Tappx acquires PlayOn Content to monetize video content
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Tappx announced it has acquired PlayOn Content, a fast-growth video generation, and monetization platform. The acquisition will create a platform for global publishers which can generate, display and contextually monetize video content.
PlayOn Content supports media publishers to maintain video inventory using its proprietary video players. It currently operates...
Amazon Interactive Video service announced
Thursday, July 16, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the general availability of Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch, one of the most popular live streaming services in the world with nearly 10 billion hours of video watched in 2019, giving customers live content with latency (the time video takes to go from the camera to...
Feedback by BugReplay announced for Google Chrome
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
BugReplay has announced the availability of “Feedback by BugReplay,” a bug reporting tool that helps users quickly and accurately submit detailed bug reports about website problems to customer support teams. Downloadable as a Google Chrome extension, Feedback creates a synchronized screen recording of a website user’s actions, network traffic, JavaScript logs and other ...
Your Unite Europe 2017 keynote briefing
Monday, July 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Unite Europe 2017, taking place in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, has just kicked off! Over the next two days, artists, developers, teachers, filmmakers, researchers, storytellers and anyone using Unity will come together to talk about what they love most - creating with Unity.The opening keynote has just concluded and several big announcements have came down the pipe...
Unity 5.6 is coming, what you need to know
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Unity Technologies has announced at GDC that Unity 5.6 will release on March 31, 2017, marking the final installment of Unity 5. The company also provided an early look at Unity 2017, the next generation of Unity with version 2017.“The Unity 5 cycle culminating in 5.6 represents great progress in our key focus areas: graphics, performance, stability, efficiency and plat...
MobFox Releases New Ad SDK in Multiple Sizes for App Publishers
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
MobFox has released a new “built-to-fit" SDK for mobile app publishers, making its SDK available in multiple sizes - from 90K to 350K - to fit a publisher’s needs depending on the ad format they choose and other requirements. The full SDK offers enhanced support for video and audio ads and the lighter SDK reduces the time it takes for the publisher to install, thus maki...
Adaptive Medias Adds Media Street's Video Advertising Technology
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Adaptive Medias has added Media Street’s mobile video advertising technology that supports publishers, content producers and brand advertisers with the integration of the Media Graph ad-tech platform, which provides an international cross-platform advertising firm for buyers and sellers of digital media. Media Street’s Media Graph’s “mobile-first” video player offe...
Interlude Releases Video Streaming Capabilities for HTML5 Development
Friday, July 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Interlude has released a new version of its HTML5-based video player that allows developers to utilize streaming video through HTML5 compliant browsers. The platform integrates rich media including video, audio and motion graphics into interactive videos that play in both apps and mobile browsers. The company recently upgraded its video player from Flash to HTML5, ...
Amazon Updates Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s Web App Starter Kit for Fire TV is an open source project intended to help developers get up to speed on creating simple media-oriented apps for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Starter Kit provides a basic media app template that is designed for the 10-foot user experience and includes UI controls, support for the Fire TV remote, sample UI compon...
iOS Developers Can Offer Video Playback and Other Features Natively With JW Player SDK
Sunday, April 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
JW Player has released its SDK for iOS which enables publishers to build video playback and advertising features into native iOS apps. The Android version of the SDK was released in January. The platform provides the ability to offer curated video content, encrypted live TV streams, live radio streaming, and video advertising. Apps built with the SDK will integrate...
Facebook Releases Marketing and Monetization Goodies for App Developers at F8
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At the kickoff of its F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a broad number of products and tools to help developers build, grow, and monetize mobile apps.In attendance were more than 2,500 developers. Facebook announced that its developer community has doubled in size, and there are now hundreds of thousands of developers working with Facebook around the world wit...
Worldnow's Multi Device Video Player SDK Has Enhanced Closed Captioning for the Hearing Impaired
Thursday, June 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Worldnow has announced a multi-device video player compliant with all aspects of the latest FCC requirements to provide enhanced closed captioning for all of its clients, including the hearing impaired.The SDK offers full ad serving capabilities, analytics integration, and social sharing tools. It allows users to view customize closed captions, and then save t...
Celtra Introduces Smart Mobile Video Ad Formats & Responsive Ad Design for Mobile Marketers
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Celtra, a provider of mobile display ad creation, serving and analytics, has launched a family of new Smart Video Ad Formats for all mobile devices. These formats use a new developed video technology created by Celtra and leverage newly developed responsive ad design capabilities.Companies participating in the launch include Skype, Opera Mediaworks, and A...
New App TIVOZ Offers Largest Library of Family Friendly Video Content
Thursday, March 6, 2014 by Richard Harris
Created by developers of mobile app KIDO’Z, new kid-oriented app delivers entertainment for children, relief for concerned parentsThe developers of KIDO’Z, a mobile app designed to provide a safe environment for kids to play fun and educational games, announced today the launch of TIVOZ, a standalone mobile app that hosts the largest library of kid-friendly videos ...
TVPlayer launches as a top free TV app
Monday, February 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
TVPlayer, the exciting new live television streaming app from Simplestream, has cemented its reputation as one of the top free apps of 2014 after notching up a landmark 250,000 downloads within just 28 days of launching.TVPlayer was a Top 40 downloaded app within 24 hours of appearing on the App Store and following on from the success of its BETA mobile app, TVPlayer to...
YuMe Provides App Developers With New Enhancements to its First Party Data Driven Audience Measurement SDK
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
YuMe, which provides digital video brand advertising solutions, has launched the latest iteration of its Audience-Aware SDK.
New additions to the SDK includes Audience Insights which provides a picture of an app audience’s demographics and interests. Enhancements to YuMe’s Audience Amplifier include the ability to utilize first-party and SDK data to create distinct au...
IRIS.TV and Unicorn Media Partner to Serve and Monetize Video Ads and Content Utilizing Native Mobile Video Players
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
A new partnership between IRIS.TV and Unicorn Media allows publishers to dynamically serve video ads to all IP-enabled devices and enables them to deliver personalized video streams to any platform, while utilizing the native mobile video player. The services are compatible with any video delivery or consumer device and do not require SDKs or plug-ins.
IRIS.TV bri...
Inneractive SSP Debuts Video in a Box for Mobile Publishers
Monday, September 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Inneractive has added to its SSP services with “Video in a Box,” allowing app developers and mobile publishers to serve full screen video ads in their mobile/web apps or in-stream properties.
Video in a Box enables display and video and includes an integrated video player. Video ads play natively and can be skipped, without forcing the user to close or leave the curren...
