Actus Digital, a solutions provider for compliance logging and Intelligent broadcast and OTT monitoring, will introduce two new products along with significant improvements to the latest version of its AI-based Intelligent Monitoring Platform at the Broadcast Asia convention (June 7-9 at the Singapore Expo). An exhibitor since 2007 with a large customer and partnership base, […]
Multiviewers continue on an evolutionary fast track for broadcasters, taking on multiple forms of video, becoming NDI capable and even adding browser-based options for more flexibility.
Armed with automation facility, AI and a move to the cloud, compliance monitoring has moved far beyond baseline capabilities and into content repurposing and ad monitoring, among other features. Next up is more audience data via ATSC 3.0 and readying to meet forthcoming OTT compliance needs. Pictured: Nexstar uses the Clip Factory feature of its Actus QA/Compliance system to clip original content back to broadcast.
Actus Digital, a solutions provider for quality assurance (QA) alerting, compliance logging, multiviewer monitoring, broadcast analysis and asset repurposing, will unveil its latest solutions for TV, radio and MVPD (multichannel video programming distributors) at the 2023 NAB Show (April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth W-1767). Actus v.9.0 expanded offerings address the needs of traditional […]
How top broadcasters expand compliance logging to embrace OTT monitoring
Compliance logging, multiviewer and quality assurance — for both over-the-air and OTT — can be accomplished on the same affordable platform. Media companies are expanding their monitoring systems to handle both OTA and OTT to ensure the quality and compliance of content, protect the broadcaster’s brand reputation, and to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing media landscape.
Quality of service (QOS) and quality of experience (QOE) monitoring has been bedeviled by the proliferation of streaming channels, including FAST, and ATSC 3.0, but vendors say they continue to improve an arsenal of tools to help overwhelmed broadcasters keep track. Above, Telestream’s centralized QOE and QOS monitoring management enables automated surveillance of each video transition as well as data aggregation and deep dive analytics, enabling identification of quality issues and their root causes.
Exclusives
Actus Digital, a solutions provider for broadcast compliance logging, quality monitoring, alerting, advanced editing, content repurposing, and AI-based workflows, announced today that Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based regional television channel Al Aan TV is using the company’s intelligent monitoring platform. The Actus platform provides Al Aan TV with a “highly adaptable and future-proof solution for compliance […]
Actus Digital, a solutions provider for broadcast compliance logging, quality monitoring, alerting, advanced editing, content repurposing, and AI-based workflows, has appointed Janis Jekabsons as vice president of sales in Europe. Jekabsons brings more than a decade of broadcast industry experience to his new role at Actus Digital. Jekabsons’ main focus will be to raise the […]
Vendors are enriching their quality of service and quality of experience offerings to appeal to broadcasters, for whom sub-par viewing experiences are not an option. Above: Anupama Anantharaman, vice president of product management at Interra Systems, at the 2022 NAB Show with the Orion real-time monitor dashboard for QOS (Photo by Jennifer Pallanich).
Whether offered as a standalone unit or combined with other components of the broadcast workflow, multiviewers are tackling a mix of formats and a higher volume of content to monitor. Above, Studio Berlin uses the Apantac KVM over IP solution for its multiviewers.
Actus Digital, a monitoring and alerting; compliance logging; content repurposing; and workflow solution company has launched Actus RVM (remote video monitoring), a new quality assurance solution for multichannel video programming distributors. Actus RVM allows MVPDs to gain real-time insights into their viewers’ quality of service (QoS), verify local ad insertion and timing, and ensure that […]
Actus Digital, a provider of monitoring and alerting, compliance logging, content repurposing and AI-based workflow solutions, will unveil new features for its AI-based intelligent monitoring platform at the 2022 NAB Show (April 23-27 in Las Vegas) in Booth C2331. The new Actus 8.0 platform includes Actus Synchro, an enhanced recording-multiviewer with QA monitoring and compliance […]
In a post-Volicon era, monitoring and compliance tools have gone beyond just making sure content meets regulatory requirements, moving into new broadcast environments and rolling out features designed to ease workflows. Above: Vela’s Encompass product showing both channel and transport stream analysis to help ensure quality of service.
