The Belgian pay-TV operator is treating the ad-free YouTube service like any other app on its platform – hoping to remain the central contact point for video entertainment.

The multi-market MENA platform operator is using HbbTV OpApp and TVkey Cloud to become the sovereign application on Samsung smart TVs, without having to own or ship its own hardware.

Beacons removes all data movement by taking data collaboration into a brand or media owner’s own cloud instance. This could encourage regulated businesses and walled gardens to collaborate more.

The thought-leadership conference focuses on strategy and product innovation across TV distribution and monetisation. Speakers explore the deepening relationships between broadcasters and global SVOD services, how Pay TV lives with less content exclusivity, and much more.

Linear-like control of streaming ad pods is the latest technology to blur the lines between linear and streaming advertising. Steve Reynolds, CEO at Imagine Communications, believes the final barriers to true Total TV are organisational.

The subtitles are expected to attract a wider audience, including among German-only speaking children of parents who moved from South Asia.

The Sagemcom Android STBs are the latest step in a two-year project to upgrade the Pay TV experience at the Hungarian Pay TV provider. 3SS and Nagravision are other key partners.

AI tech company Veritone is licensing refined video data for up to $1,000 per hour to AI application developers and AI models.

Dentsu UK and Channel Factory have pioneered a curated marketplace that makes brand-safe, high-quality YouTube content available for brand campaigns seeking incremental reach beyond linear and BVOD.

MiQ is integrating OS-level consumption data from Titan OS in Europe to further improve its media planning decisions. MiQ says it will become the only managed service programmatic media partner with direct access to Titan OS data across Europe.