The nascent market for second screen TV apps on mobile devices - whether from pay-TV operators, content providers, CE/SmartTV manufacturers or social media/discovery startups - is poised to accelerate due to a deal announced yesterday between Tribune Media Services (TMS) and Digitalsmiths. That's because TMS, which is the largest provider of metadata about TV shows and movies will now use Digitalsmiths' Seamless Discovery platform to offer 20 different APIs allowing app developers far easier access to the data than ever before.

Category: Devices, Video Search
Topic: Digitalsmiths, Tribune Media Services

Kaltura's Chairman and CEO Ron Yekutiel came by the VideoNuze booth at the recent NABShow and shared a detailed company update. Kaltura operates in three verticals: media, enterprise and education. Ron provides an in-depth update on customers Kaltura is working with in each vertical and the apps they're using Kaltura for. It's a very rich discussion of some the user dynamics in the video space. Watch the video below (6 minutes, 30 seconds).

Category: Technology
Topic: Kaltura