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January 8, 2018

Stingray Acquires Qello Concerts

  • Stingray, now the leading distributor of Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) concerts in the world
  • Stingray adds 2,000 concerts and music documentaries to its library and grows its SVOD subscriber base by more than 70,000

 

Montreal, January 3, 2018 –Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) today announced that it has acquired the assets of New-York based Qello Concerts, the world’s leading over-the-top (OTT) streaming service for full-length, on-demand concerts and music documentaries — reaching users in more than 160 countries.

Qello Concerts, which has been described by Forbes as “the Netflix of Concert Films and Documentaries”* is available on Amazon Channels, Apple TV, Roku, Google TV, Samsung Smart TV, on mobile devices, on the web at QelloConcerts.com, and more.

Through Qello Concerts, Stingray will benefit from deep operational expertise and instantly elevate its status as a global leader in the fast-growing OTT business-to-consumer (B2C) category.

Stingray is uniquely positioned to accelerate the growth of Qello Concerts by leveraging their respective global distribution agreements with major cable/satellite operators and telecommunication companies.

This transaction marks Stingray’s fifth acquisition of fiscal 2018, preceded by Yokee Music Ltd. (May 2017), C Music Entertainment Ltd. (May 2017), SBA Music PTY Ltd. (July 2017), and Satellite Music Australia PTY Ltd. (July 2017).

Acquisition Highlights

  • Content deals with all major music labels
  • Access to streaming live events and third-party live streaming
  • Pay-for View and recurring subscription Video On Demand revenue

Qello Concerts Highlights

  • Founded in 2010 by Richard Johnson, Bob Frank, and Brian Lisi
  • Deep expertise in OTT distribution, and content monetization.
  • Available on TV, mobile, and the web, and transforms any screen into a live concert video experience
  • The world’s largest catalog of concert films, award-winning music documentaries, and live streaming music events from the 1920s to today
  • Library spans all musical genres from classic rock, rock, progressive rock, blues, pop, country, metal, folk, jazz, EDM, indie, Christian & gospel, singer-songwriter, and more
  • The greatest performances from Queen, Pink Floyd, Lady Gaga, Metallica, Nirvana, Tiesto, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion, Bob Marley, Green Day, Rush, Santana, Bon Jovi, Imagine Dragons, Dave Matthews Band, Billy Joel, Hall & Oates, Norah Jones, David Bowie, The Police, Eric Clapton, and so much more
  • Vast collection of award-winning documentaries presenting the stories behind the music of The Beatles, Tom Petty, The Band, Tupac, and more

 

Quotes

“The acquisition of Qello Concerts confirms our position as the market leader in music SVOD services worldwide following the successful launch of Stingray Classica, Stingray DJAZZ, and Stingray Karaoke with major providers such as Amazon Channels and Comcast,” said Eric Boyko, President, Co-founder, and CEO of Stingray. “We see this agreement as a way forward to deliver on our mission of becoming the destination for consumers worldwide who want to discover and enjoy music across all platforms on all of their devices.”

“Qello Concerts’ mission has always been to preserve and curate the most iconic music performances and films, and to deliver the highest quality experience, which is exactly how music fans want to consume entertainment,” said Richard Johnson President and Co-founder of Qello Concerts. “We couldn’t have chosen a more perfect new home than Stingray for Qello Concerts. Our passion for music, coupled with our dedication to deliver the ultimate user experience falls directly in line with Stingray’s mission. We look forward to accelerating growth and leveraging new opportunities as Stingray and Qello forge ahead together.”

(*Hugh McIntyre, “This Company Is The Netflix Of Concert Films And Documentaries”, Forbes, August 2nd, 2017)

 

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About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

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January 8, 2018

M7 Group and Stingray Extend Partnership

Luxembourg/Montreal, 22 December  2017 – M7 Group, one of Europe’s largest pay TV providers, and Stingray, a leading business-to-business multiplatform music services provider, have concluded an agreement further extending their long-standing partnership.

The new agreement includes various services that will enhance the viewing and listening experiences for the subscribers of Canal Digitaal and Online.nl (The Netherlands), TV VLAANDEREN (Belgium) and Skylink (Czech Republic and Slovakia).

