Red Bee supports content management for Salto in France

Red Bee Media is supporting French SVOD platform Salto with ongoing content management services.

Salto is relying on Red Bee to deliver digital asset management (DAM), post-production for promotional material and quality check of assets being added to the platform.

With a strong legacy of providing managed media services, Red Bee has implemented a solution combining the company’s own cloud-based Media Gateway and a fit-for-purpose DAM-system from middleware provider Perfect Memory.

“Red Bee Media is a highly experienced and innovative provider of media services, internationally and in France, which made the choice easy when we were looking for a content management partner for Salto,” commented Hugues Blondet, in charge of DAM at Salto. “The managed services they provide enables efficient collaboration between all contributors to Salto, which has proven instrumental to the launch and continued success of the platform. It was vital to have Red Bee as a partner in this project.”

In addition to co-ordinating content management for Salto, Red Bee is also delivering quality check services for assets being ingested in the system as well as post-production for promotional content, which includes editing, voice recording, mixing and media management.

Stéphane Grandvarlet, head of market area Southern Europe, Red Bee, said: “We are proud to be a part of the launch of Salto and the ongoing transformation of the French broadcasting industry. With Salto, French audiences will get access to a catalogue of some of the best broadcasting content available in the country. We look forward to seeing the platform grow and to continue contributing to Salto’s success.”

Salto launched on 20 October 2020 and brings the best of catch-up TV and streaming content into one service. With over 15,000 hours of content, its offering comes in a wide variety of genres.