Remote Interpreting Pushback, Subtitling and Dubbing Land Grab
Interpreters pushback on RSI, Meta’s MT “breakthrough,” growth in media localization with ZOO and Keywords, Zoom’s translation feature, and Disney experiments with synthesized voices.
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Iyuno-SDI and Disney on Overcoming the Challenges of Localizing at Global Scale
Iyuno-SDI and Disney feature on the content localization panel at SlatorCon Remote. Mark Howorth and Andrew Aherne discuss dealing with huge volumes and pressures on the supply chain.
Media Localization Spend Below 3% of Content Budgets But Growing Fast — Zoo Digital
Zoo Digital’s financial results for half year to September 2022 reveals impact of heated competition among streaming giants — and how media localization plays into their strategy.
Disney Experiments With Synthesized Voices for Film, Theme Park Voice Assistant
Like its competitors, Disney has partnered with voice tech startups for a Disney+ miniseries and dabbled in text-to-speech promotions; now, the company seeks experts to work in-house.
Netflix Shares Plan to Reaccelerate Growth; Builds Out Localization Capabilities
Netflix shares its strategy to reaccelerate viewing and revenue growth after subscription slump; focuses on long-term growth outside US.
Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services
Pro Guide for LSPs to identify growth opportunities in adjacent services. Profiles 15 adjacent services, analyzing barriers to entry, risks, and synergies.
How Netflix, Disney (Maybe Even Amazon) Are Driving Demand for English Dubbing
Helped in no small part by lockdowns, the world’s streaming giants can take credit for the broadened palate for foreign content of its English-speaking customers — who now clamor for better dubbing.
Why HBO, Disney, and Warner Bros. Care About Language Metadata
The world’s largest media entertainment companies joined forces to create a language metadata table (LMT), with more than 200 entries, to help manage localized video content.
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker December 2019
Third monthly edition of the Slator Buyer Tracker featuring some of the most important changes happening among buy-side decision-makers.
Media Localizer ZOO Digital Forecasts Improved Earnings on New OTT Preferred Vendor Deal
At AGM, London-listed ZOO Digital says H1 2019 revenues in line, EBITDA ahead of expectations as company ramps up on new preferred vendor deal for major OTT provider.
Why Keywords Studios, Valued at USD 1 Billion, Is Moving Into Media Localization
Keywords Studios CEO lays out strategic rationale for game localization giant’s cautious, yet deliberate, move into TV and film localization.
Slator Job Index Continues to Inch Upward in September 2019
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, inches upward in September 2019.
New Streaming Services From Disney and Warner Bros. Spell Good News for Localization
The lines that separate traditional film studios and streaming services are dissolving as everyone now wants to own and distribute content. The winners? Media localizers.
How Netflix Does Subtitling for the World (ex China)
How Netflix handles subtitling, grew subscriptions by adding languages, and why it stays out of China, for now.
Media Localizer BTI Studios Reshuffles Leadership, Hires New CFO and CTO
Media localizer BTI Studios executes global restructure prompting CFO and Interim CTO hires, Regional MD, and Subtitling and Dubbing Director promotions.
BTI Studios Scoops up Two Dubbing Studios in Rome to Expand into Italy
BTI Studios has acquired LaBibi and Multimedia Network, two Italian dubbing studios based in Rome, as the company continues its acquisition strategy of establishing a presence in all of the major dubbing markets.
BTI Studios Expands into Germany with Second Dubbing Studio Deal in Weeks
Media localizer BTI Studios steps up pace of acquisitions, buys German dubbing studio Berliner Synchron in bid to boost presence in a market with a long history of dubbing.
BTI Studios Acquires Netherlands Dubbing Studios as Dutch Dubbing On the Rise
Media localizer BTI Studios acquires its long-time Dutch dubbing partner Creative Sounds in response to increased demand for Dutch dubbing and client preference for “owned and operated” studios.
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