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The Irish Sun
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Freeview successor makes huge TV guide change for MILLIONS of Brits with premium perk – days after adding 16 channels
FREEVIEW'S fresh successor has unveiled a number of big changes coming to screens just weeks after announcing a bunch of new channels. Freely has not long 1 Viewers can now go backward up to seven days on the TV guide Credit: Everyone TV The platform is made by the same company as Freely beams channels into the living room via For the moment, it uses hybrid tech, meaning viewers get channels via Wi-Fi first and can still plug in an aerial for any other Freeview channels not currently available to stream. The service is vying to be a free alternative to Read more about TV In the latest update to Freely, viewers will discover a number of handy new features to help them find their favourite shows even faster. The biggest of them all is the backwards TV guide. This allows people to scroll back on the TV guide screen and instantly see what's been on recently, with a quick link directly to a catch up stream if one is available. You can scroll back a full seven days. Most read in Tech Additionally, the Never Miss feature will highlight what's coming up, on now, and what's just missed, alongside the biggest and best shows available on demand. And My List will let you save up to 50 of your favourite shows from the UK's biggest free-to-air broadcasters all in one place so you can keep track of them. "We know viewers love watching live TV and catching up with their favourite programmes soon after broadcast, so we've made it even easier," said Sarah Milton, Co-Chief Product Officer at Freely. 'Our new features—Backwards TV Guide, Never Miss, and My List—make finding, saving, and jumping back into great content effortless, whether live or on demand. "Freely keeps evolving, offering premium features for free that other streaming platforms don't have. "And now with Freely becoming available on a wider range of new smart TVs, even more households will be able to enjoy this enhanced free streaming experience." The announcement comes as Freely reveals that it's signed deals with more tech giants to make the service available on more TVs. Freely is currently only available on selected new TVs you buy. The platform will now made available on 2025 Philips TVs and JVC models that run the Titan OS. FREELY LATEST CHANNEL ADDITIONS ITV The Chase Saturday Night Every Night Channel 4 4Reality 4Homes 4Life 5 5 GPs Behind Closed Doors 5 Bargain 5 The Yorkshire Vet 5 History 5 Crime Milkshake! 5 Police Interceptors 5 Cops 5 Trucking Hell 5 A&E 5 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
Forbes
08-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Freely Streaming Service Signs Up Two More Major TV Brands
Freely, the service that allows U.K. viewers to watch live broadcast channels over the Internet rather than through an aerial, has announced that it's expanding its availability to two major new TV brands. Thanks to deals with Barcelona-based operating system Titan OS and TV manufacturer TP Vision, Freely will be available in the U.K. as a content option on select 2025 TVs from both Philips and JVC. The first Philips TVs to support it are set to launch before the end of this month (May 2025), and while a list of specific model numbers hasn't yet been released, it has been confirmed that the Philips Freely models will also carry the brand's exclusive Ambilight technology. This delivers a less tiring and more immersive viewing experience by using rear-mounted LEDs to cast immersive coloured light pools onto the wall around the screen – light pools that can even be set to track the tone and position of the colour content of the film or TV show you're watching. A Freely-capable TV showing the service's new backward-scrolling EPG. Freely hasn't shared a list of the precise JVC models that will be covered by the new Freely deal either, but basically it should be any JVC set carrying the Titan OS that's launched from this summer at electronics retailer Currys. According to Freely, the new Philips and JVC deals, which join previous deals with Amazon Fire TVs, Bush, Hisense, METZ, Panasonic, Sharp, TCL, TiVo, Toshiba and the VIDAA smart platform, mean that its service will be available on almost half of the UK TV market. 'We're excited to bring Freely to the JVC TV range, giving customers even more flexibility to enjoy the content they love,' says Senior Buyer for Currys, Paul Slater. 'By adding this free-to-use platform to our affordable JVC range, which is available exclusively at Currys, we're continuing our mission to help everyone enjoy amazing technology.' Alongside the announcement of its two new TV brand partners, Freely has also revealed that its service, which is backed by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 and claims to carry 97% of the U.K.'s 'favourite TV Shows' on both a live and on-demand basis, will be rolling out a duo of new content-finding features over the coming weeks. A new Backwards TV Guide is designed to make it easier for viewers to watch shows that have recently aired by allowing them to simply scroll back to earlier in the day on the Freely electronic programme guide. Once you've got to the programme you missed, you can either start streaming it right away, or else add it to the previously announced My List feature. New deals mean that Freely will soon be available on select Philips and JVC TVs that use the Titan ... More OS smart platform. My List makes it possible for the first time to save up to 50 favourite TV shows from any of the U.K.'s biggest free-to-air broadcasters all in one easy access place, rather than you having to re-search for favourite shows every time you want to watch them. The second of the new features coming to Freely, Never Miss, highlights on the Freely home page the most talked about coming up, on now and just missed TV shows, as well as spotlighting the most popular and high profile shows available via Freely's huge on-demand content library. Both of these new features are set to be rolled out in an upcoming Freely Next firmware update that will arrive automatically onto any Freely-capable TV that's connected to Wi-Fi. 'Our new features—Backwards TV Guide, Never Miss, and My List—make finding, saving, and jumping back into great content effortless, whether live or on demand,' says Co-Chief Product Officer at Freely, Sarah Milton. 'Freely keeps evolving, offering premium features for free that other streaming platforms don't have. And now with Freely becoming available on a wider range of new smart TVs, even more households will be able to enjoy this enhanced free streaming experience.' — Related Reading Freely Streaming Service To Add 16 New Live Channels Free Streaming Service Freely Adds Four New Content Partners
