The TV of Tomorrow Show 2012 Sponsor Showcase
[itvt] would like to extend a very big and heartfelt Thank You to the companies that stepped up to the plate to support The TV of Tomorrow Show 2012. Below is some information on those companies, including links to their product offerings and recent news:
PREMIER SPONSOR:
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PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows people to send payments without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts (where available), credit and debit cards in various markets. PayPal is an eBay company and enables global ecommerce with over 110 million active accounts in 190 markets and 25 currencies around the world. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California and its international headquarters are located in Singapore. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com
FOUNDING SPONSOR:
Softel is a global expert in interactive TV. Its versatile MediaSphere platform offers an array of interactive TV technologies, including second-screen, connected-TV and ITV playout solutions, as well as headend components. The recently announced MediaSphere Bridge lets broadcasters and operators drive second-screen experiences and retain viewers' attention while providing them two-way interaction between their TV and tablet or smartphone.
Softel is trusted by the most prestigious programmers and operators across the world, such as the BBC, Comcast, ESPN, MTV, Shaw, Showtime, Starz, Technicolor, Time Warner Cable, Turner Broadcasting, and QVC, to deliver a wide range of ITV apps. Softel has offices in the New York metropolitan area (USA), Pangbourne (UK), and Auckland (New Zealand). For more information, visit http://www.softelgroup.com
Recent News from Softel:
"Softel MediaSphere Bridge Enables Broadcasters/Operators to Own the Second-Screen Experience"
"Softel to Showcase Innovative Second-Screen Solution at TVOT 2012"
Softel Product Showcase:
Products for Second-Screen, Single-Screen, Subtitling/Closed Captioning, Ancillary Data Processing and More
GOLD SPONSOR:
Ensequence enables programmers, service providers and advertisers to increase programming ratings, advertising effectiveness and merchandise sales by making their shows and commercials more powerful and engaging with interactivity. The Ensequence iTV Manager interactive platform solves the technical complexities associated with creating and deploying a high volume of uniquely branded interactive television experiences across cable, satellite, telco and connected devices.
Ensequence's customers include the largest and most innovative programmers and service providers in the media industry: NBCUniversal, MTV Networks, Showtime Networks, Turner Broadcasting, HBO, QVC, WE tv, MSG, Fuse, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DISH Network and Verizon. In addition, Ensequence is deployed on multiple connected-device platforms. For more information, visit http://www.ensequence.com
Recent News from Ensequence:
"Ensequence Secures $26 Million to Help Accelerate the Future of TV"
Ensequence Product Showcase:
Products for Programmers, Service Providers and Advertisers
SILVER SPONSORS:
Rovi is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and locations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos to its customers in the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment and online distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by industry-leading entertainment data, create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form.
Rovi holds approximately 5,100 issued or pending patents worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, China, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit http://www.rovicorp.com
Recent News from Rovi:
"Rovi and MStar Team to Deliver a More Advanced Streaming Video Experience"
"Rovi Set-Top Box Data Reveals Continued Consumer Reliance on Interactive Program Guide"
Rovi Product Showcase:
Watchwith, the leader in related content syndication, unlocks value across the entertainment industry by transforming how people experience film and television. The Watchwith Platform enables content owners and app developers to realize new value by creating an engaging layer of time-based related content events around film, television programming and advertising. The Watchwith Platform enables syndication of the related content experience to smartphones, tablets, connected TV's, game consoles, OTT set-top boxes, managed network set-top boxes and Blu-ray discs. Powered by the Related Content Database, Watchwith enables new user experiences that drive the monetization of film and television shows across multiple consumer touch points. Motorola Mobility, Inc., and Sony Network Entertainment are strategic investors in the company. Watchwith is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.watchwith.com
Recent News from Watchwith:
Watchwith Product Showcase:
Solutions for Content Owners and App Developers
Strategy & Technology (S&T) is an independent specialist company focused on providing interactive TV technologies that help broadcasters improve their businesses. The company concentrates on real-world, cost-effective technologies that allow broadcasters to roll out value-added services that enhance viewer 'stickiness' and provide a clear digital development path into the future.
