KIT digital leads the market in facilitating the creation of second screen interactive TV, where mobile applications enhance the TV experience. Beyond simple remote controls, these applications allow users to see what their friends are watching, comment on content, and even chat while watching with friends in a virtual living room. Mobile companion ads, synced with the TV advertisement, offer instantaneous, deep engagement between the user and the brand. This solution is designed to draw people in and keep them coming back. Comprehensive monetization capabilities include built-in ad serving and integration with leading ad platforms and networks, allowing you to increase your ROI and smartly enhance any Marketing activity. It comprises fully unified advertising, mobile commerce for ticket sales, merchandise or even paid applications.

If you want to join us in Brussels, learn more about KIT digital’s unique solutions or simply listen to Fearghal’s speech, please write to us at emea.sales@kit-digital.com

We are going to Dubai to present our new broader portfolio of services and solutions that we worked so hard to deliver for you. At Cabsat you will have a chance to experience our Broadcast Integration Services (BSI): flexible solutions designed to meet the needs of the world’s biggest broadcasters. We will show how we apply our design and construction expertise to broadband-enabled installed and mobile broadcast facilities such as newsrooms, studios, control rooms, transmission centres, Earth stations, disaster recovery suites, and outside broadcast vehicles.

We will also be presenting KIT Socially Enabled TV: a “lean back” experience that transforms viewing by integrating a “second device” such as a tablet or smart phone, into an interactive super-remote synchronised with the TV viewing experience.

You will be able to learn more about the KIT Video Platform, our cloud-based video asset management system, enables media & entertainment, network operator, and non-media enterprise clients to produce, manage, and deliver live and on-demand, socially-enabled video experiences from any source to any screen.

At the Cabsat show the KIT digital team will be taking meetings throughout the week to share some of the video and social TV experiences we’ve developed for well-known brands like Channel 4, Channel 5 and Prisa TV.

If you’re interested in a stopping by our booth at the Cabsat for a demo, or just in speaking with our media specialists with expertise span from traditional broadcast systems engineering to over-the-top broadband TV applications, reach out via our website contact form or send us a direct email to emea.sales@kit-digital.com, and we’ll be in touch quickly to schedule a meeting time.

Looking forward to meeting you in Dubai at KIT digital booth – Hall Number: Sheikh Saeed 2 Stand Number: S2-E41.

Under the agreement, KIT digital and LG will work together to develop and deploy a joint multiscreen over-the-top video (OTT) solution to provide viewers with anytime access to live and on-demand premium 2D and 3D content on LG Smart TVs globally.

The partnership will encompass the following:

• LG will leverage the KIT Video Platform, KIT digital’s cloud-based video asset management solution, to power LG’s 3D Zone service, which provides applications on LG Smart TVs for viewing premium 3D video content
• KIT digital and LG will approach leading global multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) with this joint solution to offer them the ability to operate their premium content services seamlessly on LG Smart TVs
• LG will leverage KIT digital’s global content services capabilities for 2D and 3D content licensing to augment LG’s catalogue for its TV apps and 3D Zone service.

Read the full press release here.

The Horizon online service will see the creation of an ecosystem that provides a single and flexible, multi-lingual, multi-tenant, and multi-currency platform that can be rolled out across all of Liberty Global’s worldwide subsidiaries. Scheduled to go live later this year, the service will initially be available to subscribers in the Netherlands and then rolled out to other countries in Liberty Global’s footprint. The service provides subscribers with the flexibility to access video content on multiple devices anywhere there is a broadband connection.

The solution provides an open platform that allows for integration to the multiple operating countries’ existing operations support system (OSS)/business support system (BSS) platforms, as well as the flexibility to create a customized user experience based on local country requirements and devices.

Read the press release.

The KIT Video Platform — available in two editions, KIT Cloud and KIT Cosmos, to address the diverse needs of the market— gives media & entertainment companies, network operators, and non-media enterprises a comprehensive and highly flexible platform solution to produce, manage and deliver live and on-demand, socially-enabled broadband TV deployments.

Today’s platform release is the most significant in the company’s history and marks the culmination of over a year of internal development and innovation, as well as the integration of ‘best-of-breed’ elements from recently acquired industry-leading platform technologies. The KIT Video Platform further positions our company as a driving force in the global transformation to multiscreen broadband TV for tier-one customers.

The KIT Video Platform’s two editions, KIT Cloud and KIT Cosmos, each caters to different ends of the video market—from enterprises deploying internal video systems, to broadcasters and Telcos deploying multiscreen ‘TV Everywhere’ initiatives.

KIT Cloud – Turnkey but highly advanced cloud-based solution for multiscreen interactive and social video publishing and monetization. KIT Cloud is designed for organizations seeking a simplified entry point to broadband video.

KIT Cosmos – A modular and extensible solution engineered to optimize the management and delivery of broadcast-grade IPTV and “over-the-top” (OTT) multiscreen video. Delivered through ‘hybrid’ cloud and managed private cloud deployments, KIT Cosmos is designed to meet the integration, content protection and quality-of-service demands of advanced TV Everywhere initiatives.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner has invited a number of notable business men and women to the Speaker’s Box to represent their views on private sector job creation. Kaleil has long held a stake in US job creation both as the CEO of a number of growth companies and as an active participant in the policy-making process over many years and multiple Presidential administrations.

