San Francisco, CA (January 19, 2010) -
Episodic, Inc., the most comprehensive online video platform provider, and AEG Digital Media, the leading provider of complete webcast management, production and media services, announced a partnership today designed to bring to market best in class, end-to-end, high definition (HD) live streaming and on demand solutions.
Realizing the potential for integrating the production of live online events with an online video platform capable of monetizing both live and on demand video, Episodic and AEG Digital Media have come together to combine best of breed technologies to create a seamless solution for producers, promoters, and content providers world-wide.
Not only does this unique combination of technology and production services ensure the fastest go to market solution for producers, customers will also find unprecedented value in the product’s ease of use, detailed viewer engagement metrics and brilliant HD quality streaming. The combination of the two companies’ offerings provides a unique customer experience unlike any other available in the industry today. Through seamless integration of both live event production services and the video platform necessary to manage, measure and monetize live streaming events, content owners and web marketers can finally take advantage of a true one stop shop that meets all of their live event needs.
“We are very pleased to provide our customers with a video publishing platform that allows them to monetize their investment in their content, especially one that is so easy to operate and so cost effective to implement,” said Michael Goldfine, President of AEG Digital Media. “The seamless integration of credit card authorization for pay per view events and the ability to insert advertising mid-stream during a live event is what drew us to Episodic. This allows our customers to generate revenue from their content without any additional software, plugins or integration services. It all just works out of the box.”
AEG Digital Media stormed onto the scene of this rapidly growing market, delivering more than 25 events in less than 60 days, to meet the voracious demand for high quality Internet broadcasting and live streaming media. Offering complete, turnkey, no-fail multimedia broadcast solutions, AEG Digital Media has enabled live and on-demand streaming events for audiences in excess of 100,000 concurrent viewers with millions of total users and has provided digital broadcast and related technology services for events including Live Earth, The Michael Jackson Tribute, Spike Video Game Awards, People’s Choice Awards, American Express presents Alicia Keys live in HD on YouTube, Farm Aid, the Democratic National Convention, YouTube Live, The GRAMMY Awards and MTV’s Video Music Awards.
“We are thrilled to work with the experienced and talented team at AEG,” said Noam Lovinsky, CEO of Episodic. “While Episodic leads the pack in providing the software and technologies necessary to stream live events, we quickly learned that technology is just one piece of the puzzle necessary to deliver the best quality of service to our customers and their viewers. AEG’s battle tested facilities and best practices developed over the course of producing many massive live events ensure the highest possible quality of service and are a perfect compliment to Episodic’s industry leading live video platform.”
About Episodic, Inc.
The Episodic publishing platform enables the broadcast of live and on-demand video to any web site, mobile phone or Internet connected device. With Episodic, content producers are able to push video to their web properties, showcase content via social networks, and even build custom branded iPhone applications around their media. Episodic spans the video value chain, providing everything publishers need to manage, measure and monetize their content. Episodic is based in San Francisco, CA and is privately held. For more information visit www.episodic.com
About AEG Digital
AEG Digital Media is a full service, multiplatform, multimedia/media services company specializing in the technical and creative production of music, sports, reality and special event programming throughout the world. AEG Digital Media takes a broadcast approach to streaming media to enable the world’s most watched, and most innovative, webcasts and live events. The company creates, produces, and distributes content over multiple platforms including television, mobile and broadband for major brands, broadcasters, sports leagues and media properties including YouTube/Google, News Corp., Nokia, 19 Entertainment, Procter and Gamble, Penguin Publishing, Nintendo, AT&T, Intel, Comcast, American Express and Viacom. For more information, visit www.aegdigitalmedia.com.
EPISODIC, INC. & AEG DIGITAL MEDIA
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