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Broadcast Pro
6 days ago
- Business
- Broadcast Pro
Amagi appoints Sangeeta Chakraborty as Chief Revenue Officer
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sangeeta joins as Amagi expands its cloud-based, AI-driven media solutions, now delivering over 7,000 channels and 28bn ad impressions globally. Amagi, a cloud-based SaaS technology provider for broadcast and streaming television, has announced the appointment of Sangeeta Chakraborty as its new Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, she will oversee the company's global go-to-market strategy, including sales, customer success, marketing, services and operations, as Amagi gears up for its next phase of expansion and increased customer impact. Chakraborty brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in enterprise software, having scaled revenue and customer success teams across both product-led and sales-led organizations. Her previous roles include executive leadership positions at Miro, Okta, Checkr, SymphonyAI, Accela and VMware. Most recently, she served as Chief Customer Officer and later Chief Revenue Officer at Miro, where she played a key role in expanding the company's customer base to over 250,000 and growing its user community to more than 80m. During her tenure, Miro reached a valuation of $17.5bn and ranked #11 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Revenue Officer, Amagi, said: 'Joining Amagi at this juncture is incredibly exciting. The media industry is undergoing a profound transformation, and Amagi stands at the forefront with its cloud technology innovation that is purpose-built for today's video economy. From live production to monetization, Amagi is powering critical workflows for the world's top media brands. I look forward to working with our global teams and customers to unlock new growth opportunities, strengthen our market leadership, and deliver measurable value through innovation, scale, and trust.' Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chakraborty is a respected voice in the tech industry, with deep expertise in SaaS and AI applications across sectors such as finance, healthcare, telecom and government. She holds a in Computer Science from NIT Warangal and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Commenting on the appointment, Srinivasan KA, Co-founder and President – Global business at Amagi, added: 'Media companies around the world are accelerating their shift to cloud-native, AI-powered infrastructure. Sangeeta brings the leadership and customer-first mindset that will help us lead the next chapter of our global expansion and market leadership.' Amagi now powers over 7,000 channel deliveries and 28bn ad impressions globally.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Estrella MediaCo Emerges as the Leading FAST Destination for U.S. Hispanic Audiences
Estrella MediaCo Dominates Hispanic Streaming with Record-Setting FAST Performance NEW YORK, June 16, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MediaCo Operations LLC ("MediaCo"), a leading multicultural, multiplatform media powerhouse, today announced record-breaking digital performance across its portfolio, driven by the explosive growth of its flagship Estrella MediaCo FAST channels, and social platforms. FAST & CTV: Monthly digital uniques grew 19% year-over-year, with total minutes consumed now exceeding 310 Million minutes per month on its O&O FAST channels, marking a new high for the company's digital and streaming footprint. Monetized premium CTV video ad inventory has grown 290% in the first five months of 2025 compared to the same time period last year making MediaCo a leader in Hispanic CTV advertising. "Estrella MediaCo has built one of the most scalable Hispanic CTV platforms in the U.S.," said Brian Fisher, SVP of Video Sales. "With record-high engagement and unprecedented growth in premium ad inventory, we're the clear choice for marketers who want to grow their brand and their business." Also, according to the Amagi/Ampere FAST Channel Analytics report in Q4 2024, EstrellaTV and Estrella News were the #1 mixed IP distributed FAST channels in the marketplace for the Latino category. "This extraordinary growth in CTV video is driven by a combination of our powerful EstrellaTV and Estrella News brands and our expansion of a broad range of genres thru partnerships with Curiosity Stream and Hemisphere Media. We have also built the largest distribution footprint in Latino FAST and powered it with a world-class ad tech stack. The result is a powerful solution for advertisers at scale," said René Santaella, Chief Operating Officer, MediaCo. Audio: MediaCo, a prominent player in the audio streaming space, has achieved a significant milestone. Ranked 11th overall in the United States, MediaCo's success can be attributed to its flagship stations, including Hot 97, WBLS, Que Buena Los Angeles, and morning shows such as Ebro in the Morning and Don Cheto Al Aire. YouTube: The Estrella Media YouTube Network led the charge, posting impressive year-over-year gains from Q1–Q2 2024 to Q1–Q2 2025, including: +35% increase in video views +7.4% increase in total watch time 1 million new subscribers added Breakout channel Don Cheto Al Aire saw a 300% surge in views and a 200% increase in impressions over the April–May period, while fan-favorite talent competition Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento expanded its total digital reach by 42%. On Hot 97 YouTube channels, watchstream hours increased 652% and subscribers increased 11% in 2025 so far and the video success led to the announcement of a new Hot 97 TV FAST channel at MediaCo's recent IAB Newfront presentation. Instagram: EstrellaTV saw a 19.1% increase in reach, with 85.9% of that coming from non-followers, indicating strong organic discovery. Profile visits rose 