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NAB 2023: Actus Digital Unveils OTT StreamWatch and v9.0 Enhancements to Intelligent Monitoring and Compliance Platform
New Actus OTT StreamWatch Adds...
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.
Actus is the Perfect Test and Measurement Complement
Broadcast engineers from stations
throughout the US and the world have found the Actus Intelligent Monitoring Platform is an amazing ‘Test and Measurement’ complement.
Al Aan TV Adapts to Evolving Broadcast Requirements With Actus Digital Compliance and Monitoring Solution
Actus Digital announced that Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based regional television channel Al Aan TV is utilizing the company’s intelligent monitoring platform.
Actus Digital Targets Further European Expansion With New Vice President of Sales
Actus Digital announced today the appointment of 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 visibility of Actus Digital’s market-leading monitoring and compliance solutions among European broadcasters and provide outstanding support to the growing number of customers in the region.
Actus Enhanced OTT Analysis at NAB-NY in New Version 8.5 of Intelligent Monitoring Platform
New OTT Analysis and Multiviewer...
OTT Quality Monitoring was a Top Priority at IBC
IBC was abuzz with broadcasters that have expanded their distribution into OTT and the Actus Digital booth became a somewhat unexpected gathering place for those seeking OTT quality monitoring.
Actus Digital Takes Compliance Recording to New Levels With New OTT Monitoring, AI, and Content Clipping Enhancements at IBC2022
At IBC2022, Actus Digital will showcase its latest innovations in compliance logging, quality monitoring and alerting, advanced editing and content repurposing, and AI-based workflow solutions.
With Actus Digital’s intelligent monitoring platform, broadcasters, content providers, TV networks, and media companies can expand their workflows, supporting a diverse range of use cases from OTT monitoring and clipping to automatic VOD creation.
TM Broadcast : IBC 2022, Interview with Actus Digital
This is the fi rst IBC after three years. Since COVID started, Actus growth has been phenomenal, with
many new customers that have purchased our solutions. IBC will be an excellent opportunity to meet them all in person as well as meet our existing and new partners.
RTV Slovenija Speeds Up Content Clipping With Actus Digital Intelligent Monitoring Platform
Actus Digital, the premiere broadcast compliance logging, quality monitoring and alerting, advanced editing and content repurposing, and AI-based workflow solutions company, announced today that RTV Slovenija, Slovenia’s national public broadcaster, has deployed the company’s intelligent monitoring platform for tasks beyond traditional compliance.
USE-CASE SERIES: Broadcasters Repurposing with Style and still First-to-Digital
Organizations choose surprisingly-affordable Actus not only for QoS/Compliance, but for Repurposing back-to-air/digital, competitive News Analysis, and AI Sales Lead-List Generation
This article describes customers using Actus for Advanced Editing, Transcoding, Automated Social/OTT/VOD Publishing
USE-CASE SERIES: QoS-Alerting, Multiviewer-Monitoring, and Compliance-Logging
Organizations choose surprisingly-affordable Actus not only for QoS/Compliance, but for Repurposing back-to-air/digital, competitive News Analysis, and AI Sales Lead-List Generation
This article describes customers using Actus for Quality-of-Service alerting, multiviewer-monitoring, compliance-logging, and aircheck recording
Actus Digital to Demonstrate Best-in-Market Intelligent Compliance and Monitoring Platform at BroadcastAsia 2022
Actus Digital, the premier compliance logging, quality monitoring and alerting, content repurposing, and automatic and AI-based workflow solutions company, will showcase the new award-winning Actus 8.0 intelligent monitoring platform at BroadcastAsia 2022
Top Quality-Monitoring and Compliance-Logging System Awarded at NAB-22
Version 8 (V8) of Actus Digital’s
Intelligent Monitoring Platform
was selected as the 2022 Best-in-Market Compliance Logging
and Monitoring Solution.
Actus Digital to Showcase Award-Winning Intelligent Monitoring Platform at CABSAT 2022
Actus Digital, the premiere quality monitoring and alerting, compliance logging, content repurposing, and workflow solution company, will showcase the new Actus 8.0 AI-based intelligent monitoring platform during CABSAT 2022. Actus Digital’s platform was recently honored with a “Best-in-Market” award by TV Tech.
Actus Digital Unveils Actus RVM Remote Video Monitoring for MVPDs at the 2022 NAB Show
Actus RVM allows MVPDs to gain unique, real-time insights into their viewers’ quality of service (QoS), verify local ad insertion and timing, and ensure that television service operations are running smoothly. Actus RVM is based on Actus Digital’s intelligent monitoring platform, which has been successfully deployed by over 600 broadcasters, television networks, and teleport sites around the globe.
