CES2012, South Hall 4, Booth #35431 – Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, announces that its SyncNow ACR technology integration can be witnessed first-hand through ConnecTV, a free, real-time social network built for TV viewers, at the Civolution booth (South Hall 4, Booth #35431) at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Powered by Civolution’s award-winning SyncNow technology, ConnecTV’s “second screen” global social TV platform uses Civolution’s audio fingerprinting solution to enable consumers to automatically sync with their favorite TV programs and compelling companion content.

Civolution’s technology has been integrated with ConnecTV’s own proprietary content recognition algorithms to provide a highly relevant and accurate synchronization to TV programs. This not only allows networks and content providers to deliver engaging second-screen services without the need for additional production resources, but also provides a fun, engaging, social experience. ConnecTV is available on tablets, laptops and home computers.

“The timely and accurate identification of TV content—whether live or time-shifted—is complex and our key competitive advantage,” said ConnecTV co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Alan Moskowitz. “Our team has spent the last several years relentlessly innovating the technology engine that drives ConnecTV’s second-screen experience. Civolution’s ease of integration and proven track record in fingerprinting technologies make them the clear integration partner to bring our platform to life.”

“Having been at the forefront of content watermarking and fingerprinting for many years, we continue to be inspired by innovative new applications of our technologies,” said Civolution CEO Alex Terpstra.  “ConnecTV is a standout example of such forward-thinking use. We feel privileged to be helping them provide TV viewers around the world with a highly engaging second-screen experience and we wish ConnecTV success with their service.”

ConnecTV integrated Civolution’s ACR technology—available to developers as a low resource SDK—to generate audio fingerprints in real-time by having the companion device listening to the television audio in the home. ConnecTV provides TV viewers with compelling content and a social companion experience to all programs on more than 250 networks nationwide, and will soon roll out on regional sports networks and on 201 local ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, WB and CW affiliate networks from its Broadcast Partners: Barrington, Belo, Cox, Gannett, Hearst, Media General, Meredith, Raycom, Scripps and Washington Post-Newsweek.

ConnecTV, as well as Civolution’s media interaction range of solutions (SyncNow – 2nd Screen and SyncNow – Smart TV, including the newly launched server-side Content Triggering Service), and media protection solution (NexGuard – PayTV), will be on display at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Note to editors: If you would like to meet Civolution at CES (South Hall 4, Booth #35431) or find out more about the company’s Media Monitoring, Media Interaction and Media Protection solutions, please contact Beck Media & Marketing’s Sabrina Pietryga (North America): sabrina@beckmedia.com, (T) +1 310 300 4814 or Platform’s Sally Douglas (Europe): sally@platformpr.com, (T) +44 (0)207 486 4900 or. Stay tuned, more developments coming soon!

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Los Angeles, CA – Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, announces that it will be demonstrating its new real-time content triggering service at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).  The new service enables synchronized ad delivery to second screen applications by leveraging Civolution’s extensive broadcast monitoring infrastructure of more than 1,700 TV channels worldwide, of which more than 1,250 are national and local channels in North America covering all 210 Designated Market Areas.

Civolution’s newest offering for 2nd screen and smart TV application providers, as well as social TV platforms, is a server-side content triggering service that provides real-time recognition of broadcast content such as advertisements, movies, TV series, music, and more. By automatically notifying application providers in real time of what content is airing on which channel, the service allows for the synchronization of value-added functionality such as content-specific background information, hyperlinks, and synchronized social newsfeeds, all within the developer’s second screen or smart TV applications. The application provider can thereby offer users a more powerful and engaging TV-synchronized experience.

In addition, the service enables application providers to work more deeply with advertising agencies and brands to further monetize their app platforms. Through Civolution’s real-time ad identification and triggering service, to be demonstrated at CES, synchronized ads or ad-interactivity can be delivered to 2nd screens, extending the advertising experience over multiple screens in a synchronized manner.

