Appear, also known as Appear TV, is a privately owned company headquartered in Norway. Founded in 2004, with approximately 170 employees, it reported $56.4M in revenue as of 2024, functioning as a tier 2 media tech buyer. The company specializes in video processing and playout, providing backbone technology for media processing and delivery to production companies, telcos, and broadcasters.
On March 18, 2026, LTN and Appear further detailed their collaboration, outlining how the integration of Appear’s X Platform with LTN’s fully managed global network will provide an integrated solution for premium live event contribution and distribution, emphasizing that the "satellite-to-IP transition is no longer theoretical." Previously, on March 17, Appear introduced Appear XM, a new solution for centralized estate management of its deployments, designed to streamline operations by addressing issues such as version drift, inconsistent configurations, and manual steps during upgrades and troubleshooting for growing estates. This follows the initial announcement on March 13, where LTN and Appear first revealed their collaboration to combine Appear’s ultra-low latency encoding platform with LTN’s global IP network. This integration aims to deliver scalable IP-native live video contribution and distribution, ensuring real-time operational transparency, proactive network management, and assured service for live broadcasts.
Appear offers 3 products in the media tech industry. Appear's product portfolio comprises of connectivity infrastructure and video processing and playout.
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Appear's revenues were less than $100M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Appear's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is multiplex encoding. For full access to Appear's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Appear's customers primarily consist of telecoms and entertainment Providers companies. Examples of Appear's customers include The Walt Disney Company, Comcast Corporation and Orange Group. Appear has commercial and technical partners like Intel, Apple and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Appear has suppliers like intoPIX.
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