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Cartoon fans can now enjoy the Boomerang app on their iPhone. Boomerang allows you to explore the entire cartoon world, through videos and colouring games...

Subscribers can access the Boomerang channel direct 24/24 and receive weekly notifications of the new videos available.

Using all their expertise and technical know-how, Hubee assisted Turner and contributed to the total re-design of their app.

Are you a television addict? No longer want to miss programmes? You can find the Télé 7 app on Samsung Smart TVs, operational since January 2013. You can now find out everything about your TV programmes at any time, enjoy the latest zapping sequences, the television news, photo slide shows and broadcasts selected by Télé 7.

Each viewer can select their favourite programmes, use the search engine to find the film they’re waiting for, and watch it when the time comes.

Already available on Ipad, the Android tablet, Iphone and android, Télé 7 has benefited from Hubee’s support and technical development for deployment on connected TVs.

Since September 2012, the Arte VOD service has been accessible on Freebox.

Subscribers can access family programmes, including various documentaries (history, philosophy, science, fashion),  films, French series, programmes for young people and live shows.

Arte relied on Hubee‘s expertise to develop this service with Free; Hubee is delighted with this successful partnership! Come and discover the app right now!

Hubee is delighted to have contributed to the development and deployment of Disneynature.tv on Orange and SFR TV. Their subscribers will be able to access a subscription video on demand service (SVOD) comprising a unique collection of films, documentaries and dramas filmed by the greatest names in the genre.

Disneynature.tv will take you to the farthest corners of the planet ; it is available through the SVOD service.

The basic catalogue composed of 30 programmes will be supplemented every week by 4 new programmes. Browsing is divided into 3 themes: Animals, Nature, Adventure and 2 useful sections: Favourites (selected by the Disneynature team) and Tops (the most watched documentaries in real time).

The Disneynature.tv team relied on Hubee’s ergonomic and technical expertise to design and develop this new service for SFR and Orange.

The Le Parisien newspaper now hosts an app on the Smart Replay portal on Samsung connected TVs.

Hubee joined hands with Le Parisien in the roll-out of its video content on connected TVs, and has also developed themed sections making it possible to remain in constant touch with current events.

The Walt Disney Company, one of the top family entertainment and media companies in the world, needs no introduction.

Working with Free, Disney chose to develop the first subscription VOD platform using a set-top box. As consultant and technical partner for this world-first project, Hubee developed the first system for managing film downloads to TV boxes in partnership with DivX, thereby allowing users unlimited viewing of their programmes on Freebox as well as - thanks to digital copies - on the majority of DVD and Blu-Ray players, game consoles mobile phones and tablets on the market, not forgetting Macs and PCs.

Via these two Premium offers, unique until now, the public pays a one-time download fee (EST) using their Freebox remote control for one of the best video offers on the market :

ABCtek offers thousands of episodes of the best series from ABC Studios (Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Lost, and more).

Disneytek offers the greatest animated masterpieces from the Disney and Pixar studios (from Snow White and the 7 Dwarves to Toy Story 3, not forgetting the Aristocats, Finding Nemo and Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue), as well as  legendary films (Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure: the Book of Secrets, Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea) plus hundreds of episodes from TV series broadcast on Disney channels, popular with children and teenagers (Hannah Montana, Phineas and Ferb or the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse).

Buoyed up by this success, the Disney/Hubee adventure goes on…

To launch connected TV, Samsung wanted to offer an application for video viewing via television, Smart Replay. The aim was to meet user expectations, particularly in the area of catch-up TV, and to position itself on the emerging connected TV market.

Samsung commissioned Hubee to design, develop and host an application in the form of a channel portal, designed to provide viewing access to content from TV channels, press groups and Internet pure players. Each provider has use of a back-office independent of other providers.

To bring this platform to life, Hubee provided comprehensive technical guidance for Samsung in its dealings with the providers who incorporate Smart Replay.

One of Hubee's very first partners, The Turner Group, which owns channels with strong themes (TCM, CNN, Cartoon TV, Boomerang, among others), wanted to expand its offering and bring a new service to its viewers.

So Hubee developed TCM catch-up, the first replay service dedicated to films on Free, soon to be followed by Boing, Boomerang and CNN.  This last project allowed subscribers to the channel to access key programmes in sub-titled original versions. Like the other catch-up services in the Turner group, this service brought in new subscribers, while offering personalised, on demand viewing and developing a loyal customer base for the four Free channels.

