

EVS Integrates Aspera fasp™ High-Speed Transfer into C-Cast Second-Screen Solution (Fort Mill Times)

Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed, and EVS, a leading provider of live video production systems ha... More

NAB 2013: Vizrt, never.no Unveil Social TV Graphics Platform (Rapid TV News)

Attempting to take advantage of viewers using smartphones and tablets to comment on TV shows via social media, Vizrt has teamed with never.no to integrate live screen graphics with... More

Unicorn Media and Flingo Monetize Smart TV App Content Through Dynamic Ad (PR Newswire)

Unicorn Media today announced a new partnership with Flingo, a leading Smart TV apps publisher that delivers content on more than 20 million devices worldwide. Using Unicorn Media'... More

MipTV Keynoter Hincks Celebrates Diversity of Distribution (Variety)

If you’re one of television’s creative people — a writer, producer, entrepreneur — now’s your time, says Endemol Group prexy Tim Hincks, who will deliver the keynote spee... More

‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ Break #SecondScreen Records(Zap2it)

2nd screen activity around The Walking Dead episodes during the 2nd half of S3 has mirrored that of the 1st half. From a 2nd Screen perspective, the strategy of broadcasting the se... More

NAB 2013: Vizrt and Zeebox Partner to Integrate Second-Screen Interactive Experiences into Live TV Shows (Vizrt)

Vizrt Ltd. and Zeebox announced today a partnership that allows broadcasters and program makers to integrate interactive second screen experiences into live TV shows. The partnersh... More

Brands See Twitter as the Second Screen to TV (Networking Exchange)

Twitter and TV go together like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Or to use a more recent reference, Jay Z and Beyoncé. In many ways, Twitter is an organic digital counterpart to te... More

As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Google's Lead (New York Times)

Google remains the undisputed king of search, with about two-thirds of the market. But the nature of search is changing, especially as more people search for what they want to buy,... More

Haivision Launches Haivision Video Cloud, Live and On-Demand OVP (Streaming Media)

NAB means big product announcements, and one of the biggest this year is from Haivision. The video streaming and encoding company is launching Haivision Video Cloud, an online vide... More