India's Media Tech Startups: Your Insider's Guide
India's Media Tech Startups: Your Insider's Guide
Unleashing Innovation: Navigating the Media Tech Frontier
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Today’s program:
The Indian Media Tech Startup ecosystem
Voiro
Amagi
Magnifi
Neural Garage
Tessact
Mogi I/O
Adsolut Media
Dyte
The Streaming Media Guy’s View
And….Action!
The Indian Media Tech Startup Ecosystem
We have come a long way since Hotstar launched as one of India’s first few OTTs in 2015 and Reliance Jio kickstarted the mobile data driven streaming revolution when they became publicly available only in 2016!
As we have all witnessed, in a short span of 7-8 years, India has seen streaming video explode like never before. This fast and furious pace of growth in video consumption has also given rise to home grown innovation in media technologies and related startups that deserve a closer look.
Our attempt here is to bring to surface some known and a few lesser known gems that could potentially be game changers in our field and day to day lives as media professionals.
Voiro - Business Management Suite for Ad Monetization Teams
Started in 2014, Voiro is a SaaS based media technology company, headquartered in Bangalore. Their revenue analytics platform for content-led companies is trusted by global media powerhouses.
Being one of the early players in this market, Voiro was able to get a front-row view of how the publisher ecosystem was turning a corner on technology. The company unlocks a data-driven approach to accelerating revenue.
Their customers are some of the largest owners of online ad inventory in India and abroad, across the OTT and e-commerce verticals.
Amagi - Unified Cloud Workflows for TV & OTT
In many ways the poster child of India’s Media Tech success globally, Amagi is today a global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV. They enable content owners to launch, distribute and monetize live linear channels on connected TV and SVOD platforms.
In addition, Amagi also offers 24x7 cloud managed services bringing simplicity, advanced automation, and transparency to the entire broadcast operations for traditional TV networks. Working with 800+ content brands, managing 2100+ channel deliveries, with deployments in over 40 countries, they have a presence in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris, Melbourne, Seoul, Singapore, broadcast operations in New Delhi, and an innovation center in Bangalore (HQs and where they started).
More recently, Amagi is leading the FAST (Free Ad Supported Streaming TV) revolution and is known to be the technology partner of choice for thousands of content owners and rights holders who use Amagi’s technology to create FAST channels and also insert digital video ads.
Magnifi - Unleashing the Power of Highlights
Magnifi is an AI powered enterprise product by VideoVerse, enabling content owners & rights-holders in detecting key moments automatically, which can be used in creating highlights, short form videos in real-time.
With offices in the US, UK, Europe, Israel, and India, they work with enterprises across numerous industries like OTT Platforms, Sports Broadcasters, Leagues, Sports Federations, E-gaming platforms, Colleges and more.
Their early days were around video commerce - enabling the purchase of products within a video - product called Toch. The significant learnings around immersive video and AI helped them pivot to the more lucrative highlights & sports verticals!
Neural Garage - End Visual Dissonance in Dubbing
Their first product VisualDub bridges the gap between a seamless viewing experience and consumption of non-native content - Enter a new cinematic age with natural lip sync and high impact storytelling. Visual dubbing while retaining authentic cinematic experience across multiple languages, powered by AI.
They use machine learning and AI to sync the lips and jaw movements of the actor to the dubbed audio, thereby making the video look authentic with different languages!
Plus they come with an API integration to your platform where you can automate hundreds of videos with visual dubbing.
Tessact - An AI-powered video creation suite for the people of video
An ambitious team with 35+ years of experience in the Media & Entertainment domain, they bring together stakeholders of the content creator economy into a single collaborative SasS platform with powerful automation tools.
Tessact enables people to create, collaborate, analyze and monetize videos, all in one place, and aims to be the go-to platform to experience collaboration on videos.
Mogi I/O - No Code White Labeled OTT
Mogi I/O is a world class OTT platform provider that enables content owners to launch their own streaming platform on Web, Android, iOS and Smart TV.
The product and service is a patent-pending, next-generation - scalable and cost-effective video & image delivery SaaS.
Their mission is to make video streaming and video delivery infrastructure easily accessible for companies and ensure that their core IPs deliver a buffer free streaming experience for the end consumer of their clients anywhere, anytime.
Adsolut Media - India’s largest Digital Video Ad Network
No, not the vodka brand, but Adsolut Media has grown on the back of strong partnerships in the Indian publisher and streaming ecosystem to emerge as an ad tech powerhouse working with 500+ publishers in India alone. Over the past 2 years they have also expanded to the Middle East, APAC and the United States.
Their aim is to offer publishers a complete monetization suite under one roof. Be it banner, video in-stream/out-stream/, live TV, native, in-game, etc, they have built a strong tech+monetization solution.
Their fully transparent platform and mutual-interest business approach enables publishers and brands to get their fair share of ad value at every opportunity, on their terms. Publishers get quick access to world's leading Demand Sources to get the value they are looking for and buyers get the users they want.
Dyte - Build powerful live experiences in your product
Covering a wide variety of use cases such as Gaming, Social, Dating, Tele-Health, HR Tech, Fitness, Events, Ed Tech etc, Dyte.io enables the creation of immersive live experiences with everything you need - video calls, audio conferencing, interactive live streaming, AI powered chat - all packed into a single SDK (software development kit).
Built primarily for developers building video focused products, their technology can have an impact on media, entertainment and sports where real time communication + interactive elements are required - chats, polls, screen share, and plugins across all major devices.
The Streaming Media Guy’s View
As a product, technology, sales OR management professional in media & entertainment, the advancements in Technology, AI and platforms is enabling faster content creation, offering additional monetization options, unlocking faster and cheaper go to market plans, facilitating easier team management, and basically a more productive and efficient you!
I am particularly encouraged by the easier access to world class technology platforms, reliable support and a fast improving and growing media tech startup & innovation culture right in our backyard.
This truly augurs well for all of us as we can balance the reliance on traditionally US headquartered streaming tech companies with their local counterparts.
That’s all for today folks - looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday. If you enjoy reading this newsletter, please go ahead and share it with your friends and colleagues!
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