MediaHub Australia Selects Actus Digital for Advanced Monitoring
Actus Digital, the premiere quality monitoring and alerting, compliance logging, content repurposing, and AI-based workflow solution company, announced today that MediaHub Australia is deploying its intelligent monitoring platform as part of a new mux-based DTT broadcast headend.
Actus Digital to Introduce Powerful Enhancements for its Intelligent Monitoring Platform at the 2022 NAB Show
The new Actus 8.0 platform includes Actus Synchro, an enhanced recording-multiviewer with QA monitoring and compliance logging, along with support for new standards, such as ATSC 3.0, SMPTE ST 2110/2022-6/2022-7, and SRT, to address applications for TV, radio, MVPDs, and more.
8.0 Reasons Actus is the Fastest Growing Provider of Quality Monitoring and Compliance Logging Solutions
There are many reasons ActusDigital now dominates Quality Monitoring and Compliance Logging… on a platform that is super effective for News, Repurpose-Editing and Publishing, and Light-MAM applications.
The Glorious Second-Life of the World’s Top Monitoring and Logging System
A compliance solution is mandatory and must support all the regulatory requirements such as closed caption, subtitles, loudness SCTE, technical alerts, multiviewers, etc. However, this is only one workflow of a much larger solution – Actus intelligent monitoring platform.
Actus Enters 2022 With New Product Features and the Monitoring and Compliance-Logging Industry’s Top Solutions Engineer
Actus continued its incredible growth in 2021, thanks to the ongoing trust and confidence of both our existing and new customers.
Actus Welcomes Keith DesRosiers as Vice President of Solutions Engineering
Actus Digital, the premiere 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.
Actus Digital Partners With The Weather Channel to Drive Workflow Efficiency
BOSTON — Feb. 10, 2021 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of broadcast compliance and monitoring solutions, today announced that The Weather Channel television network is using Actus Digital’s broadcast monitoring platform to perform a wide range of mission-critical tasks. Replacing an existing system…
Datos Media integrates Actus for legal copy recordings and monitoring in the cloud for TVE
Datos Media Technologies has been in charge of integrating a legal copy recording system with cloud availability based on Actus Digital technology at Televisión Española.
Apache Log4j vulnerability – impacting millions of Java-based apps. Actus intelligent monitoring and compliance platform is not impacted and 100% safe!
Actus Digital confirms its TV logger and monitoring platform is not exposed to the vulnerability Log4Shell. Actus servers do not use any Java component and are totally safe from this threat.
Actus Digital Brings New, Enhanced Workflows to its Intelligent Compliance and Monitoring Platform at IBC2021
Actus Digital, a leading 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 IBC2021.
Actus Digital Optimizes OTA and OTT Monitoring With New OTT Synchro and Delivery Synchro
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 delivery chain.
Content classification and metadata within your compliance monitoring: Actus Light MAM
Metadata is essential for content sharing, interaction between different workflows and for accurate content searching, as a few examples.
When additional workflows are included, beyond compliance, such as Actus content re-purposing for fast content turn-around or Actus automatic content detection, metadata is essential to find data, use data, preserve and re-use the data in the future.
Open your compliance recording to your entire organization for Automation and integrations
In today’s word, every two different applications must be able to communicate with each other. Any
system must be able to integrate with third parties systems, and vise versa, through advanced API, to allow integrations and automatic workflows. APIs are more than technical “communication” for sharing data. Well-designed APIs provide organizations with a critical link to data and services that enable rapid innovation and open new workflows and services. This is exactly what Actus API was designed for.
Benefit from your compliance recording and increase your Ads sales revenues
Compliance logging is a mandatory requirement; however for ActusDigital it is one part of a much larger solution. ActusDigital media intelligence platform provides additional workflows and is using the compliance logger to increase
revenues.
Media and Entertainment Technology Industry Heavyweight Ken Rubin Joins Actus Digital to Lead Sales in the Americas
BOSTON — June 3, 2021 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance monitoring and QA logging solutions, today announced that Ken Rubin is joining the company as senior vice president for the Americas. Adding Rubin to the team is a testament to the rapid growth that Actus Digital is experiencing in the Americas, where major players like The Weather Channel, Fox, and many others have selected and deployed the company’s solutions.
Caracol Enjoys Superior Broadcast Workflow Efficiency With Actus Digital Platform
BOSTON — Oct. 7, 2020 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of broadcast compliance and monitoring solutions, today announced that Colombian television network Caracol has deployed the company’s broadcast monitoring platform for compliance, logging, and a wide range of other mission-critical…
Actus Digital Addresses Increased Growth in the Middle East
BRUSSELS — April 29, 2021 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of broadcast compliance and monitoring solutions, today announced Mark Barkey as the new director of sales in the Middle East, boosting the company’s business growth in the region.
