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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2016 InShow Guide | 9-13 September

OCTOPUS Celebrates
Successful Year

now automated, giving teams instant
information and analysis of trends.
Editors can tweet, reply, re-tweet
or favourite directly from Octopus,
as well as manage the channel's
relationships by following or blocking
Twitter users.
Octopus 8 now directly interconnects
with CMS systems such as Wordpress
OCTOPUS Newsroom is a world-leading developer of
or Joomla, allowing scripts and articles
television broadcast newsroom automation systems...
to be uploaded dynamically to web
he year since IBC2015 has been company as National
portals. This web component
one of product consolidation, and Sales Director for North
allows TV news editors
increased global presence for OCTOPUS America,
based
in
to upload pages directly.
Newsroom.
Texas."
Another new feature is the
"At IBC2016 we are celebrating 17
Octopus
NRCS
ability to publish social
years of success in the broadcast brings
together
a
media posts directly from the
market with 200 customers around the complete
system
rundown.
world, and more than 50 MOS partners packed with graphics,
The Octopus Mobile App
interconnecting to our solution," says teleprompting, traffic
offers journalists full news
OCTOPUS Newsroom CEO Petr Stokuč. management,
and
production capabilities on
"We have expanded the company's delivery for broadcast
tablets and mobile phones
representation into Asia where we television, radio and the
running Apple iOS or Google
"17 years of success," Petr Stokuč OCTOPUS Newsroom CEO Android.
established a new office in Thailand web. The latest version
Reporters and
headed by APAC Director Miro Rusko. of Octopus 8 features an advanced to assign users to create content for editors working remotely gain instant
This is dedicated specifically to dashboard GUI which brings together social media. Tweets and Facebook access to all wires, rundowns and
providing local sales and after-sales every assignment, notification and posts are treated like any other news assignments.
support to the APAC countries. The update. Twitter, Facebook and story with team managers able to
They can also edit stories within
new office will enhance our ability Instagram become fully integrated into assign and share tasks, and to approve a rundown, preview prompter text,
to respond quickly to enquiries both the newsroom. Social media is then posts before they go live. Journalists as well as create wires and reports
from new and existing customers in treated with the same importance as a can now follow Twitter trends and in the field. The new app supports
essentially their own time zone. More traditional news feed or a programme track topics of particular interest to both Octopus 8 and the most recent
recently, it has been a great pleasure rundown.
them across the social network in versions of Octopus 7.
to welcome Gene Sudduth into the
Octopus 8 enables administrators real-time. The research process is
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