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. Continue reading
How Netflix handles subtitling, grew subscriptions by adding languages, and why it stays out of China, for now. Continue reading
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
Nordisk Undertext, a media services company specializing in language localization, is expanding quicker than any other company in its industry – across the globe. Continue reading
Localization buyers from Discovery Networks, ITV, and A+E Networks UK share their procurement and languaging strategies with the SlatorCon London audience. Continue reading
SDI Media parent Imagica Group posts muted growth and operating loss in FY2019 media localization segment. Revenues drop due to OTT trends in Asia and the Americas. 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
Björn Lifvergren has left the media localization company he founded in 1995, BTI Studios, saying he does not support the “new course with the new management.” Continue reading
Despite buoyant end-markets, media localizer ZOO Digital reports flat revenues and break-even profitability for the year. 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
TransPerfect continues to tuck in niche capabilities and buys Barcelona-based startup Propulse Video, which specializes in producing short corporate explainer videos. 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
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