You can read Speaker Boehner’s press release here:
http://tinyurl.com/3quw5oj

Sky’s new offering combines two existing products – Sky Player, Sky’s online TV service, and Sky Mobile TV, the UK’s largest mobile TV service – into one new service, Sky Go, available free of charge to existing Sky TV customers, and for a fee to non-Sky TV customers.  Subscribers are provided with flexible access to Sky channels and programmes on up to two registered devices including the iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac and Xbox 360.

In 2005, ioko first helped develop, build and manage the Sky Player Platform, Sky’s over-the-top (OTT) TV platform, the first of its kind in Europe, and has worked with Sky since then to continuously enhance its online TV offering.  With this most recent service launch, Sky’s existing back-end infrastructure has been enhanced to enable the delivery of content to the iOS Apple devices.  Acting as the backbone of the Sky Go service, this new architecture provides Sky’s editors with full insight and control into all aspects of the service including pushing out content to multiple devices, live TV line-up, and channel descriptions.

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Over the past several months we have been focused on optimizing our global operations and innovating our technology. We combined internal product development with the incorporation of best practices and capabilities from across our recent acquisitions to ensure that we are providing our clients with the most robust and innovative offerings available.

This new site showcases our expanded end-to-end suite of cloud-based software solutions and services for multiscreen video management and delivery.

We have highlighted some of the new features below that you should be sure to check out:

Our New Brand

To mirror the evolution of our technology and growth, we have developed a new identity that better represents where KIT digital sits today as a business.

• Lens-to-lens: Through this new icon, we play on the idea of three shutter panels in a camera lens, conveying that from the lens of the camera to the lens of the eye, KIT digital offers end-to-end video solutions.
• RGB:  The tri-color lens icon is appropriately made up of the additive color system comprised of red, green and blue, found in the sensing, representation, and display of images in electronic systems.
• Play:  The central negative space forms the shape of an iconic play symbol to symbolize KIT digital’s ability to remove the complexity around video and make it as easy as pushing a play button.

KIT’s Vision

We also created a new video to help communicate company vision:

KIT digital’s Next Generation Video Platform

Our upcoming platform release is the most significant in the company’s history, and will solidify KIT digital as a major force in the global transformation of traditional broadcast to multiscreen broadband TV.

In developing the KIT Video Platform, our product development team has leveraged ‘best-of-breed’ technology from the companies we have acquired, along with numerous internal innovations developed over the past year.

The team is excited to unveil this new and improved Platform in early September at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

To learn more about the KIT Video Platform, click here.

World-Class Services

We offer an extensive suite of professional and integration services supporting the design, integration and management of our platform deployments, as well as digital content services (such as localization, editing and packaging) and advanced digital marketing services.

Our services are designed to guide you through every stage of the video lifecycle – from establishing your strategy and building out a broadband-capable studio, to designing, launching, and managing an interactive video experience.

To learn more about KIT digital’s services, click here.

Industry & Platform Solutions

KIT digital’s highly customized and industry-specific solutions allow you to take advantage of the feature set and capabilities that are best suited to the particular needs of your business.

To learn more about KIT digital’s solutions, click here.

Customers

Of course we are nothing without our customers. KIT digital proudly powers many of the world’s most complex and large-scale IP-video deployments. Click here to learn how we are helping our clients across the globe to deliver socially-enabled video experiences to audiences wherever they are.

We hope you are excited as we are about the new KIT digital! We look forward to working with you in helping to shape the future of broadband video.

Onwards and upwards!

The KIT digital Team

KIT digital, Celvision Technologies Ltd., a Chinese leader in 2D to 3D conversion services, and imcube labs, a global leader in 2D to 3D conversion software technology, today announced the three companies are teaming up to co-develop an end-to-end solution that joins content services and platform technology to enable any media company, device manufacturer, network operator or enterprise to produce, manage and deliver 3D video over Internet Protocol (IP) across multiple screens.

The combined offering will leverage imcube’s and Celvision’s industry-leading software and content services expertise to enable any content to be converted into 3D. Once converted into 3D, the content will be ingested into KIT digital’s video asset management platform, where clients can manage and deliver the 3D video to connected TVs and other 3D-enabled screens. The solution will also allow customers to access existing 3D content libraries for licensing and distribution.

Read the press release to learn more →

AVCA is focused on coordinating collaborations within the industry, promoting new technology solutions and collaborating to educate the market about the development of Internet Protocol (IP) capabilities and over-the-top (OTT) commercial initiatives.

The alliance is led by a Governing Committee. Founding member, KIT digital Inc. will Chair the Governing Committee, working in partnership with the founding Vice Chair, Exicon, Asia’s leading digital innovation and strategy consulting firm. The governing committee also includes Cloudcast, a member of the Quanta Group, the world’s No. 1 notebook computer ODM company, and 21vianet, the largest carrier-neutral Internet data center services provider in China.

Read more in the Press Release >