Verizon Digital Media Services and Comcast’s thePlatform formed...

Verizon Digital Media Services and Comcast’s thePlatform formed an alliance to accelerate major media’s and pay-TV operators’ plans for multiscreen video delivery, they said. The integration of Verizon’s suite of video services with thePlatform’s mpx video management system brings to market “a streamlined workflow for online video streaming, from content management through delivery to consumers on multiple screens,” Verizon said Thursday in a news release (http://vz.to/1rTIgWP). Customers will be able to manage a complete IP-video solution from a single Web-based console, it said.