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MediaKind Appoints Amy S. Marmolejo as Chief Financial Of...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, today announces Amy S. Marmolejo as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Marmolejo joins the Company with an extensive background in advising, developing and leading world-class financial...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 11 January 2021

MediaFirst TV Platform advances end-to-end optimized oper...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, announces significant developments to its cloud-native, end-to-end MediaFirst TV Platform. The new enhancements to MediaFirst enable operators to rapidly define and deploy competitiv...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 07 January 2021

MediaKind launches Mediaroom Play for new media entertain...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, announces the launch of Mediaroom Play, a new client solution that enables operators to deploy set top boxes (STBs) powered by Android TV rapidly. This launch represents a significan...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 16 December 2020

Molotov extends its relationship with Unified Streaming t...

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Molotov, the leading French OTT provider, has extended its relationship with Unified Streaming, an innovator in smart video streaming technologies, to enable dynamic ad insertion across its VOD content. The companies began working together in 2015 wh...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 10 December 2020

Unified Streaming and rsquo;s latest version of Origin im...

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Unified Streaming, a leader in smart video streaming technologies, proudly announces the general availability of Unified Origin version 1.10.28, promoting best practice streaming principles for live and VOD to improve performance and compatibility. U...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 07 December 2020

MediaKind 2021 Sports D2C Forecast defines the future of...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, unveils the MediaKind 2021 Sports D2C Forecast, the most significant analysis ever undertaken of the direct-to-consumer (D2C) OTT platforms owned and operated directly by sports righ...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 03 December 2020

THEO Technologies enables Swisscom to launch its blue TV...

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THEO Technologies, a leading provider of universal video playback technologies for online media companies and enterprises worldwide, announces that THEOplayer will be used by Swisscom to deliver its blue TV (previously known as TV Air) service. Swiss...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 17 November 2020

MediaKind Mediaroom is the IPTV platform used by MEO, the...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, announces that its long-standing Mediaroom customer, MEO, has been recognized as Portugal's leading pay-TV service by market share (39.8%). The report by ANACOM, Portugal's national...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 09 November 2020

Unified Streaming latest playlist technology enables OTT...

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Unified Streaming, a leader in smart video streaming technologies, has announced an enhancement to its video playlist technology for OTT streams that improves engagement with viewers, creates efficiencies in streaming workflows and drives new adverti...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 05 November 2020

MediaKind launches the CE1, heralding a world-first for c...

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MediaKind, a global change leader in media technology and services, announces the launch of the CE1, heralding a new era for professional contribution video processing. The CE1 is a next-generation media contribution encoder based on cloud-ready soft...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 15 October 2020

The Switch chooses MediaKind to support 4K UHD HDR delive...

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MediaKind, a global leader in media technology and services, has been selected by The Switch to support the provision of next-generation IP infrastructure and content delivery services to NESN (New England Sports Network). The Switch, a leading provi...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 14 October 2020

MediaKind appoints Jennifer Yohe as Executive Vice Presid...

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MediaKind, a global media technology leader, continues to expand its leadership team with deep industry talent from across the media, entertainment, sports, and technology sectors by announcing the appointment of Jennifer Yohe as Executive Vice Presi...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 06 October 2020

Public News Chooses Grass Valley for Future-Ready Playout...

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Pakistani broadcaster, Public News, has selected a range of Grass Valley solutions to underpin its upgraded production and playout operation. The new set-up gives the Urdu language broadcaster, owned and operated by Sports Star International Private...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 23 September 2020

IBC Accelerator Programme 2020 Ignites Broadcaster Firsts...

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A team of ten world-leading broadcasters, collaborating as part of IBC’s Accelerator Innovation Programme, today revealed plans for a ‘proof of concept’ demonstration of a series of 5G-enabled remote broadcast production use cases, live from Amsterda...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 08 September 2020

MediaKind launches Aquila On-Demand solution to deliver r...

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MediaKind, a global media technology leader, has today launched Aquila On-Demand, a video on demand solution for the processing and delivery of video files over any network (cable, IPTV and OTT) to any device. Aquila On-Demand supports the latest tec...

Submitted by Platform Communications

Published 05 August 2020