A summary of the most exciting recent news in online video in the U.S., U.S.-Hispanic and Latin American markets. If you’re trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.
US/US-HISPANIC MARKET
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Cloud-native idea management and licensing company Wazee Digital announced a technology partnership with Paladin, the enterprise platform for next-generation media companies, through which they will will use Paladin’s Rights Monitor toolset to strengthen digital rights management (DRM) services on YouTube for key rights holders and content partners, including major college sports organizations.
According to AdColony in association with Millward Brown, videos that include subtitles were found to perform 9.9% better in brand awareness than those without.
Tinder announced an acquisition of Wheel, a video startup whose primary offering resembles Snapchat’s Stories.
LATAM MARKET
In a new report, Portada estimates that the Hispanic Online Video Ad market volume will climb to US $450 million by 2020. Particularly high growth is to be expected by branded content videos. Among video ad-tipes, in-stream will continue to have the largest share, although out-stream will grow at a higher rate.
Software-defined video solutions company Elemental Technologies has announced that Brazilian Globo.com has selected its video processing solutions to power its new 4K video-on-demand (VOD) services.