ZOO Digital moves beyond “frustrating” disruptions in the financial year ended March 2019 linked to changes in a key buyer’s supply chain and contraction in DVD and Blu-ray sales. Continue reading
Media localizer BTI Studios executes global restructure prompting CFO and Interim CTO hires, Regional MD, and Subtitling and Dubbing Director promotions. Continue reading
UK-based AI video production startup Synthesia, which uses synthetically-generated face masks to reanimate speech movements, has just secured USD 3m in funding. Continue reading
Matteo Natale, Director of Localization for Prime Focus Technologies, talks about what it takes to localize 35,000 hours of subtitles and 7,000 hours of audio each year. Continue reading
Slator readers share outlook on 2019 and standalone translation earpieces. Many reportedly unscathed by US government shutdown. As to media preferences, many prefer subtitles over dubbed audio. Continue reading
ZOO Digital shares dive on revenue and earnings miss after large localization project was cancelled unexpectedly and a secular decline in its legacy DVD and Blu-ray business accelerates. Continue reading
Download Slator’s 2018 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 48 language industry mergers and acquisitions and ten startup funding rounds Slator... Continue reading
A+E Networks UK localizes 12,000 hours of subtitles and 4,000 hours of audio annually and sees opportunities in the over-the-top media boom as well as heightened expectations from neural machine... Continue reading
Half-year revenues at Media localizer ZOO Digital up 17% driven by adoption of cloud-based dubbing and a sales mix shift to localization. Earnings declined due to heavy investment in order to... Continue reading
Mark Howorth, CEO of the largest media localizer globally, SDI Media, lifts the lid on a booming media localization industry and discusses the turbulence caused by Netflix, talent shortage,... Continue reading
Social media platforms are joining Internet VOD players like Netflix to create original programs. This presents growth opportunities for media localizers. Neural MT will affect subtitling but not... Continue reading
With the growing global appetite for video, audiovisual translation becomes a billion-dollar opportunity for the language services industry if it plays its cards right. But first, it must deal... Continue reading
Translation and dubbing for Straight Outta Compton and Game of Thrones take the top spot at Spain’s annual ATRAE awards, while game localizer KiteTeam bags translation award for Rise of the Tomb... Continue reading
This information will never be shared with third parties. No Spam.