Introducing HbbTV
Dubi Levinbaum 05 Jan 11
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In the 1970s a new television information service was introduced in the UK - Teletext. It offered a range of text-based information that typically included national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules and made a significant impact on the TV industry at the time. About 40 years later, its High Definition successor […]
Your Content on Tablets with Tvinci
Yonatan Sela 30 Nov 10
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Using Tvinci means viewers can access your content on any screen. We are proud to announce that customers managing content and user experience via Tvinci can now instantly expand their OTT TV offering to tablet users. Tvinci is launching customized video storefront applications for the iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and offers MediaHubâ„¢ & […]
What does it take to setup a profitable online video store?
Yonatan Sela 19 Aug 10
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The first answer to the question in the title is of course: great content! Therefore, media companies that own premium content that they believe people will be willing to pay for, are looking for ways to monetize it online. Following the success of Netflix, Hulu Plus (Hulu’s subscription based service) and others, paid video delivery […]
Now it’s official: Gate2Shop is fully integrated into Tvinci’s pay-OTT platform
Yonatan Sela 05 Jul 10
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When Tvinci started focusing on paid content back in 2008, there was no need for us to have a payment gateway of our own, since we were working on the implementation of our platform for multi-play operator Orange. Back then, we utilized the operator’s billing system, i.e. integrated it into the solution in order to […]
Speaking Over-the-Top
Yonatan Sela 09 Jun 10
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These last days I have been watching Steve Jobs’ great presentation and reading a lot of talk around it. Today, I enjoyed the annual conference of the Israeli High-Tech industry, where Tvinci’s CEO, Ofer Shayo, participated in a very interesting panel about the future of TV. I couldn’t help drawing the link… Ofer and other […]
Officially Out There!
Yonatan Sela 25 May 10
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Yesterday, we officially launched our complete pay-Over-the-Top video platform.
Since launching the online VOD shop for multi-play operator Orange in 2008, Tvinci has concentrated its R&D efforts on what still is a need not properly addressed in the marketplace: enabling a consistent paid content consumption experience across internet devices. We have differentiated ourselves from the peloton […]
Will 2010 be the year of paid content aggregators?
Yonatan Sela 20 Jan 10
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As web TV changes the face of the media industry, promising opportunities are created for new online players – aggregators of paid content for well segmented audiences. This opportunity is created thanks to the changing relationships between content owners and pay TV operators. Nowadays, significant amounts of ads supported premium videos are already available online, […]
TV Everywhere: Pay TV Operators’ Battle for Survival
Yonatan Sela 20 Aug 09
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The increasing popularity of online video tremendously affects nearly every aspect of the content industry. Pay TV providers in particular fear that the popularity of the cable, satellite and telco TV subscriptions they offer will constantly decrease, as websites like Hulu offer ads supported premium content in high quality for free. Pay TV operators’ ability […]
Video ads or Paid content? Depends who’s asking…
Yonatan Sela 30 Jul 09
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Web TV’s main source of revenues has been video adverting since day one. The vast majority of content owners, video aggregators (like Hulu) and web TV technology providers (like Brightcove) have structured their business model almost solely around video ads revenues. Ads revenues keep increasing, and in fact on a historic day in June, ‘The […]
Should a Video Website Include UGC?
Yonatan Sela 01 Jul 09
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YouTube’s long lasting popularity encourages website owners to enable their users the option of adding User Generated Content to their websites. Content owners aim at expanding and diversifying their site’s offering and enhancing user engagement, thereby increasing traffic and hopefully revenues as well. However, not many of them are fully aware of the fact that […]