The new content-triggering service complements Civolution’s award-winning SyncNow - 2nd screen synchronization solution. Upon client-based identification through audio watermarking or fingerprinting, the SyncNow product enables identification and synchronization between broadcast, on-demand or recorded television content and interactive applications on devices such as a tablets, smartphones or laptops. Additionally, Civolution is providing automatic content recognition technology for integration with smart TVs, enabling all the value-adding opportunities of SyncNow on the larger main screen of the TV set itself. Adding the new server-side content-triggering service allows for a perfect balance between functionality and scalability over hundreds of TV channels and many millions of consumer devices. CES marks the introduction of the solution’s new brand name SyncNow, replacing the previous title, VideoSync.


Civolution’s SyncNow technologies and content-triggering service will be on display at CES, along with the company’s media-protection solution NexGuard - PayTV, which enables Premium VOD offerings.  SyncNow - 2nd Screen will be seen in action by two of Civolution’s application partners ConnecTV and Ex Machina.

Note to editors: If you would like to meet Civolution at CES (South Hall 4, Booth #35431) or find out more about the company’s Media Monitoring, Media Interaction and Media Protection solutions, please contact Beck Media & Marketing’s Sabrina Pietryga (North America): sabrina@beckmedia.com, (T) +1 310 300 4814 or Platform’s Sally Douglas (Europe): sally@platformpr.com, (T) +44 (0)207 486 4900 or. Stay tuned, more developments coming soon!

SyncNow and NexGuard are trademarks of Civolution B.V.

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Note to editors:

If you would like to meet either Civolution or Fortium at the Summit, please get in touch with Sabrina Pietryga: sabrina@beckmedia.com (T) +1 310 300 4814 for Civolution, or Peter Worrall: peter.worrall@fortiumtech.com (T) +1 310 409 4160 for Fortium.

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·          VideoSync – Civolution’s innovative content identification platform enables the accurate synchronization between content being watched on the main TV screen and interactive application running on a companion device, allowing broadcasters, content producers, advertisers and interactive application providers to offer enhanced media apps such as winning coupon, playing quiz, live voting and more.

·           NexGuard – Civolution’s forensic watermarking solution for pre-release content, video-on-demand and Pay-TV services offers both a deterrent against piracy and a forensic analysis tool in case piracy occurs.

·           Teletrax – Civolution’s media monitoring platform enables studios, news providers, sport organizations and advertisers to determine precisely when, where and how their content is being used on television, internet and radio, providing ultimate media intelligence.

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Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 11th, 2011 – Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, today announced that it will contribute to a special Cisco® Knowledge Network webinar on latent content identification, fingerprinting, and watermarking for delivery of premium VOD content. The live webcast is part of the CKN Americas Video Series and will take place November 16th at 11am Eastern Time.

The decision by major Hollywood Studios to deploy premium VOD (PVOD), a service in which feature films are made available in HD for VOD shortly after the theatrical release and prior to their release on Blu-ray Disc, presents service providers with an opportunity to attract new subscribers and allow up-selling to increase the average revenue per user.  In order to engage premium VOD, however, service providers must educate themselves on premium VOD-specific content security requirements.

As part of the Cisco Knowledge Network sessions, a series of webinars for content providers and service providers, the Civolution CKN session will explain premium VOD and its specific content security requirements.  The webinar will cover the principles of fingerprinting and forensic watermarking, and how they can be utilized within the Cisco PMDC (Production Media Data Center) workflow.  The session will also provide specific examples of the technology’s use in both B2B content delivery and B2C premium VOD, and will illustrate how the forensic tracing of content can be implemented not only as a deterrent against content theft and piracy, but also as an analytical tool to measure the usage of content.

The Cisco Knowledge Network sessions are specifically tailored to the service provider audience and aim to offer technical overviews on Cisco and its partners products and solutions so that these service providers can get the most from their existing, planned and future network investments. Civolution, the leader in content identification technologies, provides solutions that enable content owners and distributors to curb piracy of premium VOD content, and protect revenue from consecutive release windows.  The special live webcast, hosted by Cisco, will take place November 16th at 11am Eastern Time.  More information can be found at www.ciscoknowledgenetwork.com.  

