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Rohit Nagarajan
named CEO of Vizrt
New LiveU Studio Simplifies
Localization of International Feeds for
Live EuroLeague Basketball Streams
L
iveU is continuing its commitment
to provide storytellers
with
V
two
izrt, the leader in real-time
graphics
and
solutions
live
for content
production
creators,
announces Rohit Nagarajan as its
new CEO, marking the next phase of
the company's global growth.
Nagarajan joins Vizrt with over
experience
decades
the technology
held pivotal
of
in
industry. He has
roles across multiple
geographies at SAP, SoftwareONE
& Salesforce. He has deep expertise
across sales, marketing, and product
innovation. Nagarajan's
be on scaling Vizrt's
focus will
international
growth, and enhancing its offering for
customers, partners and users.
" For over 25 years, Vizrt has been
at the heart of media innovation,
building strong relationships
with incredible clients worldwide.
Just
was
recently,
central
Vizrt
to how hundreds
innovative tools that help to engage
viewers with diverse content while
controlling costs. The company
has announced that it
is providing
Skweek, a basketball and lifestyle
streaming platform for fans, players
and brands, with a cost-effective
localized
solution for European
basketball coverage.
Skweek has turned to the nextgeneration
version of LiveU's cloudnative
video
production solution,
LiveU Studio to stream EuroLeague
Basketball
the ability
games in France and
Monaco, with cloud-based remote
local commentary added to games
featuring French teams, including
LDLC ASVEL, AS Monaco, JL Bourg en
Bresse and Paris Basketball. Skweek,
a pay-per-view service, holds
the exclusive rights to the men's
EuroLeague Basketball
tournament
technology
of
media companies covered the U.S.
election, showcasing the power of
our expertise and our customers'
creativity. With the media industry
entering the era of cloud and AIassisted
production,
I truly
feel
there's never been a more exciting
time to be part of this journey. The
potential for us to grow and make
an even bigger impact is immense, "
remarks Rohit Nagarajan, CEO, Vizrt.
Michael Hallén, who sat as Vizrt's
CEO for the past eight years, has
set a strong foundation for this next
chapter and has together with the
Board agreed that the time was right
for new leadership. Hallén oversaw
the joining of NewTek and Flowics
into the Vizrt ecosystem to expand
its legacy in broadcast graphics to
live production and into the cloud,
alongside the development of NDI.
Vizrt's mission remains the same,
to achieve its vision to be the high
quality and easy to use platform that
every professional storyteller uses to
produce video for any channel.
" Leading
Vizrt
alongside such
talented colleagues has been an
honor. I'm proud of our achievements
over the past eight years and look
forward to seeing
the
continued
success
company's
under Rohit's
leadership, " concludes Hallén.
in France and Monaco, streaming up
to 12 simultaneous live games per
evening, and EuroCup.
Skweek receives the international
feed from IMG and ingests it in LiveU
Studio, adding branding and French
commentary sent directly from the
commentators
themselves
This
gives
greater flexibility
who
connect to LiveU Studio as a 'remote
guest'.
preparation time. Using LiveU Studio,
Skweek
also streams
to
commentators
and
reduces
occasional
games with live local commentary
directly
social media platforms. Leveraging
YouTube and other
to publish to multiple
destinations, it can ingest live feeds
on its subscription-based video-ondemand
(VOD) service and stream
them elsewhere.
Skweek is
LiveU's
flexible payment package
option throughout the season. This
helps clients like Skweek to stay in
control of their costs, allowing them
to scale up or down as required,
providing a risk-free way to expand
production capacity.
" We wanted to significantly reduce
video production costs
our
introduce more flexibility
workflow, " explains Cyril
and
to the
Méjane,
Managing Director, Skweek Studios.
" The LiveU team were incredibly
fast to respond to our initial request
and we were up and running in
a very short space of time. The
Studio toolbox enables us to do
complex production easily while only
paying for what we use. Delivering
live commentary
to the cloud
is
a different way of working for our
commentators
but
they
quickly
adapted to the change and have
found it
taking advantage of
to be a more streamlined
process. "
" Cyril and Faïssal Berkani, Skweek's
Editor in Chief made the whole
process incredibly straightforward, "
says
Philippe Gaudion, Regional
Sales Manager, LiveU. " Very soon
after a LiveU Studio demonstration
by our technical team and in-house
testing at a smaller event, Skweek
were using the solution in earnest
for
Turkish Airlines
EuroLeague
Basketball. LiveU Studio provides a
rich toolbox that enables complex
cloud production in a simple way,
as well
as
intelligent
access
features.
autonomy as they
control
Just
one
costs and given them
can now fully
to additional
of
these features has saved Skweek
significant
their live remote cloudbased
commentary and distribution
workflows. "
OOONA Expands in Europe with Office in Cyprus
O
OONA, a leading provider of
professional
management
and production tools for the media
localization industry, announces
the opening of a new office in
Cyprus, strengthening its European
operations.
Founded
evolved to be a global
media
localization
in 2012, OOONA has
leader in
The
solutions.
OOONA platform is trusted by some
of the world's most
language service providers in the
media sector.
The company
has
prominent
also gained
significant traction among content
owners and broadcasters, as well
as universities and a burgeoning
community of freelance translators
ongoing
from more than 160 countries around
the world.
" We always prioritize our users in
our development decisions, "
says
Wayne Garb, OOONA co-founder
and CEO. " We listen to our clients
and do our best
to address their
pain points. Many of the tools we
offer started out as development
projects to solve a specific customer
problem. Our dedicated customer
care and support teams are the keys
to our success. OOONA's product
owners, account managers
round-the-clock
and
customer-support
teams frequently receive praise from
satisfied customers. To support the
company's
growth
and
better serve our European clients, we
have expanded our customer support
team in Portugal and now bolstered
our operations with OOONA's
first
European office. This is located in
Limassol. "
" Our European business had been
steadily growing and we saw a lot of
opportunity there. So we decided to
make our services more accessible
by establishing a European office, "
explains Maya Venturero, OOONA
Integrated Product Manager, who will
now be based in Cyprus.
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