Contact Information: Laura Eilers AthletixNation leilers@athletixnation.com Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com
AthletixNation Partners With Kaltura to Deliver Premium College Sports Video to the Masses
Live With Several Local Sports Channels and Websites, AthletixNation Has Integrated Kaltura's Open Source Video Platform Into Its Sports Content Platform
| Source: Kaltura
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - March 3, 2009) - AthletixNation, a multimedia sports content
platform, and Kaltura, Inc. (http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the
first open source video platform, announced today that the companies have
entered a strategic partnership and integrated Kaltura's video capabilities
into the AthletixNation offering in order to deliver premium Division I
college video highlights to AthletixNation publishers. The integrated
solution is already in use by several websites of local sports channels and
networks.
"AthletixNation is an official online syndicator of Division I college
sports video and applications -- we serve premium content to our
publishers, and video delivery and management are a critical part of our
content platform. We were looking for a powerful open source video
platform with advanced functionality and flexible integration options.
Kaltura was a great fit," said Davyeon Ross, President and CEO of
AthletixNation. "Partnering with Kaltura, we have created a strong
relationship with the team, and have been able to customize the Kaltura
technology to fit into our platform in a way that is seamless to our
publishers and provides the optimal experience to the end viewers. Video
integration into our March bracket application is going to be even more
powerful."
AthletixNation provides publishers with top quality post-game video content
and interactive sports applications featuring a variety of Division I
schools and conferences. Using Kaltura's open source video platform,
AthletixNation allows multiple publishers to display and manage their
specific video content by dynamically configuring their own premium-content
playlists.
"Our flexible open source video platform empowers integrators, developers
and value-added resellers to customize and operate their own tailored video
solutions across their network of publishers, and to do so in the most
engaging and cost-effective fashion," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman
and CEO. "AthletixNation integrated our technology with their robust
delivery platform to provide premium on-demand sports content to their
network of sites. We look forward to further deepening our relationship
and pursuing additional third party software vendors, service providers,
and content aggregators."
About AthletixNation
AthletixNation is a multimedia sports content platform delivering college
sports post game video content and sports applications to local media
websites and mobile devices. AthletixNation holds rights to distribute,
publish and reproduce college sports basketball and football video content.
This March AthletixNation will launch the first ever video integrated
Division 1 basketball tournament bracket on several publishers across the
country.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 20,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open
source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as
downloadable packages for leading platforms -- such as Drupal, WordPress
and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including
maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and
hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third
party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won
numerous awards, such as the TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's
'Open Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media
company awards, and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009. For more
information, visit www.kaltura.com.