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ACTON, Mass., Nov 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Multi-screen video solutions leader SeaChange International today announced an agenda of multi-screen solutions demonstrations and other conference activities for SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo, Nov. 15-17, in Atlanta. These solutions comprise the Company's Intelligent Video Platform, which is designed to help operators centralize and optimize their video operations.

Demonstrating open video solutions from the cloud (booth 854)

Using SCTE 130 and IAB VAST and inserting on iPad and Android devices, SeaChange will show how its Infusion Advanced Advertising solution for linear and on-demand advertising is designed to help service providers manage centralized operations and scale to 150,000 insertable channels and millions of assets managed from increasingly web-centric and virtualized datacenters.

SeaChange's Nitro Subscriber Experience software, leveraging HTML5, will show how operators can offer subscribers control over linear and on-demand content across mobile, PC, tablet and TV screens. Broadband Technology's Diamond Technology Reviews judging panel recently awarded Nitro 4.5 out of 5 diamonds, while Light Reading cited Nitro as a finalist for its upcoming Leading Lights technology awards.

SeaChange's in-home gateway software, using DLNA specifications, enables whole home DVR as well as viewing and sharing of OTT and television content, images and music throughout the home. Gateway demonstrations will show support for multiple clients including a game console, IP set-tops and tablets.

Demonstrating how operators can optimize on-demand library use, SeaChange's Affinity social media application integrates multi-screen video with popular sites including Facebook and Twitter, allowing subscribers to recommend favorite movies and programs and share viewing experiences.

All of SeaChange's open multi-screen video solutions are supported by Adrenalin, the unified video back office built using an open service oriented architecture to deliver a consistent video experience that avails millions of video assets to millions of devices across multiple networks. Adrenalin demonstrations will feature the SeaChange Business Management Suite for extensive cross-platform content merchandising.

Also in the SeaChange booth, solution partner Civolution will demonstrate its NexGuard forensic watermarking integrated with Adrenalin to support premium VOD services.

Conference presentations and collaborative demonstrations

SeaChange will participate in the SCTE Spotlight Pavilion on Next-Generation Video Architecture (Nov. 15-17, booth 925), bringing its Infusion multi-screen advertising demonstration to this large-scale representation of the architectures, technologies and challenges that will be involved with the delivery of content from increasingly diverse sources to both tethered and untethered devices.

SCTE's Capacity Management Symposium (Mon., Nov. 14) will include SeaChange's Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology, Steven Davi, who will present a paper entitled "Capacity Issues for Video Signaling Now and Tomorrow," to examine how the growth of linear, on-demand, switched digital, nPVR, OTT, and games is placing new demands on networks, and how the industry can expect further impact from the continued rollout of EBIF and other interactive services, as well as interactive and dynamically addressable advertising.

On Tues., Nov. 15, Davi will participate in "Video's Next Act: Setting the Multi-Screen Stage," an industry panel organized by Multichannel News to explore next-generation architectures and business strategies for all-IP video delivery.

On Thursday, Nov. 16, SeaChange President Yvette Kanouff will team up with Bright House Networks President Nomi Bergman to deliver the Capstone Keynote speech at the WICT Tech It Out program. These two women executives co-founded "Women's TechConnect," an initiative that is designed to support the career growth of women in technical positions by teaming a core group of promising engineers each year with recipients of the Women in Technology Award, presented annually by SCTE, WICT and Communications Technology magazine.

Meet at Cable-Tec Expo

For more information or to arrange a meeting at Cable-Tec Expo 2011, visit http://www.schange.com/News/Events/SCTE-Cable-Tec-Expo-2011.

About SeaChange

SeaChange International is a global leader in multi-screen video and one of the largest software companies worldwide. The Company provides open, cloud-based, Emmy award-winning solutions and services for back office, advertising, content, in-home devices and broadcast to hundreds of media companies, including all major cable operators in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, plus other blue-chip companies such as Virgin Media, AT&T, Hutchison Whampoa, Vodacom and DISH Network. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange is TL 9000 certified and has product development, support and sales offices around the world. Visit www.schange.com.

