Software and services company Amdocs is to further expand its footprint with the purchase of Vubiquity.
Amdocs has entered a definitive agreement to pay $224 million for Vubiquity that will lead to increased distribution opportunities for network operators, video distributors, OTT companies, content owners and content producers.
“This acquisition uniquely positions Amdocs at the centre of increased convergence across the content community and video distributors including major OTT providers,” said Eli Gelman, Amdocs President and CEO. “Our joint offerings address the media and entertainment industry’s challenge in balancing the incredible growth of content and the many ways to consume content with making programming easier, faster to deliver and ultimately watch, while also delivering profits.”
“Vubiquity has successfully been connecting content owners and distributors across many diverse platforms and evolving business models at the core of its support to the media community,” adds Vubiquity CEO Darcy Antonellis, who will, upon completion of the deal, be joining Amdocs as head of the Amdocs Media Division. “Our capabilities, coupled with Amdocs’ global scale and rich set of complementary solutions around monetization, analytics and personalized customer experience will be truly unique, allowing us to deliver to a larger set of customers while solving key industry challenges. This includes helping video distributors deliver additional profitable offerings, as well as enabling content owners to focus on content creation and maximising licensing revenues.”
Los Angeles-based Vubiquity has a large international footprint in 121 countries – including the UK – and manages a 150,000+ asset library, providing superior quality and high volumes of assets for predictable day and date delivery.