Actus Digital, a quality monitoring/alerting, compliance logging, content repurposing and AI-based workflow solution company, today announced that Keith DesRosiers has joined the company as vice president of solutions engineering. The company said his expertise with Actus Digital’s core competencies, integrated AI, cloud/hybrid architectures and linear broadcast MAM workflows “will help customers appreciate the affordable options […]
Actus Digital, a provider of compliance logging and QA monitoring/alerting solutions, will showcase expanded workflows and enhancements to its AI-based, intelligent compliance and monitoring platform at IBC 2021 (Dec. 3-6 in Amsterdam) in stand 7.B27. The next generation of Actus Digital’s platform features extensive metadata integration for live and recorded content, as well as advanced […]
Actus Digital, a provider of QA monitoring and compliance logging solutions, today announced a new version of its intelligent media monitoring platform. The next generation of Actus Digital’s platform offers simplified but sophisticated tools for multi-viewer monitoring and quality assurance of multi-rendition OTT streams and over-the-air linear content at multi probe points in the video […]
Viewers can be unforgiving when it comes to the quality of their video viewing experience, whether it’s OTA or OTT, though the latter presents more complicated challenges for monitoring vendors. They’re responding with an array of technologies to keep viewers from clicking away. Above: The Weather Channel was an early adopter of OTT and OTT monitoring, pictured here using an Actus OTT quality assurance solution.
Actus Digital, a provider of compliance monitoring and QA logging solutions, has hired Ken Rubin as senior vice president for the Americas. “Ken’s unparalleled combination of technical expertise, industry experience, likeability, and work ethic made him the ideal choice to lead sales in the Americas,” said Actus Digital CEO Sima Levy. “He has a deep […]
New normal mandates next-generation broadcast compliance solutions
Actus Digital’s compliance system is an essential tool for customers enabling media companies to monitor content while working remotely. We are one of the only vendors that offer a unified solution for compliance, monitoring, quality assurance, video analysis, advanced clips creation for social, OTT monitoring, multiviewer capabilities, automatic clipping, keywords alerts, speech-to-text, configuration changes, and ads detection — all remotely.
The Weather Channel is using Actus Digital’s broadcast monitoring platform to perform a wide range of mission-critical tasks. Replacing an existing system, the enterprise version of Actus Digital’s platform ensures superior video and audio quality for The Weather Channel while complying with mandatory industry requirements for its linear and OTT channels. “A thorough analysis of […]
In its post-Volicon period, compliance monitoring companies vying to fill the void are expanding their offerings; tapping artificial intelligence for automation and cloud-based methods; and building more versatile tools. Above, TAG Video recently received certification to monitor Dolby Atmos.
In a post-Volicon landscape, broadcasters are scrambling to replace their compliance and monitoring services. They face vastly different regulatory requirements for OTT in doing so, but also an upside of new features including AI, on-prem, cloud or hybrid options and built-in tools for analysis and sales. Above, Mediaproxy’s LogPlayer is a cross-platform HTML5 user interface that facilitates seamless access to media and metadata across a network of global deployed LogServers.
Actus Digital, a provider of broadcast compliance and intelligent media monitoring solutions, said today that TV networks around the world are using its broadcast monitoring solution “to ensure superior video and audio quality while also complying with social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 global health crisis.” Actus Digital’s monitoring platform can be used on-premises and […]
Compliance monitoring solution providers look to take advantage of an “unprecedented” situation after Verizon announced plans to phase out its U.S. market-leading product.
On The NAB Exhibit Floor: ENCO & Actus Digital
ENCO & Actus Digital | Booths N2024 & SU11021 | Websites: http://www.enco.com/ & http://actusdigital.com/ ENCO has forged a partnership with Belgium-based broadcast compliance monitoring specialists Actus Digital, with ENCO becoming the first North American distributor of Actus’ comprehensive media intelligence platform. The two companies will highlight their relationship and interoperability between their complementary solutions. Designed for broadcasters, networks, cable operators, IPTV providers and government organizations, the Actus platform is […]
On The NAB Exhibit Floor: Actus Digital
Actus Digital | Booth SU11021 | Website: http://www.actusdigital.com/ Actus Digital will present the latest broadcast recording, monitoring and clips for OTT, based on HTML5 (Actus5). HTML5’s main advantages: No client installation is needed, accessible also through the cloud. Best compatibility with different browsers. Works from PC, MAC, smartphones and iPads. Innovative User Interface and […]
