The Awards
Browse the 2023 shortlist & winners below
Meet our 2023 Shortlist & Winners
Advanced TV Innovation of the Year
Accedo for Accedo Xtend
Agile Content for Agile Live – GPU-powered Cloud Production
DOTSCREEN for Auvio
Dubformer for Premium AI Dubbing solution from Dubformer - with broadcast quality guaranteed
MediaHub for Sports Module
Mirada for Disaster Recovery Platform
Netgem for Immersive Entertainment with Cloud Gaming on TV
Zappware for Nexx 5 Framework with the new Entertainment Control Center (ECC)
WINNER
Netgem for Immersive Entertainment with Cloud Gaming on TV
Advanced TV Service of the Year
MEO for MEO Go
Disney Star India Pvt Ltd for Postudio
DOTSCREEN for Rakuten Viki
ITV for ITVX
Netgem for Netgem complete managed services for Full Fibre ISPs
SoftAtHome for SoftAtHome’s Home Service and VASP Platform
Tata Elxsi for Tata Elxsi AndroidTV Suite
TELUS for Project OPUS
TVUP Streaming Media for Tivify
WINNER
ITV for ITVX
The Super Aggregator Award
Bango for The Bango Digital Vending Machine
Irdeto for Irdeto Super Aggregator Solutions
Mirada for Deep Super-aggregation Framework: izzi use case
Netgem for Zeop TV: Unrestricted Content Across All Devices
Tata Elxsi for TEPlay
WINNER
Mirada for Deep Super-aggregation Framework: izzi use case
AI and Machine Learning Innovation of the Year
Connatix for AI-powered Deep Contextual
Divitel for The Divitel Algorithm Factory
Dubformer for Premium AI Dubbing solution from Dubformer - with broadcast quality guaranteed
Media Distillery for Ad Break Distillery
Papercup for Papercup
Prime Focus Technologies for CLEAR® REFRAME
Witbe for Smart Navigate
Wurl for ContentDiscovery
WINNER
Media Distillery for Ad Break Distillery
FAST Innovation of the Year
Accedo for FAST 2.0
Backlight for Zype Playout
Broadpeak for Broadpeak and OKAST FAST 2.0 Solution
ITV for ITVX Launch
Netgem TV for Talk Talk TV
Pixellot for Pixellot and SuperSports Taking Africa by Storm
WINNER
Pixellot for Pixellot and SuperSports Taking Africa by Storm
NEW: Content Distribution Innovation of the Year
Disney Star India Pvt Ltd for Contido
Divitel for The Divitel Algorithm Factory
LTN for LTN Wave
Matrox Video and GlobalM for How BBC Studios Leveraged the Cloud for SRT Distribution of Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral
NPAW for CDN Balancer - Active Switching
Qwilt for Qwilt’s Open Edge Solution
Simplestream for Channel Studio
Synamedia for Quortex Link
Varnish Software for Varnish Software: Achieving > 1.3 Tbps throughput on a single server
WINNER
Synamedia for Quortex Link
NEW: Sports Streaming Innovation of the Year
Amagi for Amagi’s Live Sports Streaming Solutions
Backlight for Wildmoka
Cleeng for Seasonal Subscriptions
Edgio for Edgio Uplynk, Canadian Hockey League
Pixellot for Pixellot End-to-End Sports Streaming Camera Solution
Quickplay for Dynamic Ad Insertion in Live Sports Streaming Telecasts
Synamedia for In-Stadium Experience
THEO Technologies for THEOlive
WINNER
Synamedia for In-Stadium Experience
Streaming Service Innovation of the Year
Irdeto for Irdeto RDK Video Accelerator
ITV for ITVX Launch
Pixellot for Pixellot and the IBBA - bringing the games to everyone - anytime, anywhere
Velocix for TELUS’ migration to ultra-efficient hybrid-cloud video streaming
Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE5 Global) for ZEE5 Global
WINNER
Pixellot for Pixellot and the IBBA - bringing the games to everyone - anytime, anywhere
Streaming Platform Technology of the Year
Alpha Networks for Gecko, the multi-country platform for premium white-labelling
AppJunction for Vodlix
Arqiva for Arqplex
Bedrock for Bedrock
IMAX for Stream Smart™
MwareTV (Mware Solutions BV) for OTT Platform with code-free WYSIWYG app creation
Orange Innovation for Immersive Tour
Quickplay for Quickplay Cloud-Native OTT Platform
ViewLift for ViewLift
WINNER
IMAX for Stream Smart™
The Revenue Security Award
Irdeto for end-to-end anti-piracy framework
Media Distillery for Ad Break Distillery
Verimatrix for Verimatrix Streamkeeper
Viaccess-Orca for Viaccess-Orca Anti-Piracy Center
WebKyte for WebScan by WebKyte
WINNER
Viaccess-Orca for Viaccess-Orca Anti-Piracy Center
UX and Content Discovery Award
24i for 24i Broadcaster Studio
Alpha Networks for Gecko personalized content discovery based on semantic tag
moveme.tv for moveme.tv - Emotion-led content discovery
Netgem TV for Netgem TV
ThinkAnalytics for Think360
Wurl for ContentDiscovery
Zappware for Nexx 5 Framework
WINNER
ThinkAnalytics for Think360
Next-Gen Advertising Award
Harmonic for VOS360 Ad SaaS
ThinkAnalytics for ThinkAdvertising
TVekstra for Car race / Otokoc, Zipcar - Ingage
TVekstra for Nays Scratchcard, Turkiye Is Bankasi - IPG
WINNER
ThinkAnalytics for ThinkAdvertising
Video Technologist of the Year*
Fredrik Andersson
Senior Vice President of Products
Accedo
Lifetime Achievement Award*
Archana Anand
Chief Business Officer
ZEE5 Global
