Appear, also known as Appear TV, a privately owned company headquartered in Norway, was founded in 2004, employs approximately 170 individuals, and reported $56.4M in revenue as of 2024. It functions as a tier 2 media tech buyer. The company specializes in video processing and playout, providing media processing and delivery technology, and offers backbone technology to production companies, telecommunications companies, and broadcasters.
On April 21, 2026, Appear expanded its X Platform with the XM system-wide management solution and highlighted the general availability of its X5 device and SIx300 SDI/IP gateway module, which supports JPEG 2000 and JPEG XS, extending from compact edge deployments to multiple-site live contribution workflows. Earlier the same day, Appear partnered with Corus Entertainment to transform national news contribution using IP, moving away from leased circuits and enhancing in-house capabilities for efficiency and reliability in North American broadcast environments. Previously, on April 20, Fox Sports selected Appear's X Platform for its live sports production infrastructure to support remote production, live events, and IP workflows. This followed Appear's appointment of Mike Burk as vice president of business development for North America on April 17. Burk brings over two decades of experience from the broadcast and live production industry, having previously led LTN Global's production and managed services business.
Appear offers 3 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 less than $100M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Appear's revenue into 6 different product categories, the largest of which is live and realtime encoding. For full access to Appear's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Appear's customers primarily consist of entertainment Providers and telecoms companies. Examples of Appear's customers include Comcast Corporation, The Walt Disney Company 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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