Filmo TV was the first French SVOD film service (Subscription Video on Demand) launched on the initiative of Wild Bunch. It stands out especially for its significant editorial content concerning the films on offer as well as generous advice to help film enthusiasts make their choice. 

Filmo TV was one of Hubee’s first clients. Our teams assisted with the development of its Web platform (back office, interface, functionalities, etc.).

This platform was subsequently rolled out by Hubee on Samsung, LG and Philips televisions, bringing great freedom to film viewing.  Film enthusiasts have 30 hours to watch their selection, whether it be the last Scorsese film or one of the great film classics.

Filmo TV is also available on Numericable and Orange.

Global news agency, AFP, has just launched a new service on the Smart Replay portal available on Samsung connected TVs.

AFP video content has been adapted for television by the Hubee teams so that you can follow the news on your Samsung TV whenever you want.

The aufeminin.com group is the world leading online publisher of content for women. It attracts more than 39 million unique visitors from around the world with 327 million pages viewed (source : comScore, June 2011).

In order to capitalise on its established female audience, aufeminin.com launched its online TV channel and wished to expand this audiovisual initiative to connected television.
Hubee assisted with the design and development of the service which presents all the features of the site on a “live” channel with a sober, light elegant design.

Users of the site can discover all of aufeminin.com’s top 50 videos one by one or may decide to browse the application by theme.  This “live” system is a first for Hubee and is the result of a study looking to offer a pure, content-based, genuine television experience on the Internet.

This winning partnership between Hubee and Aufeminin perfectly illustrates the emergence of pure Web players - like Aufeminin and Allociné - in an audiovisual field previously occupied exclusively by the TV channels.  This application is an example that reinforces and adds credibility to the positioning adopted by Hubee.

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The fourth largest French telecoms operator wished to develop a solution that would allow them to offer new services, content and promotional offers to B-Box users, more easily, quickly and regularly. This involved developing software and application components, interfacing with the existing system at Bouygues Telecom, in order to provide more fluidity and responsiveness in the way interactive services were managed.

So Bouygues Telecom approached Hubee, which, with the benefit of its experience in On-demand content management, was able to build a tailor-made administration platform that would meet the operator’s present and future requirements.

Bouygues Telecom was thus able to expand its VOD, catch-up and linear broadcasting offer as well as its interactive services.

Setting up this solution has today led to greater freedom and optimal ergonomics for in-house teams and external providers, with regard to options for managing, marketing and producing the content platform (VOD, catch-up, etc.).

CoachClub is the top, entirely personalised sports training and wellness video service. Based on an interactive questionnaire in which the subscriber sets out their objectives, physical capabilities and availability, CoachClub creates a tailor-made, open-ended exercise programme, consisting of video sessions that can be accessed on the Internet or through their television. The aim is to offer a professional service which adapts to the subscriber's progress, with continuous coaching in more than 15 sporting disciplines.

Hubee is assisting Coach Club in its rollout to the new screens, with international, multi-device service that will soon be available on FreeBox and on LG, Samsung and Philips connected TVs.

Coach Club on television is one of the most notable and successful examples of how video and interactivity can be used on connected TV.

Hubee is proud to count INA , the French National Audiovisual Institute, as one of its clients. In fact INA chose Hubee to assist in its development of a VOD offer with all French telecom operators.

In consideration of this multi-operator rollout, Hubee designed a back-office that would allow their INA Premium service to be distributed to all operators, beginning with Free and Numericable. This service provides access to 100 hours of archive material  each week for a monthly charge of €3.99. The catalogue of dramas, entertainment, culture, historical material and great TV moments is further extended each week by 25 hours of new programming.

Jeuxvideo.com is published by Hi-media, an online media group which today is one of the largest publishers of public interest websites in the world: with an audience of more than 50 million unique visitors (duplicate hits removed), including 29 million in Europe, and 3 billion pages viewed every month, the company is one of the top hundred Internet media groups in the world.

As a first step, the favourite website of video game enthusiasts chose Hubee to develop its jeuxvideo.com interactive service on LG & Samsung connected TVs. The aim was to provide access to the jeuxvideo.com world and content using simplified browsing and ergonomics optimised for TV.

The jeuxvideo.com application contains content from all categories already present on the website and offers access to programmes such as Le CLIQ, Gaming Live and Reportages to the great delight of gamers everywhere.

Free, the French Internet pioneer, is ranked amongst the top three French telecom operators. In its capacity as technical consultant to Free for the development of its video on demand and catch-up TV offers, Hubee created the first French catch-up portal back in 2010: Freebox REPLAY.

