The Future of Intelligent Broadcast Monitoring and Compliance Logging

Actus Digital, a global leader in compliance logging and quality assurance monitoring with AI-driven Media Insight, is proud to announce the unveiling of Actus X at NAB 2025. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, this tenth-generation of their Intelligent Monitoring Platform features advances in each of their six standalone products with additional synergy between them.

Actus X represents a major leap forward in the Actus MV multiviewer, significant advances in the company’s compliance logging and quality assurance tools, and exciting new capabilities for AI content analysis within Actus AI Media Insight.

“Actus X is the culmination of two decades of innovation in technical monitoring and compliance logging, delivering a comprehensive easy-to-use tool focused on making the lives of broadcast engineers easier,” said Ken Rubin, Actus Senior VP – Americas.

Actus Digital has poured extensive R&D into Actus X, to enhance efficiency, reliability, and intelligence for modern broadcast operations. Three key enhancements include:

      Next-Generation QA Compliance Logging – Actus X has enhancements and improvements including better access and control over alerts and threshold        settings via its browser-based GUI. Alerts can now be categorized into Problems, Errors, Quality of Experience (QoE), and Quality of Service (QoS) issues, with dynamically adjusting notification workflows for more precise control and improved Quality Assurance.

      Advanced Multiviewer Capabilities – The Actus MV multiviewer received major upgrades including reduced latency, expanded data-overlay options such as SCTE trigger details, Nielsen SID data, and TS analysis. These enhancements complement its capable list of existing features, such as round-robin channel-cycling and penalty-box reporting.

The primary differentiator for Actus MV over traditional multiviewers is that it is engineered to support unlimited mosaic-layouts and unlimited multiviewer-heads for unlimited simultaneous local and remote users, with straightforward interactivity that delivers a highly intuitive user-experience.

      AI-Powered Media Insight – Actus X also delivers powerful content monitoring capabilities that expand the capabilities of the system to news teams and government agencies. It can rapidly extract valuable insights from programming aired on local/international news as well as direct-camera feeds. This enables users to identify, summarize, and highlight breaking news, developing stories, and Government users can monitor for potential security threats and political agendas.

NAB is the premier global stage for broadcast innovation, and Actus is excited to share Actus X with our customers, partners, media professionals, and the broadcast industry.

Boston, MA — February 11, 2024 — Actus Digital, a global leader in AI-driven media monitoring and regulatory compliance logging solutions, is excited to announce its participation in FOMEX Saudi, the largest exhibition specializing in media and digital production technology in the Middle East. This marks the company’s ongoing commitment to supporting the region’s evolving media and broadcasting landscape.

At FOMEX, Actus Digital will present its AI-powered media monitoring platform, designed to meet the comprehensive needs of broadcasters, regulatory bodies, governments, and content creators. The platform offers:

QA Compliance Logger for:

• Regulatory Compliance: Seamlessly manage and meet regulatory requirements and Rules.

• Technical Monitoring: Ensure optimal quality assurance, quality of service, and quality of experience for audio and video delivery.

Actus AI Media Insight for:

• AI-Powered Content Analysis: Advanced tools for real-time news and media monitoring. Utilizing AI, the system alerts you to relevant information as it happens, enables keyword searches, provides automatic summaries, and highlights key points—saving time and reducing manual effort. Automatic translation removes language barriers, ensuring instant insights and actionable responses.

The Actus Digital modular solution integrates six products into a single, unified platform, offering flexibility and scalability. These products can be deployed as standalone solutions or combined into a tailored system, ensuring scalability and adaptability as your needs grow.

Additionally, the Intelligent Monitoring suite offers:

• Actus MV, a powerful interactive and browser-based multiviewer for any broadcast and OTT mix.
• OTT StreamWatch for OTT Monitoring (manifest errors, download times, A/V issues, etc.)
• Clip Factory Pro for advanced clip editing and content repurposing
• Actus RVM for remote post-STB monitoring

Discover Actus Digital at FOMEX Saudi
Explore how the innovative Actus platform is transforming media monitoring, empowering clients with advanced AI capabilities, and driving operational efficiency.

