QuickPlay Media is a privately held company that provides solutions for the distribution of premium video to portable wireless devices. The company’s OpenVideo platform powers mobile video services for live TV, video on demand

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 (VOD) and radio services for companies including AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., founded in 1987 as McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., and now legally known as New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corp., is a wireless telephone carrier in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York...

, Bell Mobility

Bell Mobility

Bell Mobility is a CDMA and HSPA+ based wireless network and the division of Bell Canada which sells wireless services in Canada...

, Cricket Wireless, Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility

Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. , formerly the Mobile Devices division of Motorola Inc. until January 2011, is a communications corporation headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Motorola's networks division pioneered the flip phone with the StarTAC in the mid-1990s...

, Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless

Rogers Wireless is a wireless telecommunications provider offering mobile phone and data services throughout Canada using Global System for Mobile Communications and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System technology. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Communications...

, Research In Motion

Research In Motion

Research In Motion Limited or RIM is a Canadian multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada that designs, manufactures and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market...

, Sirius XM, and U.S. Cellular

U.S. Cellular

United States Cellular Corporation, d.b.a. U.S. Cellular , owns and operates the sixth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, behind Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Metro PCS. , they serve about 6.1 million customers in 126 markets in...

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QuickPlay was founded in April of 2004 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario; with offices throughout the US and in London, England. The company currently has 1 million content assets under management.

QuickPlay Media has received venture funding from GMP Securities L.P., General Catalyst Partners

General Catalyst Partners

General Catalyst Partners is a private equity firm focused on venture capital investments in early stage technology-based companies including software, infrastructure software and applied technology businesses. The firm has also includes a growth capital team that focuses on later stage...

, Ventures West, J.L. Albright and Up Capital.

In May 2010, research firm IDC named QuickPlay to its list of "Ten Canadian Mobile and Wireless Companies to Watch."

QuickPlay announced that it had joined the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem is a consortium of major Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, network hardware vendors, systems integrators and Digital Rights Management vendors...

, producers of the UltraViolet cloud-based content distribution system, in January of 2011.

External links

• QuickPlay- QuickPlay Media's Home Page
• Deloitte Fast 50 - Deloitte Fast 50 Canada 2010 Winners
• Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem - DECE Consortium Wikipedia Page
• Super Bowl XLV coverage features traditional, new media technology - Broadcast Engineering, 2/7/11
• IDC - IDC Research Notations for QuickPlay Media
• QuickPlay Media Private Vendor Watchlist Profile: Powering the Multiscreen Entertainment Experience - IDC Private Vendor Watch