Latest Press Releases from World Television

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Media centre / 09/02/2012

World Television retains contract with European Space Agency
World Television, the leading video communications company for corporations and governments, is thrilled to announce it has successfully retained the contract to provide the European Space Agency (ESA) with broadcast media relations support for its main events. The contract is for three years and commenced on 1 January 2012.

World Television works in partnership with ESA to promote the importance of the Agency’s global role in the exploration and use of space. From distributing B-Roll footage and Video News Releases, to publicising missions to international broadcasters World Television’s solutions are bespoke and implemented in line with ESA’s overarching communications strategy. The company also built and now hosts and maintains one of ESA’s digital media platforms, available via http://www.esa.int and at http://video360.world-television.com/mediacorner/, which makes footage, high resolution images, press releases and other relevant information around the Agency’s missions accessible to journalists free of charge.

Eduardo Castaneda, Head of Media and Public Relations at World Television, says “We initially secured the contract for broadcast media relations in 2005 for three years and are absolutely delighted to have retained it. We highly value our on-going partnership with the Space Agency and are looking forward to working with them to promote their upcoming missions.”The next mission for which World Television will be undertaking contracted services is the first qualification flight of the Vega launcher. Named after the second brightest star in the northern hemisphere Vega has been designed to send small satellites (300 to 2,000kg) into the polar and low-Earth orbits used for many of ESA’s scientific and Earth observation missions. The launch is planned in February from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. More information on the ESA website at http://www.esa.int

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About World Television
World Television is a leading video communications agency, meeting the needs of IR, PR, marketing and internal communications professionals. The company offers a fully integrated service supporting the delivery of video solutions that add measurable business value. Since 1991 World Television has built its client base to include over 450 of the world's largest companies and organisations. World Television is headquartered in London and employs over 100 media, production and online video specialists across its offices in London, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Madrid, Stockholm and Zurich.

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For more information contact:
Lizzie O’Brien
Marketing Executive
World Television
Tel: +44 (0)20 7243 7350
lizzie.obrien@world-television.com

Media centre / 08/02/2012

World Television retains contract with European Space Agency
World Television, the leading video communications company for corporations and governments, is thrilled to announce it has successfully retained the contract to provide the European Space Agency (ESA) with broadcast media relations support for its main events. The contract is for three years and commenced on 1 January 2012.

World Television works in partnership with ESA to promote the importance of the Agency’s global role in the exploration and use of space. From distributing B-Roll footage and Video News Releases, to publicising missions to international broadcasters World Television’s solutions are bespoke and implemented in line with ESA’s overarching communications strategy. The company also built and now hosts and maintains one of ESA’s digital media platforms, available via http://www.esa.int and at http://video360.world-television.com/mediacorner/, which makes footage, high resolution images, press releases and other relevant information around the Agency’s missions accessible to journalists free of charge.

Eduardo Castaneda, Head of Media and Public Relations at World Television, says “We initially secured the contract for broadcast media relations in 2005 for three years and are absolutely delighted to have retained it. We highly value our on-going partnership with the Space Agency and are looking forward to working with them to promote their upcoming missions.”

The next mission for which World Television will be undertaking contracted services is the first qualification flight of the Vega launcher. Named after the second brightest star in the northern hemisphere Vega has been designed to send small satellites (300 to 2,000kg) into the polar and low-Earth orbits used for many of ESA’s scientific and Earth observation missions. The launch is planned in February from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. More information on the ESA website at http://www.esa.int

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About World Television
World Television is a leading video communications agency, meeting the needs of IR, PR, marketing and internal communications professionals. The company offers a fully integrated service supporting the delivery of video solutions that add measurable business value. Since 1991 World Television has built its client base to include over 450 of the world's largest companies and organisations. World Television is headquartered in London and employs over 100 media, production and online video specialists across its offices in London, Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Madrid, Stockholm and Zurich.

http://www.world-television.com
http://www.videonewsmanager.com
http://www.channelplayer.tv

