CogniK has worked with Hubee and Wiztivi, two leading French integrators addressing IPTV and connected TV markets, to integrate its personalization solutions in their offering. Content service providers across Europe are now able to leverage the power of CogniK’s profiling and recommendation solutions while benefiting from the expertise and services of these reknowned platform integrators.

Read the related press releases here:

Contents recommendation: Wiztivi and CogniK sign a strategic partnership	Connected screens : CogniK & Hubee get together to personalize television

Meet the CogniK team in London at IP&TV World Forum. Visit our booth 106.

We will be showcasing some of our latest content discovery solutions. You will be able to see in action some of our hottests innovation to help you personalize media experiences across all screens.

Want to meet? Book your demo now!

My Nickelodeon Junior, the first personalized edutainment channel was announced by CanalSat

“As a mom you are already pleased to offer your child a string as appropriate,entertaining and informative as Nickelodeon Jr. .. What if, CanalSat proposed to go further? Who better than you know what your child like and what they need for their entertainment and learning?  Today, you can get in control of the programming of your favorite channel according to the importance you place in TV, your preferences or that of your child; to make it brief:  more “customized” than it already is.

A few clicks of settings (age, profile, etc. desired theme), the possibility for your child to interact and rate each program or, at any time, access to a viewing record to assess the time spent for each program and identify favorites or those of less interest, and you get the TV most personal of all.

Because every child and parent is unique and demanding My Nickedolodeon Junior offers unique and reassuring television.”

On April 7th, Vincent Tauzia, CEO and co-founder of COGNIK, was honored during the INSEAD XII Trophies ceremony hosted by former French Finance Minister Jacques Sautter.

For the last decades, this prize has been rewarding entrepreneurs who have succeeded in creating, building or taking over medium-sized or large companies, bringing them onto the road of growth and profitability. The newly created category for start-up companies rewards innovative entrepeneurs.

The jury, made up of businessmen and directors from the INSEAD, based their decision on several criteria such as growth, profitability, capacity to create innovative solutions as well as the perpetuity of the company. (complete list of the jury members available here)

Vincent Tauzia declared “I feel very honored to receive this award. We have been working very hard with our team to bring first products to market. It is a further boost to our motivation and the recognition of all our efforts.”

CogniK is proud to announce it has been selected by the CC Ventures international committee. Connected Creativity at MIPTV is a forum where the world’s dominant market forces in technology, mobile media and entertainment content meet.

In Cannes, we will pitch a jury of media experts and investors CogniK’s content discovery solutions. Come and join us at MIPTV, you will discover how we help media and telco to monetize their existing content catalogs and audiences.

Want to set an appointment? fill this form or send an e-mail to miptv@cognik.net

CONNECTED CREATIVITY AT MIPTV UNVEILS CC VENTURES FINALISTS

Paris, 17 March 2011 – CC Ventures, the new startup competition for innovation in connected entertainment today unveils the 11 finalists. They will pitch their projects to an expert jury during Connected Creativity at MIPTV, the new global forum uniting the world’s dominant market forces and leading innovators in entertainment, mobile media and technology which runs from 4-7 April in Cannes.

The CC Ventures finalists, selected by an international committee headed by Guilhem Bertholet, Director of the HEC Incubator, are: Camup, USA; Cognik, France; Fair Play Interactive, France; Futurecode, Finland; Hit Me Baby, UK; Hitlantis, Finland; Invideous, UK; Jakaa, France; Lorenzi TV, France; Mediabong, France and Stupeflix, France.

“The first edition of CC Ventures is extremely encouraging. We are very excited about highlighting  some of the most innovative startups in digital entertainment. It gives us great satisfaction to provide these new players with unique access to some of the major media investors and venture capitalists,” says Laurine Garaude, Director of the Television Division at Reed MIDEM.

On 6 April in the Hotel Majestic, the selected companies will present their activities to a panel of experts representing venture capital and corporate funds (Balderton, Comcast Interactive, Morgan Lewis, Ventech, VentureBeat). The winners will be announced shortly after during the CC Ventures awards at the Connected Party.

For more information on CC Ventures finalists, click here.

For more information on Connected Creativity at MIPTV, click here.

MTV Networks France has selected the French start-up CogniK to enrich its offering with personalized multi-screen television

New connected screens (televisions, smartphones, tablets) provide new media experiences and allow for new business models, in which personalization plays a key role for value creation.

This agreement paves the way for the deployment of a new type of television channels, fully personalized and able to mix video content with interactive games.

Vincent Tauzia, President and co-Founder of CogniK, underlines the scope of this strategic agreement, “We are proud to have been chosen by a key player in the media industry such as MTV Networks. We share the same ambition to create reference applications on all connected screens, and our profiling and recommendation technology constitutes its pivotal component.“

About CogniK:

CogniK – www.cognik.net – is a French start-up company offering innovative content discovery solutions. CogniK’s solutions integrate artificial intelligence and cognitive science. They allow to dynamically tailor personalized media experiences to each type of audience.  CogniK technology has been built in partnership with French National Scientific Centre (CNRS), Ecole Normale Superieure, and National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA Lyon).

