Nov 15, 2024
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Press Announcement
London/Dallas, October xx, 2024: Red Bee Media, a leading global media services provider, and the newly combined entity of Fabric x Xytech, are pleased to announce a strategic partnership designed to enrich Fabric x Xytech’s product suite by integrating Red Bee Media’s metadata content and imagery for the US, UK, and Ireland markets. This collaboration brings together Red Bee Media’s extensive program guide metadata, which includes channel lineups with Fabric x Xytech’s expertise in metadata management and media supply chain integration.
This partnership aims to deliver a more personalized and engaging viewer experience across cable, satellite, and free-to-air services. As demand for viewer engagement and satisfaction rises, Red Bee Media leverages a vast array of content to support this increased consumption, leading to potential revenue growth for customers.
Shaun Stark, Head of North America and Global Content Discovery at Red Bee Media states: “Fabric x Xytech’s focus on integrations of data services and increasing industry connections appeals to our want and need to expand our reach. The new offering of our metadata through Fabric x Xytech will allow customers direct access to our metadata and imagery. Unlocking a level of product enrichment for customers that boosts enhanced content volume and produces more robust engagement with easy accessibility can be a challenging feat. Together, our combined resources will simplify data management, enhance content volume, and boost engagement—our shared vision of success. With extensive experience in the media and entertainment supply chains, metadata, and television distribution, Fabric x Xytech’s team will power the connections to promote the sourcing and integrations now required in the video distribution industry.”
Rob Delf, CEO of Fabric x Xytech, said: “The goal in our partnership with Red Bee Media is to not only offer Red Bee Media’s enriched content assets where essential, but also to build the connections required for this metadata and imagery to reach the level of growth needed to satisfy the audiences in a market of immense demand. We are excited to collaborate with Red Bee Media as we share common priorities of providing excellent services, building customer connections, and fostering growth.”
In this partnership, Red Bee Media and Fabric x Xytech will collaborate to enhance their product offerings by delivering increased innovation in the highest value and quality metadata and imagery. The first customer platform integration of the new metadata product will launch December 15, 2024 and will be tailored to all audiences with the aim to significantly increase development opportunities.
About Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media is the leading global media services partner for innovation and growth. We enable some of the world’s most recognized media brands, broadcasters, and content owners to instantly connect with audiences anywhere at any time. Every day, millions of people across the globe discover, enjoy, and engage with content prepared, managed, broadcast, and streamed by Red Bee Media. Headquartered in London, with more than 2,000 media experts in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, Red Bee Media provides innovative solutions across the entire content delivery chain, including Playout, Streaming, Distribution, MCR, Media Management, Access, Content Discovery, and Post-Production services.
About Fabric x Xytech
Fabric x Xytech is the newly formed entity resulting from the merger of Fabric and Xytech Systems, combining cutting-edge media supply chain and metadata management solutions with industry-leading media resource management tools. The company empowers media organizations to efficiently manage, distribute, and monetize content through an integrated platform that sets new standards for innovation and efficiency in the industry. For more information on both companies, see www.fabricdata.com and www.xytechsystems.com.
