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Week ending June 13, 2015
With this new offer, AFP significantly increases its live video production, which is tripled from June 2015. The service, available by subscription, uses technology meeting the highest market standards for live feed transmission.
Thanks to the Agency’s network in 150 countries, subscribers will have real-time access to international news, major sporting and cultural events, as well as a selection of institutional feeds, for example during international summits and special events.
AFP’s live video coverage has greatly increased since the initial trials in 2012. Dozens of hours of live video have been broadcast in 2015, including during the January events in Paris and after the March plane crash in the Alps. Live broadcasts have now been extended to all countries, from the New Year fireworks in Hong Kong to the inauguration of President Muhammad Bihari in Nigeria, the demonstrations in Tunisia after the attack on the Bardo museum and the elections in Israel.
“The launch of AFPTV Live marks a decisive moment in the development of video, which is a strategic priority and the leading driver of growth for AFP,” said AFP Chairman Emmanuel Hoog. “By continuing to meet the ever increasing demand for live content, AFP has yet again strengthened the quality of its service to clients and demonstrated that it has become a leading agency for video.”
The Wall Street Journal today announced plans to launch a new global newspaper for its readers in Europe and Asia, offering a fully comprehensive, seamless Wall Street Journal print and digital experience with regionally relevant content.
The new, full-color, broadsheet editions will be available Monday through Friday and will replace the current compact newspapers in Europe and Asia. The editions will launch in mid-September, targeting key financial capital cities, such as London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Shanghai. The Journal will also be launching enhanced iPad and Android editions for subscribers in these regions at the same time.
“The global Wall Street Journal reflects our international ambitions and our desire to deliver a singular Journal experience to readers in the world’s most economically important cities," said Gerard Baker, Editor in Chief, The Wall Street Journal. “The new print, iPad and Android editions will center on our peerless reporting, including our expert coverage of business, finance and economics and our global coverage of politics and policy, as well as our extensive reporting on arts, culture and entertainment.”
The new broadsheet editions will include many of the Journal’s signature hallmark features, including ‘What’s News,’ Business & Tech., Money & Investing, Opinion, Mansion and Off Duty, along with regionally focused content. The content will be mirrored in the expanded regional iPad and Android editions.
Daily content will include a diverse selection of the Journal’s leading coverage of business, finance, economics, politics and technology. A comprehensive weekly features section will offer coverage of lifestyle, arts, food, wine, design and real estate, designed to appeal to the wide and varied interests of Wall Street Journal readers.
RTL Group today announced the creation of the RTL Digital Hub, a dedicated team which will develop the Group’s investments in the areas of multi-channel networks (MCNs) and digital advertising sales, in particular BroadbandTV, StyleHaul, SpotXchange and Clypd. The RTL Digital Hub will maximise the value of this highly complementary portfolio of digital video businesses to further strengthen RTL Group’s leadership position in a high growth market.
Effective immediately, the team will be led out of the United States and Europe by Marcel Reichart as Executive Vice President RTL Digital Hub, in addition to his current role at Bertelsmann. Marcel Reichart will execute this mission under the supervision of RTL Group’s Co-CEOs, Anke Schäferkordt and Guillaume de Posch.
The RTL Digital Hub team will manage RTL Group’s portfolio of digital acquisitions and provide support for their further international expansion. In line with RTL Group’s decentralised organisation, the CEOs of BroadbandTV, StyleHaul and SpotXchange will continue to have full responsibility for their operations. The RTL Digital Hub will foster external partnerships, synergies with RTL Group’s broadcasters, its global production arm, FremantleMedia, and with other divisions of Bertelsmann. In addition, the RTL Digital Hub will intensively scan the market for further investments in the online video space.
RTL Group currently generates more than 7.0 billion online video views per month, with leading positions in key verticals addressing young audiences such as women’s lifestyle and fashion (StyleHaul), gaming (TGN from BroadbandTV), music (Opposition and Wimsic from BroadbandTV) and kids (Hoopla Kidz from YoBoHo/BroadbandTV). This reach makes RTL Group the number two player in the Youtube ecosystem. RTL Group’s MCNs serve a combined base of 42,000 content creators which include famous Youtube stars and social influencers such as Zoella (StyleHaul), Fernanfloo (BroadbandTV) and El Rubius (Divimove), as well as many successful consumer brands and content owners with their marketing and technology solutions. In digital advertising sales, SpotXchange is one of the global leaders for programmatic online video advertising.
Anke Schäferkordt and Guillaume de Posch, Co-CEOs of RTL Group, say: “The creation of the RTL Digital Hub underlines our strategic goal to become a global force in online video and to further increase our presence in North America. With our recent investments in North America – BroadbandTV, StyleHaul and SpotXchange – we’ve reached critical mass in online video. Now we will bundle our efforts to develop our rapidly growing reach in this area into a more significant and profitable third pillar of RTL Group.
We are very pleased that Marcel Reichart will lead the RTL Digital Hub. Marcel is deeply familiar with RTL Group’s digital businesses and entrepreneurial spirit and extremely well connected in the North-American and European digital media industry. Together with the CEOs of our digital businesses we look forward to working with him and the team which pioneered our digital investments.”
Marcel Reichart: “Having supported RTL Group’s successful online video strategy and digital investments in my current role, I am thrilled to now work even closer with the impressive entrepreneurs of the RTL Digital Hub portfolio and the RTL Group team to drive and create a fast-growing and innovative global leader in digital video. I am looking forward to contributing my digital and media industry insight and network as well as to further fostering synergies within RTL Group and Bertelsmann.”
About Marcel Reichart
Marcel Reichart joined Bertelsmann in 2012 as Executive Vice President of Digital Development and Partnerships. In this capacity, he enables the digital transformation and growth of Bertelsmann and its divisions. He is also a member of the Board of Bertelsmann’s Corporate Centre and serves on the investment committees of the Bertelsmann digital funds active in the US, China, Europe and India. Before joining Bertelsmann, Marcel Reichart held several corporate and digital executive functions at Hubert Burda Media and is co-founder of the international DLD Conference. Marcel Reichart was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2005. He graduated from Otto-Beisheim School of Management (WHU) and holds a doctorate in economic sciences.
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