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Ruptly declared a Drum Online Media and Shorty Awards finalist

29 March 2019

Ruptly, the award-winning global multimedia agency, has been shortlisted in The Drum Online Media Awards for Breaking News Story of the Year and has also become a finalist in the Live News Coverage category of the Shorty Awards with coverage of Yellow Vests protests.

Dinara Toktosunova, CEO of Ruptly, said:

“These nominations are reflection of the high quality, timely and impactful content that we capture. We uphold the highest standards of news delivery; whether it’s in breaking news, or in presenting a comprehensive and impartial account of the Yellow Vests movement.”

Nominated for Breaking News Story of the Year in The Drum Online Media awards, Ruptly’s coverage has been recognised for its depiction of a tragic event in Russia’s city of Kemerovo. As massive fire broke out in a local shopping mall, taking lives of dozens of people, Ruptly brought ground-breaking footage to clients in Russia and worldwide via the Ruptly Live platform; including aerial views of the mall and live images from the scene. Other contestants in the category include: CNN, Sky News and ITV Central. http://www.onlinemediaawards.net/the-drum-online-media-awards-2019/breaking-news-story-of-the-year/kemerovo

Ruptly’s coverage of the Yellow Vests movement has also been shortlisted in the finals of the Shorty Awards in the Live News Coverage category. Here, it will compete with projects by Bloomberg Media and United Services Automobile Association. Ruptly’s live streams of the Yellow Vests protests started from the first days of unrest in France and provided a live window on the events as they unfolded; in real-time. Ruptly produced 125 hours of live content between November 2018 and February 2019, which was used by broadcasters and individuals in 24 countries; generating over 10 million views across YouTube and Facebook. https://shortyawards.com/11th/the-yellow-vest

2019 winners of the Drum Online Media Awards will be announced on April 30 in London, UK and Shorty Awards winners will be announced at the 11th annual awards ceremony on 5 May 2019 in New York, US.

About Ruptly

Delivering “News That Expands Views” via real-time and archive visual news content to all media, Ruptly pushes the boundaries of video journalism, using the latest newsgathering technology. Ruptly offers readily-edited video packages through Video Feed, operational facilities and broadcast services through Ruptly Ops, and direct access to global events via live streaming through Ruptly Live.

https://ruptly.tv

About The Drum Online Media Awards

The Drum Online Media Awards identifies the most innovative, engaging and stand-out news and views from across the globe.

About The Shorty Awards

The Shorty Awards honours the best individuals and organisations on social media, culminating in an annual awards show in NYC.

Digiday nominates Ruptly for Video Team of the Year and Best Use of Live

25 March 2019

Ruptly, the award-winning global multimedia agency, has been announced as a finalist in two categories of Digiday’s European Media Awards. Ruptly’s Live platform secured runner-up for Best Use of Live and Ruptly’s World Cup coverage scored a nomination for Video Team of The Year.

Dinara Toktosunova, CEO of Ruptly, said:

“These nominations are recognition of our innovative approach to providing the direct access to live moments that is so essential for broadcasters and publishers alike. We will continue covering the biggest sporting, cultural and news events with our highly-mobile broadcast fleet.”

Ruptly Live is a live distribution platform designed for broadcasters and publishers, as well as individual bloggers, to broadcast groundbreaking moments as they are taking place. Users of Ruptly Live are able to stream up to 9 simultaneous live events from Ruptly’s platform in just three clicks, including events in 360 degrees. Other finalists for Best Use of Live were Hearst UK & The Laughing Cow (Good Housekeeping), Singuar.Live (The Kick Off), TheNewsMarket (PwC’s 21st Annual Global CEO Survey).

The Ruptly Live platform was used in the distribution of its World Cup coverage in 2018. Ruptly is nominated for Video Team of the Year for its coverage, which also included a multi-camera, live transmission of a FIFA Legends vs Russian Legend game in Kaliningrad, using its newest outside broadcasting van. The van is equipped with Riedel’s Mediornet video router, Bolero wireless intercom and Arri’s Amira cameras to provide the highest quality live stream. Other finalists in this category include Jungle Creations, Boiler Room, COPA90 and Axel Springer Akademie – mission: truth.

