iflix, Southeast Asia’s Over-the-Top(OTT) startup, today announced that it has entered an agreement with Vimond Media Solutions, a leading enabler of unique digital video services for continued development of its Internet TV platform. Vimond will work with iflix to power and grow the online and mobile Internet TV service’s technology across all markets.
Vimond will provide a managed service for iflix based on its online video platform, and provide operational expertise gained from more than 15 years in the broadcasting and online TV industries. In order to support iflix, Vimond will establish a regional operations centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Headquarted in Bergen, Norway, Vimond, a spun off from Norway's national broadcaster TV 2, offers platforms, applications and professional services to power innovative OTT services in the Nordic Markets, including TV2 Sumo (Norway), Tv4 Play (Sweden), CSports (Nordics) and MTV3 Katsomo (Finland).
Mark Britt, CEO of iflix
Vimond has been instrumental since day one of iflix. From the first meeting we already knew that Vimond was the right partner. Given the wealth of content and cultures in the Southeast Asian market, we needed a strong partner that would seamlessly be able to handle multiple content ingest points and multiple distribution points in several languages and formats.
Helge Høibraaten, CEO Vimond Media Solutions
iflix is a company that has great ambitions, great minds and very experienced people. We appreciate their organisational culture very much and believe this service will be a huge success!. We see enormous potential in this market and believe iflix will change the landscape very quickly, and we are ready to be a part of this change” continued Høibraaten.