Remote Workflows Without High Cloud Costs: Compliance Monitoring, Content Re-purposing, and Monetization
Traditionally, broadcast compliance and monitoring solutions have been implemented on premises. But clipping solutions for content repurposing for social media and the web are more divided in approach.
The New Normal Mandates Next-Generation Broadcast Compliance Solutions
Why Isn’t the Cloud Trending for Compliance Solutions? Recently, cloud-based solutions are controlling the IT conversation. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most people to work from their homes on different devices, requiring the industry to evolve and reconsider the advantages of cloud-based options.
Is Your Broadcast Compliance Pandemic-proof?
In hindsight, it was hard to predict the momentous impact of the COVID-19 worldwide. As we are still adjusting to the new normal, we apply the learning and the experience to fundamentally transform our business not just to survive, but to prosper. The pandemic will change the way companies work in the future.
Support for Volicon Monitoring Systems After SnapStream Support Expired
Actus Digital, the leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced that it will continue supporting Volicon Observer monitoring systems to ensure that broadcasters’ content complies with regulatory requirements.
Actus Digital Helps TV Networks Maintain Exceptional Broadcast Quality as Personnel Work Remotely
Actus Digital, a leading provider of broadcast compliance and intelligent media monitoring solutions, today announced 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.
How to Ramp Up Workflow Efficiency? Strategies to Avoid End of Life With Your Broadcast Compliance and Monitoring Solution
The video environment continues to evolve and grow in complexity. And if you’re a broadcaster or TV network, the best way to address that is by exploring new methods for improving workflow efficiencies and reducing costs.
Global challenging times
As the world is reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic we want to communicate Actus has taken steps to minimize any impact in our ability to deliver on our commitments and to support our customers.
Actus Digital to Demonstrate All-in-One Media Platform at 2020 NAB Show
At the 2020 NAB Show, Actus Digital will demonstrate how its mandatory compliance solution is part of a much larger media intelligence platform, providing cross-organizational benefits to the operations, marketing and research, and new media departments of broadcasters and media companies.
Actus Digital Expands US Sales Team By Appointing Jay Gedanken as Vice President of Business Development
BOSTON, Mass. — Jan. 21, 2020 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and intelligent media monitoring solutions, today announced that it has appointed Jay Gedanken as vice president of business development in the U.S.
AI is Transforming Compliance to Enable Intelligent Media Monitoring
Having a unified platform for all broadcast requirements — from broadcast recording to monitoring, compliance, clips creation and exporting to OTT, social media, analysis, quality assurance — makes the most financial sense for media companies. By adding AI to the mix, broadcasters can further streamline their operations and drive monetization.
Actus Digital Agrees to Distributor Partnership With Video Systems in Brazil
BOSTON, Mass. — Oct. 16, 2019 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced a new partnership with Video Systems. Video Systems, located in São Paulo, will serve as Actus Digital’s Brazilian distributor, driving growth in the South American market.
Actus Digital Agrees to Distributor Partnership With Video Systems in Brazil
BOSTON, Mass. — Oct. 16, 2019 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced a new partnership with Video Systems. Video Systems, located in São Paulo, will serve as Actus Digital’s Brazilian distributor, driving growth in the South American market.
FCC media regulatory compliance requirements
The FCC is Conducting investigations and analyzing complaints, implements new technologies to be forced by the broadcast industry and makes sure all the broadcast industry is complying with each one.
AI Revolutionizes Compliance And Media Monitoring Capabilities
Since the broadcasters and media operators were originally obliged to have a compliance recording system, the regulatory authorities keep enhancing their mandatory compliance requirements with ongoing requirements. This is result of the new broadcasting technologies and capabilities.
Actus Digital Drives Media Monitoring Efficiency With New Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced that its world-renowned media monitoring system has been enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that dramatically speed up workflows.
Actus Digital Appoints Vice President of Sales, Americas, and Customer Services Manager
BOSTON, Mass. — Aug. 6, 2019 — Actus Digital, a leading provider of compliance and media monitoring solutions, today announced that it has appointed Doug Hinahara vice president of sales, Americas, and Matthew Osman as customer services manager.
Actus Digital to Demonstrate Intelligent Compliance and Unified Media Platform at IBC2019
At IBC2019, Actus Digital will demonstrate how its mandatory compliance solution is part of a much larger platform, providing cross-organizational benefits to the operations, marketing and research, and new media departments of broadcasters and media companies.
