16 February 2015
Globecast has today announced that it has completed a company-wide reorganisation in order to enhance its position as a fully integrated media solutions provider, operating in a truly unified manner across all its territories and addressing the changing needs of its customers.
Olivier Barberot, Globecast CEO, said, “Globecast has expanded tremendously since its inception, and seen enormous success with its satellite and fibre services. We have listened to our customers and closely examined the next phase of our development using their responses and our market expertise.”
This is an important milestone in the move from the largest independent teleport operator and satellite services provider to an integrated, global media solutions company. Powered by the ongoing launch of Media Factories around the world, Globecast is building on these strong foundations to deliver an end-to-end solution offering.
With Media Factory, Globecast has rationalised existing workflows to create a single, efficient process; the company can handle everything from content preparation, formatting, quality control, to creative services and compliance review and editing, in addition to existing contribution, playout and distribution services.
Broadcasters and media companies – whatever their size – are having to respond to evolving consumer viewing habits, and Globecast is perfectly positioned to help them take advantage of new market opportunities. Globecast continues to supply market-leading contribution and distribution services, using its unrivalled global connectivity – be that satellite or fibre – easy-to-access PoPs that are strategically positioned, as well as channel packaging and marketing services via its strong relationships with TV platforms around the world.
Barberot added, “The primary concern for our customers is how to generate new revenue opportunities from their existing content or channels or drive new channel launches – it’s all about the bottom line. This is something that we have always understood and we will keep providing customers with greater access to our expertise.“
1 December 2014
Globecast announced today the launch of Téléfrance, its French television package, in the UK. The package is now available via a range of Pay TV platforms, including Now TV box, Roku Box, iOS/Android mobile devices and Samsung Smart TV.
The Téléfrance package was launched on Beaujolais Nouveau day, 20 November, at the London French Institute. It includes 11 major French TV channels, giving the UK’s large French-speaking community access to the most popular French television content.
Viewers can now access a wide variety of content genres, covering arts, culture, health and wellbeing, news, general entertainment and cinema d’auteur, across a choice of devices. The service draws from channels such France 24, TV5 Monde, Eurochannel, MyZen TV, The Museum channel, RFM TV & MCM Top (Lagardère Active) and Montagne TV. Additional channels will be added to the Téléfrance offering in the coming months.
“More than 400,000 French expatriates live in the UK and London has one of the highest concentrations of French residents in the world. This means demand for French content is huge, and this doesn’t even take into account French speakers from Africa, Belgium and Switzerland,” said Didier Mainard, VP Sales, Globecast. “We’re very excited to be entrusted with delivering their favourite content, bringing the very best of what French TV has to offer to the UK and look forward to enriching the Téléfrance package with more channels and across more platforms in the months ahead.”
26 November 2014
MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. (“MEASAT”) announced today an agreement with Globecast to distribute top U.S. Network, HGTV, on MEASAT-3. HGTV, which is wholly owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, one of the world’s leading producers of engaging lifestyle content in the home, food and travel categories, will debut as the first regional channel dedicated to the growing home and lifestyle category in Asia.
On 4 December, HGTV will premiere with a robust line up of top-rated programs about property, hybrid construction, design and extreme spaces, which promises to entertain and inspire viewers with fresh ideas and authentic stories on how to find and love their own dream home.
Under the terms of the agreement, HGTV will be carried in HD by MEASAT-3’s global C-band, which covers more than 100 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
“Globecast is honoured to work again with MEASAT and Scripps Networks in bringing HGTV to audiences in Asia,” said Soo Yew Weng, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Globecast Asia. “Globecast looks forward to HGTV becoming as popular here as it is in the U.S., where it has been ranked as the number one lifestyle brand, reaching over 99 million households.”
Globecast also provides playout, content preparation and select post-production services for all four of Scripps Networks’ regional channels – HGTV, Asian Food Channel, Food Network and Travel Channel – across Asia Pacific.
“MEASAT is delighted to continue working with Globecast and bringing more high quality programming to Asia. We see great potential in HGTV and look forward to be part of its launch to the market” said Raj Malik, Senior Vice President – Sales and Marketing, MEASAT. “With the addition of HGTV, MEASAT’s 91.5°E video neighborhood has grown to 57 HD channels distributed and remains Asia’s strongest C-band HD platform.” (Source: GlobeCast press release)
16 June 2014
Indonesia’s first English language entertainment and lifestyle channel is set to make its debut across the globe with Globecast. The Indonesia Channel has signed a deal with Globecast to launch its 24-hour channel on multiple platforms.
From the premises of Globecast Asia’s state-of-the-art digital media facility at Mediapolis in Singapore, Globecast is providing its playout and media management services for The Indonesia Channel, localising its content and ensuring that proper formats are available to suit to each region’s needs. In addition, Globecast also provides its Over-The-Top Managed solution, making sure that the content is suitable for mobile viewing on various mobile devices.
Viewers have easy access to watch the channel because it is available on different platforms. Firstly, the channel can be viewed from homes across Asia Pacific via the MEASAT-3 satellite. Secondly, the channel is also available across Europe via Globecast’s fibre delivery, and lastly, its presence online via the Over-The-Top model can be reached all over the world, in most countries where high speed broadband prevails. Viewers on the go can access the channel from their mobile phones, tablets and notebooks, anywhere, and at anytime they want.
“Globecast is privileged to be participating in this milestone for The Indonesia Channel. We hope to bring all the features of our digital media facility to bear in providing the quality of service and operational standards that are on par with the expectations of international broadcasters,” said Darby Sanchez, Chief Executive Officer of Globecast Asia.
The Indonesia Channel is privately-funded, the first-of-its-kind English channel that has a programming mix of news and general entertainment including music, movies, health, lifestyle and fashion.
Dalton Tanonaka, Chief Executive Officer of The Indonesia Channel said, “We seek to inform and entertain viewers around the world with cool and informative shows. We chose Globecast to deliver our content because of its international reputation for quality service.” (Source: Press release)
22 April 2014
Anevia, a leader in video streaming and infrastructure solutions for OTT, live TV and Video on Demand (VoD), today announced that global content management company Globecast has chosen Anevia’s ViaMotion solutions suite – Packager, Origin and Edge – to support its new Over-The-Top (OTT) modular solutions. The new platform pairs high-performance with massive scalability, enabling Globecast customers to accelerate the delivery of live, VoD and live-to-VoD TV services to audiences worldwide.
Given the large number of transcoders shaping its ecosystem, it was critical for Globecast to bring an agnostic platform on board; hence the decision to deploy the Viamotion Plus which interoperates with all transcoders out there. Viamotion also met two more requirements outlined by Globecast as high priority for their Live TV infrastructure: massive scalability to support future service delivery and the support of new format like MPEG Dash.
Viamotion Plus was also deployed to enable non-linear service delivery through the new multiscreen platform. Globecast can now provide full content management services to broadcasters and pay-TV operators willing to push new VoD features such as start-over, catch-up or nPVR to their audiences. The fact that Viamotion’s flexible APIs also enabled a smooth integration with Kaltura workflow solutions proved an added benefit to this project.
“Anevia precisely understood our OTT vision and it provided a comprehensive suite of solutions required to make it come true,” says Sonia Missul, OTT product manager at Globecast. “With ViaMotion on board, we are now well positioned to deliver innovation to broadcasters and pay-TV operators for years to come without being hindered by performance limitations.”
“Globecast is a great example of a visionary media management company enabling its customers to monetise video delivery now and in the long run,” explains Anevia co-founder and executive vice president Damien Lucas explains. “We are extremely proud to be the innovation fuel behind such a strategic move.” (Source: press release)