Highlights:

  • Prolongation of the carriage agreement for Stingray Brava, offering the best in class classical music, opera, and ballet
  • From 3 January: upgrade of Stingray iConcerts to HD quality, providing subscribers with the best music concerts in every style and genre, in crystal clear picture quality
  • From 3 January: addition of Stingray’s newly owned C Music TV, a channel dedicated to classical, crossover & cinematic (film soundtracks) music videos
  • The Stingray Music mobile app will soon be made available to subscribers of all M7-owned platforms

As part of the new agreement, M7 Platform Services will ensure the safe and secure technical delivery of both Stingray Brava and C Music TV to third party operators within the Europe-wide ASTRA 23.5 degrees East footprint coverage.

Quotes:

Bill Wijdeveld, VP Business Development of M7 Group says: “We are very happy with the further extension of our partnership with Stingray, allowing us to offer our customers via multiple devices an even wider variety of music genres in excellent picture and sound quality. We look forward to a fruitful continuation of our longstanding partnership.”

“Working with M7 Group is instrumental to reach the huge population of music lovers in key markets like the Benelux countries, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia,” said Mathieu Péloquin, Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Communications of Stingray. “A partnership with an established partner who shows such a high level of professionalism will go a long way to growing our presence in the region. We are pleased that M7 recognizes the value of Stingray’s leading portfolio of multiplatform music services to connect with their subscribers.”

 

About M7 Group 

M7 Group SA, based in Luxembourg, is one of Europe’s largest operators of satellite and IP-based TV platforms. M7 Group uses different brands in different countries: CanalDigitaal and Online.nl in the Netherlands, TV Vlaanderen in Flanders and TéléSAT in French speaking Belgium, HD Austria in Austria, Skylink for the Czech and Slovak markets and M7 Deutschland in Germany. All brands offer tailor made packages for clients adapted to the local culture and language in these countries. Today, M7 Group SA provides more than 3 million viewers with hundreds of satellite and IP-based radio and television services in digital and HD quality. Since 2011, M7 Group SA also provides broadband and telephony services to its customers in the Netherlands and Belgium. M7 Platform Services provides broadcasters with end-to-end distribution solutions for DTH, cable and IPTV reception. For more information: www.m7group.eu

 

About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

December 18, 2017

Just in Time for the Holidays: Stingray and Singing Machine Unwrap New Karaoke App for Android Phones and Tablets

Montreal, Quebec, Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 13, 2017 – Stingray (TSX: RAY. A; RAY. B), a leading business-to-business multiplatform music services provider, and The Singing Machine Company, Inc. (OTCQX: SMDM), the North American leader in consumer karaoke products and most recognized brand in home karaoke hardware, today introduced Singing Machine Mobile Karaoke, a mobile app for Android phones and tablets, compatible with Singing Machine products with Bluetooth®.

Combined with Stingray’s vast library of licensed karaoke songs and Singing Machine’s karaoke systems with Bluetooth®, the new mobile app brings the fun of singing anywhere and anytime to millions of karaoke fans who own Android phones and tablets, and Singing Machines.

Whether solo or with friends and family, singers will enjoy the ultimate karaoke experience with this new mobile app. The app features beautiful graphic design elements and provides an easy-to-use karaoke service. By activating BlueTooth® on an Android device and pairing it with any Bluetooth® compatible Singing Machine, the karaoke app offers a richer, more amplified sound.

The Singing Machine Mobile Karaoke app, in partnership with Stingray Karaoke, is free to download from the Google Play app store and offers complimentary songs. The entire song catalog is accessible with an in-app subscription of either US$9.99 for 48 hours or US$14.99 for a monthly auto-renewing subscription.

Product Highlights

  • More than 13,000* songs from today and decades past in a number of languages and genres including pop, rock, R&B/hip-hop, Disney, country, Latin, and more
  • Songs in the style of today’s top-charting artists such as Shawn Mendes, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Adele, and more
  • Songs in the style of yesterday’s legends including Elvis, The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Queen, and more
  • Browse most popular songs, recent additions, and song charts or search by title, artist or lyrics
  • Selection of pre-made party mixes in a variety of themes including “Party Time”, “Karaoke #Hits”, “Disco Party”, “Christmas is for Kids”, and more to start singing karaoke quickly
  • Queue up to 100 songs to keep the party going
  • Sing along to songs with or without lead vocal (when available)
  • High-quality karaoke videos streamed over your mobile network or Wi-Fi to your Android device. Switch to lyrics on black to save on bandwidth costs.
  • Songs added regularly

Quotes

“Who doesn’t love to sing karaoke? It’s the perfect entertainment during the Holidays or anytime of the year,” said Mathieu Péloquin, Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Communications of Stingray. “We’re thrilled to bring karaoke the large Android market as we continue our partnership with Singing Machine. Our continued efforts to license new karaoke songs in the style of today’s top-charting artists and yesterday’s unforgettable legends is guaranteed to provide consumers of all ages with hours of fun.”