36.2%, totaling 26,336. Noticias EstrellaTV posted a 73.6% jump in reach and a 34.8% increase in profile visits, reaching 3,367. Facebook: Noticias EstrellaTV increased reach by 41%, from 22.9M to 32.3M year-over-year. Hot 97, a MediaCo flagship brand, saw one of the most dramatic growth stories with reach skyrocketing from 11.6M (April–May 2024) to 82M during the same period in 2025. "As a next-generation media company, we're laser-focused on building audiences where the culture is shifting," said Albert Rodriguez, CEO and President of MediaCo. "These results prove that our strategy is working, and we're just getting started." *Source: Amagi and Custom FAST Channel Apps, YouTube, Instragram and Facebook, AMAGI FAST Conference 2024, Triton and Freewheel. Specific sourcing available upon request. ABOUT MEDIACO MediaCo Holding Inc, (Nasdaq: MDIA) is a minority-owned, minority-targeted media business. MediaCo stands at the forefront of entertainment and news, uniquely positions as a leader in reaching multicultural audiences. Through its diverse portfolio of digital, television and radio properties including Estrella TV, Estrella News, Hot 97, WBLS and Que Buena LA, MediaCo engages over 20 million people, every month, delivering a dynamic mix of free, ad-supported streaming and terrestrial entertainment, music and news across all major media platforms and on all devices. View source version on Contacts press@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
16-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Estrella MediaCo Emerges as the Leading FAST Destination for U.S. Hispanic Audiences
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MediaCo Operations LLC ('MediaCo'), a leading multicultural, multiplatform media powerhouse, today announced record-breaking digital performance across its portfolio, driven by the explosive growth of its flagship Estrella MediaCo FAST channels, and social platforms. FAST & CTV: Monthly digital uniques grew 19% year-over-year, with total minutes consumed now exceeding 310 Million minutes per month on its O&O FAST channels, marking a new high for the company's digital and streaming footprint. Monetized premium CTV video ad inventory has grown 290% in the first five months of 2025 compared to the same time period last year making MediaCo a leader in Hispanic CTV advertising. 'Estrella MediaCo has built one of the most scalable Hispanic CTV platforms in the U.S.,' said Brian Fisher, SVP of Video Sales. 'With record-high engagement and unprecedented growth in premium ad inventory, we're the clear choice for marketers who want to grow their brand and their business.' Also, according to the Amagi/Ampere FAST Channel Analytics report in Q4 2024, EstrellaTV and Estrella News were the #1 mixed IP distributed FAST channels in the marketplace for the Latino category. 'This extraordinary growth in CTV video is driven by a combination of our powerful EstrellaTV and Estrella News brands and our expansion of a broad range of genres thru partnerships with Curiosity Stream and Hemisphere Media. We have also built the largest distribution footprint in Latino FAST and powered it with a world-class ad tech stack. The result is a powerful solution for advertisers at scale,' said René Santaella, Chief Operating Officer, MediaCo. Audio: MediaCo, a prominent player in the audio streaming space, has achieved a significant milestone. Ranked 11th overall in the United States, MediaCo's success can be attributed to its flagship stations, including Hot 97, WBLS, Que Buena Los Angeles, and morning shows such as Ebro in the Morning and Don Cheto Al Aire. YouTube: The Estrella Media YouTube Network led the charge, posting impressive year-over-year gains from Q1–Q2 2024 to Q1–Q2 2025, including: +35% increase in video views +7.4% increase in total watch time 1 million new subscribers added Breakout channel Don Cheto Al Aire saw a 300% surge in views and a 200% increase in impressions over the April–May period, while fan-favorite talent competition Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento expanded its total digital reach by 42%. On Hot 97 YouTube channels, watchstream hours increased 652% and subscribers increased 11% in 2025 so far and the video success led to the announcement of a new Hot 97 TV FAST channel at MediaCo's recent IAB Newfront presentation. Instagram: EstrellaTV saw a 19.1% increase in reach, with 85.9% of that coming from non-followers, indicating strong organic discovery. Profile visits rose 36.2%, totaling 26,336. Noticias EstrellaTV posted a 73.6% jump in reach and a 34.8% increase in profile visits, reaching 3,367. Facebook: Noticias EstrellaTV increased reach by 41%, from 22.9M to 32.3M year-over-year. Hot 97, a MediaCo flagship brand, saw one of the most dramatic growth stories with reach skyrocketing from 11.6M (April–May 2024) to 82M during the same period in 2025. 'As a next-generation media company, we're laser-focused on building audiences where the culture is shifting,' said Albert Rodriguez, CEO and President of MediaCo. 'These results prove that our strategy is working, and we're just getting started.' *Source: Amagi and Custom FAST Channel Apps, YouTube, Instragram and Facebook, AMAGI FAST Conference 2024, Triton and Freewheel. Specific sourcing available upon request. ABOUT MEDIACO MediaCo Holding Inc, (Nasdaq: MDIA) is a minority-owned, minority-targeted media business. MediaCo stands at the forefront of entertainment and news, uniquely positions as a leader in reaching multicultural audiences. Through its diverse portfolio of digital, television and radio properties including Estrella TV, Estrella News, Hot 97, WBLS and Que Buena LA, MediaCo engages over 20 million people, every month, delivering a dynamic mix of free, ad-supported streaming and terrestrial entertainment, music and news across all major media platforms and on all devices.