Winners will be announced at the Digiday Media Awards Europe Gala on 9 May 2019 in London. https://digiday.com/awards/jungle-creations-hearst-uk-lead-digiday-media-awards-nominations/

AIB Member Ruptly announces plans to launch Arabic service

13 March 2019

Ruptly, the award-winning global multimedia agency, has today announced plans to launch an Arabic version of its video news agency offering in summer 2019.

Revealing the latest development at the Cabsat Content Congress in Dubai, Dinara Toktosunova, CEO of Ruptly, said:

“It will be a fully localised, Arabic website and live platform. It will allow us to be more accessible to our clients in the region and will provide a platform for us to cover more Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) stories.”

This announcement was made during a panel session with Twitter, RT Arabic and Al-Arabiya to discuss current trends and challenges for content producers in the digital era.

Watch the full session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlwOudFetHw&feature=youtu.be&t=2

About Ruptly

Ruptly is an award-winning global multimedia agency headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Delivering “News That Expands Views” via real-time and archive visual news content to all media, Ruptly pushes the boundaries of video journalism, using the latest newsgathering technology.

Ruptly offers readily-edited video packages through Video Feed, operational facilities and broadcast services through Ruptly Ops, and direct access to global events via live streaming through Ruptly Live.

The agency is recognised for its work by the German Stevie Awards in 2019, winning Gold for Ruptly Live platform, by the Drum Online Media Awards in 2018 for Commercial Team of the Year and for Best B2B News Site in 2017.

UN Special Rapporteur on Iran “deplores” the persecution of BBC Persian staff and their families

13 March 2019

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Professor Javaid Rehman, has presented his first report to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

In his address, Professor Rehman raised with concern the ongoing persecution and harassment of BBC News Persian staff and their families by Iran.

Professor Rehman (pictured addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 11 March 2019) said he “deplores” the harassment of BBC Persian staff. His remarks raised concern about the ongoing, collective criminal investigation of BBC Persian staff and the asset-freeze which affects them and their families in Iran. He reiterated the seriousness of the persecution, which was also raised by his predecessor Asma Jahangir, including arbitrary detention and interrogation of family members in Iran. Professor Rehman also raised concern about the attacks on BBC Persian journalists in Iranian state media, in particular with fake and defamatory news being published to undermine their reputations.

The BBC made its unprecedented urgent appeal to the UN in late 2017. It is the first time in BBC history that the BBC has engaged with the UN over the protection of its journalists. Both the UN Special Rapporteur and the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised concern about the persecution of BBC Persian in their reports to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council.

The UK government mission to the United Nations raised concern with the “deteriorating” situation for freedom of expression in Iran. The UK highlighted that the “judicial harassment of BBC Persian staff and their families continues” and called upon Iran to cease the criminal investigation into BBC journalists and the harassment of their families.

Rana Rahimpour, a BBC Persian presenter (pictured in Geneva with AIB CEO Simon Spanswick), addressed the Council about her personal experience of the persecution, explaining how her father was subjected to a travel ban to prevent him from visiting her after her first child was born. She thanked the UN Secretary General for raising the case and raised concern about the reprisals against BBC Persian staff, explaining that “my colleagues have been warned against participating in our UN advocacy work by the Iranian authorities.”

International counsel for the BBC World Service, Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jennifer Robinson, have filed a further UN complaint over the reprisals BBC Persian journalists have faced for engaging with the UN. They said, “Reprisals against BBC Persian journalists and their families for engaging with the UN is not just an attack on freedom of expression, but an attack on the integrity of the UN system. Such reprisals must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”

Michelle Stanistreet of the National Union of Journalists said: “The Iranian authorities have been systematically targeting BBC Persian journalists in the UK, and their families in Iran, since the service launched satellite television in 2009. Our campaign to stop the harassment will persist until the authorities stop targeting NUJ members for simply for doing their jobs. Both the asset freeze and criminal investigations into the activities of journalists and other staff working for BBC Persian should be dropped.”

An event was held today at the Human Rights Council co-hosted by the BBC, the International Federation of Journalists and Doughty Street International to discuss the broader implications of the persecution of BBC Persian.

Simon Spanswick from the Association for International Broadcasting – a network of broadcasters that reach one billion viewers and listeners each week – explained how the persecution of BBC Persian is “among the worst cases globally” and is indicative of a worrying trend of harassment of journalists and broadcasters in their network.