“We’re excited to offer an Android-based karaoke service to our Singing Machine customers,” said Gary Atkinson, CEO of the Singing Machine Company. “Now more customers than ever have access to the best karaoke library available through our partnership with Stingray. As the majority of our products come with Bluetooth®, extending our reach to Android owners will result in more hours of singing.”

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*Number of songs varies by territory.

 

About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

About The Singing Machine

Based in the U.S., Singing Machine® is the North American leader in consumer karaoke products. The first to provide karaoke systems for home entertainment in the United States, the Company sells its products worldwide through major mass merchandisers and on-line retailers. We offer the industry’s widest line of at-home karaoke entertainment products, which allow consumers to find a machine that suits their needs and skill level. As the most recognized brand in karaoke, Singing Machine products incorporate the latest technology for singing practice, music listening, entertainment and social sharing. The Singing Machine provides consumers the best warranties in the industry and through its partnership with Stingray, access to more than 13,000 songs for streaming and download. Singing Machine products are sold through most major retailers in North America and also internationally. See www.singingmachine.com for more details.

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December 6, 2017

Stingray Pursues Multi-Territory Roll-Out with Amazon Channels

  • Stingray Classica launched as SVOD and linear channel for Amazon Prime Members in Germany
  • Stingray Classica and Stingray Karaoke added to the Amazon Channels lineup in the UK

Montreal, December 6, 2017 —  Following the June 2017 launch of Stingray ClassicaStingray DJAZZ, and Stingray Karaoke with Amazon Channels in the US, Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B), a leading multiplatform music services provider, today announced that it has successfully added channels to the Amazon Channels lineups in Germany and the UK.

Prime members in the UK can now subscribe to Stingray Classica and Stingray Karaoke, while Stingray Classica is available to members in Germany as both SVOD and linear channel.

Stingray plans on shortly announcing additional roll-outs including Stingray DJAZZ with Amazon Channels in the UK and Stingray Karaoke in Germany.

Amazon Channels is a service available to Amazon Prime subscribers that gives them access to content they want, on the devices they want. From grandiose ballets to intimate jazz performances and chart-topping karaoke favorites, Stingray offers Prime Members music content for every mood and occasion.

As with all its services, Stingray’s channel offering to Prime Members is expertly curated by an in-house team of music programmers to present regularly updated content that is relevant to each territory.

Prime members can subscribe to Stingray services after a 7-day free trial, an important factor for consumer conversion.

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“This agreement with Amazon Channels is the largest direct-to-consumer and streaming deal for Stingray, enabling us to connect directly with music aficionados in key growth markets,” said Mathieu Péloquin, Senior Vice-President, Communications and Marketing of Stingray. “While it has only been a few months since our first launch with Amazon Channels, we can already affirm that making our services available to OTT providers is an avenue we plan on aggressively pursuing, all the while maintaining and growing our partnerships with pay TV providers worldwide.”

About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

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November 30, 2017

Coveo Announces Early Access of Coveo on Elasticsearch, Delivering AI-powered Relevance on Top of Open Source Search Index

Coveo introduces the early access of Coveo on Elasticsearch, offering organizations and developers the ability to use a leading enterprise search platform on top of the most popular open source index for maximum scalability, flexibility and relevance.

San Francisco, CA, and Quebec, QUEBEC – November 30, 2017

 Coveo, a leader in insight engines and cognitive search as recognized by Gartner and Forrester, has today announced the Early Access of Coveo on Elasticsearch. This index-agnostic version of Coveo’s AI-powered search platform delivers the same out-of-the-box relevance and insight powered by best of breed machine learning and usage analytics, with the added ability of being deployed on top of the open source elasticsearch index, fully managed or self-hosted.