New Indian Express
08-06-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
‘We don't have any compulsion to go for IPO tomorrow'
Bengaluru-based media technology company Amagi, which has initiated an initial public offering (IPO) process recently, is now expanding into Japan, Australia, Latin America, France and Germany. In an interaction with Uma Kannan, Baskar Subramanian, CEO & Co-Founder of Amagi, says they are seeing a tremendous opportunity in front of them for the next 10 years where they can build extremely large media tech company in the world and that they don't have any compulsion to go public tomorrow. The company's annual revenue in FY24 stood at Rs 942 crore. Edited excerpts: You are a media SaaS unicorn and have been in the business for over 15 years now. What does the market look like? Our customers are TV channels, content creators, live producers, sports news, and anybody who is creating content in the mid-tier to large enterprises. We don't work with the creator economy and influencer economy today; we don't have any product portfolio for it, but we work with the larger mid to enterprise sort of customers. Fundamentally, the world is becoming streaming, and all of us are only watching on IP, internet devices, be it on our phone or connected television, what we call smart TV in India. This has changed things for our customers. One, it's fragmentation of viewership. In the early days of cable, you could go to one channel and always watch the content. Now there are so many places where people are consuming content, be it YouTube, Netflix, Prime, social platforms, connected TV devices to everywhere else and this is becoming a big challenge for the broadcasters and TV channels. This is very similar to what happened in the retail industry. Suddenly people are buying in supermarkets, e-commerce stores and now quick commerce. TV is now connected in every home in India. How are you looking at the Indian market? In India, we have clients, and the country has obviously dramatically changed, given 5G connections. Here we work with Samsung, whose many channels are coming to Samsung TV Plus with the back-end being Amagi. We work with the likes of Republic TV, Times Now and Zee television and provide OTT content. India is a growing market and we have now started to expand but the country is only very close to about a percentage (1%) of our revenue. So, we continue to have a big focus on the international markets with 70% revenue coming from the US. However, we are seeing India as a growing market and it will start to become bigger and bigger for us as we go forward. What are the market opportunities that you are seeing, and whether you have competitors in India as well as outside? We started in the US, expanded into Europe, and then in Asia, we started in Singapore. We are now expanding into Japan, Australia, Latin America, France, and Germany. It's a global market and we are seeing a tremendous opportunity in front of us for the next 10 years where we can build an extremely large, world-class media tech company in the world. Amagi's competition is all traditional hardware players. And we are the only company in the world that talks about a glass-to-glass complete end solution. It is reported that you are looking to raise Rs 3,200 crore through a public listing. Are you planning to hit an IPO soon? If we go for an IPO, we'll go in India. Going through the process, understanding and evaluating markets are very different. We don't know when we do it because timing matters in this industry. As a company, we don't have any compulsion to go for an IPO tomorrow. We are a profitable company, we have money in the bank and we have investors who came in 2022. So, the idea is that eventually we will have to be a public company. If the market is really good, then maybe by the end of the year (we will go for the IPO), or else next year.
Pink Villa
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! Episode 9: Guide To Control Goaz—Recap, Release Date And More
In ' Harem Project,' Liam decides to enhance his evil image by gaining more gold and forming a harem. Sir Thomas sells him gold, baffled by Liam's obsession with what most discard. Liam learns harems are customary for Counts and not seen as evil, frustrating him further. Determined to choose women who dislike him, he discovers Hydra's fashion is far from alluring. Amagi reveals his female staff were hired with intimacy in mind and would comply willingly. Meanwhile, Christiana awakens, reborn as a teenager, and vows lifelong loyalty to Liam. Expected plot in I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! Episode 9 I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! Episode 9 will see Liam continue to develop his domain, earning him loyalty from subordinates and admiration from citizens. Though still determined to become an evil lord, his daily life with Amagi and robotic maids leaves little room for dissatisfaction. Meanwhile, the Guide grows increasingly angry that every trap—including Yasushi's deception and military transfers—only benefits Liam. To finally cause Liam despair, the Guide takes control of Goaz, preparing a new plan aimed at completely ruining the life Liam has built. I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! Episode 9, titled 'Mass-Produced Maids,' will be releasing in Japan on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 2:00 am JST. Due to varying time zones, some international audiences may be able to watch it as early as Saturday, May 31. In Japan, I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! Episode 9 will air on TV networks like ABC and TV Asahi and stream on platforms such as d Anime Store and ABEMA. Internationally, Crunchyroll will stream it in regions including North America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. For more updates from the I'm The Evil Lord Of An Intergalactic Empire! anime, keep up with Pinkvilla.
