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. Continue reading
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Synthesia Raises USD 3.1m for Lip-Sync Technology That Could Change Dubbing
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
How Prime Focus Technologies Localizes Over 40,000 Hours of Media Content Annually
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
ZOO Digital Shares Plunge on Earnings Miss
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
How A+E Networks UK Localizes 16,000 Hours of Media Content per Year
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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Cloud-Based Dubbing Boosts Media Localizer ZOO Digital in Fiscal H1 2019
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
SDI Media CEO Mark Howorth on How Streaming Services Reset the Bar in Media Localization
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
memoQ 8.5 Released – DeepL Plugin and Subtitling with Video Preview among the New Features
memoQ, the leading provider of translation technology, has released memoQ version 8.5. The DeepL MT Plugin and the video preview for subtitling are among the high-notes in this new release. Continue reading
Netflix Has Now Found the ‘Best Translators Around the Globe’
Netflix closes Hermes, its online subtitling and translation test and indexing system, and says it has ‘reached its capacity for each one of the language tests’. Continue reading
US Accessibility Standards a Boon to Media Localizers and Subtitlers
Under the Revised 508 Standards, US federal government agencies are now required to comply with new rules on captioning, audio descriptions and other alternate texts for digital content made... Continue reading
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From Indonesia to Nigeria: Inside iflix’s Localization Rollout
Subscription video on demand (SVoD) provider, iflix, is rolling out its service across two dozen emerging markets. To date, iflix provides localized content in 16 languages and initiated full... Continue reading
How the EU Uses ‘Extensive Outsourcing’ to Translate Over 750,000 Pages per Year
The Translation Centre sees a sustained demand for translation from EU agencies and bodies in 2018. But to deliver three-quarters of a million translated pages per year, it relies on extensive... Continue reading
How Media Localizer BTI Studios Pivoted and Thrived
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
Audiovisual Translation Hits a Sweet Spot as Subscription Video On-Demand Skyrockets
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
Netflix Has Nearly 20 Official Localization Vendors as Global Subscriptions Boom
Continued international expansion drives Netflix's third-quarter revenue and subscriber growth, which in turn creates more demand for video localization, including subtitling, dubbing, and closed... Continue reading
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