“One of the reasons many companies and integrators are drawn to using open source technology is the ability to build virtually any solution on top of publicly available assets.” said Gauthier Robe, Coveo VP of Product. “With Coveo on Elasticsearch, Coveo has done much of the work to make that possible by decoupling our proprietary index from the critical search experience components, such as machine learning, usage analytics, customizable user interface, query engine and connectors. We are very excited to see what the Elasticsearch community is able to build utilizing these two powerful technologies”.

With this radical new approach to enterprise search and insight engines, Coveo allows organizations to accelerate their search deployment and improve results from day one with out-of-the-box, best-in-class relevance, while leveraging their existing open source elasticsearch index investment. This provides them with the best of both worlds; enterprise ready software, with the benefits of open source technology. Creating a full-featured solution on top of Elasticsearch’s open source framework was a natural addition for Coveo, a company that is constantly innovating as a result of working with some of the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises.

Coveo on Elasticsearch can be deployed to rapidly and securely deliver relevance and personalization of every interaction across the customer or employee experience, at scale. Internal and external use cases include intranets, employee portals, customer service communities, e-commerce stores, partner portals, websites, in-product application help, and more. Whether through partners or on their own, organizations can leverage the full-featured Coveo search platform to quickly build user experiences that are easy to manage and evolve.

Customers of Coveo on Elasticsearch can also take advantage of the enterprise grade support and services available to them, including Coveo’s Customer Success team, training programs, Professional Services and extensive partner network.

As thousands of companies are evaluating their options to replace their end-of-life Google Search Appliances (GSA), the combination of Coveo on Elasticsearch looks particularly compelling. “Elasticsearch is a top consideration for GSA replacements. By being able to layer Coveo on top, our customers can now benefit from the capabilities of the Coveo insight engine while leveraging the scalability, deployment options and community of Elasticsearch.” said Michael Cizmar, President & Managing Director, MC+A. “We are excited to offer this as an integral option to our customers who are looking at GSA replacements options.”

Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S and in other countries.

To learn more about Coveo on Elastic visit coveo.com/elasticsearch or the Coveo Labs Github page.

About Coveo

Make business personal.

Coveo personalizes every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified search, analytics and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, ecommerce, contact centers and intranets effortless and efficient. A Salesforce Gold ISV Partner and a Sitecore Platinum Technology Partner, Coveo partners with the world’s largest enterprise technology players and has more than 1,500 activations in mid-to-large sized global organizations across multiple industries.

For more information, visit www.coveo.com and follow our blogLinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube accounts.

Coveo is a trademark of Coveo Solutions, Inc.

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November 20, 2017

Stingray, the Leading Provider of 4K UHD Television Content with Three Channels Available for Worldwide Distribution

SEE MORE. HEAR MORE. FEEL MORE.

  • Stingray launches Stingray Now 4K, an all-4K music video TV channel with Rogers
  • Stingray’s catalog also includes Stingray Festival 4K, the first 4K TV channel dedicated to music content in all its forms, and Stingray Ambiance 4K, a channel that showcases the healing beauty of nature in stunning 4K UHD resolution

Montreal, November 20, 2017 —   Music content on TV just got bigger, brighter, and bolder! Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B), a leading business-to-business multiplatform music services provider, announced today the addition of Stingray Now 4K to its portfolio of 4K UHD specialty channels. Rogers is the first provider worldwide to introduce Stingray Now 4K, an all-4K UHD music video channel. The channel is available to Rogers customers with a 4K subscription and NextBox™ 4K set-top box.

Stingray Now 4K, an all-4K music video channel, completes Stingray 4K UHD channels offering, which already includes Stingray Festival 4K and Stingray Ambiance 4K.

Each channel – a celebration of art, culture, and the beauty of nature – is expertly curated by Stingray’s content experts to offer audiences an unparalleled viewing experience in four times the pixels of HD.

Stingray can now boast being the leading provider of 4K UHD television channels for content providers worldwide who want to offer their subscribers cutting-edge entertainment.

4K UHD is one of the two resolutions of ultra-high definition television targeted towards consumer television. As 4K TV sales have grown at an explosive pace in the past three years (4K UHD resolution has become dominant among new TV sets released by major brand since 2014), consumer demand for 4K UHD content has seen exponential growth.

From music videos by today’s megastars to stunning operas, soothing vistas, colorful circuses, and sold-out arena shows, Stingray has it all…all in 4K UHD. Stingray brings to the screen the most wide-ranging, diverse, and entertaining 4K UHD content on television.

