Contract with major Hollywood studio

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Zoo Digital Group PLC

21 February 2023

 

21 February 2023

Zoo Digital Group PLC

("ZOO", the "Group" or the "Company")

ZOO Digital's Industry First Globalisation Management Platform Adopted by Major Hollywood Studio to Support Content Localisation Rollout

ZOO Digital Group plc (LON: ZOO), world-leading provider of cloud-based localisation and media services, today announced it is now operating as a key vendor for a major content producer to support their content localisation needs. This client is also using ZOOstudio to manage the localisation of content across its vendors.

ZOOstudio is an all-encompassing and vendor-agnostic platform purpose built to solve the large-scale globalisation challenges of a multi-territory OTT service. It has been in use at another major studio and global streaming service since 2019 and is the proven solution for delivering the volume and scale required for an international, multi-language streaming platform.

The adoption of ZOOstudio by another global content creator, which cannot be named for contractual reasons, represents a further success story for ZOO as a strategic technology partner. While longer-term contractual arrangements have not yet been finalised, a significant number of revenue-generating projects for this client are already underway.

Stuart Green, CEO of ZOO Digital, commented: "We are delighted to be chosen to provide our services and technology to another high-profile streaming service. Our global ZOO teams recognise the challenges of localising premium content for worldwide audiences, and we're thrilled to be able support our client with these."

Working from facilities in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia, ZOO Digital provides technology-enabled localisation and media services to major Hollywood studios. The company's global freelance workforce of over 12,000 translators and dubbing professionals deliver localised media and entertainment content in over 80 global languages.

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For further enquiries, please contact:
ZOO Digital Group plc	[phone]
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Phillip Blundell - Chief Finance Officer Kam Bansil - Investor Relations
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Tom Marsh / Richard Short
Singer Capital Markets (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Shaun Dobson / Asha Chotai
Instinctif Partners	[phone]
Matthew Smallwood / Joe Quinlan	[e-mail]

About ZOO Digital Group plc:

ZOO Digital supports major Hollywood studios and streaming services to globalise their content and reach audiences everywhere, by providing world-leading, technology-enabled localisation and media services.

Founded in 2001, ZOO Digital operates from hubs in Los Angeles, London, Dubai, Turkey, South Korea, India and Denmark with a development and production centre in Sheffield, UK.

The Group provides media services through its platforms that include: ZOOsubs, ZOOdubs and ZOOstudio. Its full-service proposition delivers the end-to-end services required to prepare both original and catalogue content for digital distribution; these services include dubbing, subtitling & captioning, metadata creation & localisation, mastering, artwork localisation and media processing. Alongside this offering, ZOO also provides its customers with management platforms and strategic solutions to support their own internal globalisation operations.

ZOO is a go-to service partner for media businesses looking to globalise their content across different territories, languages and distribution platforms. Using its innovative technology-enabled approach, ZOO helps its customers to reduce time to market, lower costs and deliver high quality products to their global audiences. The business has frameworks in place with all major Hollywood studios and streaming services. Its customers include Disney, NBCUniversal, HBO and Paramount Global.

ZOO's competitive advantage arises from three interlinking factors - the leading role it has played in the digital transformation of its sector; the world class proprietary platforms that it develops to enable this transformation; and the global supply chain of thousands of freelancers, working collaboratively in ZOO's platforms, which delivers services that scale easily to meet demand. These factors combine to make ZOO uniquely placed to capitalise on new market opportunities in a fast-paced and constantly evolving industry.

www.zoodigital.com

 

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