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.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2004

Headcount

299

Headquarters

Norway

Primary Segment

Video processing and playout

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

92

News Summary:

On September 9, 2026, Appear's X5 platform began its first international deployment, supporting live contribution workflows for DP World Tour golf events. Cingularity, IMG’s broadcast fibre service provider, is utilizing the processing platform to contribute HEVC video from tournaments to its Stockley Park studio for onward distribution. Previously, on September 1, the company successfully demonstrated broadcast-grade REMI production over bonded 5G and LEO satellite. This project validated a complete REMI workflow, transporting four live HD camera feeds from a remote racecourse to TRP's production facility while simultaneously returning two HD program feeds to the venue over the same bonded network. Earlier, on August 27, Vivaro supported record World Cup audiences by deploying Appear’s X20 Platform for both linear television and large-scale digital streaming. This modular platform enabled Vivaro to meet diverse bandwidth, latency, and quality requirements across all 104 matches for broadcasters and streaming platforms in Canada, U.S.A., Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and Argentina. This followed the August 26 deployment by Appear and Transmisiones Televisivas (TVTEL) of the X20 Platform for centralized VAR signal transport in Chile, where TVTEL produces Chilean professional football broadcasts and operates the ANFP VAR system.

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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, Comcast Corporation and Orange Group. Appear has commercial and technical partners like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Intel and Apple. Appear has suppliers like intoPIX.

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