“Join us at FOMEX to explore how Actus Digital continues to set new standards in media monitoring with solutions designed to address multiple needs within a single, integrated platform. Our modular approach ensures flexibility, allowing users to seamlessly combine tools that simplify workflows, enhance efficiency, and deliver measurable value. For over 20 years, we’ve worked closely with our clients to develop versatile solutions that adapt to their evolving challenges. We’re excited to showcase how our platform is shaping the future of intelligent monitoring,” says Sima Levy, CEO of Actus Digital.

Actus Digital is exhibiting in Riyadh at FOMEX 2025 in booth K10 between February 19-21.

Entering our Third Decade of Leading the Broadcast Compliance Logging and Monitoring Solutions for Technical and Content Monitoring

Actus Empowers CTN with Quality and Compliance Solution Across its Network

Discover how Actus Digital’s solution has become essential for CTN’s operations, helping them manage quality control, streamline operations, and meet FCC regulations across its expanding network.

2024 marks a milestone for Actus Digital as we proudly celebrate 20 years of redefining compliance logging, now enhanced with advanced AI capabilities.
Key highlights:

Third-Consecutive NAB Award:

Actus continues to be recognized for excellence and innovation, receiving the Best of Show award at NAB 2024.

Product Enhancements:

This year, we launched new multiviewer features, including the round-robin (carousel) mode and a new penalty box that enables immediate rewind on your multiviewer wall.

In addition, we introduced our new AI-driven media insight, with more AI options added to the Actus Intelligent Monitoring Platform. Users can now quickly analyze content through features like transcription, translation, summarization, identification of key highlights, facial recognition, and ad/content matching… with keyword alerts and automatic clipping.

Global Partnerships:

New partnerships combine increased features and capabilities on a centralized platform. Enhanced integrations with Skyline’s DataMiner, Pikolo’s ITracker, and Suitest enable a unified approach for orchestration and quality-monitoring of vast video distribution workflows with a centralized real-time alert center for faster response to issues. 

Team Expansion:

In alignment with our growth and commitment to providing exceptional service and support to our clients, we’ve welcomed new hires across technical support, product development, and customer success roles in the U.S. and globally.

Thank you for being a part of our journey over the past two decades, your support has been invaluable to our success.

Channel Pinning

Channel Pinning allows any channel to stay visible while performing other tasks within the platform.

To pin a channel, simply click on the Pin icon in the top-left of the video window and it moves to the left margin. This reserves the rest of the screen to work in any part of the GUI while still monitoring pinned channels and even interacting with features such as pause, forward/rewind, mute/unmute, and take screenshot.

Comply with Confidence,
Monitor with Precision

Actus Digital, a pioneering global leader in compliance logging, quality assurance, and advanced media monitoring solutions, is excited to announce its participation in SATIS 2024. As the trusted and recognized opinion leader in the broadcasting sector, Actus Digital continues to push the boundaries of intelligent media solutions, providing broadcasters with a robust platform enriched by cutting-edge AI capabilities for enhanced content analysis.

With more than 20 years of expertise and over 1,300 systems installed at prominent media organizations globally, such as TV5 Monde (France), RTS(Switzerland), BSKYB,BBC, (UK), Comcast (US) Aljazeera(Qatar) Actus Digital remains at the forefront of innovation in the industry. It is NOT only about supporting all the video protocols such as IP, SDI, 2110, HLS, SRT, RTMP, etc., but going beyond compliance by expanding the solution to have additional functionalities within the same platform.

“We believe it’s crucial to showcase our products in every part of the world,” says Sima Levy, CEO of Actus Digital. “Our participation in SATIS allows us to meet broadcasters, regulators and news agencies and demonstrate firsthand how our solutions can enhance their operations. Being globally available ensures we’re always listening to our clients and adapting to meet their specific needs.”

At SATIS 2024, Actus Digital will highlight its flagship QA Compliance Logger, a comprehensive compliance and monitoring system designed to meet the evolving demands of broadcasters. It supports every major industry protocol, such as, IP, SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, and OTT streaming formats such as HLS and MPEG-DASH.

