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Tag Archives: localization
Localization: Put Up and Pay Up, Says France (Spherex M&E Blog)
How Scripting Can Make or Break Localization for Simultaneous Global Release (ZOO Digital Blog)
When Kew Media Distribution (Line Of Duty, Killer In Plain Sight, Leaving Neverland) commissioned ZOO Digital as the localization vendor of choice for the international distributio... More
ZOO Digital Celebrates Localization Award (MESA)
The Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2019 winners were revealed last week, which featured ZOO Digital picking up a trophy for 'Excellence in Localization for a Global TV Project' a... More
Reimagining Localization (Broadcast)
To meet the challenges of global OTT distribution, ZOO Digital has launched its cloud-based Localisation Ecosystem to provide content owners with a 360-degree approach to localisat... More
BTI Studios, IYUNO Media Group Announce Merger
Media localization providers IYUNO Media Group and BTI Studios have merged, creating one of the largest language localization companies in the world, with 40 facilities across the ... More
M&E Journal: Next-Gen Recruitment: Growing the Language Localization Talent Pool
By Scott Rose, CTO, SDI Media - Most of the talent engaged in foreign language localization — lip-sync dubbing, voice-over, subtitling and access services — operate on a fre... More
M&E Journal: Localization Services Critical to D2C Strategies
By Chris Carey, Chief Revenue Officer, Managing Director for the Americas, BTI Studios - Major OTT platforms are proliferating at a record rate, with many distributors already b... More
M&E Journal: How ‘Local’ Is Leading the Way Toward a Global, New World in Post Production
By Marcy Gilbert, Founder, CEO, International Digital Centre - Today’s streaming platforms, with worldwide volume and connections, realize that the process of adapting source ... More
SDI Media Parent Imagica Group Invests In Pixelogic
Tokyo-based media holding company Imagica Group — parent firm of media localization provider SDI Media Group — has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Burbank, Calif.-based c... More
M&E Journal: How the Cloud is Unlocking a World of OTT Content
(ZOO Digital will showcase its solutions April 8-11 at the NAB Show, booth SL6024) By Tony Ferkranus, VP of Sales, Americas, ZOO Digital - With the ground-breaking growth of ... More
M&E Journal: Improving Transparency and Speed in the Content Supply Chain, From Client to Freelance Translator
By Nicky McBride, VP Business Development, SDI Media - Media localization has gone through a major transition in the last few years, driven both by the need to turn around local... More
Deluxe Launches New Broadcast Localization Services
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Feb. 5 launched a High Efficiency Localization package collection of language services, geared toward more automated and streamlined subtitling ... More
Deluxe Launches New Broadcast Localization Services (HITS)
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Feb. 5 launched a High Efficiency Localization package collection of language services, geared toward more automated and streamlined subtitling ... More
BTI Studios Acquires German Dubbing Firm Berliner Synchron
Media localization firm BTI Studios Nov. 12 announced the acquisition of Munich-based Berliner Synchron GmbH, as the first professional dubbing studio in Germany, one that’s dubb... More
How AI is Transforming the Localization Landscape (Prime Focus Technologies Blog)
The most significant impact today within the Localization space is in the realms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). There are machines and software availabl... More
BTI Studios Appoints Krogsgaard Managing Director Nordic Dubbing (MESA)
On the heels of the resignation of Anja Pajor, former managing director of BTI Nordic Dubbing and founder of Dubberman (acquired by BTI Studios in 2015), the localization company h... More
Pixelogic Execs: New Theater Facility Meets Industry’s Technical Demands
Localization and distribution services provider Pixelogic took the bow off its new post content review and audio mixing theaters in Burbank, Calif. Aug. 29, giving both clients and... More
ZOO Digital Opens Localization Facility in Dubai
Localization services provider ZOO Digital has opened a new facility in Dubai, extending the company’s dubbing, subtitling and media services offerings off its cloud-based platfo... More
With OTT’s Audiovisual Localization Landscape, the New Silk Road is the Cloud
By Yota Georgakopoulou, senior director, research and international development, Deluxe - In June I spent a week in Shanghai as an invited speaker at the 2018 Sino-Foreign Audio... More
M&E Journal: Q&A: Entertainment Localization Technologies
By Scott Rose, CTO, SDI Media Group - From the outside looking in, the tasks for localizing premium content (series and movies) are fairly simple. For subtitling, you translate... More