TrueVisions Expands Actus Recording and Compliance System
“…We have expanded the system and now it also records our Transport Streams and we can monitor all the video feeds from one unified user’s interface” said Roengrit Sereejumroenrojn, Director of Engineering at True Visions.
Your post broadcast needs in one box
The investment in a compliance solution is mandatory. But what if your compliance solution can do much more: allow also to re-purpose your content in a cost-effective way, do TS analysis, analyze your rating, as a few examples.
RTS chooses Actus Digital for broadcast live clipping
Brussels, August, 2018. Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) is an audiovisual public service company belonging to the SSR (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) media group, which offers programs on four -radio channels, two TV channels and numerous digital platforms. RTS live content is also published to the web portal.
Televisora suiza adquiere Actus Digital para edición en vivo
La cadena suiza Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) eligió la solución Actus Digital de Actus para grabar sus canales y proveer una interfaz basada en web que monitoree el contenido y facilite la edición de clips con metadata y capacidad de exportación.
TOT completes installation of Phase II Actus system
TOT is one of the two main telecom companies of Thailand. Its history dates back to 1954 with fixed line telephone, it evolved through mobile telephony and recently add multimedia and content services. TOT is also a network operator.
Actus Digital Creating Clips For India’s Aajtak
Actus platform is recording all Aajtak IP Transport Streams. The clips editing workflow is simple to use and allows the users to easily remove the advertisements from the clips, add logos and other effects. The result is that the clips are published into Aajtak web site just a few seconds from the time of the TV broadcast.
Mediaset chooses Actus Digital for clips creation
As part of its modernization, Mediaset Videotime wished to establish a video content management system with a capacity of 60 TV channels, as well as HD camera feeds coming from live interviews at Videotime’s studios. Video Progetti was selected as system integrator and Actus Digital’s system was chosen following a comprehensive evaluation.
HPA Tech Retreat Innovation Zone 2018
Belgium, Brussels, Feb 2018
As part of the innovation zone at the HPA tech retreat in Palm Springs, Feb 20-22, Actus digital will present the latest improvements of its Clip factory™: broadcast to OTT clip creation and publishing.
New features in version 6.3
The main emphasis of this version is the addition of more powerful video editing in Clip-Factory. As well as the conversion of the Rating Analyzer into Actus5 (HTML5).
How to protect from Spectre and Meltdown?
The Web is full of scary reports about some newly detected vulnerabilities in Intel and other CPUs and about exploits that can put your system at risk. In most cases, Actus recommendation is to perform all Windows software updates but not to perform any firmware update. There are some exceptions.
Virtual Machine or Physical Server
We are more and more asked about VM (Virtual Machines). There are numerous advantages of VM over physical servers and there is a lot of buzz and many broadcasters are asking us to provide proposals based on VMs. But there are also some Myths involved.
The World’s Largest Broadcast Monitoring System
The India Electronic Media Monitoring Centre (EMMC) is a massive monitoring centre that includes 300 workstations, spread over five monitoring rooms, scalable to 1500 channels and 500 users.
How to produce 20 clips per hour on a single seat
Clip-Factory-Pro is a new and enhanced product, intended to produce clips for OTT and Social Media, semi automatically, at high quality and with video editing functions.
Digital Media Asset Management For Broadcast and OTT
There is clearly a need to manage an exponentially growing number of clips, used in OTT, social networks, governments or news agencies. Our dilemma was between implementing an existing full-blown MAM system, or developing a smart catalog, easy to use, and geared towards automation and efficiency.
Actus Digital Releases Clip-Factory-Pro
Actus Digital has found a way with Clip-Factory-Pro to simplify the re-purposing of linear broadcast content for nonlinear VOD or social media delivery.
Actus Digital to display Clip-Factory-Pro at IBC 2017
Belgium, Brussels, August 2017 – At IBC 2017 Actus Digital will announce a new and improved version of its automated clips creation platform for OTT, Social Media, and any media platform.
New features in version 6.2
It describes the main improvements introduced by ACTUS in version 6.2, which
will gradually be distributed to all customers under support agreements, during the
second half of 2017.
The main emphasis of this version is the addition of more powerful video editing in
Clip-Factory.
Video Editing, Virtualization in the Cloud
When developing product roadmaps for the broadcast industry, one of the main challenges for R&D and product managers is to identify the technological trends that will persist and define the system of tomorrow.
Pro and Cons of TV Monitoring system Trade-in
When comes the time to change your private car, many are tempted by the simplicity of a Trade-in deal offered by car dealers. There’s no doubt that trading in a car to purchase a new one is simple and convenient. But too often, the amount offered by dealerships is much less than the private party value.
