Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28th 2015. Xstream, the premium provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services and vendor of the award winning video management system, Xstream MediaMaker™ and Accedo, the global market leader in TV application solutions, today announced that they are entering a strategic partnership.
The joint solution will offer customers a flexible, scalable and agile OTT platform enabling customers to create, manage, monetize and deliver best in breed, personalized Internet TV service combined with captivating applications on any connected device including Smart TVs, game consoles, mobile phones and tablets.
“We are excited to be working with Xstream on this joint solution,” said Michael Lantz, CEO, Accedo. “The combination of Xstream’s flexible video management system for OTT/TVE services, with Accedo’s suite of multiscreen OTT applications and management solutions empazhises our strengths and will give our clients a seamless offering for delivering, expanding and maintaining attractive video services.”
“We are delighted to partner with Accedo” said Morten Søger, Global Alliance Director, Xstream. “We’ve recently worked with Accedo on successful deployment of Lightbox, an OTT SVOD service by Spark New Zealand and we’re thrilled to now formalize a proactive partnership. Xstream’s proven OTT platform and Accedo’s unparalleled application experience offers best-in-class Internet TV offering to the market. We share the same passion for helping our customers grow their Internet TV business with flexible and end-user centric solutions enabling our customers to differentiate their service, maximizing monetization of content, reduce churn, and even increase profitability in today’s highly competitive markets”.
Together with preferred partners, such as Accedo, Xstream have a market leading end-to-end value proposition with faster time to market, lower TCO and a unique focus on end-user experience.
Meet Xstream & Accedo at CommunicAsia/ BroadcastAsia
Xstream and Accedo will be present at CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia in Singapore June 2nd – 5th and welcomes visitors to drop by their booths (Xstream hall L1 booth #E4-07 and Accedo #4B4-05) and get a live demo of their joint solution.
About Accedo (www.accedo.tv)
Accedo is the market leading enabler of TV application solutions. Accedo provides applications, tools and services to media companies, consumer electronics and TV operators globally, to help them deliver the next-generation TV experience. Accedo’s cloud-based platform solutions enable customers to cost-efficiently roll out and manage application offerings and stores for multiple devices and markets.
Accedo is a privately held company founded in 2004 by telecom and media entrepreneurs Michael Lantz and Fredrik Andersson. Accedo is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with branch offices in London, Madrid, New York, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Sydney, Santiago de Chile, and Cologne.
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About Xstream (www.xstream.net)
Xstream has been a pioneer in OTT and TV Everywhere since 1999. Drawing on their extensive experience, Xstream works with world-leading Telco’s, cable operators and MSOs. Xstream deliver simpler, smarter OTT/TVE solutions characterized by superior flexibility, usability, scalability and cost-efficiency. Xstream’s comprehensive and scalable online end-to-end video management solution, Xstream MediaMaker™, offers numerous key modules such as MediaMaker Loading Dock; a cutting-edge content supply chain management tool designed to solve all the complex challenges in the content supply chain MediaMaker Store; maximise monetisation with multi-domain segmentation, smart merchandising and advanced analytics and MediaMaker Play; wow your viewer with personalised experiences and clever customisation apllications on any device
Xstream works with a wide range of customers such as; Fuhu/Nabi tablet, Pathé, Canal Digital, SBS Belgium, SBS Discovery, Telenor, Altibox and Spark New Zealand.
Xstream is headquartered from Copenhagen, Denmark and has offices in San Francisco, Warsaw, Sydney and Singapore.