KIT digital
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KIT digital is a global provider of end-to-end video management software and services. The company is headquartered in Prague
, and maintains principal offices in Atlanta, Beijing
, Boston
, Buenos Aires
, New York
, Chennai
, Cologne
, Dubai
, Hong Kong
, London
, Los Angeles
, Madrid
, Melbourne
, Milan
, Mumbai
, Paris
, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore
, Sofia
, Stockholm
, Sydney
, and York
. KIT digital (previously known as ROO Group) changed its name in 2008 after financial restructuring of the company. KIT digital was listed on the NASDAQ Global Market in August 2009 under the ticker "KITD".
The KIT Video Platform is available in two editions, KIT Cloud and KIT Cosmos. KIT Cloud is a cloud-based, turnkey solution for multiscreen social video experiences, while KIT Cosmos is an on-premise or managed private cloud solution for advanced, broadcast-grade multiscreen broadband TV deployments.
, the Associated Press
, K-mart, Verizon, Best Buy
, Bristol-Myers Squibb
, Disney-ABC, Fedex
, General Motors
, Hewlett-Packard
, Home Depot, IMG Worldwide, Intel, Telefonica
, The U.S. Department of Defense, Vodafone
, Telecom Argentina
, Sky Go, National Geographic, Airbus
, AT&T
, .
The Company's largest media clients include The New York Post, The Sun
, Channel 10 in Australia, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation and others.
2008 acquisitions include:
2009 acquisitions include:
2010 acquisitions include:
2011 acquisitions include:
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, and maintains principal offices in Atlanta, Beijing
Beijing
Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...
, Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, San Diego, San Francisco, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, and York
York
York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
. KIT digital (previously known as ROO Group) changed its name in 2008 after financial restructuring of the company. KIT digital was listed on the NASDAQ Global Market in August 2009 under the ticker "KITD".
KIT Video Platform
KIT Video Platform, the company's cloud-based video asset management system, enables media & entertainment, network operator, and non-media enterprise clients to produce, manage, and deliver live and on-demand, socially-enabled video experiences from any source to any screen.The KIT Video Platform is available in two editions, KIT Cloud and KIT Cosmos. KIT Cloud is a cloud-based, turnkey solution for multiscreen social video experiences, while KIT Cosmos is an on-premise or managed private cloud solution for advanced, broadcast-grade multiscreen broadband TV deployments.
Customers
KIT digital's clients include GoogleGoogle
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
, K-mart, Verizon, Best Buy
Best Buy
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada & China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates...
, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...
, Disney-ABC, Fedex
FedEx
FedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
, General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
, Home Depot, IMG Worldwide, Intel, Telefonica
Telefónica
Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...
, The U.S. Department of Defense, Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
, Telecom Argentina
Telecom Argentina
Telecom Argentina is the major local telephone company for the northern part of Argentina, including the whole of the city of Buenos Aires...
, Sky Go, National Geographic, Airbus
Airbus
Airbus SAS is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, surburb of Toulouse, and with significant activity across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners....
, AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
, .
The Company's largest media clients include The New York Post, The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
, Channel 10 in Australia, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation and others.
Acquisitions
KIT digital has acquired a number of players in the IP video industry.2008 acquisitions include:
- Visual Connection
- Kamera
- Morpheum
2009 acquisitions include:
- Narrowstep
- Nunet, whose assets served to build the VX Entreprise solution.
- The FeedRoom
2010 acquisitions include:
- Multicast Media, whose assets served to build the VX Media Suite solution.
- Singapore based Benchmark Broadcast Systems
- Megahertz Broadcast Systems
- Accela Communications
- Brickbox Digital Media, one of Europe’s leading providers of traditional and next-generation digital video asset management solution
2011 acquisitions include:
- KewegoKewegoKewego is a video platform provider website. The company is based in Paris, France. In early 2011, KIT digital purchased Kewego. Clients include brands such as Orange, Ebay, Lycos, M6, and L'Equipe...
- KickAppsKickAppsKickApps is a hosted platform for creating social networks and adding social software features, video players and widgets to websites. More than 100,000 sites use KickApps, including major media companies KickApps is a hosted platform for creating social networks and adding social software...
- Kyte
- TXT Polymedia
- iokoIokoioko is a systems integration and IT services company that designs, builds and runs digital media platforms for Media and Entertainment companies worldwide. It specialises in application development, media systems integration and dedicated managed services and mostly known for its involvement in...
Executive Management
- Kaleil Isaza TuzmanKaleil Isaza TuzmanKaleil Isaza Tuzman is an entrepreneur, the chief executive officer and elected chairman of the board of KIT digital, Inc., and managing partner of KCP Capital...
- Chairman & CEO - Gavin Campion - President
- Robin Smyth - Chief Financial Officer
- Alex Blum - Chief Operating Officer
- Barak Bar-Cohen - Chief Administrative Officer
- Scott Sahadi - Chief Strategy Officer