S&T is involved in the deployment of digital interactive TV around the world--from the UK to New Zealand, Hong Kong to India, and in the US too. The company also works with receiver manufacturers on a global basis licensing its RedKey MHEG-5 engine. It is a market leader in products based on the ISO MHEG-5 standard, which has a rapidly growing presence worldwide. It is also active in the US market with deployments using the OpenCable OCAP standard and has developed a range of DVB-MHP playout solutions. In addition, it markets more general-purpose products for MPEG-2 and DVB standard transmission systems. Founded in 1996, S&T has more than 50 full-time staff based in London and Bristol in the UK, in Louisville, Colorado near to CableLabs, and in Hong Kong SAR. For more information, visit http://www.s-and-t.com
Recent News from Strategy & Technology:
"BBC's and Arts Council England's 'The Space' Taps S&T to Power Freeview App"
"S&T and icueTV Partner to Demonstrate 'Click-to-Text' Application at CableLabs Winter Conference"
Strategy & Technology Product Showcase:
Headend, Receiver and Test Products, Applications and Tools
SeaChange International, which is ranked among the top 250 software companies in the world, enables transformative multiscreen video services through an open, cloud-based, intelligent software platform trusted by cable, IPTV and mobile operators globally. Personalized and fully monetized video experiences any time on any device, in the home and everywhere, are the product of the company's superior backoffice, advertising and in-home offerings.
SeaChange's hundreds of customers are many of the world's most powerful media brands, including all major cable operators in the Americas and Europe, and the largest telecom companies in the world. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange is TL 9000 certified and has product-development, support and sales offices around the world. For more information, visit http://www.schange.com
Recent News from SeaChange:
"SeaChange Innovates Cable's Deployed Set-Top Boxes with Nitro Now Subscriber Experience"
"SeaChange and Civolution Enable Premium VOD for North American Cable Operators"
SeaChange Product Showcase:
Products for Multiscreen Video, Backoffice, In-Home, Advertising and More
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Orca Interactive is a leading innovative provider of IPTV and OTT middleware, content-discovery solutions and companion-device applications that power next-generation multiscreen TV. Revolutionizing the way people experience television content, Orca's proven solutions help pay-TV service providers drive new revenues and build subscriber loyalty. Orca's flexible middleware platform delivers a full array of IPTV and OTT services across converging multi-device, multi-network environments. Orca's groundbreaking content-discovery solution enables pay-TV operators to increase ARPU by recommending the right content to the right subscribers. Established in 1996, Orca Interactive is based in Ra'anana, Israel, and is a subsidiary of Viaccess, a wholly owned unit of France Telecom SA. For more information, visit http://www.orcainteractive.com
Recent News from Orca Interactive:
"France Telecom Orange Launches 'la nouvelle TV d'Orange' Service with Viaccess and Orca Interactive"
"The iTV Doctor Is In!: Searching for Guidance"
Orca Interactive Product Showcase:
Products for Content Discovery, IPTV and OTT, and TV Everywhere
BRONZE SPONSORS:
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YuMe is the software infrastructure provider powering digital video and the next generation of television with its operating system for TV 2.0. Its video advertising technology and services seamlessly connect advertisers, app developers, content distributors, consumer electronics manufacturers, and publishers across the globe. YuMe's patent-pending Relevance Engine powers its premium in-stream video ad network, the YuMe Connected Audience Network, and its industry-leading advertising management solutions, ACE for Publishers and ACE for Advertisers. The YuMe Relevance Engine matches the right ad to the right audience on whatever screen they are viewing--PC, mobile, or connected TV. YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California with its European headquarters in London. The company is backed by Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung Ventures, and Translink Capital. For more information, visit http://www.yume.com
Recent News from YuMe:
YuMe Product Showcase:
Solutions for Publishers (ACE for Publishers) and Advertisers (Connected Audience Network)
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HSN was founded 34 years ago as the first shopping network, and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. HSN is a leading interactive multichannel retailer, offering a curated assortment of exclusive products and top brand names to its customers. Its HSN Shop by Remote application (US Patent No. 7,752,083) is the only live 24/7 shopping service in the US that enables customers to purchase any item on air on HSN using their remote control. It's easy, secure and the fastest way to buy HSN products. HSN Shop by Remote is currently available nationwide in almost 40 million homes. For more information, visit http://www.hsn.com
HSN Product Showcase:
Blendagram offers a solution that allows the seamless integration of different logos or images directly into video content, in order to promote specific products or messages. The company enables its clients to 1) maximize their CPM's--allowing them to enhance their advertising solutions by offering in-line placements to complement premium packages such as roadblocks and takeovers; 2) supplement their pre-rolls--allowing them to counter ad skipping via embedded brand placements; 3) dynamically serve logos/images to reach the right audience; and 4) displace signage in videos without "blurring" out images and creating eyesores that degrade their content and the consumer's viewing experience. For more information, visit http://www.blendagram.com