With more than 33 catch-up channels on television, this initiative was a world first in terms of the size of the offer, thereby boosting Free’s image as an innovator.

This service allows Freenauts to watch or re-watch their favourite programmes for seven days after the initial broadcast starting from the following day. It is accessible to all eligible subscribers to the TV service who have an HD Freebox, and today includes more than 40 channels…

Hubee was chosen by Free to design, roll out and technically manage the catch-up portal and the development of the service in light of the arrival of new channels and an increase in video viewing. Thanks to the architecture designed and developed by Hubee, a new catch-up channel was opened in under 5 days!

Tag Technologie, one of the French market leaders in home automation and security, approached Hubee to design and deploy for TV screens its home automation and security installation control system, MYFOX, today recognised as the most innovative and value for money solution on the market.

Thanks to Hubee, every household equipped with MYFOX can control their home automation and security system via their connected television, and soon on lots of other screens.

You can find BFM TV on the Samsung Replay service. This financial channel was one of the two first channels available at the time of the launch of the manufacturer’s replay platform.

The Hubee teams adapted the BFMTV web content for television, organising it under several headings and providing constant access to the latest events in the world of finance.

Hubee's work for Chronoresto consisted in overhauling and redesigning its home catering service, one of the largest in the market, in order to provide an application that was exhaustive, intuitive and fun.

You can now order your pizza or sushi from Chronoresto on your Samsung, Philips or LG connected television, with just two clicks of the remote control, and without leaving your sofa!

Marc Dorcel is the N⁰ 1 European producer and distributor of adult content, with more than 60 studios under his umbrella brand.

As Dorcel's exclusive technical partner in the deployment of his VOD offer (IPTV and connected television), Hubee naturally came to the aid of the publisher when they once more decided to innovate by developing the first 3D on-demand channel in the world. No other channel contains such a high volume of 3D content, even though the VOD offer is totally made up of X-rated films.

Innovative both from an editorial and technological point of view, subscribers to Free have actually had access to an offer of more than 100 films specifically produced in 3D since the beginning of 2010. The result is unanimously acknowledged as having amazing visual effects, with the special technology used by Dorcel which achieves what 3D specialists describe as, quite correctly and aptly, an effect that "jumps out of the screen".

This service is available on Freebox, and obviously requires a 3D television and 3D spectacles.

The partnership between Dorcel and Hubee was renewed for the re-design of the DorcelVisionWeb site in April 2012 and the release of the Dorcel app on Philips Smart TVs in October 2012.

Endemol France was looking to modernise management and develop the marketing of its audiovisual material (search and sale of excerpts and rushes, optimisation of its video archives). The French subsidiary was the first in the Group to develop a solution which could rapidly manage in-house digitising, archiving and secure online viewing of more than 9,000 hours of archive material.

Our team, with the benefit of its expertise in managing the entire video content chain, acquired by creating and managing the Banque Audiovisuelle for more than 4 years (a company which publishes Vodeo.tv with more than 5,000 programmes accessible online  from more than 300 royalty-holders), was chosen to lead this assignment to a successful conclusion.

So we designed the architecture of the digitisation service, acquired and installed the equipment necessary for the encoding/transcoding of pivot formats, merged three different existing but ancient data bases, rethought processes and methods, and trained the documentalists.

The entire audioviosual collection is now online and continues to grow several hours longer every month. It is accessible to journalists and channel and video platform buyers via a secure extranet.  The buyers can access all programmes produced, take advantage of thorough editorials produced by sales teams as well as of a search engine which will find the relevant content for them They can view the entire catalogue or one programme, select the excerpts or parts which interest them (TC IN, TC OUT) and place orders with just one click.

Would you like to know more about our expertise in the field or entrust the digitisation/indexing/management problems of your video-library to us?
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With regard to launching catch up TV services on Free, Hubee worked closely with France Television teams to adapt and deliver the catch up TV service for the Freebox for the 5 channels of the France Television group.

Pluzz VAD

France Télévisions has decided to extend its Pluzz catch-up TV service with Pluzz VAD, an ambitious and innovative video-on-demand (VOD) service.

The initial catalogue available on VOD comprises some 3,000 diverse programmes in a number of different genres such as films, documentaries, special reports, live events and children’s programmes.

Pluzz VAD plans to ramp up its offering with significant updates of content as more than 200 programmes and other shows are to be come on line each month.