For more information contact:
Lizzie O’Brien Marketing Executive
World Television
Tel: +44 (0)20 7243 7350 lizzie.obrien@world-television.com

Media centre / 21/11/2011

World Television’s Proprietary Webcasting Platform Celebrates 10th Anniversary
World Television, the leading video communications agency for corporations and governments, celebrates the 10th birthday of its market-leading webcasting platform this month. StreamStudio, World Television’s proprietary solution for end-to-end webcast production and distribution, was first pioneered in Switzerland in 2001 and has since delivered literally millions of audio and video streams to the company’s client base, securing its position as Europe’s foremost webcasting platform.

Based on browser technology, allowing for incomparable flexibility, StreamStudio supports the online video strategies of some of the world’s leading brands, governmental organisations and NGOs. It is robust and proven, able to support almost 30,000 live simultaneous users without compromising stream quality. It manages multiple languages (up to 23 currently but with capacity for many more), operating systems, bit-rates and browsers. Investment in the platform is on-going and in accordance with a rigorous development schedule, with upgraded versions of the platform released quarterly to ensure it keeps pace with technological advancements and remains cutting edge. Latest developments include mobile streaming support for top hand-held devices and social media integration.

Joffrey Haring, World Television’s Director of Technology and Operations, says “We have observed the demand for streaming solutions grow markedly over the past 10 years. Webcasting for investor relations is now commonplace, giving companies a swift and highly targeted channel for maintaining transparency. However, the real trend we’re seeing is the use of streaming media as a means of communicating with internal audiences. Contemporary IT networks can effortlessly handle online video and webcasting lends itself to targeted mass communications for employees and stakeholders, irrespective of geographical location.”

Media centre / 24/10/2011

World Television celebrates international awards wins
World Television, the leading video communications agency for corporations and governments, would like to congratulate Anglo American on its recent wins at two prestigious international film festivals.

‘Welcome to Anglo American: Where Safety Means More’ has been awarded a Silver Plaque in the Special Achievement category for Direction at INTERCOM, the international communications media competition. Held in association with Chicago International Film Festival and founded in 1964, INTERCOM is one of the longest-running international contests of its kind. It recognises creativity in the non-theatrical dimensions of filmmaking and honours a wide range of corporate-sponsored, educational, branded and web-based films.

Early last week, Welcome to Anglo American also picked up a Silver Dolphin trophy at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards for Best Corporate CSR film. The event, now in its second year, was held on 13 October in the French film capital and welcomed over 400 productions from 207 countries worldwide.

Welcome to Anglo American was produced to help employees, contractors, visitors and the wider public understand the strength of the mining giant’s commitment to operating safely, sustainably and responsibly. The video takes the viewer on a narrative journey that demonstrates the comprehensiveness of Anglo American’s approach, and the truth of the title. It was rolled out across the organisation’s corporate offices and business units in March and is used as an induction tool. It also is available to external audiences via Anglo American’s corporate website.

‘We appreciate the opportunity Anglo American affords us to make great films!’ remarked Natalie Miles, Producer at World Television. ‘It was a challenge setting up a global shoot using real Anglo American employees but the end result, and these awards, make it all worthwhile – the film is even better than we had hoped it would be.’

Media centre / 19/10/2011

World Television partners with Kontiki to enable network-friendly delivery of enterprise video
World Television, the leading video communications company for corporations and governments, has announced a partnership with enterprise video solutions provider Kontiki. In order to enhance its extensive technology infrastructure, World Television will be utilising Kontiki’s Enterprise Content Delivery Network (ECDN) to provide clients with a superior online viewing experience for high-quality corporate video.

Instead of investing in costly hardware to optimise delivery, World Television’s clients will now be able to utilise their existing IT network to channel video content without negatively impacting business-critical traffic. The patented cloud-based server infrastructure only requires one ‘copy’ of a video stream or file to cross each wide area network (WAN) so bandwidth, and therefore picture quality, remain unaffected.