In addition to compliance logging, Actus will demonstrate its AI-powered Media Insight, including automatic transcription, translation, content summarization, key points, facial recognition, and more. These advanced tools help broadcasters manage their content efficiently, reduce manual labor, and ensure quick and accurate monitoring across multiple languages and formats. The versatility of the platform allows it to function as standalone modules or be integrated into a complete, unified system, deployable on-premises or in the cloud.

Additionally, Actus’s new multiviewer will be presented. For customers that use Actus Compliance logging solution, adding the multiviewer does not require any additional hardware. The multiviewer is SW/Browser based, supports any number of layouts and headends, and includes a penalty box and a new round robin.  

Actus Digital’s platform also includes other solutions like Clip Factory Pro for advanced clipping and content repurposing, OTT StreamWatch for monitoring streaming services, and Actus RVM for remote monitoring of post-set-top box operations. This comprehensive suite of products offers broadcasters and media companies the flexibility to optimize their workflows, improve quality assurance, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Attendees at SATIS 2024 will have the opportunity to explore how Actus Digital’s solutions can streamline their broadcasting operations and enhance performance through cutting-edge monitoring technologies.

Actus Digital is exhibiting in Paris at Satis 2024 in booth E28 between September 6-7.

Actus Digital renforce son leadership en matière de solutions de pige antenne, de Multiviewer et de monitoring des médias piloté par l’IA au salon SATIS 2024 à Paris

Boston, MA – 23 octobre 2024 – Actus Digital, un leader mondial pionnier en matière de pige antenne, d’assurance qualité et de solutions avancées de monitoring des médias, est ravi d’annoncer sa participation à SATIS 2024. En tant que leader d’opinion reconnu et de confiance dans le secteur de la radiodiffusion, Actus Digital continue de repousser les limites des solutions médiatiques intelligentes, en fournissant aux diffuseurs une plateforme robuste enrichie de capacités d’IA de pointe pour une analyse améliorée du contenu.

Avec plus de 20 ans d’expertise et plus de 1 300 systèmes installés dans des organisations médiatiques de premier plan à l’échelle mondiale, telles que TV5 Monde (France), RTS (Suisse), BSKYB et BBC (UK), Comcast (US) et Aljazeera (Qatar), Actus Digital reste à la pointe de l’innovation dans le secteur. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de prendre en charge tous les protocoles vidéo tels que IP, SDI, 2110, HLS, SRT, RTMP, mais d’aller au-delà de la conformité en élargissant la solution pour disposer de fonctionnalités supplémentaires au sein de la même plateforme.

« Nous pensons qu’il est essentiel de présenter nos produits dans toutes les régions du monde », déclare Sima Levy, PDG d’Actus Digital. “Notre participation à SATIS nous permet de rencontrer les diffuseurs, régulateurs et agences de presse et de leur montrer directement comment nos solutions peuvent améliorer leurs opérations. Le fait d’être disponible à l’échelle mondiale garantit que nous sommes toujours à l’écoute de nos clients et que nous nous adaptons pour répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques.”

Lors du salon SATIS 2024, Actus Digital présentera son produit phare QA Compliance Logger, un système complet de pige antenne et de monitoring conçu pour répondre à l’évolution des exigences des diffuseurs. Il prend en charge tous les principaux protocoles de l’industrie, tels que IP, SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 et les formats de streaming OTT tels que HLS et MPEG-DASH.

En plus de la pige antenne, Actus présentera son Media Insight, alimenté par l’IA, qui comprend la transcription automatique, la traduction, le résumé du contenu, les éléments clés, la reconnaissance faciale, et plus encore. Ces outils avancés aident les diffuseurs à gérer efficacement leur contenu, à réduire le travail manuel et à assurer un contrôle rapide et précis dans plusieurs langues et formats. La polyvalence de la plateforme lui permet de fonctionner comme des modules autonomes ou d’être intégrée dans un système complet et unifié, déployable sur site ou dans le Cloud.

En outre, le nouveau Multiviewer d’Actus sera présenté. Pour les clients qui utilisent la solution Actus Compliance logging, l’ajout du Multiviewer ne nécessite pas de matériel supplémentaire. Le Multiviewer est basé sur un logiciel/navigateur, prend en charge un nombre illimité de dispositions et de têtes de réseau, et comprend une boîte de pénalité et un nouveau round-robin.