Hubee has been chosen by France Televisions as its benchmark technical partner for VOD. Our teams have made good use of their acknowledged expertise to advise, design and develop the entire France Televisions platform and to ensure that Pluzz VAD rolls out on every device, among as many operators and manufacturers as possible, in the course of 2012 and 2013. Today, PluzzVAD is available on Freebox and on the web.

Hubee was closely involved with solving LG's problems, advising and assisting the publishers in their rollout to the new digital territory of connected TV.

Already one of the brand’s service providers and specialised in digital distribution, Hubee is in fact the local partner of the Korean manufacturer and was commissioned in 2010 to source, negotiate and develop a package of value-added interactive services. As a result of this tripartite collaboration (LG, Hubee, publishers) it is today possible to find brands such as Closer, La Tribune and Marianne2 in the LG store.

Based on Hubee’s expertise in monetising content on IPTV, Hubee and Orange set up a partnership in order to facilitate the transmission of video advertising (pre/mid/post-roll) on Orange boxes for the video content broadcast on the well-known operator’s boxes (replay, video on demand or future Orange content & services).

So Hubee provided and rolled out its AdHubee solution at Orange, allowing it to manage and broadcast advertising pods for on-demand content, in line with the majority of market ad servers and the main sales reps for Internet channels and providers.

In addition, and as for its other ISP clients, Hubee is developing several other services (replay, VOD, interactive services) on IPTV Orange platforms.

France 24 was one of the 33 channels managed by Hubee as part of the launch of the first European catch-up TV portal on IPTV boxes in July 2010.  As well as designing and developing the Free platform, Hubee provides technical management on a daily basis with the television channels.

Via a back-office provided in order to manage editorial, marketing and statistical matters, France 24 does the provisioning for its videos and metadata which are then compiled, checked and corrected before  being sent to the operator’s servers, from a platform set up by Hubee.

Today our solution is like a real “marshalling yard”, a French catch-up hub with more than 42 channels managed and distributed from our platform.

As part of the creation of the first interactive services portal for Philips Europe (connected TV), our team and Hubee’s founders were commissioned by Philips to become the exclusive French aggregator for the launch of the Dutch manufacturer’s NetTV. On this occasion, we put together a dedicated team and in 2009 developed a network of more than 180 Internet services or companies able to be broadcast and directly accessed through the television set or via a Box.

On the initiative of Philips, and as we have since done for other manufacturers, Hubee selected, negotiated and aggregated VOD, catch-up, information, leisure and e-commerce services to add to the box’s Apps Stores and interactive portals.

We help publishers overhaul or adapt their editorial offering to the specific nature of the televisions’ ergonomics. We also roll them out, both technically and commercially, to other manufacturers who are likely to use the service, in order to reach new audiences and users.
If you wish to set up or aggregate packages of channels, VOD content or interactive services, Hubee can make available a network consisting of:

- More than 300 audiovisual producers and distributors
- Around thirty audiovisual groups and channels
- The majority of VOD platforms in the market (over 45 on the French market)
- Major film studios (American and French)
- The major Internet companies and portals (more than 180 publishers on an immediate contact basis)

M6 was the first French audiovisual group to package its catch-up offer on a single site with the resounding success we are familiar with : M6 Replay.

On the back of this marketing and technical advance, M6 chose Hubee to roll out its catch-up television offer on Free box (including the W9 channel service) by creating strong synergies and cross-marketing between the free M6 Replay service, and the M6 VOD pay service, also set up on Freebox by Hubee.

As a partner of the first French channel to introduce new technologies and broadcasting methods into the market, Hubee helped M6 to develop its offer on Freebox and to regularly update it, making it the largest player, in terms of consumption, in delinearised  services.

Backed by this success, Hubee is also managing M6 Replay on SFR.

W9 Replay. just like M6 Replay, was one of the 33 channels managed by Hubee as part of the launch of the first European catch-up TV portal on IPTV boxes in July 2010.

As well as designing and developing the Free platform, Hubee provides technical management on a daily basis with the television channels. Today our solution is like a real “marshalling yard”, a French catch-up hub with more than 42 channels managed and distributed from our platform.

Hubee’s founders distinguished themselves in 2004 by creating one of the very first French VOD platforms. VODEO.TV

VODEO.TV was the first legal video on demand solution for audiovisual content (documentary, reporting and television broadcasts), dedicated exclusively to knowledge, learning and hobbies.  This particular positioning continues to this day, making it the benchmark French portal at the international level for documentaries and reporting.