On The NAB 2017 Exhibit Floor: ENCO and Actus Digital
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.
Actus Digital will present HTML5 based Broadcast Compliance and Clips for OTT and Social Media
Belgium, Brussels – March 1st, 2017 – At NAB 2017 Actus Digital will present the latest broadcast recording, monitoring and clips for OTT, based on HTML5 (Actus5).
Multi-channel digital video recorder (DVR)
What is a Multi-Channel Digital Video Recorder (DVR)?
A multi-channel digital video recorder (DVR) is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.
Clips for OTT TV
Effective broadcast technology applications in 2017 have to be able to transfer the content as fast as possible to as many over-the-top interfaces as needed, thus creation of Clips for OTT must support and embrace near live clipping and provide the broadcaster with effective means to automate the clips creation processes.
Why governments create national communications regulations agencies?
In practically every country, governments have established national communications agencies which missions are double:
Issue licenses allowing broadcasters to transmit certain contents under certain technical constraints Control that the broadcasters indeed adhere to the content and technical constraints.
How to Create TV Clips for VOD
As young consumers move away from Live TV shows and into Video-on-Demand (VOD), the traditional TV broadcasters must find an effective method to convert their Live assets into VOD.
Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting
We sometimes meet potential customers who require a content identification system. These customers may decide to compare the two main technologies available today for that effect, Watermarking and Fingerprinting.
Political Activity Monitoring (PAM)
It was somewhat surprising to find that a number of government ministries and a number of regulatory bodies around the world, have adopted the Actus platform for purely political activity monitoring (PAM) over electronic Media channels.
Why did Actus change to HTML5?
Actus Digital believes that its products must always remain the most advanced and at the forefront of technology and has therefore adopted the HTML5 standard. What does this standard bring to our customers ?
SDI Monitoring System
In the Broadcast production environment, SDI (Serial Digital Interface) represents the interface with the best compromise between image quality, uncompressed lossless data and ease of using standard production and compatible equipment.
Crystal and Actus Digital Ensure Quality and Efficiency at NAB Show NY
New York, 17th October 2016 – Crystal and Actus, industry leaders in broadcast video origination, distribution and content monitoring announce a strategic partnership and product combination to be demonstrated during the NAB New York show.
Actus broadcast recording and monitoring platform has been deployed by STV in Scotland
August , 2016, Brussels, Belgium: ActusDigital announced today that STV has deployed Actus’ broadcast recording and monitoring platform, a web-based monitoring platform, in order to comply with its SD and HD channels’ recording and monitoring requirements.
Actus broadcast recording and monitoring platform has been deployed by STV in Scotland
August , 2016, Brussels, Belgium: Actus Digital announced today that STV has deployed Actus’ broadcast recording and monitoring platform, a web-based monitoring platform, in order to comply with its SD and HD channels’ recording and monitoring requirements.
Cignal TV, Philippines, deployed Actus broadcast monitoring and logging system
We are happy that Cignal TV found our solution to be the most suitable for their requirements and decided to deploy Actus broadcast monitoring and media intelligent platform for TOA recording of MCR TV channels. Actus provides Cignal TV a broadcast recording solution as well as a system to support the marketing requirements.
CME deployed Actus Digital for centralized broadcast monitoring of all its channels in Europe
[April 5, 2016], Brussels, Belgium – Actus Digital announced today that Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (“CME”) has deployed the Actus Digital media monitoring platform as a centralized system from which CME can monitor all the TV channels from its broadcasters in the six countries where it operates.
KTVN (CBS TV affiliate) deployed Actus Digital for broadcast monitoring and Acquisition
Actus Digital announced today that KTVN, CBS – affiliated television station for Northern Nevada has deployed Actus Digital media monitoring platform for TV monitoring and logging of KTVN channels.
New features in version 5.9
It describes the main improvements introduced by Actus in version 5.9, which was
released in September 2015 and will gradually be distributed to all customers
during the first half of 2016, under support agreements.
New features in version 5.8
This document describes the main improvements introduced by Actus in version 5.8, which
was released in March 2015 and will gradually be distributed to all customers
during the second half of 2015, under support agreements.
New features in version 5.7
It describes the main improvements introduced by Actus in version 5.7, which will
gradually be distributed to all customers during the second half of 2014, under
support agreements.
New features in version 5.6
It describes the main improvements introduced by Actus in version 5.6, which will
gradually be distributed to all customers under support agreements during 2014.
Some of the features in version 5.6 only interest customers who are recording TS
as-is.
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