Introducing Stingray Now 4K

  • Non-stop programming of music videos from ALL major labels and a majority of independents in all the most popular genres including pop, dance, hip-hop, indie, Latin pop, adult rock, alternative, and more.
  • Today’s biggest and most popular local and international stars, indie up-and-comers, and innovative artists from around the world.
  • New content added weekly to include hits by buzzed-about artists such as Calvin Harris, Billy Talent, Ed Sheeran, Magic!, Scott Helman, Imagine Dragons, Bruno Mars, and many, many more.

For more information about Stingray Now 4Know4k.stingray.com

Stingray Festival 4K Highlights

  • The only television channel dedicated to spectacular live performances in dazzling 4K UHD.
  • Caters to an audience of music fans and technophiles of all ages.
  • Programming includes massive concerts by top stadium fillers, sold-out music festivals, must-see theatre productions, colorful circuses, electrifying DJ sets, beautiful ballet and opera performances, and much more.

For more information about Stingray Festival 4Kfestival4k.stingray.com

Stingray Ambiance 4K Highlights

  • Carefully curated videos captured by a team of nature videographers.
  • Diverse programming blocks that showcase the most awe-inspiring natural scenery from around the world.
  • Interspersed music programming selected by Stingray’s expert curators.

Quote

“Television technology never stops evolving, and neither do we,” said Eric Boyko, President, Co-founder, and CEO of Stingray. “Accessing 4K content on television is no longer the exclusive realm of cutting-edge early-adopters. With 4K televisions becoming increasingly more affordable, today’s viewers are clamoring for quality 4K broadcast, and we are happy to be at the forefront of market demand. Our portfolio composed of Stingray Now 4KStingray Festival 4K, and Stingray Ambiance 4K is the only one its kind in the world. We are especially proud of introducing Stingray Now 4K, a channel with mainstream appeal that we foresee becoming our flagship music video channel. We expect to see rapid demand for all three channels from entertainment content providers worldwide.”

About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

 

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November 16, 2017

Quinnipiac University Chooses iPerceptions to Measure Brand Perception

The Higher Education institution will collect customer feedback to drive decisions that will help maintain its standing among the top institutions in the US

MONTREAL, QC – NOVEMBER 16, 2017 – iPerceptions, a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) solutions, today announced that Quinnipiac University has selected iPerceptions as their preferred VoC solution. iPerceptions will measure visitors’ opinions of Quinnipiac University and how they are impacted by the website – QU.edu. iPerceptions will then provide key recommendations to drive decisions about future marketing initiatives to optimize Quinnipiac University’s brand perception.

Quinnipiac University offers more than 100 programs to approximately 7,000 undergraduate students and 3,000 graduate students, and is ranked amongst the top 4-year schools nationally for value of education by The Economist and The Brookings Institute. The Higher Education institution is also a leader in polling, being renowned for its Quinnipiac University Poll for which its results are regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

“At Quinnipiac University, we take pride in being consistently ranked among the top Higher Education institutions in the United States thanks to the quality of the education we offer and the breadth of programs available,” Said Keith Rhodes, Vice President, Brand Strategy & Integrated Marketing Communications at Quinnipiac University. “iPerceptions provides us with a wide range of valuable expertise, from research design to in-depth analysis, that will help us get the most out of our customer feedback, evaluate and prioritize key initiatives, as well as help us determine the lasting impact that our website has on our visitors, including prospective students.”

“In Higher Education, reputation is driven by experience, from the campus to the digital environment.” Said Duff Anderson, Co-Founder and SVP at iPerceptions. “It’s crucial to understand the needs and expectations of students, parents and faculty members so you can provide them with the most relevant, informative and engaging experience. iPerceptions is excited to leverage our extensive experience in the higher education space and in collecting the Voice of the Student so that the team at Quinnipiac University can gather and analyze feedback from their community, and deliver a digital experience that aligns, supports and builds on Quinnipiac University’s goal to deliver a superior higher education experience.”

Quinnipiac University will also integrate their customer feedback with Adobe® Analytics to provide crucial context to their web analytics data, as well as leverage tailored dashboards generated by the iPerceptions team which will highlight key findings in their customer feedback.

