Globant Collaborates with Google Cloud to Offer a Comprehensive OTT Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native technology services company focused on creating digital journeys announced today a collaboration with Google Cloud to offer an end-to-end OTT platform solution for the media and entertainment industry. This integrated offering leverages Google Cloud's Anvato Media Content Platform for content ingestion, metadata management, analytics, and server-side ad insertion, and Globant's Signal OTT Application Platform, for video app creation, ongoing curation and content management, and application UX updates across all major consumer devices such as Roku, iOS, Xbox, Android, and more.

"Globant's Signal interactive OTT app platform helps media and entertainment companies quickly launch native experiences across all major platforms and devices while providing constant interaction to engage with audiences," says Nate Thompson, Globant Managing Director of Globant's Media Practice. "Our integration with Anvato creates a seamless end-to-end offering, from content capture and ingest through consumer playback."

The integrated platform offers a complete end-to-end solution for media and entertainment companies who need to monetize their content on the exploding number of consumer devices beyond the television set. With this combined solution customers can now rely on two proven juggernauts in the cloud and video industry for an integrated solution to address this challenge.

Today, Signal supports iOS smartphone and tablet, Android smartphone and tablet, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, Xbox, and UWP. With its plug-in architecture, Signal integrates with all critical categories of providers in the OTT supply chain including analytics, ads, authentication, quality of service and more. Signal thrives with several interaction features, as it also provides Gaming Tools, Social Interactions, Comments, Likes, User Generated Content and Second Screen tools to deeply engage with customers' audience. These features enable deep insights of users increasing session times and user recurrence growing monetization opportunities.

To learn more about Signal, contact us at [email protected] or visit http://www.sgnl.tv/

About Globant

We are a digitally native technology services company. We are passionate about building the new way of being digital. We want to help our clients emotionally connect with consumers and employees, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence for business optimization. We are the place where engineering, design, and innovation meet scale.

• Globant has more than 6,300 professionals in 12 countries working for companies like Linkedin, BBVA, EA, and Coca Cola, among others.
• We were named a Worldwide Leader of Digital Strategy Consulting Services by IDC MarketScape report (2016 and 2017)
• We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.

For more information, visit www.globant.com

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