This service was designed to put thousands of documentaries and television programmes online and to allow the general public to “watch what they would like to know about”. So VODEO.TV enables Internet users to access the largest online bank of audiovisual programmes (more than 5,000 videos available through streaming, one-time permanent download and DVD publishing on demand).

Accessible directly on the Internet but also through a wide network of partnerships which we have developed over four years (through partner sites such as Fnac.com, alapage.com, TV5Monde, Noos, AOL, and on television on Free, Alice, numericable or SFR boxes).

This venture, which has since been transferred to the Figaro group, allowed us to develop great credibility as VOD platform operators and to innovate and test numerous technological, marketing and editorial solutions.  Hubee is the result of this experience, a technological distillation of the venture.

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NRJ 12 is one of the thirty or so channels presented on the Freebox Replay service, Free's catch-up television service. The arrival of the NRJ group’s channel was an opportunity to rethink and improve the service’s user experience.

As with all the other channels, Hubee has developed technical solutions which provide simple and automated use of the channel's catch-up service. An ergonomic back-office makes it easy to organise editorials and marketing for programmes on catch-up and to manage remotely problems related to the transcoding and ingesting of content (videos, metadata, etc.).

UniversCiné was created on the initiative of the major independent French  VOD producers and distributors who  wanted to create a VOD site dedicated to film.

Hubee then liaised between UniversCiné and Free in designing and developing this service on the operator’s video club portal. The platform is available on channel 107 where viewers can access the diverse range of films offered by independent French cinema.

In connection with the development of its On-line screening platform, the Hubee teams assisted Reed Midem by supervising the entire development project, to which they brought their expertise in distribution and digital platform consultation.

Developed for MIP TV, MIP Junior and MIP Com, this screening platform allows thousands of hours of programmes to be viewed online, all of which were presented in the setting of the Market in Cannes.

maTVPratique.com offers free practical, educational and entertaining videos – produced by enthusiasts and experts keen to share their know-how with a wide family audience. Today over 300,000 members have access to more than 8,500 videos.

With such audiovisual potential and such a rich video catalogue, MaTVPratique’s progress to the TV screen was strategic and inevitable. The company entrusted Hubee with the task of rolling out its offer to the world of TV.

A gardening problem? Need advice for a rock’n’roll hairstyle or perhaps which wine to accompany your steak? MaTVpratique can solve all your everyday problems with its application developed on LG and Samsung televisions and the Toshiba box. You will find all the sections already present on the website thanks to a simple navigation system that everyone can use.

Vodmania, the French website specialising in the distribution of short films is also available on Free Box and will be soon on Toshiba, LG and Samsung connected TV.

You can now enjoy the best short films on your small screen. Hubee has assisted the Vodmania team from the very start in its rollout IPTV and connected TV.

Tennisplay.fr is the first entirely VOD tennis channel. Its services include the possibility of watching memorable matches (VOD), the latest news from the world of tennis, a dedicated shop, documentaries, and so on.

Hubee has been asked by Tennis Play to advise on, design and develop its evolution towards IPTV.

Tokup is a classified ads website for specialised services which was looking to increase its visibility on connected televisions to allow viewers to search and consult service offers from thousands of professionals via a simplified and user friendly interface. Hubee advised the Tokup team and developed and adapted the entire service for the world of interactive TV.

Are you looking for an electrician, a painter, a baby-sitter or sports coach? Look no longer. Just switch on your Philips or Samsung and find the solution via your remote control. Tokup, the cunning service which illustrates very clearly the value and potential of connected television.

Hubee’s work  with Figaro on developing its connected television and boxes, notably led to the creation of the first news service on connected television in 2009 (LeFigaro.fr on Phillips NetTV).

Thanks to this service in particular, Le Figaro is today leader of the pack amongst media groups as regards connected television. An increasing presence on these same screens reinforces its position as the number one player amongst the written press and digital media.

The Hot Video service, already available in the form of pay VOD on the Internet, is now offered as part of the Freebox TV channels.

In fact Hubee assisted the adult programme distributor in rolling out their offer to VOD TV.

Hubee worked with both MCM and Gulli, channels belonging to the Lagardère group.

Today Gulli is one of the channels on Samsung Replay and MCM is available on Free’s catch-Up service. Our teams took part in the first VOD experiments for the Lagardère Groups’ television business (in 2007) with the development of the Gulli & Filles TV platform.