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ZOO Digital Group plc
("ZOO" or "The Group")
ZOO SOFTWARE AUTOMATES PRODUCTION OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HOME ENTERTAINMENT MENUS
ZOO Digital, the provider of software and software-led services for the filmed entertainment market, announces that its software has now been used to automate the production of over 100,000 menus for home entertainment products.
ZOO develops workflow automation systems that enable major film studios and other publishers to deliver film and TV products to worldwide audiences and considerably reduce associated costs and time to market. Home entertainment products are usually developed initially for the North American market and then adapted to address the local needs of up to 60 different territories. An important component of this is the adaptation of the digital menus incorporated in packaged media products, and ZOO provides software to automate this process.
ZOO's products are licensed using a pricing model that combines Software-as-a-Service with software usage so the company benefits from recurring revenues that grow as customers process more of their titles while ZOO's costs remain fixed.
ZOO's automated menu regionalisation software is now being used by and on behalf of a number of studios and the production volume more than doubled in the year to March 2010 compared to the prior period. Management anticipates ongoing growth in demand for its regionalisation software as its customers continue to seek to reduce the costs associated with international product development.
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About ZOO Digital Group plc:
ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media transformation software and related services. ZOO's products form an integrated suite of desktop applications and on-demand systems that work with printed materials and audio/visual content, adapting these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats. ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.
ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalized filmed entertainment titles and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and across a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through and broadcast. Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media adaptation software transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services.
ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video production for entertainment applications, with customers including major film studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.
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