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New Head of Aspiro TV

Listed streaming leader Aspiro has appointed Espen Erikstad, co-founder of Rubberduck Media Lab, as the new Head of its subsidiary Aspiro TV. The aim is to establish Aspiro TV as the self-evident technology vendor for businesses that want to deliver the best user experiences in online video services.Espen Erikstad has been appointed as the new Head of Aspiro’s subsidiary Aspiro TV today. Espen Erikstad is a co-founder of TV streaming enterprise Rubberduck Media Lab, which Aspiro acquired in 2006, and whose name was later changed to Aspiro TV. “We’re delighted that Espen has accepted the

Aspiro TV extends agreement with 3 Sweden & Denmark

Aspiro TV, Scandinavia´s leading  Multi-screen and OTT TV & Video enabler announced today that it has extended its agreement with Swedish operator 3 for services in Sweden & Denmark. The service agreement will provide Aspiro with revenues in the range of 6-8 MSEK over a period of two years.Aspiro has been providing a hosted and managed end-to-end solution for 3 in Sweden and Denmark since 2006. This extension ensures a road-mapped plan for updating the service as per market and technology trends. “3 is a long standing customer of ours and we are of course happy to extend the agreement.

Aspiro implements social TV

Aspiro TV, the multi-screen video enabler today announced it’s implementing social TV features as part of its services. The seamless social integration into Facebook Timeline will open up new possibilities for Aspiro’s customers.Integrated into the Aspiro TV platform, the new social TV feature enables end-users to show their friends what they’re watching on their Aspiro-enabled video service. The integration will provide Aspiro’s customers with additional intel on the end-users. This will also allow for new sharing, marketing, integration tools and business opportunities. While watching TV

Aspiro TV becomes certified Widevine integration partner

Aspiro TV, the Multi-Screen video enabler, has signed an agreement with Google’s Widevine DRM for studio approved DRM-solutions for Video OTT-services. As a Widevine certified partner; Aspiro will be able to offer the DRM solution to the existing hosted services as well as new customers´locally owned video platforms.Aspiro has selected the Widevine DRM for its in-house hosted TV & VoD platform.With this agreement, Aspiro is also certified as a DRM implementation partner, fully able to help out any partner that wants to setup Widevine DRM onto their own local TV/VoD platforms.For the

Aspiro TV enters into agreement with operator in Latin America

Aspiro AB today announce that it has signed an agreement with a mobile network operator, to deliver video streaming services in Latin America. The agreement has a term of three years and will generate annual revenues in the range between 5-8 MSEK, starting from Q3 2011. More details about the agreement will be released later this fall.Aspiro’s goal is to achieve minimum 10% growth in the TV business segment in 2011 compared to 2010. Aspiro expects improved profitability in TV going forward. This information is mandatory for Aspiro AB (publ) to publish pursuant to the Swedish Securities

Aspiro TV introduce Augmented TV – demonstrating new platform at IBC 2011

Aspiro TV, Europe’s leading provider of TV and video streaming services introduce a ground-breaking new multi-screen platform for its compelling TV and video streaming services, allowing telcos, broadcasters, content owners and advertisers access to augment the video experience by adding contextual web-based interactive content and services to the live TV or Video on Demand services.By simply adding an augmented layer on top or at the side of the video layer, Aspiro TV will introduce to the market a seamless way for third parties to add any feature to the live TV or video broadcast. Aspiro

Aspiro TV selected as finalist for ConnectedWorld.TV Awards at the International Broadcast Convention - IBC 2011

Aspiro TV is shortlisted for the inaugural ConnectedWorld.TV Awards, to be presented at the IBC in Amsterdam in September. Aspiro is shortlisted in the category Best Service Delivery Platform, for its white label mobile TV & VOD streaming application.Aspiro TV provides its compelling video experiences on consumer devices, powering services for network operators and broadcasters such as Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica O2, Telenor, MTV, Hi3G, BBC, Elisa and Entel. The finalists in 15 categories for the inaugural ConnectedWorld.TV Awards  were announced

Aspiro TV’s Erling Paulsen speaking at MEF Global 2011 in London, 7th July

Joining stellar line-up at high-level mobile content & commerce eventErling Paulsen, CEO of Aspiro TV will be speaking at MEF Global 2011: Mobile Content & Commerce , the annual event of MEF, the global trade body for mobile content with a dedicated focus on mobile commerce. He will be joining speakers from companies including Vodafone, Whitbread, Aurora Fashions, Shazam, CBS Mobile, Grapple Mobile, Evernote, Hungama, Gracenote and QTel at this high-level event. MEF Global 2011 will bring together decision-makers from across the expanding mobile ecosystem,

Aspiro shortlisted for Meffys in both TV and Music categories

The finalists for the eighth annual Meffys have been announced, naming both Aspiro TV and Aspiro Music as finalists in the TV and music categories respectively. The winners of the international mobile entertainment and media industry awards will be announced at the industry’s premier awards gala in London on July 7th.Selected over five days of live judging by experts from 40 national and industry media, as well as analyst houses, this year’s finalists, according to Meffys, highlight the most innovative and successful apps, services, content, business models and technology from across the