La plateforme d’Actus Digital comprend également d’autres solutions telles que Clip Factory Pro pour le découpage avancé et la réutilisation du contenu, OTT StreamWatch pour le monitoring des services de streaming, et Actus RVM pour le monitoring à distance des opérations des boîtiers post-set-top. Cette suite complète de produits offre aux diffuseurs et aux sociétés de médias la flexibilité nécessaire pour optimiser leurs flux de travail, améliorer l’assurance qualité et garantir la conformité réglementaire.

Les participants au salon SATIS 2024 auront l’occasion de découvrir comment les solutions d’Actus Digital peuvent optimiser leurs opérations de diffusion et améliorer les performances grâce à des technologies de monitoring de pointe.

Actus Digital expose à Paris au Satis 2024 sur le stand E28 entre le 6 et le 7 septembre.

Visitez https://ActusDigital.com/Events/Tradeshows/ pour planifier une démonstration au Satis ou demander une démonstration privée en ligne. Pour plus d’informations sur les produits et la plateforme d’Actus Digital, visitez http://ActusDigital.com.

Actus Recruits Tech Veterans John Ryan and Reuben Sivan

Actus Digital, the premier solutions provider for Quality Assurance (QA) alerting, compliance logging, and multiviewer monitoring, announces the addition of two key technical hires: John Ryan as Senior Technical Support Engineer and Reuben Sivan as Senior Developer. Expanding Actus Support Headquarters outside of Los Angeles and Business Headquarters outside of Boston highlights Actus Digital’s dedication to delivering top-tier, customized solutions for our growing U.S. customer base. As demand increases, enhancing local support has become a critical priority, ensuring that our American clients receive fast, efficient, and reliable service from a team committed to meeting their specific needs.

John Ryan — Senior Technical Support Engineer
Including nearly 15-years as Volicon Senior Technical Support Manager, John Ryan brings decades of experience and technical expertise in troubleshooting and supporting broadcast customers with very similar technology. His background will be instrumental in helping Actus provide hands-on technical support to ensure customers maximize the benefits of their Actus solution, including supporting Spanish-speaking organizations in their native tongue.

“From our work together at Volicon, I already know John will be a huge asset to Actus,” said Ken Rubin, Senior Vice President at Actus Digital. “His extensive knowledge of how to support our systems within broadcast workflows will help us maintain our reputation for the best support in the industry, including to many Spanish-speaking customers.”

Ryan said, “I’m excited to join Actus Digital and be part of a company that’s truly leading the way in broadcast technology. I look forward to working closely with our customers to ensure they get the most out of their solutions.”

Reuben Sivan — Senior Developer
Reuben Sivan has been a senior software engineer and led highly successful software development teams for decades. As an Actus Senior Developer, Reuben will focus on helping Actus innovate and customize its platform to meet specific customer requirements and support emerging technologies that will increase the value of the Actus platform.

“Reuben’s experience strengthens our development team and allows us to be more agile in supporting advanced solutions for our customers,” explained Rubin. “His ability to develop robust and innovative software will help Actus expand our offering and increase our value in broadcast workflows.”

Sivan said, “Joining Actus Digital is a fantastic opportunity to help drive the next phase of growth, and I’m excited to contribute my experience to further enhance the powerful platform Actus provides.”

As Actus popularity climbs in the U.S. and throughout the Americas, the additions of Ryan and Sivan fortify the company’s U.S. footprint and emphasizes its focus on delivering solutions that cater to the specific needs of American broadcasters and providing customers with the very best support in the industry.

Actus Digital, the leading provider of compliance logging and monitoring systems, has proudly integrated with DataMiner systems for many years, enabling customers to centralize information from multiple sources. DataMiner’s powerful platform offers customizable real-time monitoring, analytics, control & orchestration capabilities, ensuring efficient management and operations of any modern media infrastructure, ultimately enhancing the customer experience.

The integration between DataMiner and the Actus System provides customers with a unified approach to managing and monitoring their recording channels and transcoding jobs. Operators can receive real-time alerts, enabling quick responses to any potential issues. This integration is all about driving efficiency and proactive management.

