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 July 30, 2026, Appear’s X Platform powered Chile’s first large-scale cloud-based 4K FIFA World Cup distribution workflow, enabling Chilevisión and ClaroVTR to deliver a dedicated 4K UHD channel to subscribers during the tournament. This initiative, also reported on July 28, 2026, involved a hybrid setup where Appear, working with Chilevisión—the exclusive free-to-air rights holder for FIFA World Cup 2026 in Chile—pay TV operator ClaroVTR, and cloud video enhancement specialist Pixop, transformed Chilevisión's live HD broadcast signal into the 4K UHD channel, providing a premium Ultra HD viewing experience to audiences across the country.
Appear offers 8 products in the media tech industry. Appear's product portfolio comprises of video processing and playout and connectivity infrastructure.
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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 Comcast Corporation, Orange Group and The Walt Disney Company. Appear has commercial and technical partners like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel and Apple. Appear has suppliers like intoPIX.
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