Fox Latin American Channels Launches Online VOD Service With Brightcove Online Video...

Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:01am EDT
 
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Fox Latin American Channels Launches Online VOD Service With Brightcove Online
Video Platform
More than 800 hours of high quality, premium, advertising-supported video
content available

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightcove Inc., the leading online
video platform, today announced that Fox Latin American Channels has chosen to
build its online VOD service on the Brightcove platform. Brightcove is
enabling Fox Latin American Channels to deliver more than 800 hours of
premium, advertising-supported, long-form video content in Spanish and
Portuguese from some of the network's most popular shows through its Mundo Fox
portal (http://www.mundofox.com and http://www.mundofox.com.br). In the short
time since launching the new online VOD initiative on June 16th, Fox Latin
American Channels has already generated 1.5 million unique users and 2.5
million page views for Mundo Fox.

"We're proud to expand our online video offering to include premium and
long-form content particularly as demand from consumers and advertisers grows
throughout Latin America," said Pablo Silva, vice president of global online
publishing of Fox International Channels. "This is not about just publishing
videos online," added Silva. "Our long-term goal is to become one of the most
popular and profitable video destinations in our markets, propelled by our
flagship TV properties and brands as well as platforms such as Brightcove."

Brightcove's long-form delivery capabilities enable Fox Latin American
Channels to deliver up to HD-quality full episodes and clips of popular series
like 24, Family Guy and Burn Notice from a range of channels and properties,
including 20th Century Fox, Fox, FX and National Geographic. Brightcove also
provides the best user experience possible by optimizing video delivery for
any end user network condition. 

"We're excited to work with Fox Latin American Channels as they continue to
expand their long-form on-demand offerings, which include some of the most
highly sought after entertainment programming on the Web," said Jeremy
Allaire, Brightcove's chairman and chief executive officer. "Fox Latin
American Channels continues to be at the forefront of innovation when it comes
to online video and on-demand viewing, and we're proud that the Brightcove
online video platform has been chosen to support their ongoing efforts in
Latin America and around the world." 

Fox Latin American Channel runs and operates channels, websites, original
production and monetization for a variety of network brands in Latin America,
including Fox, FX, Fox Life, Fox Sports, Fox News, National Geographic
Channel, National Geographic Music, Universal Channel, Hallmark Channel,
Utilisima, SPEED Channel, Baby TV Channel, .Fox Networks, BienSimple, Fox Toma
1 and Fox Telecolombia. Fox Latin American Channels and Fox International
Channels are wholly owned by The News Corporation Limited (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA;
ASX: NWS, NWSLV). 

About Brightcove
Brightcove is an online video platform. Media companies, businesses and
organizations worldwide use Brightcove to publish and distribute video on the
Web. Founded in 2004, Brightcove is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business
with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information,
visit http://www.brightcove.com.



SOURCE  Brightcove Inc.

North America, Erika Shaffer of SutherlandGold Group, +1-206-972-5514,
erika@sutherlandgold.com; or Europe, Stephen Orr of AxiCom, +44 20 8392 4056,
stephen.orr@axicom.com, both for Brightcove

 

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