OTT platform provider, Xstream Launches Operations in Asia-Pacific

Xstream, the premium provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services, today announced its launch of company operations in Australia, with offices both in Melbourne and Sydney.

Sydney, Australia(03 Apr 2014)

Sydney, Australia, April 3rd 2014. Xstream, the premium provider of OTT and TV Everywhere services, today announced its launch of company operations in Australia, with offices both in Melbourne and Sydney.

Following the company’s growing success and demand for their award winning video management system, Xstream MediaMaker™ in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, the launch of Xstream in Australia, is part of Xstream’s continued global expansion.

Following the company’s growing success and demand for their award-winning video management system, Xstream MediaMaker™ in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, the launch of Xstream in Australia forms part of Xstream’s continued global expansion.

“Australia is an exciting and rapidly growing market for OTT video and TV Everywhere services,” said Frank Thorup, CEO at Xstream. “With the launch of local operations and a great new team in Sydney and Melbourne, we’re very excited to roll out our video management system, Xstream MediaMaker™ to the region, enabling customers to create, manage, monetize and deliver smarter OTT video solutions on all devices.”

Xstream is experiencing unprecedented demand for their OTT services in the Asia-Pacific market. Xstream Australia will serve as the central hub for Xstream’s business development in the Asia-Pacific region. Joining the team in Australia is Andrew Cronyn, Nick Barry and David Dodds. With wide experience from broadcasters, content owners and telcos, the three all bring a vast amount of knowledge and experience from the industry.

“We’re all very excited to join the Xstream team and offer the Asia-Pacific region the market leading platform for creating, managing, monetizing and delivering best in class OTT and TV Everywhere services,” David Dodds said. “Xstream is a very agile company with a strong and proven technology, making them a very attractive partner for companies in the APAC region where time to market and innovative, flexible solutions are key drivers in the choice of OTT video platform provider. We’re looking forward to introducing Xstream further to the market.”

“Xstream certainly has some impressive reference customers, and is working with some of the world’s leading telcos, broadcasters, manufacturers and cable operators, including Disney, Telenor, SES Platform Services, Canal Digital, Fuhu, and SBS Discovery” Nick Barry said. “This track record, combined with some significant new customer wins in the Asia-Pacific region and the demand we’re seeing for flexible and scalable OTT video platforms, means I’m confident that we’ll be very busy and successful in the Asia-Pacific market.”

Continuing Global expansion strategy
Since the company launched in 1999, Xstream has pursued and focused on being an innovative and agile service provider, providing their customers with best-in-class technology to deliver OTT video and TV Everywhere solutions, across all platforms and devices. Xstream’s proven, flexible and scalable technology, agile market approach and recent customer wins of global leaders within their core market, represent a huge advantage for Xstream when expanding their business to the APAC region – all the while taking on the battle of the customers with already established industry heavy-weights.

About Xstream (www.xstream.net)
Xstream has been a pioneer in OTT and TV Everywhere since 1999. Drawing on their extensive experience, Xstream works with world-leading Telco’s, cable operators and MSOs. Xstream deliver simpler, smarter OTT TV solutions characterized by superior flexibility, usability, scalability and cost-efficiency. Xstream’s comprehensive and scalable online end-to-end video management solution, Xstream MediaMaker™, offers numerous key modules such as Shop and Payment module, domain control, assets management and analytics. Xstream also offer a suite of outstanding individual services, including: Apps for Connected devices, Ingest, DRM, Transcoding and Encoding.

Xstream works with a wide range of customers like Disney, Fuhu/ nabi tablet, SES, Pathé, Canal Digital, SBS Belgium, SBS Discovery, Telenor & Altibox.

Xstream is headquartered from Copenhagen, Denmark and has offices in Los Angeles, Melbourne, Warsaw and Sydney.