Appear delivers high-capacity, sustainable solutions for media processing and live content delivery, specializing in ultra-low latency video transport and processing. Its X Platform enables seamless capture, transport, and processing from venues to viewers, supporting the most demanding live productions. The company has earned multiple industry awards including NAB Product of the Year and serves leading content creators like NBCUniversal, Formula 1, and Riot Games, demonstrating trust and reliability.
Appear announced updates to its X and VX platforms at IBC 2026, including JPEG-XS support, hardware-enforced ST 2110 trust boundaries, and automated cloud-gateway workflows. The company advocates for a unified operational model that integrates hardware and software for live production environments.
Appear conducted field tests using its X5 and X20 platforms to deliver six simultaneous HD HEVC SRT streams over bonded 5G and LEO satellite connections. The results highlight the importance of avoiding redundant retransmission layers when combining third-party WAN bonding with hardware-accelerated SRT transport.
Ensuring seamless, high-quality content delivery across multiple platforms.
FOX Sports utilized Appear's X Platform to manage contribution and production for all 104 matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The deployment involved 60 JPEG XS TR-07 paths and 26 HEVC paths connecting the International Broadcast Center in Dallas with the PICO facility in Los Angeles.
TVTEL has deployed Appear's X20 Platform to manage live signal transport for Chile's professional football VAR system. The infrastructure utilizes JPEG XS compression and SMPTE ST 2022-7 redundancy to provide low-latency, reliable video contribution between production centers and review facilities.
Appear has published a technical framework for securing hybrid production environments by applying SMPTE RP 2129 trust boundaries. The guide details how the company's X Platform hardware and VX software enforce network segregation and access control to mitigate risks from misconfigurations and path failures.
Appear VP Matt Zajicek argues that the broadcast industry is shifting from pure cloud migration to a hybrid operating model. The strategy emphasizes combining on-premises hardware, IP networking, and public/private cloud resources to balance performance and cost requirements for different tiers of sports production.
Appear said on June 23, 2026 that Rede Legislativa de Rádio e TV is using its X5 to transport live signals for Brazil’s TV 3.0 trials, supporting experimental DTV+ transmissions between Brasília and São Paulo.
Appear ASA reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of NOK 231.7 million, up 42.6% year over year, and reiterated full-year 2026 revenue guidance of approximately NOK 1.0 billion. The company said growth was led by the Americas and cited contracts with broadcasters, sports leagues, and Tier 1 football production customers.
PSSI is deploying Appear’s X Platform to upgrade its mobile transmission fleet and PSSI International Teleport in Pittsburgh ahead of a major global soccer event in the Americas. The deployment includes X20 chassis with integrated encoding/decoding, satellite modulation/demodulation, ASI, and SRT, and upgrades transport security to BISS-2 with AES-128 encryption and key rotation for premium live sports contribution workflows.
Appear announced Appear XM, a self-hosted (Docker-based) centralized estate management tool for monitoring, configuring, onboarding, and maintaining fleets of Appear chassis from a single interface. The product includes role-based access control, inventory and health dashboards, bulk software upgrades with locally stored images, license management, alarm summaries, and export of configuration/inventory/log artifacts. Appear XM is available to customers with a valid SLA support subscription and can be deployed in unlimited instances per supported customer.