Key benefits include:

Live and on-demand video delivered automatically and ready-to-play to desktops and mobile devices, like iPods and iPads, regardless of the end user’s geographic location or bandwidth capabilities
The ability to efficiently access libraries of pre-recorded material, such as training videos or financial results, that can be quickly cached to desktop
Corporate YouTube-style private streaming services

“Our clients demand a faultless viewing experience – it is futile commissioning high-quality video if the content buffers and renders it unwatchable. And we need to minimise the impact on bandwidth to comply with the requirements of their IT departments”, said Steve Garvey, CEO and Chairman at World Television. “Kontiki’s cloud solution was the logical choice because it delivers streams locally from a single source, thereby eliminating any negative impact on picture quality due to bandwidth limitations”.

“We are delighted to be partnering with World Television”, remarked Dan Vetras, President and CEO at Kontiki. “Using our ECDN cloud solution, businesses are free to embrace the power of enterprise video content to communicate and educate their workforces without being forced to make expensive and time-consuming changes to existing infrastructure”.

Media centre / 24/08/2011

World Television Nominated in Readers’ Choice Awards
World Television, the leading video communications company for corporations and governments, is delighted to announce two nominations in Streaming Media magazine’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards. World Television has been nominated in the categories for ‘Streaming Services Provider’ and ‘Webcast Platform’.

Streaming Services Provider

As Europe’s leading provider of online video solutions World Television captures, encodes, delivers and distributes literally thousands of streams each year on behalf of some of the world’s biggest brands including Heineken, Nestlé, Santander, the World Economic Forum, Bank of England and Credit Suisse. Its proprietary technology platform StreamStudio first launched in 2001 and is the most advanced, flexible and proven webcasting application on the market. StreamStudio manages the full spectrum of live and on-demand solutions – from simple conference call and audio-only webcasts, through to all-encompassing, multi-language video webcasts, through to audio and video podcasts and cellcasts for audiences on the move.

Webcast Platform (StreamStudio Lite)

Powered by StreamStudio, World Television’s self-service webcasting platform StreamStudio Lite allows clients to create live or on-demand audio or video webcasts straight from their computer, with just a broadband internet connection and microphone or webcam. The application also provides clients with advanced functionality to facilitate conference call driven audio webcast production.

Judging is based solely on the number of votes each company receives from Streaming Media’s readers and the general public. Votes for World Television can be registered at
http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/ReadersChoice/2011/Vote.aspx. Winners will be announced at the Streaming Media Europe conference to be held in London in October.

Media centre / 14/07/2011

World Television Collects Awards’ Hat-Trick at US International Film and Video Festival

World Television, the leading video communications agency for corporations and governments, is delighted to have won two Silver Screen awards and a Certificate for Creative Excellence in this year’s US International Film and Video Festival.

We are Anglo American, a brand film produced as part of a larger campaign to launch the mining giant’s new corporate identity, picked up a Silver Screen trophy for ‘Music – Original Production’ and a Certificate for Creative Excellence in the Public Relations category. Built around a specially-composed soundtrack which weaves together voices of employees around the world, the film aims to reflect the company’s spirit and guiding values, as well as the diversity, scope and scale of its operations.

Better Lives, a corporate production for speciality biopharmaceutical company Shire, was awarded a Silver Screen award for Public Relations. Better Lives tells Shire's story through three employees, their colleagues, patients and families and illustrates the ways in which the company makes a difference to people with life-altering conditions. It was produced over 18 months and shot on-location in Europe and the USA.

Tim May, Executive Producer at World Television, says “On behalf of our clients, Anglo American and Shire, we are really pleased that these films have been recognised at such a prestigious international festival. They were tremendous projects to work on and the result of some really strong, creative teamwork”.

Media centre / 22/06/2011

Anglo American Takes the Prize for Global Internal Comms Campaign
World Television, the leading video communications company for corporations and governments, congratulates Anglo American on its award win at the prestigious Institute of Internal Communications Awards 2011.

