Televisa Chooses Onstream Media to Enable User Generated Video Content for its Esmas.com Portal
POMPANO BEACH, FL Mar 19, 2007
Onstream Media Corporation ( OTC: ONSM), a leading online service provider of live and on-demand, digital media communications and applications, announced today that Onstream Media has been chosen by Televisa, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, to enable user generated video content for Televisa’s Esmas.com Internet portal. Esmas.com is already the leading portal network for Hispanic content in the world, featuring more than 120 sites within its network.
Onstream Media’s Digital Media Services Platform (DMSP) will be utilized by Televisa to facilitate the automated uploading, transcoding, hosting and streaming of both user-generated video content as well as Televisa’s own video productions within the Esmas.com portal. The Onstream Media DMSP will automatically provide for the accommodation of a wide variety of media player formats and end-user devices and connection bandwidths.
"Onstream Media’s participation in the Esmas portal is a direct result of our ability to process millions of user uploads and video streams to enhance Televisa’s consumer experience,” said Randy Selman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Onstream Media. “We are honored that Televisa has chosen to utilize our DMSP as an integral component of this global endeavor.”
About Televisa: Grupo Televisa, S.A., is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world and a major participant in the international entertainment business. It has interests in television production and broadcasting, production of pay television networks, international distribution of television programming, direct-to-home satellite services, publishing and publishing distribution, cable television, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and live entertainment, feature film production and distribution, and the operation of a horizontal internet portal. Grupo Televisa also owns an unconsolidated equity stake in Univision, the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States, and in La Sexta, a free-to-air television venture in Spain.
About Onstream Media: Founded in 1993, Onstream Media Corporation ( OTC: ONSM) is a leading online service provider of live and on-demand, digital media communications and applications. Onstream Media's pioneering Digital Media Services Platform (DMSP) provides its customers with the necessary tools for webcasting, web conferencing and webinars as well as managing digital assets, publishing content on the Internet in various files and formats and establishing e-commerce storefronts to transact business online.
All of Onstream Media's services are focused on increasing productivity and revenues, and reducing capital expenditures and operational costs for any organization in an affordable and highly secure environment. As a result, 78% of the Fortune 100 CEOs and CFOs and almost half of the Fortune 1000 companies have used Onstream Media's services. Select Onstream Media customers include: AOL, AAA, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, Dell, Disney, MGM, Deutsche Bank, Rodale, Inc., Thomson Financial/CCBN, PR Newswire and the U.S. Government. For more information, visit Onstream Media at http://www.onstreammedia.com or call 954-917-6655.
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