At IBC 2024, Actus Digital is excited to announce an extra level of integration with DataMiner, providing even more valuable insights and capabilities.

“Many of our customers have been using DataMiner systems in conjunction with Actus QA Compliance Logging for years. This enhanced integration will allow additional data from the Actus system to be seamlessly displayed within DataMiner, including new options like playing media directly from Actus,” said Sima Levy, CEO of Actus Digital. “Our customers prefer having all their information centralized, eliminating the need to switch between applications for analysis.”

Visit our booth at IBC 2024, Hall 7.C21, to learn more about how the Actus-Dataminer integration can benefit you.

NEWSnet and Sports News Highlights Optimize Engineering Efficiency with State-of-the-Art Actus Multiviewer and 24×7 QA-Alerting Intelligent Monitoring Platform

BOSTON, MA — August  27, 2024 — Bridge Media Networks, operator of the NEWSnet and Sports News Highlights networks, announces the integration of Actus Digital’s advanced monitoring solution to optimize its broadcast operations. With a focus on delivering high-quality content to viewers across multiple platforms, Bridge Media Networks sought a comprehensive system to streamline monitoring and ensure consistent viewer quality.

Bridge Media Networks has a hybrid distribution model for NEWSnet and Sports News Highlights that includes both OTT platforms and a range of broadcast stations nationwide. This requires a centralized approach to monitoring and managing broadcasts. Although other brands were considered, Actus emerged as the clear choice based on its robust features and user-friendly interface.

“We recognized the need for a centralized multiviewer to monitor our extensive distribution network,” said Eric Wotila, President of Bridge Media Networks. “Actus provided the perfect solution, offering not only centralized multiviewer monitoring but also automated alerts that allow us to immediately address issues, often times before viewer quality disruption.”

Actus Digital’s system enables Bridge Media Networks to monitor signals, detect anomalies, and receive real-time alerts that ensure uninterrupted broadcasting at optimal quality. The platform’s browser-based access allows for remote connection and improves efficiency by empowering team members to monitor the entire network from any location.

“Our previous manual monitoring process was time-consuming with limited notification of issues. Actus QA Compliance Logger is a significant upgrade, allowing remote access to all stations from one GUI with an impressive depth of monitoring and alerting,” said Wotila.

In addition to traditional OTA broadcasting, Bridge Media Networks is committed to expanding its reach through over-the-top (OTT) platforms and appreciates Actus Digital’s ability to seamlessly monitor OTT feeds and provide insight into stream quality and download performance.

“It was apparent from the very first demo that Actus was exactly what we were looking for. The comprehensive features and cost-effectiveness made it the clear choice,” concluded Wotila. “Actus was very willing to work with us to customize a solution that worked well to meet all of our needs for our NEWSnet and Sports News Highlights networks.”

Bridge Media Networks’ collaboration with Actus Digital underscores its commitment to innovation and excellence in broadcasting. By leveraging Actus’s advanced monitoring solution, Bridge Media Networks aims to enhance their viewer experience and maintain its position as a leading provider of news and sports content.

Actus Digital is exhibiting in Amsterdam at IBC 2024 in booth 7.C21 between September 13-16.

Boston, MA — August 20, 2024 — Actus Digital, winner of the NAB Best of Show Award for its AI-enhanced QA Compliance Logger and Intelligent Monitoring Platform, will showcase the enhanced compliance and monitoring suite at IBC 2024. This year marks a significant milestone for Actus Digital as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. In that time, Actus Digital has delivered over 1,300 reliable monitoring systems initiated by its four global offices: USA (HQ), Europe, Emirates, and Asia.

The Future of Compliance Logging – Comprehensive Intelligent Monitoring

QA Compliance Logger: Compliance Logger requirements continue to evolve, with new regulatory mandates, existing functionalities adapted for new workflows, and new video standards in the broadcast industry emerge that require ongoing support.

