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In an announcement ahead of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2022, we outlined our collaboration with CommScope to deploy AppCloud in CommScope’s innovative RDK streaming solutions from its new HomeVista™ portfolio, making it easier for operators to aggregate linear and application-based TV content into a seamless next-generation...

AppCloud, the virtualization platform for cloud-native TV apps, provides TV operators, Smart and Connected TV vendors, and content providers a simple way to bring high-performing TV apps and user experiences to market faster and cost-effectively maintain them over time.

ActiveVideo will be at IBC 2022 in Amsterdam from 9th - 12th September 

I have worked in web development for a long time, building rich web-based applications before the term AJAX was coined! It was shortly after JavaScript became a more widely valued programming language that I started working for ActiveVideo. Building web-based HTML5 applications for TV became my bread and butter, and...

The Video on Demand (VOD) market is becoming increasingly congested as more and more content providers are joining the gold rush towards customers’ screens. New entrants like Paramount+, Pluto, DAZN, Peacock are some of the tens of apps that are joining incumbents like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in the VOD...

Unfortunately, with COVID cases at record levels in The Netherlands, and restrictions in place in the Amsterdam area, we have made the decision to cancel our participation in the upcoming IBC 2021 event. Our priority is to keep our team safe and well. We look forward to meeting our customers and partners in person...

Every home has its own recipe for streaming content, with data showing that 63% of US consumers watch premium TV shows and movies in a typical week and two-thirds of families stream video weekly (1).

TV apps are now a mainstream way of watching video content, and service providers are looking to establish themselves as content super-aggregators. But how can they deliver app-based TV at scale to their existing subscribers as well as new joiners without breaking the bank?

Chris Linden and Martin Gibson pick up the conversation in the second part of their Business of OTT edition which delves into ActiveVideo's design philosophy and the different approaches used to accomplish client development activity. Martin explains the benefits of adopting a lowest common denominator approach in...

Martin Gibson joins Chris Linden in episode 8 of The Business of OTT, to discuss what it takes to integrate or define an OTT application. Martin shares his experience of app development from the perspective of the integrator and the definer of the application.