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About iPerceptions

iPerceptions is a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) solutions, helping the world’s most respected brands become customer-centric organizations. iPerceptions’ enterprise platform collects and analyzes the feedback of real visitors in real situations across the customer lifecycle. With an experienced team that has managed 1000’s of VoC programs since 1999, iPerceptions offers a full range of services from survey design to deployment to analysis. iPerceptions collects over 20M visitor feedback data-points every year across 1,200 brands and in 35 languages and is the trusted partner of world’s most recognizable retail, hospitality, finance, higher education and automotive brands. To start doing marketing that’s powered by the voice of your customers today, visit iPerceptions.com.

About Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 7,000 full-time undergraduate and 3,000 graduate and part-time students in 100 degree programs through its Schools of Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s “Best Colleges” issue. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 380 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visit www.qu.edu.

November 16, 2017

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY CHOOSES IPERCEPTIONS TO MEASURE BRAND PERCEPTION

MONTREAL, QC – NOVEMBER 16, 2017 – iperceptions, a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) solutions, today announced that Quinnipiac University has selected iperceptions as their preferred VoC solution. iperceptions will measure visitors’ opinions of Quinnipiac University and how they are impacted by the website – QU.edu. iperceptions will then provide key recommendations to drive decisions about future marketing initiatives to optimize Quinnipiac University’s brand perception.

 

Quinnipiac University offers more than 100 programs to approximately 7,000 undergraduate students and 3,000 graduate students, and is ranked amongst the top 4-year schools nationally for value of education by The Economist and The Brookings Institute. The Higher Education institution is also a leader in polling, being renowned for its Quinnipiac University Poll for which its results are regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

 

“At Quinnipiac University, we take pride in being consistently ranked among the top Higher Education institutions in the United States thanks to the quality of the education we offer and the breadth of programs available,” Said Keith Rhodes, Vice President, Brand Strategy & Integrated Marketing Communications at Quinnipiac University. “iperceptions provides us with a wide range of valuable expertise, from research design to in-depth analysis, that will help us get the most out of our customer feedback, evaluate and prioritize key initiatives, as well as help us determine the lasting impact that our website has on our visitors, including prospective students.”

 

“In Higher Education, reputation is driven by experience, from the campus to the digital environment.” Said Duff Anderson, Co-Founder and SVP at iperceptions. “It’s crucial to understand the needs and expectations of students, parents and faculty members so you can provide them with the most relevant, informative and engaging experience. iperceptions is excited to leverage our extensive experience in the higher education space and in collecting the Voice of the Student so that the team at Quinnipiac University can gather and analyze feedback from their community, and deliver a digital experience that aligns, supports and builds on Quinnipiac University’s goal to deliver a superior higher education experience.”

 

Quinnipiac University will also integrate their customer feedback with Adobe® Analytics to provide crucial context to their web analytics data, as well as leverage tailored dashboards generated by the iperceptions team which will highlight key findings in their customer feedback.

 

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About iperceptions

 

iperceptions is a global leader in Voice of the Customer (VoC) solutions, helping the world’s most respected brands become customer-centric organizations. iperceptions’ enterprise platform collects and analyzes the feedback of real visitors in real situations across the customer lifecycle. With an experienced team that has managed 1000’s of VoC programs since 1999, iperceptions offers a full range of services from survey design to deployment to analysis. iperceptions collects over 20M visitor feedback data-points every year across 1,200 brands and in 35 languages and is the trusted partner of world’s most recognizable retail, hospitality, finance, higher education and automotive brands. To start doing marketing that’s powered by the voice of your customers today, visit iperceptions.com.

 

About Quinnipiac University

 

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 7,000 full-time undergraduate and 3,000 graduate and part-time students in 100 degree programs through its Schools of Business, Communications, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s “Best Colleges” issue. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 380 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visit www.qu.edu.

 

 

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November 15, 2017

OnMobile’s Consumer Brand ONMO Sweeps Transform Awards in New

ONMO, the sound based communication brand of OnMobile Global Limited, swept the Transform Awards North America 2017 with 5 wins including the Best Overall Visual Identity. Hosted by Transform Magazine, the awards recognize excellence in rebranding, brand development and the journey brands make.

Apart from winning the Best Overall Visual Identity, ONMO got 2 Golds in Best Naming Strategy and Best Visual Identity In The Technology, Media And Telecommunications Sector. ONMO also won 2 Silvers in Best Use Of Audio Branding and Best Creative Strategy.

OnMobile’s consumer brand, ONMO, was awarded for bringing a revitalized identity to the telecom landscape through a fusion of energetic audio and visual elements.

