Say Hello to Home Cine! A Fresh Take on Streaming, Powered by Icareus

Helsinki, April 24, 2025 – Finland has welcomed a new streaming service for movies and TV series: Kotikino (eng. Home Cine), launched in April by Finnish company Nordic Content Distribution Ltd.. The service is built on the Icareus Video Cloud OTT solution. Nordic Content Distribution (NCD) introduced its first streaming service Kirjastokino, aimed at public […]

Behind The Screens: Securing Trust in Modern TV Measurement

As audience measurement systems grow to include vast amounts of data from Smart TVs, set-top boxes, and HbbTV devices, a key question emerges: Can we trust the data? Traditional panel-based systems earned trust over the years by being transparent and built on solid statistical methods. But today, we’re dealing with data from tens of millions […]

From Panels to Pixels: The New Era of TV Measurement

Audience measurement has traditionally relied on small, representative panels such as those maintained by Nielsen, Kantar Media, AGF Videoforschung and BARB. While these have offered consistent benchmarks for decades, the explosion of viewing options across digital, time-shifted, and connected platforms has outgrown the limitations of small-sample data. The industry is shifting toward a more comprehensive […]