Blendagram Product Showcase:
Audible Magic is the trusted leader in digital fingerprinting for recognizing content in all forms across radio and television broadcasts, Internet streams, cable and satellite transmissions, stored digital files, and on consumer devices such as smart TV's, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, and other appliances. Currently, Audible Magic works with more than 200 customers and partners, including TVplus, Miso, yap.TV, Accedo, Cinram, Facebook, NBC Universal, SoundCloud, Viacom, Disney, MySpace, Sony, Metacafe, Fox, Brightcove, and Universal Music. For more information, visit http://www.audiblemagic.com
Recent News from Audible Magic:
"Audible Magic and Digitalsmiths Team to Power Enhanced Second-Screen Viewing Experiences"
Audible Magic Product Showcase
SmartID, SmartSync and Live TViD
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never.no's award-winning interactive "TV. Mobile. Social. 1Framework" technology connects fragmented media platforms across broadcast TV systems, mobile, and social media platforms--enabling real-time viewer participation, social TV, and synchronized companion apps. In operation since 1999, never.no has a global customer base including top brands such as Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, Danmarks Radio, MBC, Music Choice, TV Norge, TV 2 Norge, TV 2 Danmark, Viasat, and VOA. For more information, visit: http://www.never.no
Recent News from never.no:
"Introducing Our Latest Social-TV Product: Prompter"
never.no Product Showcase:
Prompter and Other Solutions in the never.no Interactivity Suite
Visiware, based in the US (New York and Denver) and France (Paris), provides second-screen and gaming solutions and technologies. With over 15 years of experience, Visiware's global reach extends across 70 countries and 30 operators. Visiware's products include its PlayAlong platform, which allows TV producers and networks to launch next-generation social applications, such as games and interactions which are synchronized with major broadcast programs. Millions of TV viewers can simultaneously participate during a TV show via the Web, their iPhone or iPad, or even through Facebook. For more information, visit http://www.visiware.com
Recent News from Visiware:
"Global Market Leader Visiware, Inc. Defines the Next Generation of Social TV"
"Visiware's PlayAlong Helps 'Millionaire' to Tweak Format"
Visiware Product Showcase:
SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
ThinkAnalytics is a leading provider of real-time personalized content recommendations, bringing together intelligent search and flexible business rules engine with Predictive Customer Intelligence. ThinkAnalytics offers the most comprehensive and scalable content recommendations and targeted advertising platform on the market. ThinkAnalytics' Recommendations Engine broadens customers' tastes with a unique personalized experience for both linear TV and VOD, delivered through multiple platforms including set-top box, Web, IPTV, mobile, and call center. ThinkAnalytics technology services over 80 million consumers across 16 countries worldwide. ThinkAnalytics is a private, employee-owned company. ThinkAnalytics is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices in Europe and the United States, and has partnerships with leading media corporations worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.thinkanalytics.com
Recent News from ThinkAnalytics:
ThinkAnalytics Product Showcase:
ThinkAnalytics Recommendations Engine
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Civolution is the leading provider of technology and solutions to identify, manage and monetize media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge digital watermarking and fingerprinting applications for media interaction (www.syncnow.com--accurate and real-time video synchronization for second-screen and smart TV's), media intelligence (audience measurement and media monitoring for television, radio and Internet) and media protection (content filtering and forensic marking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, pay-TV and online). For more information, visit http://www.civolution.com
Recent News from Civolution:
"Civolution and SeaChange Enable Premium VOD for North American Cable Operators"
"Civolution's SyncNow Technology Powers Second-Screen Advertising Platform for DG"
Civolution Product Showcase:
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Zeitera is a Silicon Valley start-up located in Mountain View, California. Backed by experienced technology investors with successful track records in building technology companies, Zeitera is leading the emerging market for intelligent content-recognition solutions across the broadcast, Internet, and consumer electronics ecosystem. Zeitera has a senior team of computer-vision, image-processing, data-mining, and search experts with experience building large-scale systems at successful start-ups as well as established technology companies such as Sony, Samsung, Audible Magic, AOL, Google, IBM, Broadcom, and Nokia. For more information, visit http://www.zeitera.com
Recent News from Zeitera:
"INdusty: ACR TV Deep Dive with Zeitera CEO, Dan Eakins"
Zeitera Product Showcase:
Overview of Zeitera's Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) Solutions
TVplus is an award-winning social-technology company that delivers rich, interactive experiences for the second screen. The company makes the programs you watch on TV "clickable."
