LiveU, a leader in live IP-video contribution, production, and distribution solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Actus Digital’s business and technology. This will enhance LiveU’s recording, monitoring, and AI capabilities and accelerate its mission to help customers improve operational effectiveness and create more value from video.
What Actus Digital does: Actus Digital, known for its intelligent monitoring and compliance platforms, used by premier broadcasters and media agencies worldwide, offers powerful content analysis, Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring solutions, and advanced AI-enabled tools that complement the LiveU EcoSystem, delivering workflow simplicity and operational efficiency.
The LiveU EcoSystem is a set of innovative IP-video solutions that add efficiency and shorten workflows across the entire video production chain, including multi-cam 5G contribution encoders and cloud-based ingest, production, and IP-video distribution solutions, making the two solution portfolios synergistic.
Deal rationale: This latest strategic deal by LiveU adds a peerless intelligent monitoring and compliance logging platform with advanced AI tools to the LiveU product portfolio, enhancing the ability of content creators and storytellers everywhere to generate more value from their video.
KEY QUOTES:
“We are delighted to be welcoming Actus Digital to LiveU. Their exceptional, market-leading monitoring platform and AI expertise, combined with our shared commitment to reliability, quality, and customer service will significantly strengthen our entire offering in line with our overall strategy.”
“The LiveU EcoSystem is IP-Positive, meaning it accepts all the major video protocols for maximum interoperability and ease of use for our customers. With Actus Digital, we can now give our customers the valuable ability to monitor and gain insights from all these different feeds in a single solution, so that they can always be sure of their LiveU experience.”
Samuel Wasserman, CEO and Co-founder of LiveU
“Joining LiveU provides our customers with easy access to a comprehensive, high-reliability IP-video EcoSystem, backed by world-class support. Combining the LiveU EcoSystem with the Actus Intelligent Monitoring Platform delivers powerful new capabilities to our customers across radio, TV, OTT and the internet. In fact, more and more of our customers have asked for integration with LiveU and we’re excited to be able to combine our resources and expertise to serve them better.”
Sima Levy, President and Founder of Actus Digital
