STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveClips™, an innovator and pioneer in the creation, digitization and real-time delivery of smart video clips to sports and fantasy league fans via Internet-enabled and mobile devices, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Encompass Digital Media to host its service offerings.
LiveClips’ patent-pending smart video clipping technology ingests live feeds from games and creates, digitizes and delivers discrete searchable video clips of every play/replay to Web-enabled or mobile devices within 10 seconds of live action, in accordance with personalized filters set by customers. LiveClips, which received $2.15 million in investments over the past three months, created 83,000 discrete video clips, with 6,887 distributed to fans who viewed them over 65 million times during the 2011 NCAA®/BCS college football season. ESPN® and Major League Baseball®, among others, have used LiveClips’ technology.
“LiveClips has grown five-fold in the past year and is continuing to expand in size and reach,” said Lewis Bakes, its CEO. “The time had come to select a company to host our services, and we are fortunate to work with Encompass, a world-class company with a global footprint and facilities right in Stamford, making our working relationship all the more convenient.”
“Encompass is pleased to host LiveClips in this innovative and emerging technology,” said Bill Tillson, president and COO of Encompass.
LiveClips at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona This Week
Mr. Bakes said that he, CTO/founder Doug Vunic and newly named COO Brian Kalinowski will represent LiveClips at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, along with more than 60,000 leaders of the global mobile community.
“It is our plan,” Mr. Bakes said, “to capitalize on our growth and progress and work to extend our reach into the European and worldwide sports market.”
About LiveClips
LiveClips (www.LiveClips.com) is an innovator and leader in the development and delivery of instantaneous video content to sports and fantasy league fans via mobile and Internet-enabled devices. Founded in 2008, LiveClips’ game-changing advanced technology automates the previously time- and labor-intensive processes of creating game clips highlighting the most exciting and important plays, enabling broadcasters and rights holders to dramatically increase the efficiency of their sports coverage. LiveClips is also pioneering a new era of mobile engagement, creating instant in-game clips users can filter by teams, players and kinds of plays.
About Encompass Digital Media, Inc.
Encompass (www.encompass-m.com), a leader in digital media services, owns and operates state-of-the-art, broadcast facilities throughout the United States, United Kingdom and Asia. The company’s mission-critical, media services provide broadcasters, cable networks, corporations and government agencies with customized solutions for the management and distribution of content.
With global access to large satellite and fiber footprints, Encompass has 24/7/365 Teleport facilities and technical personnel in Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Stamford, Lino Lakes and Minneapolis, Minn., Burbank, Calif., London and Singapore. The company employs unparalleled expertise through its full range of service offerings such as network origination; centralcasting; cable neighborhood platforms; disaster recovery; satellite and fiber transmissions (full time and occasional use); a fleet of satellite uplink trucks; digital media encoding services; digital file transfers via satellite, fiber and IP; emergency communications; governmental SATCOM; production studios; and video production services.
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