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March 31, 2025

Crossmedia and 24i leverage data-driven, intelligent recommendation technology to enhance RTVE Play’s personalization

By

Sebastian Braun

,

CEO at 24i

Madrid, March 31st, 2025– Crossmedia, a leading OTT platform integration company, was awarded Lot 2: Recommendations and Personalization in a recent RTVE tender, reinforcing its position as a benchmark for advanced solutions in OTT platforms. In collaboration with its technology partner 24i and deploying infrastructure on AWS, the solution enables RTVE to optimize the user experience on RTVE Play, improving the relevance and personalization of offered content.

A tailored solution for RTVE Play

Crossmedia and 24i worked together to implement a personalized recommendation solution capable of integrating with multiple RTVE data sources, ensuring an optimized experience for RTVE Play viewers. The solution presented by Crossmedia and 24i fulfills all RTVE  requirements, standing out for its adaptability, innovative approach, and AWS-based scalable architecture.

RTVE’s evaluation: Crossmedia and 24i as a winning partnership

Among the top-rated aspects of the selected proposal was seamless integration with the RTVE Play ecosystem,flexibility and scalability, and a clear structure of development, pre-production, and production environments—ensuring stability and quality in deployments. RTVE also noted the high level of security and redundancy in the AWS-hosted infrastructure, including a redundant point-to-point connection with RTVE’s DMZ, as well as the technical expertise of the team, composed of specialists in OTT platforms and content personalization.

RTVE’s evaluation emphasizes that the solution from Crossmedia and 24i stands out for its detailed approach, its ability to integrate with RTVE’s data sources, including SAP CDC for user management and Conviva’s powerful sensor. Leveraging Conviva’s ECO (Experience Centric Operations) technology, the sensor captures real‑time user activity across all RTVE Play environments and platforms. The report also highlights the solution’s modular design, which ensures a highly personalized and optimized user experience.

The capabilities of 24i AI-powered personalization

At the heart of the system is 24i’s data-driven, intelligent personalization engine, delivering advanced features that set the RTVE Play platform apart. By implementing an advanced personalization solution, 24i provides RTVE with a variety of algorithms to improve user experiences and highlight the most relevant content.To further refine recommendations, 24i has developed popularity-based models enhanced by sophisticated filtering options. These allow RTVE to create specific genre- or content-type recommendations to meet editorial needs, affording complete flexibility for curating content in a semi-structured manner—complemented by fully algorithmic, dynamic content discovery.

Looking ahead, 24i is building the ability to construct customized user pages, ensuring each content consumer can enjoy a fully personalized landing that aligns with complex viewing behavior—whether for TV series, movies, radio, podcasts, or articles. This approach gives RTVE a personalization solution truly designed for a broadcaster with diverse content types and a broad range of household viewing preferences. RTVE benefits from a centralized management dashboard that simplifies oversight, tuning, and performance analysis of recommendations.

A future of truly personalized content

Combining Crossmedia’s OTT integration expertise, 24i’s innovative personalization, and AWS’s robust infrastructure, RTVE Play benefits from a cutting-edge recommendation system aligned with both market trends and the evolving expectations of its audience.

“We are very proud to be part of this innovative project with RTVE. Our partnership with 24i and the AWS implementation allows us to offer a highly flexible and powerful recommendation solution, which will undoubtedly enhance how viewers interact with RTVE Play,” says Jorge Frías, Head of Digital Media at Crossmedia.

Meanwhile, Sebastian Braun, CEO at 24i, affirms “We are excited to empower RTVE with our advanced personalisation capabilities. By welcoming RTVE and Crossmedia to our platform, we further validate our strategy to modularize 24i’s capabilities and offer our modules standalone or end-to-end to the market."

With this project, RTVE reaffirms its commitment to digital transformation, providing end viewers with a more personalized, intuitive, and engaging experience.

About Crossmedia

Crossmedia acts as the bridge between traditional broadcasting and OTT platforms, seamlessly integrating television, IP networks, and digital media. Our mission is to connect traditional broadcasting with the digital ecosystem, delivering end-to-end solutions for online video platform development, content and metadata workflow orchestration, business and monetization management, user engagement, advanced OTT analytics, personalized content experiences, and seamless content distribution via CDN.

For more information on Crossmedia’s personalization technology and integration services, visit www.cross-media.es.

About 24i

24i is a data-driven video streaming solution company and the maker of 24i Video Cloud, a flagship flexible video streaming CMS that enables PayTV, OTT, and Broadcast operators to launch and grow their streaming services. By providing a centralized platform with a spectrum of intelligent, pre-integrated features, both enterprise and smaller media companies can launch their media app, fully configure the UX/UI, personalize content discovery through AI, monetize their platform, and manage content delivery across all connected devices. This enables customers to grow streaming revenue, streamline workflows and go faster-to-market with new features.

For more information on video streaming solutions visit www.24i.com

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