Appear, also known as Appear TV, is a publicly owned company headquartered in Norway, founded in 2004 with approximately 280 employees. The company reported $77.3M in revenue as of 2025. It specializes in video processing and playout, offering media processing and delivery technology, specifically providing backbone technology for production companies, telcos, and broadcasters.
On June 25, 2026, Appear deployed its X5 platform for Rede Legislativa de Rádio e TV, transporting legislative channel contribution from Brasília to São Paulo over the public internet. This deployment supports Rede Legislativa’s workflow for Brazil’s TV 3.0 activities, locally branded as DTV+, which involve experimental transmissions designed to shape the next phase of Brazilian television. Previously, on June 23, 2026, Appear announced its selection by Rede Legislativa to support these TV 3.0 trials, stating its X5 platform would facilitate the contribution workflow.
Appear offers 8 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 $77.3M in 2025. Caretta Research has split Appear's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is contribution encoding, which represents 42% of Appear's revenue.
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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, Orange Group and Comcast Corporation. Appear has commercial and technical partners like Apple, Intel and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Appear has suppliers like intoPIX.
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