Loudeye Goes Hollywood
Digital Media Leader Establish Office in Santa Monica to Better Meet the Needs of Film Studios and Record Labels
SEATTLE, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Loudeye Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: LOUD), originally encoding.com, a leading provider of digital media solutions that unleash the power of audio and video on the Internet, today announced the opening of a digital media center in Santa Monica, CA, localizing the Company's services, applications and consulting for its Southern California customers. Loudeye's addition of its Santa Monica digital media center is the next step in the national and international expansion that now includes nearly 300 employees in its Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and London offices.
The Santa Monica digital media center will have capabilities for all aspects of Loudeye's digital media solutions -- from sales and marketing to production and consulting. The office is home to a complete digital media production center offering the same high quality digital media encoding services on which Loudeye was founded. Additionally, the center includes a staff for its consulting services, reflecting the ability of Loudeye's Santa Monica location to meet the full gamut of audio and video demands of the media, entertainment and corporate industries.
The same experienced team who developed Loudeye's industry leading Seattle digital media center built the California production systems. Addressing the needs of major media and entertainment companies in Southern California, the Santa Monica production center specializes in feature-length films, movie trailers, TV commercials and promotions. The new digital media center replicates Loudeye's proven processes and expertise in encoding traditional content, including SVHS, beta, 3/4 inch, digi beta, DAT and others, into high quality digital media formats, such as MPEG1, MPEG2, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media, at any bit rate for distribution on the Internet.
"We have numerous customers in Southern California, particularly from the media and entertainment industries, who will benefit from our digital media center," said Martin Tobias, minister of order and reason, founder and CEO, Loudeye Technologies Inc. "When building the Santa Monica digital media center, we mirrored our industry leading Seattle facility by using best of breed technologies and implementing proven processes, maintaining our reputation as the highest quality, scalable, and high volume digital media production lab in the industry."
Loudeye's Santa Monica office is located at 1424 2nd St., Suite 200, Santa Monica, California.
About Loudeye Technologies, Inc.
As a leading Internet media infrastructure company, Loudeye delivers complete digital media solutions including services and applications for the encoding, management and distribution of content. Loudeye's digital media services deliver an end-to-end solution for companies interested in providing and managing digital media content for their Web site. Loudeye's digital media applications platform is the only scalable and extensible engine for publishing, encoding, hosting and managing digital media content on any Web site.
Technology companies such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, and media and entertainment companies such as AtomFilms, BMG Entertainment, EMusic.com, EMI-Capitol Music Group, Sony Corporation, Warner Bros. Online, and Universal New Media have unleashed a new audio and video experience on their Web sites through us. Join them. Experience our digital reality at www.loudeye.com. Or reach us through Alexander Graham Bell's vision at 206-832-4000.
SOURCE Loudeye Technologies Inc.
04/18/2000 09:15 EDT prnewswire.com |
