New Features & Tech Innovations

• Sony Turns PlayStation 5 Into a FAST Platform With More Than 100 Free Live Channels

  Sony Turns PlayStation 5 Into a FAST Platform With More Than 100 Free Live Channels Sony Pictures Television launched Live TV on PS5 on 31 August, a free ad-supported streaming service offering more t…

• BBC Chief Floats YouTube-Style iPlayer Open to Creators, Curated by a "Public Service Algorithm"

  BBC Chief Floats YouTube-Style iPlayer Open to Creators, Curated by a "Public Service Algorithm" BBC director-general Matt Brittin, formerly Google's EMEA chief, told the Edinburgh TV Festival he is c…

• 3Play Media: AI Dubs Outperform Original English Tracks by 24% on View Duration

  3Play Media: AI Dubs Outperform Original English Tracks by 24% on View Duration Localization firm 3Play Media said its AI dubs on YouTube have passed 30 million hours watched, and that over two months…

• CNBC UK Selects MediaKind's Beam for Cloud-Connected Live News Operations

  CNBC UK Selects MediaKind's Beam for Cloud-Connected Live News Operations CNBC UK picked MediaKind's Beam edge-processing platform to modernise contribution and distribution for its live news operatio…

• Yospace Launches Ad Presentation Solution to Scale Non-Linear Ad Formats

  Yospace Launches Ad Presentation Solution to Scale Non-Linear Ad Formats Yospace, the Bertelsmann-owned dynamic ad insertion specialist and a Bedrock technology partner, released an Ad Presentation so…

• Broadpeak Launches Click2Cart Shoppable Streaming Ads

  Broadpeak Launches Click2Cart Shoppable Streaming Ads Broadpeak's Click2Cart lets viewers add products directly to an online shopping cart with one click of the remote during a streaming ad, working a…

• YouTube Starts Counting Views From the First Frame

  YouTube unifies view counting across all formats from August 24, counting a view from the first frame.

• Peacock Launches Beta Membership Program With Tiered Subscriber Rewards

  Peacock Launches Beta Membership Program With Tiered Subscriber Rewards Peacock rolled out a beta membership and rewards program to a random sample of Premium and Premium Plus subscribers, grouping me…

• Disney Beta Tests AI-Powered Search Across ESPN and Disney+

  Disney begins limited beta tests of AI-powered natural-language search on ESPN and Disney+.

• RTVE Partners With Professor Octopus AI Lab on Foundational Audiovisual AI Models

  RTVE Partners With Professor Octopus AI Lab on Foundational Audiovisual AI Models Spanish public broadcaster RTVE signed a collaboration agreement with Navarre-based Professor Octopus AI Lab to co-dev…