Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced that the company has changed its name to T3Media, Inc., effective immediately. “T3Media reflects the evolution of our company as we grow both our Licensing and Platform businesses to serve the needs of leading digital content producers as well as sports, news, and entertainment library owners worldwide,” said T3Media’s CEO, Kevin Schaff, who founded the company in 2003.
The Football League and BBC Sport have agreed a deal to create a joint archive and have appointed BBC Motion Gallery, BBC Worldwide’s clip licensing business, to digitise the content and license the rights. The deal, which runs until 2016, is the first of its kind in the UK where a sporting organisation and broadcaster have created a joint archive.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. announced today that it has extended its exclusive licensing contract with the NCAA. In addition to licensing NCAA Championship video, Thought Equity Motion now has the rights to license photographs and radio calls from the NCAA’s 89 Championships across 23 sports and all three division levels.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced that J.R. DeLang, a recognized leader in the media and entertainment space, has joined the company’s Board of Directors
Investcorp Technology Partners, the technology private equity arm of alternative investment manager Investcorp, announced today that its Technology Partners III Fund has acquired a significant minority stake in Thought Equity Motion, the leading provider of cloud-based video management and footage licensing services, based in Denver, Colorado. Investcorp Technology Partners invested a total of $28 million, making it the largest single shareholder in the company today.
Tennis Australia and Thought Equity Motion Collaborate to Unlock Australian Open Content with Advanced Video Platform and Rich Metadata. Classic Australian Open matches can now be viewed by tennis fans around the world free of charge at the AOTV Vault, which launched today.
Thought Equity Motion announced today that the Mountain West Conference has signed a multi-year, exclusive licensing deal with the company. Under the new agreement, Thought Equity Motion is enabling digital access to the Conference’s entire video library—covering memorable moments in college basketball, football, volleyball, soccer and many other sports—and adding the content to its T3 Platform.
Thought Equity Motion & History Makers International are pleased to invite footage and image researchers to apply to our newly expanded Global Researcher Program. The event, the only gathering of international visual researchers, producers, broadcasters, and archives in North America, has now opened the 2012 program to researchers globally.
Thought Equity Motion announced a partnership in which the company’s footage licensing and cloud-based storage services are integrated into the latest edition of Avid’s flagship editing systems, Media Composer® version 6, NewsCutter® version 10 and Symphony® version 6. With the most recent version of Avid’s professional editing systems, Thought Equity Motion’s services will be offered in the Avid® marketplace.
Thought Equity Motion announced today that the United States Tennis Association (USTA) engaged in a multi-year, exclusive agreement to utilize the company’s advanced video platform and sales distribution network to license US Open tournament footage dating back to the 1960s.
Thought Equity Motion announced the acquisition of Panvidea, a platform provider for video preparation, processing, packaging and delivery. Panvidea enables professional content owners, broadcasters, publishers, and advertising agencies to encode, edit and package their video content for distribution to any digital platform across any digital network at a fraction of the time and cost.
As the 2011 ACC Football season kicks off, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Raycom Sports announced today the expansion of the ACC Vault (www.theACC.com/vault), which is powered by Thought Equity Motion. The ACC Vault now includes full-length ACC regular season and Championship Football games from all 12 ACC member institutions, as well as original video content and social sharing features.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced the closing of a $25 million investment from Shamrock Capital Advisors, a leading investment firm focused on the media, entertainment and communications sectors. The funding is to support the continued growth of the company’s technology platform, the expansion of its cloud storage infrastructure, and the ability to service customers globally.
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Thought Equity Motion, Inc. announced that starting this fall the ACC will be utilizing Thought Equity Motion’s T3 Library Manager to create an advanced digital workflow that provides sports broadcasters and other media with timely, online access to ACC sports content. This service will replace traditional satellite and physical workflows historically used to distribute interviews and other video content.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced that it has expanded its footprint in the Los Angeles area to include an advanced scanning and ingest facility in Burbank, CA. The facility enables studios and content producers to ingest master-quality assets into Thought Equity Motion’s industry leading T3 Platform.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. announced today that it has collaborated with Melcher Media to provide the compelling video content featured in Al Gore’s Our Choice App for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. This first-of-its-kind video-enabled book is topping Apple’s paid Apps lists.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its Entertainment & Celebrity News offering with thousands of hours of current and archival video of Hollywood stars, popular athletes, and international icons. The company’s deep footage library and advanced search and delivery tools provide an unparalleled resource for publishers developing new forms of interactive content for tablets, smart phones, connected TVs and other emerging channels.
Reliance MediaWorks, India’s fastest growing film and entertainment services company and a member of the Reliance group, and Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced that they have partnered to offer media companies an integrated solution to support the evolution from traditional archive and preservation workflows to a digital, file-based, “smart content” supply chain.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. announced today that it is working with Discovery Communications to unlock the value of its video archive by providing digitization, delivery, and “smart content” metadata services for its new footage licensing business, Discovery Access. Thought Equity Motion’s T3 Platform technology is powering the recently launched site, DiscoveryAccess.com—the digital footage library for Discovery Communications’ 28 global entertainment networks and multi-platform media brands.
Thought Equity Motion, Inc. today announced that it will work with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) to drive new value from their vast entertainment content library by using Thought Equity Motion’s T3 Metadata Editor to better manage content and clearance information in a frame-by-frame capacity and to power compelling new consumer offerings.