At the event, the UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Julian Braithwaite, said “UK calls on Iran to cease the harassment of BBC Persian staff and their families – and the persecution of all independent journalists whether affiliated with the BBC or not”. He condemned the reprisals faced by BBC Persian staff.

Referring to the recent media freedom initiative announced by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Ambassador Braithwaite said: “This case is one of the reasons we are making press freedom a particular focus for the UK. Iran’s treatment of BBC journalists will be a key part of our upcoming media freedom summit.”

The UN Special Rapporteur Professor Rehman reiterated at the event in Geneva on 12 March: “I will continue to urge Iran to cease its harassment of BBC Persian staff and their families.”

AIB Member SatADSL at CABSAT 2019, Your Platform as a Service

11 March 2019

SatADSL will be present at CABSAT, taking place from March 12 to 14, 2019 in Dubai. The event is of extreme importance to both our clients and ourselves, since we are expanding to the Middle -East and Asia.

In the past years, SatADSL has expanded its offer in the Middle East. Now, it is only natural to be present at CABSAT, the dominant broadcast, digital media and satellite communications technology platform in Asia and North Africa. The event attracts 13,000+ attendees from 130+ countries and brings together 900+ exhibiting brands.

This year, SatADSL has the pleasure of inviting you to visit its stand to meet some of the senior management team – and presenting its Platform As A Service in Africa, Middle-East and Asia!

The event is also a great opportunity for end users, satellite and teleport operators to discover our offer of multi-satellite and multi-frequency services. As Caroline De Vos, co-founder & COO of SatADSL and in charge of public relations, explains, “SatADSL was already recognised as a leading provider of satellite connectivity services. At present, we are also making our bandwidth management tool ‒ the Service Delivery Platform in the Cloud, also known as the C-SDP ‒ directly available to Satellite operators, Teleport operators and Telco’s as a Platform As A Service, so that they can benefit from its value added services.”

You are interested in our service offering? We are establishing a personalised appointment program to welcome you in the best conditions at our stand (Hall6 Stand 31). Contact us today to arrange a personal meeting at info@satadsl.net or +32 2 351 33 74.

More information about CABSAT: www.cabsat.com.

AIB member Ruptly wins Gold at German Stevie®Awards

7 March 2019

Berlin, 7 March 2019: Global Multimedia Agency Ruptly has won top prize for its Ruptly Live Platform at the German Stevie® Awards.

Ruptly was awarded a Gold Stevie® Award in the Video Platform for Media and Publishers category, which recognises the best platforms designed specifically for media, publishers, and information providers who publish, distribute, and monetise video assets.

The innovative Ruptly Live platform enables publishers to license and instantly stream multiple live events direct to social media in just three clicks. The platform supports live streaming of up to 9 simultaneous events at once, as well as 360-degree videos.

Dmitry Keshishev, Chief Digital Officer at Ruptly, commented:

“This award is recognition of our commitment to pushing boundaries for publishers, enabling high quality, direct and instant access to global events. We will continue to innovate as we seek to open up global news events to publishers whether individual bloggers or major broadcasters.”

Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards, said:

“We are delighted that the German Stevie Awards are once again awarding outstanding and, above all, innovative winners. We look forward to celebrating the winners and presenting them their awards at the awards ceremony in Munich on May 3rd. We extend our most heartfelt congratulations to all of this year’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners.”

Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners were selected by about 50 executives who participated in the judging process. The winner of the Grand Stevie Awards will now be determined from among all winners. The Grand Stevie winner will be announced at the 3 May ceremony in Munich.

About Ruptly

Ruptly is a global multimedia agency headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivering “News That Expands Views” via real-time and archive visual news content to all media, Ruptly pushes the boundaries of video journalism, using the latest newsgathering technology. Ruptly offers readily-edited video packages through Video Feed, operational facilities and broadcast services through Ruptly Ops, and direct access to global events via live streaming through Ruptly Live. The agency is recognized for its work by the Drum Online Media Awards for “Best B2B News Site” in 2017, “Commercial Team of the Year” in 2018 and Ruptly Live platform is a finalist of both The Drum Online Media Awards and Global Media Innovator.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organisations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organisations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognise outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Further details about the German Stevie Awards are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Deutschland.

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