# 3Play Media

> 3Play Media is a Boston-based video accessibility and localization company that combines AI, proprietary workflow software, and human language expertise. Organizations use its platform for captions, live captioning, transcripts, audio description, subtitles, dubbing, and video-library auditing, with integrations and APIs connecting those services to existing publishing systems.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Antunes (Co-founder and Co-CEO), Josh Miller (Co-founder and Co-CEO), C. J. Johnson (Co-founder; CTO in MIT’s 2015 account), Jeremy Barron (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Closed captioning and transcription, Live captioning, Audio description, Subtitling and translation, AI Dubbing
- **Notable:** Reports more than 10,000 customers., Acquired Captionmax and National Captioning Canada in February 2022; financial terms were not disclosed., Company reports captioning 200+ daily Paris Olympics files with turnaround as fast as two hours.

## Products & services

- **Closed captioning and transcription** — Recorded-video captions and transcripts, with a 99% accuracy guarantee for professional captioning and automated delivery workflows.
- **Live captioning** — Professional and automatic captioning for live events, streams, and real-time accommodations.
- **Audio description** — Spoken descriptions of important visual content, with human or synthesized speech options.
- **Subtitling and translation** — Translated on-screen text for multilingual video distribution.
- **AI Dubbing** — AI-generated voices combined with human-reviewed transcripts and translations; first announced April 2, 2024. Current tiers start at $3, $7, $18, and $35 per minute with different review depths.
- **Pulse** — Audits and scores video accessibility, assesses audio-description needs, and routes high-risk files for human remediation; launched March 4, 2026.
- **YouTube creator dubbing** — Creator-focused localization with channel analytics, language prioritization, voice casting, cultural adaptation, and YouTube delivery; announced April 9, 2026.
- **Interactive transcripts and Access Player** — Time-synchronized text enables viewers to search transcripts and jump to the corresponding video moment.
- **Platform integrations and API** — Programmatic ordering, status tracking, and delivery, plus integrations with video and lecture-capture platforms.

## Achievements

- Reports more than 10,000 customers.
- Acquired Captionmax and National Captioning Canada in February 2022; financial terms were not disclosed.
- Company reports captioning 200+ daily Paris Olympics files with turnaround as fast as two hours.
- FutureLearn case study documents 300 transcription uploads and 700 caption-format conversions.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Announced a YouTube creator dubbing solution combining human-reviewed AI dubbing with channel analytics.
- **2026-03** — Launched Pulse for video accessibility auditing and remediation.
- **2025-08** — Announced a brand refresh emphasizing global video localization and services across 50+ languages.

## Links

- Website: https://www.3playmedia.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3play-media/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/3playmedia
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/3PlayMedia/

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Last updated: 2026-10-21