Al Jazeera Extends Relationship with Avid to Enable Subscription and SaaS Cloud-Based Production for Thousands of Users Around the World
August 23 2023 - 9:04AM
Leading media and entertainment technology provider Avid® (Nasdaq:
AVID) has extended its agreement with long-time customer and global
media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN), with a deal
that will transition the network’s production operation towards a
cloud-based subscription service, together with multi-site
collaboration and remote production.
Al Jazeera selected Avid to completely upgrade and expand its
news and programming creation workflows and connect teams
distributed across its regional hubs – in Qatar, London, and
Washington, DC – and its global network of news bureaus and other
sites.
Al Jazeera is one of the largest and most influential
international news networks in the world. Launched in 1996, it was
the first independent news channel in the Arab region, and now
broadcasts to more than 450 million homes across 150 countries.
The new multi-year comprehensive agreement will convert Al
Jazeera onto an Avid MediaCentral® | Flex subscription model,
giving them access to the latest platform tools and Avid NEXIS®
storage. It will also include a transition path in the near future
from its existing hardware servers onto Avid’s next-generation
software-based and cloud-enabled media ingest and playout platform,
Avid | Stream IO™.
In addition, the new agreement comes with subscription licenses
to Avid | Edit On Demand, Avid’s complete production environment in
the cloud, allowing Al Jazeera to spin up the latest editing
capabilities across its entire network of bureaus, while exploring
all the possibilities of cloud workflows.
Commenting on the agreement, Ahmed AlFahad, AJMN’s Executive
Director of Technology & Network Operations, stated, “We’re
very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with Avid.
This new subscription agreement gives us a comprehensive end-to-end
solution and all the flexibility we need, so that our journalists
can focus on what they do best--telling the important stories of
the day.”
Avid’s Chief Revenue Officer Tom Cordiner explains, “We’re
delighted to extend our agreement with such a long-time customer as
Al Jazeera. This move to subscription provides them real
flexibility and the latest functionality from Avid, while
positioning them to take advantage of new upgrades to meet their
future requirements.”
To learn more about how media companies achieve new operational
advantages through subscription software, please visit:
https://www.avid.com/products/mediacentral/mediacentral-subscriptions. Visit
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