SOURCE: SeaChange International 

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 20th 2011 – Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, today announced that 2G Digital Post has signed a new contract to use Civolution’s NexGuard - Pre-Release solution for pre-release content in the Apple ProRes format. 2G Digital Post has selected the solution in association with its production partner, Summit Entertainment.

“When working with a studio such as Summit Entertainment, involved in the production of some of Hollywood’s largest grossing movies, such as the Twilight Saga, it is vital that in addition to offering the highest quality services we can also demonstrate that content is secure while it is in our care,” said David Deelo, CTO, 2G Digital Post. “Civolution’s NexGuard - Pre-Release solution provides us with the level of security that Summit Entertainment needs.”

Civolution’s NexGuard - Pre-Release technology gives Summit Entertainment the ability to forensically watermark SD and HD films with a unique identifier. NexGuard - Pre-Release is specifically designed for the post-production environment, making distribution of audio and video content copies traceable and secure. The new NexGuard Apple ProRes plug-in for Final Cut Studio enables 2G Digital Post to embed a unique identifier on individual copies of a media asset. This provides protection for any copies which are circulated for preview or distribution.

“We need to make sure that our content is secure throughout its lifetime, and it’s critically important in the pre-release phase, when content is at its most valuable,” said Jo Dee Freck, SVP Technical Services for Home Entertainment, Summit Entertainment. “Relying on Civolution’s watermarking technology to identify individual copies of a given asset enables 2G Digital Post to provide Summit Entertainment with enhanced security without impacting the viewer’s experience.”

“Civolution is committed to providing film and television producers with high quality applications that will protect their content,” said Civolution’s SVP Watermarking Solutions, Jean-Michel Masson. “We’re delighted to have been selected by 2G Digital Post to provide Summit Entertainment with our video watermarking technology. We believe that it is important for companies across our industry to work together in deterring content theft.  This project is an ideal demonstration of that commitment.”

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‘’We are delighted to have been awarded the CSI Award for our highly innovative VideoSync – 2^nd Screen product,” said Alex Terpstra, CEO, Civolution. “By enabling precise synchronization between the programme on the main TV screen and a secondary device the solution breaks new ground in enhancing the user’s overall TV viewing experience, offering far richer and deeper level of engagement.  The solution also delivers great advantages for operators, broadcasters and application developers, opening up a host of personalized advertising and marketing opportunities."

VideoSync – 2^nd Screen extends the TV experience to create compelling interactive user engagement around TV shows using a companion device. Civolution's VideoSync technology enables precise time-synchronization between TV andportable devices, such as tablets and smart phones, by detecting watermarks carried in the audio stream using the device’s microphone. The real-time interactivity between the devices, enabled by content identification, automatically manages distribution delays and supports time-shifted viewing.

Visitors to Civolution media interaction zone at IBC Hall 2, Stand C30, will be able to see 2^nd screen applications based on VideoSync – 2^nd Screen including those designed by:

Ex Machina – a leading pioneer in providing live online interaction with events. It has developed an exciting new platform, PlayToTV, which enables TV shows including talent contests, sports, reality and game shows to provide real-time and social interaction through live rating, voting, polling, quizzes, chat & twitter feed aggregation, and much more. Ex Machina has powered interactivity for shows such as The Voice of Holland and Germany’s Next Top Model.

Miso – a company specialised in creating synchronous 2^nd screen experiences for consumers by integrating with broadcast, hardware and content partners. Through the integration of Civolution’s VideoSync, Miso is able to understand who’s watching what and when, to provide interactivity that enhances the viewing experience.

Vejo Park – an incubator of web tech companies, whose spin-off HyperTV develops eXperience, a multimedia platform used to create and publish user experiences spanning all the screens of our life: PCs, tablets and smartphones.

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