About MTV Networks France:

MTV NETWORKS FRANCE includes the following channels in France, Belgium and Switzerland: MTV, MTV BASE, MTV PULSE MTV IDOL, ONE GAME, NICKELODEON and NICKELODEON JUNIOR. The multiplex MTV, MTV BASE, MTV PULSE MTV IDOL is the leader for the 15-24/15-34 y.o segment in pay TV in France. MTV, the “Original”, is now the music channel reference, #1 in the world, MTV BASE is the “Hip Hop R & B” channel, MTV PULSE is the “Pop Rock” channel, MTV IDOL is the “Cult” channel and MTV HD is the first European high definition music channel. All MTV channels are available to more than 7,000,000 households exclusively on cable, satellite, broadband and mobile. GAME ONE is the channel of the “digital generation” and the first thematic channel for the 15-24 y.o. Available to more than  10 million households on cable, satellite, ADSL and mobile. ONE MUSIC GAME HD is a 100% native HD channel, a result of the music & video game convergence. NICKELODEON is the #1 youth channel in the world, the second channel for the 11-14 y.o. segment in France. It is available to more than 5,000,000 households on cable, satellite and ADSL. NICKELODEON JUNIOR is the new edutainment channel for the 3-7 y.o, distributed to more than 3,000,000 households through cable, satellite and ADSL.

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Vincent Tauzia – vincent@cognik.net – +33 9 50 76 17 38

At LeWeb 10, the international web conference gathering Internet start-ups from all around the world, CogniK won the 2^nd prize of the OpenAPI Hackathon set up by Alcatel-Lucent.

CogniK team developed, on-site and in only a few hours of hard coding, an Android adaptation of Kizz TV, the edutainment service for preschool kids, using some Alcatel-Lucent’s Open API Service APIs.

On Thursday, Vincent Tauzia, CogniK co-founder and CEO, was on stage: he had the opportunity to pitch CogniK solutions, featuring a unique profiling & recommendation engine solutions to based on cognitive science, to LeWeb audience. Vincent also had the pleasure to receive a 3000 EUR check.

Video: CogniK awarded second prize at LeWeb10

Picture – Vincent demonstrating Kizz TV to the Hackathon jury on a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet running Android 2.2 Froyo:

CogniK interview for the event can be read here.

Kizz TV, the online educational platform for preschool children, was launched twelve months ago in France by CogniK. Egmont, based in Denmark, is a leading Scandinavian media group, with sales of 1.4 billion euros in 2009. With operations in publishing, press, television, film, music and games, Egmont is particularly involved with children with its Egmont Kids Media division. CogniK has signed a strategic partnership with Egmont Kids Media to launch multiple localized versions of Kizz TV across Europe.

Frank Knau, CEO of Egmont Kids Media, shared his ambition: “The values of the Egmont Group and its strong involvement with children give us legitimacy to launch this new online service, both entertaining and educational. We are pleased with CogniK technology and its innovative recommendation engine based on cognitive criteria: it can support the development of young children by offering them personalized edutainment and cognitive development. Thanks to CogniK’s professional services the implementation of our edutainment platform took only a few weeks. The launch of this new service is an important move for Egmont Kids Media; we aim to rapidly grow our range of online services tailored to our audiences.”

Vincent Tauzia, President and Co-Founder of CogniK, emphasizes the significance of this strategic agreement: “This partnership with a major European media company is another milestone in the development of our company: just 18 months after the creation of CogniK, and less than a year following the launch of Kizz TV in France, this agreement demonstrates the relevance of our approach. By providing young children with edutainment content selected for individualized progression, we allow media companies to extend their offering with a differentiating offering that fully meets the parents’ expectations. It has the double benefit of engaging with a target audience and enabling its monetization. Following these early successes, CogniK is bound to accelerate its development by providing its technology to several integrators on IPTV and mobile platforms worldwide.”

About CogniK : CogniK – www.cognik.net – is an innovative French start-up company that has developed a proprietary technology incorporating artificial intelligence and cognitive science to deliver tailor-made edutainment experiences in a personalized manner. Kizz TV – www.kizz.tv – in France and 3til7 – www.3til7.no – in Norway are the first examples of online services that use the CogniK technology. This technology is designed in partnership with leading research labs in France (Ecole Normale Superieure, the National Institute of Educational Research and the National Institute of Applied Sciences).

About Egmont : Egmont Kids Media is part of the Egmont Group – www.egmont.com – which was founded in 1878. It is Scandinavia’s leading media group and Europe’s largest children’s publisher telling stories through books, magazines, film, TV, music, games and mobile in 30 countries worldwide.