Aspiro TV expand cooperation with Telenor for new TV-clients

Aspiro TV, Europe’s leading provider of TV and video streaming services expand its deliveries to Telenor in connection with the telco’s increased initiatives for TV and video services in the Nordic countries.Thorough the partnership, Aspiro will deliver TV and video services to a broad range of terminals including smart phones and tablets. The cooperation begins with the Norwegian market, but similar services are intended to launch in other Telenor markets in and outside the Nordic countries further ahead. In an inital phase, Aspiro will deliver new clients for iPhone and Android,

Rubberduck becomes Aspiro TV - moves from mobile-only to three screen TV services

Aspiro subsidiary Rubberduck Media Lab today announces a change of company name to Aspiro TV. The name change clarifies its part in the group, as well as signals a move from being a pure mobile-TV provider, towards delivering hosted and managed TV-services to all devices and screens.- TV is together with Music on its way to becoming the core of the new and future-oriented Aspiro. These two areas are growing very fast and we are looking forward to an exciting year where we will launch with several new partners and in new markets, says Gunnar Sellæg, CEO of Aspiro. Aspiro has already

Heavy content focus at Rubberduck Media Lab - Vabø heads up new initiative

Rubberduck Media Lab, a subsidiary of Aspiro AB and Europe’s leading provider of streaming TV services announced it’s strengthening the Content team, hiring Linda Vabø as Head of Content from early December.Vabø will be responsible for content strategy and content acquisition of live TV, loop channels and VOD clips. Vabø has extensive experience from content acquisition and content management within the Nordic territories, and has a background from Norwegian pay-tv operators RiksTV and Canal Digital, as well as public service broadcaster NRK. "Rubberduck is an exciting award-winning

Rubberduck ready to receive Windows 7 operating system, completed TV application ready for the market upon launch

Anticipating the release of the new line of Windows 7 phones, Rubberduck Media Lab, a subsidiary of Aspiro AB and Europe’s leading provider of streaming mobile TV services has developed an application supporting the new operating system. The first delivery will be shipped by early November.The Application is built upon the company’s extensive cloud based encoding and streaming solution, allowing operators, broadcasters and content providers to deliver On Demand and Live TV directly to their customers. The Windows 7 application is already completed and a first deployment agreement has been

Rubberduck launches iPad Application

Rubberduck Media Lab, a subsidiary of Aspiro AB and Europe’s leading provider of streaming mobile TV services continues to expand its offering with its new Apple iPad Application.The Application is built upon the company’s extensive cloud based encoding and streaming solution. The iPad application allows operators, broadcasters and content providers to deliver On Demand and Live TV experiences directly to their iOS customers via the Apple App Store, formatted and optimized for the larger screen experience. The fully skinable solution supports features including extended content metadata,

Rubberduck now supports HTTP streaming as part of its complete Mobile TV solution

Aspiro subsidiary Rubberduck Media Lab, Europe’s leading provider of streaming mobile TV services, today announced it is upscaling initiatives in HTTP streaming. The company has now completed the first phase of an ongoing program to provide a new streaming infrastructure built around HTTP streaming, enabling a more robust and flexible live TV and video-on-demand service.Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, a web standard that has been around for some time, is now being widely adopted for video delivery to mobile devices. The use of this protocol for streaming has been adopted by Apple for

Rubberduck reveals mobile TV growth - Live TV content and iPhone applications generates surge in viewers

Rubberduck Media Lab, a division of Aspiro and Europe’s leading provider of streaming mobile TV services, today revealed massive growth in viewing figures across its hosted platform triggered by the availability of popular live content.The company’s hosted mobile TV service saw viewing figures increase by 75 per cent during 2009. Much of the growth could be attributed to the launch of its iPhone 3GS application, which in the late summer topped the iTunes App Store download chart in select markets. Rubberduck’s customers include T-Mobile, Telefónica O2, Telenor, 3, and Entel. Rubberduck also

Rubberduck lands on Android– delivers mobile TV service to Google phones

Rubberduck Media Lab, a subsidiary of Aspiro, Northern Europe’s leading provider of mobile entertainment services, today confirmed that its streaming mobile TV application would now be available for download on Google’s new Nexus One phone and other Android handsets.Rubberduck provides a hosted mobile TV platform, used by major operators in Europe and worldwide markets, and holds digital rights agreements for mobile content with a host of major broadcasters such as the BBC, the Disney Channel, CNN, CNBC and Turner. The new Android application will enable customers to access an operator’s

Rubberduck Media Lab launches mobile TV service for operator O2

Rubberduck Media Lab AS, a leading provider of mobile TV and video services for network operators and broadcasters worldwide, has now launched a mobile TV and video service for Telefónica O2 Ireland.Under the terms of the agreement, Rubberduck Media Lab is providing a completely outsourced mobile TV service to Telefónica O2 Ireland including content acquisition and provision as well as technical support and management. The service called O2 TV has now been launched in Ireland and is available for all O2 customers using a video enabled handset such as most Sony Ericson, Samsung and Nokia

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