October 28th, 2010, by Bastian in BeBanjo News and Announcements, Media, Movida, Video On Demand
On the 14th of October, BeBanjo won it’s second Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. We’d like to thank everyone in the industry who voted for us.
We are very proud of this kind of recognition, and it’s encourages us in our quest to build the world’s best back-office for teams managing video-on-demand services.
Early next year we’ll be launching our third product and we hope that it will be equally well received.
Our press release can be viewed and downloaded here.
Thank you!
-BeBanjo Team
October 28th, 2010, by Bastian in BeBanjo News and Announcements, Movida, Video On Demand
A PDF Version of the release can be downloaded here.
BeBanjo’s Movida winner of a StreamingMedia Readers’ Choice Award
Movida enables channels/broadcasters to manage archive and catch-up scheduling and rights management like never before.
Madrid – 26 October 2010
BeBanjo today announced that it has won a Readers Choice Award for its second product Movida. The awards are organized by StreamingMedia Magazine. The awards recognize the innovation and operational improvements that Movida has delivered to some of Europe’s most important on-demand service. More than 12,500 votes were cast for more than 240 products.
Movida is a beautiful, highly automated solution for scheduling and rights management. It’s unique in its ability to distribute catch-up and library content across multiple VOD platforms based on simple rules.
Movida helps its customers to reach a wider audience, and generate more revenue from their content rights without increasing the size of their editorial team.
“We started our company two and a half years ago.” says Bastian Manintveld, Founder of BeBanjo. “Today our software is used to help manage some of Europe’s most important on-demand services for clients such as BSkyB, Channel Five, TV Numeric and Telefonica. We are aiming to build the world’s best back-office for teams managing video-on-demand services and hope that this positive response from the industry will reflect equally well on our future products ”
“This kind of recognition is very encouraging to us” says Jorge Gomez Sancha, Founder of BeBanjo. We’re very proud that after winning an award for our first product, Sequence, we’ve won an award this year for our second product, Movida. ”
About BeBanjo
BeBanjo is a software company focussed on building the world best back-office for teams managing video-on-demand services. BeBanjo was founded in 2008 by Bastian Manintveld and Jorge Gomez Sancha and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
For more information: http://bebanjo.com
About Streaming Media Europe
Streaming Media Europe is the largest dedicated event for businesses harnessing the power of streaming video, audio and multimedia on the Internet in Europe. Streaming Media Europe is the longest running, largest and most prestigious event focused on the streaming media industry in Europe.
Press contact:
Bastian Manintveld
+34 91 458 3737 - pr@bebanjo.com
May 13th, 2010, by Bastian in About BeBanjo, BeBanjo News and Announcements, Video On Demand
There’s not a lot of time today to write a proper update. However, in spite of IBC, MIPCOM and MipTV being much larger shows then The Cable Show, we don’t have Hulk Hogan and Ron Jeremy plugging our broadcasters offerings in Europe. More tomorrow….
May 12th, 2010, by Bastian in About BeBanjo, Media, Video On Demand
Day 1 at the Cable Show. Highlights and impressions:
Enjoy the pictures! More tomorrow.
-Bastian
May 7th, 2010, by Bastian in BeBanjo News and Announcements, Movida, Screencasts, Video On Demand
We’re very excited to tell you about Movida…
Movida is the biggest thing we’ve done since we started the company. It’s a product which we think has the ability to completely change the way in which broadcasters and VOD Service operators manage their VOD Services.
Movida manages rights, scheduling and metadata in a beautiful, highly automated way.
There’s more information on our website at http://bebanjo.com/movida and here’s a 4 minute video that tells you everything you need to know:
Movida for TV Channels
Movida makes the management of Catch-Up VOD Services a breeze . In the US catch-up is more commonly known as TV Everywhere.
E.g. If you missed Lost on your TV channel, you can view it on several VOD services a day later.
In order to make this a reality, a TV Channel needs to track rights and manage scheduling and metadata for each episode/title on each of the platforms on which it distributes its content. Many channels either do this manually using Excel sheets/Emails etc., or with a combination of legacy systems.
In Movida it’s all based on rules, where you set a rule for rights and scheduling for a platform once, and then Movida automatically takes care of the rest. Movida can even export rights, scheduling and metadata automatically to each VOD distribution platform when using our API’s.
In practice this means that Movida dramatically increases a VOD team’s productivity. It enables them to focus on reaching a wider audience and generate more revenues from their existing content rights.
Movida for VOD Operators
Movida ensures that you have an up to date overview of your rights across all platforms, devices and business models.
You can find more information about Movida on our new website at: http://bebanjo.com/movida
Movida has a sexy, user-friendly interface, that lets you schedule library, archive and acquired content with ease and helps to ensure that no rights are underutilized.
It enables you to distribute your schedule, rights information and metadata to multiple platforms automatically
Official Movida launch at The Cable Show/NCTA
We will officially launch Movida at the Cable Show (NCTA) in Los Angeles next week. Of course we’ll do it the BeBanjo way by throwing a cocktail party with margherita’s and mojito’s. I’ll be blogging about our progress in LA, so please stay tuned for that.
If you happen to be at the Cable Show/ LA and are interested in meeting up for a demo, please get in touch with me at bastian@bebanjo.com
If you want to join us for a cocktail at the launch, please get in touch too.
December 9th, 2008, by Bastian in Media, Video On Demand
A content licensing deal gives the buyer (licensee) the right to display the content from the seller (licensor) for a specific period of time on an specific distribution platform in a specific country. The time during which a licensee has the right to display a specific title is called that title’s “window”
Once the deal has closed, it’s up to the licensor to ship materials (DigiBeta tapes, DVD’s, music cue-sheets, transcripts, box art, EPK’s, subtitle files, additional audio tracks etc.) This usually happens a set time before the window’s start date.
The human side of traffic
The other day I was visiting a media company at an undisclosed location somewhere in Europe and I took this picture to show you the human side of “materials traffic”. ;-)
When I asked the gentleman pushing the cart if it was OK to take the picture he mentioned that this cart was pretty empty. Usually these are filled to the brim.
I have a limited edition BeBanjo post-it pad for the first one to correctly guess where I took this picture. Your best guesses in the comments please….. I know, I know…. not so generous, but we’re still a start-up, so this is as good as it gets for now.
In the coming months I hope to write more articles about the workings behind the scenes of all these TV channels and services that millions of people watch everyday. Stay tuned.
-Bastian