Anglo American’s ‘Transportation Leadership Engagement Programme’ was up against strong competition from Aviva, The Lloyds Register Group and Roche in the Global Strategy category, for internal communications projects aimed at an international or multilingual audience.

The Engagement Programme is designed to raise awareness of the risks around transportation and facilitate a change in behaviour across the organisation. One of the key creative elements is a series of short films produced by World Television. Combining personal stories, graphics and live action footage, the films highlight the impact not taking transportation risks seriously can have.

Tim May, Executive Producer at World Television, said: “This is a piece of internal communication designed to make a real difference. Greater awareness of the risks around transportation can help save lives. We are delighted that the Safety & Sustainable Development Communications Team at Anglo American have received this well-deserved accolade.”

Media centre / 03/06/2011

Frontline Heroes Celebrated in New York
A new initiative to recognise leadership in community healthcare was launched at the 10th Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Awards Dinner, in New York last week. ‘Frontline Heroes for Health’ is a joint initiative between Anglo American and Virgin Unite to recognise individuals who make a real and positive difference in people’s lives by delivering life-changing health services where they are needed most.

The first recipients of the award, Dr Gilbert Khosa and Kgomotso Kwenje, manage the Bhubezi Community Healthcare Centre in South Africa’s Mpumalanga region – a model of integrated healthcare treating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. They have dedicated their work and lives to providing better healthcare to impoverished rural communities, helping thousands of people who are struggling with these life-threatening conditions.

As part of the launch, leading video communications specialist World Television was commissioned to produce a three-minute film celebrating the award winners and highlighting the positive difference they are making within a community where professional medical services did not exist before Bhubezi was established in 2007. In order to tell their stories, World Television’s crew shot on-location over two days in Bushbuckridge, approximately four hours’ drive north-west of Pretoria. The film premiered as the Heroes took the stage to receive their accolades from Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll and Virgin founder Richard Branson. It can now be viewed on Anglo American’s website at www.angloamerican.com.

Media centre / 31/05/2011

World Television Platform Upgrade Powers Self-Service Conference Call Webcasting
World Television, the leading video communications agency for corporations and governments, today announces that an upgraded version of its market-leading webcasting platform has just been released. StreamStudio, World Television’s proprietary solution for end-to-end webcast production and distribution, now incorporates advanced features to leverage the latest technology available. As part of the upgrade, the company’s ‘self-service’ webcasting solution, StreamStudio Lite, allows clients to create audio webcasts themselves directly from a conference call or telephone line.

StreamStudio was developed in 2001 and is one of the most advanced and proven webcasting platforms on the market. It manages the streaming requirements – from simple conference calls and audio-only webcasts through to all-encompassing multi-camera events – for some of the world’s top brands including Heineken, Nestlé, Santander and Credit Suisse amongst others.

Aside from conference call integration, next-generation StreamStudio highlights include:

Dynamic bandwidth switching for Flash: visitors to any of World Television’s webcasts automatically receive the best quality Flash stream available for their bandwidth. The stream adapts automatically throughout the webcast’s duration as bandwidth increases or decreases

Integration of dynamic content, for example RSS feeds, news tickers and social media widgets like Twitter, to allow for greater audience interaction

In addition to iOS, Blackberry, Android and Symbian, live streaming support for Windows Phone 7 & Samsung Bada devices

Microsoft Silverlight delivery capabilities

GeoIP-based country restriction

Advanced security and authentication settings

“StreamStudio is celebrating its 10th birthday this year and our continuous programme of development ensures that it remains the leading webcast platform in Europe,” said Joffrey Haring, World Television’s Director of Technology and Operations.

“Its success lies in its flexibility to deliver above and beyond our clients’ expectations – StreamStudio effortlessly manages multiple languages, PowerPoint slide synchronisation, live Q&A and keyword searching for events of up to 20,000 simultaneous viewers. With the launch of StreamStudio Lite last year and its new audio webcast option we are constantly responding to market demands to stay ahead of the pack so our clients can too.”