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Equativ and Titan OS Partner to Revolutionize CTV Advertising with Retail Media Precision
LONDON, March 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Equativ today announces it has become the new ad server and primary supply-side platform (SSP) for Titan OS, the European technology and advertising company that has developed an independent Operating System for Connected TV (CTV). The partnership brings the power of retail media to CTV, enabling brands to deliver highly targeted, outcome-driven campaigns. Launched in 2024, Titan OS has established a unified ecosystem and secured agreements with TV manufacturers, content providers, retailers, and advertisers, reaching 30 million homes across Europe. Its operating system runs on millions of Philips TVs, and will soon run on JVC TVs. On the content side, it offers a selection of premium streaming channels on Sony's Android seamlessly with Equativ's vision for growth in the CTV and retail media ecosystem, media buyers can now take advantage of new opportunities, including: Premium media placements: Access to premium media placements, including full-screen homepage takeovers and in-stream visibility on more than 50 leading free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels, such as CNN, FIFA+, Euronews, Bloomberg, Sony One, and the Hearst Media portfolio of channels. High-impact creative formats: Unique CTV creative enhancements and innovative formats, designed to maximise user attention and performance. Launching in 2025, shoppable ad formats will combine retail data and Equativ ad tech. Advanced CTV targeting: Gain valuable insights into audience viewing behaviour and deliver highly targeted campaigns by leveraging first-party data and advanced technologies, such as machine learning and AI models used to create precise audience segments, and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to identify content consumption, ad views on local apps, and the use of peripherals like game consoles. Retail audience extension: Refined audience segments created by combining Titan's first party with first-party data from partnerships with top retailers in a safe and privacy-first environment. This enables advertisers to reach potential buyers at key decision-making moments on big screens. Teiffyon Parry, Chief Strategy Officer at Equativ, commented: 'CTV is one of the fastest-growing advertising channels, and when combined with retail media's powerful first-party data, it creates an unmatched opportunity for brands to connect with targeted consumers at the right moment. Our new partnership with Titan OS builds on this momentum, allowing us to offer media buyers premium inventory and exclusive retail data, maximising the effectiveness of their CTV campaigns following the marketing funnel. After the alliance with Deutsche Telekom last year, this new strategic partnership represents a significant stride in evolving our programmatic TV advertising services across Europe and continued expansion into the US.' Joe Evea, SVP Advertising and Retail Media, at Titan OS, added: 'We are excited about the opportunities this partnership unlocks at the intersection of retail media and CTV. It will allow us to support retailers to increase their retail media revenues, giving them access to CTV inventory across 30 million households. Retailers' first-party data becomes key to improving targeting capabilities, and this partnership with Equativ will give us access to unique shoppable ad formats to drive conversion on CTV. After our first partnership with Currys in the UK, we plan to partner with a few more strategic retailers across Europe during 2025.' To learn more about Equativ's expansion and programmatic solutions, visit For media inquiries, please contact: Caroline Millié Figueiredo at: pr@ About Equativ Equativ, a leading independent ad platform, brings scale and simplicity to digital advertising. Following its recent merger with Sharethrough and the acquisition of Kamino Retail, advertisers, media owners, and technology partners rely on Equativ's advanced SSP, curation, and retail media services and technology to achieve maximum business outcomes. With a focus on privacy-first programmatic video, CTV, and data-driven solutions, Equativ enables clients to activate across the digital ecosystem while protecting consumer privacy. The company's global expertise is also backed by a team of over 750 employees across 19 countries. Learn more at About Titan OS OS S.L. is a technology company headquartered in Barcelona, with branches in Amsterdam and Taipei. It specializes in developing software and solutions to unleash the full potential of Connected TV. It is rethinking TV to change the way people discover content and how brands connect with audiences, making content discovery easier. Its aim is to foster collaborations across the entire TV ecosystem to grow business together with TV manufacturers, retailers, media companies, content creators, publishers, and brands. Its independent operating system powers smart TV devices from world-class manufacturers across Europe and Latin America, offering millions of viewers a personalized experience from the moment they switch on their TVs. With tailored recommendations, it seamlessly integrates all content on the homepage, from streaming subscription services, free and paid movies, series, and TV shows to linear channels. 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