For two decades, the Actus QA Compliance Logger has been a pivotal tool in broadcast and streaming compliance logging. It monitors for loudness compliance, SCTE 35/104, closed captions/subtitles, multiple audio languages, NAVE, EAS, EPG, and provides metadata extraction. It supports every industry input, including newer protocols like ATSC 3.0 in the U.S., SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS, and online streaming formats such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, and SRT. All these inputs are seamlessly integrated into a single system and user interface.

Additionally, it integrates external metadata such as as-run logs and schedules, providing detailed discrepancy reports for complete accuracy and compliance.

Actus QA Compliance Logger extends beyond traditional compliance with enhanced QA alerts for audio and video issues, missing SCTE markers, loudness discrepancies, and absent metadata. Its interactive, software-based multiviewer eliminates the need for additional hardware.

Leveraging the Best AI Engines for Comprehensive Audio and Video Analysis

Actus AI Media Insight enhances our recording, monitoring, and clipping capabilities with advanced AI-based insights on the content, such as transcription, translation, summarization, highlights, ad detection, facial recognition, PG rating, and content decency, as a few examples. Customers can search for any spoken content, receive keyword alerts for relevant topics, and get summaries and highlights of programs in any language, all with a single mouse click. This drastically reduces time-consuming processes and manual work, delivering results with relevant information more quickly. The transcription capability also allows for easy export of clips with subtitles to social or VOD platforms, in any language.

Actus AI Media Insight is versatile and not limited to specific engines. Instead, it integrates the best available engines for each type of analysis, ensuring customers benefit from the most accurate results. This solution is available both as a cloud-based and on-premises option.

Showcasing at IBC 2024

Actus Digital is thrilled to bring our latest technologies to IBC 2024. The company’s Intelligent Monitoring suite includes: QA Compliance Logger for compliance logging/quality monitoring, Clip Factory Pro for advanced clipping and content repurposing, OTT StreamWatch for OTT Monitoring, and Actus RVM for remote post-STB monitoring.

The Intelligent Monitoring Platform is designed to be flexible, allowing each product to function as a standalone feature or be integrated with others, deployable on-premises, virtual machine (VM), or as a SaaS solution.

Join Actus Digital at IBC 2024

Visit Actus in  Booth 7.C21 during the IBC show to explore its solutions and celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary. Experience firsthand how Actus Digital can enhance your broadcasting operations with its unique suite of products.

Actus Digital CEO Sima Levy shares, “Our participation in IBC 2024 is not just about showcasing our products, but more so about meeting our customers and partners, getting their views on the industry, requirements, and feedback. This year, it will be even more special for us, as we celebrate two decades since the company’s founding and gained  1,300 installations all over the world. We could not be prouder.”

Actus Digital is exhibiting in Amsterdam at IBC 2024 in booth 7.C21 between September 13-16.

BOSTON, MA — March 19, 2024 — Pikolo Systems Group, Inc (Pikolo) has entered into a strategic partnership with Actus Digital (Actus) to streamline and increase engagement for broadcast operations. 

Pikolo creates workflow automation solutions designed specifically for managing day-to-day activities in broadcast operations worldwide.

Actus is a global leader of quality assurance monitoring and compliance logging solutions with a customer base of over 800 customers.

Pikolo and Actus clients will benefit from the seamless connectivity that allows ITracker users to playback video proxies of incident issues and automate the creation of incident reports sent from Actus to ITracker. This integration allows the engineering and traffic departments and supervisors to reduce their workload and view actual on-air content while reviewing discrepancy logs.

Vernon Omegah, VP of Technology at Pikolo Systems states, “At Pikolo, we are always on the quest for innovation. Partnering with Actus gives us the opportunity to add value to our clients’ user experience.”
As a part of the integration, a customized ITracker version with additional complimentary features will be available exclusively from Actus. Ken Rubin, Actus SVP states, “Actus is proud to be Pikolo’s exclusive partner and offer this special ITracker edition that delivers additional value and improves the return on investment for our mutual customers.”   

As broadcasters look to leverage data analytics, predictive analysis, and generative AI; the key to success will be implementing progressive workflows that make data acquisition easy and centralized. This collaboration will help broadcasters standardize their operational data into a single source of truth.

The Pikolo and Actus collaboration will be on full display in Actus booth W-2059 at NAB 2024.