First Prize to Trifork Team for KITMERCIALS

First Prize to Trifork Team for KITMERCIALS

AMSTERDAM, September 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --



In Alphonso category of Liberty Global Appathon Hack & Play in Ziggo dome



Liberty Global organized the Hack & Play Appathon in Ziggo dome on September 15th and
16th. 21 teams of hackers, designers and programmers were invited to create an app or a
game for the Liberty Global product Horizon set-top box.



Trifork sent a team of 3 developers who developed an app named KITMERCIALS. This app
detects when a commercial is broadcasted on TV and replaces it with some of the most
popular YouTube videos (safe for children). "It is well known that the most popular on
YouTube are the kitten videos," says Frank Groot from Team Trifork, "and these were used
for demonstration of this new app." In 2 days, Team Trifork built an app using Alphonso to
detect the commercial, replace it with a random YouTube video, and maximize this on the
screen. The commercial is still shown "picture-in-picture". When the commercial break is
over the program gets back on the TV screen.



Trifork team participated in category "Best integration with the Alphonso API" and won
the first prize in this category, which was handed over by John M. Gee, SVP of Business
Development on 16 September in the Ziggo dome.



About Liberty Global Appathon 2015



Liberty Global is the largest international cable-company, providing households in the
Netherlands with TV-set-top boxes. The theme for Appathon 2015 was Hack & Play and 21
teams were invited to Ziggo dome to develop the most compelling app or game, see
http://www.appathon.tv



About Alphonso:



Alphonso is the market leader providing verified TV audiences. Alphonso delivers
one-on-one TV audience on mobile and web. At Scale. Across premium apps and sites.
Alphonso, through its partnerships with various mobile apps, TV anywhere apps, gaming and
living room devices, set-top box and TV OEMs, understands what people are watching on TV
and in real-time can deliver this audience on mobile apps and websites.
http://alphonso.tv



About Trifork



Tr f rk is n EU b d IT company d gn ng, bu ld ng, nd implementing u t m
ftw r u ng advanced n ur t hn l g . At Tr f rk, we h v mbl d a t l nt d
team of front- and backend d v l r , architects, designers, scrum masters, r j t
m n g r nd business developers t work in a collaborative m nn r n ur client r j t .
http://blog.trifork.com





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Eliska Went
Trifork B.V.
ewe@trifork.com
+31-61501-1499




Trifork B.V.


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