The TVplus application can tune-in to your favorite shows, and within seconds can recognize and sync your second-screen device to the exact moment within the program. TVplus then delivers great interactive digital content related to each scene of the show, including actor bios, photo galleries, videos, music links, show facts, behind-the-scenes information, social activity and much more! For more information, visit http://www.tvplus.com
Recent News from TVplus:
"Disney Second Screen Releases 'Lady and the Tramp' App Using TVplus Audio Sync Technology"
TVplus Product Showcase:
TVplus Apps
NDS creates technologies and applications that enable pay-TV operators to securely deliver content to all devices, including tablets, legacy and next-generation STB's, PC's, games consoles and smartphones, over managed and unmanaged networks. Over 90 of the world's leading pay-TV platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their services. NDS' expertise encompasses component and end-to-end solutions including TV Everywhere, whole home, and delivery beyond the TV, all supported by an extensive professional services team. Designed using open and modular systems that leverage existing network infrastructures and available standards, NDS helps MSO's maximize their network investment and satisfy the end-consumer today and tomorrow. Individual product solutions include content and service protection for multiplatform content, award-winning EPG's/UI's, whole-home gateways, middleware and remote user interface technology. For more information, visit http://www.nds.com
Recent News from NDS:
"NDS Snowflake Premieres at ZON TV Cabo"
"NDS Marries Digital TV and OTT with Innovative Applications Development Portal"
NDS Product Showcase:
Likers.tv is a first-of-its-kind, social media-based on-screen advertising platform which aims to establish substantial incremental revenue streams for both brands and broadcasters. The interactive technology will bridge the gap between TV and the second screen. Comprising a live advertising ticker at the bottom of the TV screen--overlaid onto existing programming--the Likers.tv platform displays pictures and names of a brand's new social media fans in real time to facilitate live public endorsement on TV. Viewers can also 'like' a specific program or show contestant, creating new ways in which to engage in voting or competitions. The aim of Likers.tv is to create a new business model for broadcasters by establishing a new source of advertising income, as well as exploit and expand a brand's commercial fanpage community and drive both fan engagement and consumer awareness. Technical development of the Likers.tv proposition is complete, and the patent is pending. TV networks will receive a free license, conditional on royalties, and Likers.tv will manage the live fan feed, which also includes a built-in linguistic filter. The platform is currently compatible with Facebook, with other social media channels, including Twitter, to be made available soon. For more information, visit http://www.likers.tv
Recent News from Likers.tv:
"Likers.tv Launches to Make TV and Advertising More Social"
"Likers.tv Signs Deal with Leading Mongolian Broadcaster, Mongol TV"
Likers.tv Product Showcase:
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ActiveVideo Networks has created CloudTV, an advanced TV platform for service providers, based entirely in the network cloud. CloudTV enables the fast and flexible development and deployment of advanced services and applications to any home in the footprint. Using the CloudTV platform, service providers can deliver unicast streams that include navigational interfaces, live television, advanced advertising, games and other services to any set-top box, CI+-enabled television, mobile device, and broadband-connected CE device. ActiveVideo Networks is based in San Jose, California, with offices in Los Angeles and Hilversum, the Netherlands. For more information, visit http://www.activevideo.com
Recent News from ActiveVideo Networks:
"ActiveVideo Announces General Availability of CloudTV H5; Brings Advanced VOD Navigation to Any STB"
ActiveVideo Networks Product Showcase:
ActiveVideo Solutions, Services and White Papers
Tomorrowish technology integrates social media with content, provides curation to display only the best, most interesting comments, and delivers unprecedented automated and manual engagement tools for content providers.
The company also syncs the social conversation in time with the content, so on-demand users can insert comments about the content into a conversation stream that is relevant to what they are viewing--regardless of when they view it--and drives their followers to your site to see what all the talk is about. For more information, visit http://www.tomorrowish.com
Recent News from Tomorrowish:
"Where's the Data Fit into Social TV Platforms and Ads?"
Tomorrowish Product Showcase:
X2TV, which was spun off from Italian software company Beeweeb in 2010, has inherited 10 years of experience building mobile TV and entertainment solutions for more than 20 international mobile operators and broadcasters. On its own, X2TV has developed a social and reactive tool for making videos and media more engaging on any screen. X2TV's vision is to enable millions of viewers to engage with video, TV, radio and brands at a whole new level. For more information, visit http://www.x2.tv
Recent News from X2TV:
"The Acqua for Life Armani Campaign is Live!"
"Hello, We Are X2TV. It's Nice to Meet You."
X2TV Product Showcase:
Full-Featured Mobile Interactive TV and Multiscreen Solution
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