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Stephen O’Shaughnessy and the problem with 500 videos
He had travel videos to sell and no simple way to sell them. The VideoElephant founder turned that problem into a business connecting video makers, publishers and, eventually, entire streaming channels.
Backlight bought the tools. Now it is fixing the handoffs.
Six specialist products, one expensive problem: the time lost between making a video and getting it seen. Backlight is turning a portfolio of media software into a connected production line.
The Internet Used to Break Live TV. LTN Built a Business Making Sure It Doesn’t.
Broadcasters spent decades trusting satellites because the public internet dropped packets at the worst possible moment. LTN’s wager was that a managed IP network could be cheaper, more flexible and just as dependable - and the shrinking supply of satellite spectrum is making that wager look timely.
VideoElephant
VideoElephant is a Dublin- and New York-based video content company that sources, licenses, curates and programmes premium video for publishers, streaming services and screens worldwide. It runs a library of millions of rights-cleared video assets from thousands of content providers, and packages that content as single VOD assets, feeds and 24/7 FAST channels, layering on distribution, playout scheduling, monetization and advertising so content owners and buyers can operate video at scale without stitching together multiple vendors.