TiVo pays US$135 million for Digitalsmiths
Digitalsmiths’ Seamless Discovery service for personalised recommendations. DVR maker TiVo has agreed to pay US$135 million (€99.3 million) for cloud-based content discovery service Digitalsmiths, in a...
View ArticleTank Top TV publishes discovery APIs
London-based Tank Top TV has published a new suite of APIs, designed to make entertainment personalisation, recommendation, and universal search across OTT services available to anyone. The new...
View ArticleSky updates EPG with new recommendation engine
UK satellite TV provider Sky is rolling out a number of new features for its Sky+ electronic programming guide (EPG), including a new recommendations engine and a ‘Smart Series Link’ record function....
View ArticleContentWise launches version five of its personalisation solution
ContentWise, a provider of TV personalisation, discovery and recommendation solutions, is due to launch its next-generation ContentWise 5 offering at IBC. ContentWise 5 has been developed to help TV...
View ArticleThree quarters of millenials discover TV from friends, social media
Some 76% of 18 to 29 year-olds discover new TV shows from friends, family and social media, according to research by interactive social TV service Relay TV. This compares to 48% of respondents who...
View ArticleViewers taking critical view of content recommendation
Viewers spend an average of 16 minutes searching for content and when they don’t find anything, the majority will look elsewhere, according to new consumer research commissioned by online video...
View ArticleRoku targets content discovery in latest OS update
Roku has is rolling out updates to its operating system in the US in a bid to make it easier for users to discover content. The latest version of the OS includes a ‘More Ways to Watch’ function, which...
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