Eindhoven, The Netherlands – November 15, 2011 – Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, today announced that it has joined the Akamai NetAlliance Partner Program for Digital Media Solution Partners.  Civolution’s NexGuard – PayTV technology will be integrated with the Akamai cloud platform allowing for robust, secure, and simplified over-the-top video content delivery in the business-to-consumer (premium VOD) and business-to-business (online screening) setting.

‘’This is about creating value, for the Movie and PayTV industries by providing early-window content at a premium rate, and for consumers, who will now be able to access and watch a recently released movie in their home theatre,’’ expressed Alex Terpstra, CEO, Civolution. ‘We are very pleased to join Akamai’s NetAlliance Partner Program. Our forensic watermarking integration with the Akamai HD Network is an important step toward enabling new offering of premium VoD for OTT delivery.’’

Akamai, a leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, recognizes the complexities of delivering online video to consumers.  The Civolution solution, which will be integrated with the Akamai HD Network, enables the embedding of unique and imperceptible video ‘watermarks’ into digital video content on a per streaming transaction basis. Such watermarking reinforces security and ultimately leads to increased monetization of video content.

Direct implementation of best-of-breed delivery solutions requires high levels of specialized in-house skill-sets. Even after implementation, these solutions demand ongoing maintenance in order to keep pace with the volatile online video market.
The Civolution NexGuard – PayTV solution, which won the TV Innovation 2010 Award in the category of Content Protection, brings watermarking to another level, offering outstanding imperceptibility and unrivalled robustness, without impacting performance.

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