Speaking of the wins, François-Charles Sirois, Chairman & CEO – OnMobile Global Limited said, “We are very pleased with ONMO’s recognition at the Transform Awards North America 2017. These awards confirm the excellent work that has been done and our ambition to continue our pursuit in pushing the boundaries in mobile sound. ONMO aims to provide a richer and more meaningful way for consumers around the globe to express themselves and connect through sound. ONMO’s journey has had a good outset in the United States as of yet and we are looking forward to its imminent launch in other parts of the world.”

Christina Falzano, Managing Director, Brand Union, said, “Working with OnMobile to create the ONMO brand has been an incredibly rewarding experience for Brand Union. Not only do we believe in the product, but our client partners were willing to explore and push boundaries within the category. We can’t wait to see what they unveil next.”

The Transform Awards North America were announced on November 2nd, 2017 held in an event in New York, which saw a gathering of acclaimed branding professionals from all corners of the region.

About OnMobile

OnMobile [NSE India: ONMOBILE], headquartered in Bangalore, India, and with offices in all regions of the world, delivers over 575 million music plays daily to mobile customers worldwide. Based on current deployments, OnMobile has an addressable base of more than 1.5 billion mobile users across several geographies.

For further information, please visit www.Onmobile.Com

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November 9, 2017

INTERSET’S ADVANCEMENTS IN SECURITY ANALYTICS DRIVE REVENUE UP 366%

Record demand for unsupervised machine learning across multiple security sectors

Ottawa, ON, Nov. 7, 2017 — Interset announced a 366% YoY growth in MRR, a reflection of record demand for its advanced analytics across multiple cybersecurity sectors.

As the only scalable security-analytics architecture for simultaneous visibility of multiple threat vectors at once, Interset has seen strong demand for its unsupervised machine-learning capabilities across Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM),  and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) markets. Recent announcements include integration with a Prescriptive SOC offering from Atos and a close partnership with McAfee.

Interset’s security analytics bring a new dimension of threat visibility and accelerated detection necessary to combat modern cyberattacks. Automation through big-data security analytics and machine learning is the only possible way to extract meaningful insights from the deluge of data and alerts facing security teams today. To keep pace with multifaceted attack vectors, SOC teams need Interset’s dynamically adaptive analytics and intelligent threat insights for effective cyber defense.

Interset augments existing investments, such as SIEM systems, to expand threat coverage of multiple inside threats—such as compromised accounts, privileged-account misuse, and internal reconnaissance—that ultimately culminate in data breaches and data loss. Its machine-learning analytics provide security automation that focuses and accelerates threat detection and investigation on the threats that matter most.

Over the past year, Interset has expanded revenue, headcount, and innovation to match record demand for its big-data cybersecurity platform. Highlights of the past year include:

  • 366% YoY growth in MRR
  • 2 times more patents drafted, filed, and published compared to past years
  • 150 new machine-learning models
  • Twice the employee headcount

“We have seen incredible growth in demand for Interset’s security analytics,” says Mark Smialowicz. “The efficacy of our advanced mathematical modeling in multiple security-analytics applications is clearly illustrated in the 366% increase in MRR and customer traction over the past 12 months.”

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November 6, 2017

Stingray Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option

Montreal, November 3, 2017 – Stingray Digital Group Inc. (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) (“Stingray”) announced today that the underwriters of its previously announced bought deal offering (the “Offering”) exercised in part the over-allotment option previously granted to them by Stingray.

An aggregate of 552,200 subordinate voting shares and variable subordinate voting shares of Stingray at a price of $9.20 per share will be issued on or about November 7, 2017, for total gross proceeds of $5,080,240.

Total gross proceeds realized by Stingray from the Offering (including the exercise of the over‑allotment option) amount to approximately $45 million.

The Offering was made through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by National Bank Financial Inc. and GMP Securities L.P., and comprised of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., TD Securities Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc. and Desjardins Securities Inc.

Stingray intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, including to provide further flexibility for future acquisitions.

No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved the contents of this news release. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Stingray Digital Group Inc. in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. These securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons except in compliance with the registration requirements of the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption therefrom.

 

About Stingray

Stingray Digital Group Inc. (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches over 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information, please visit www.stingray.com.

 

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This news release may contain “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward-looking information includes information with respect to Stingray’s goals, beliefs, plans, expectations, anticipations, estimates and intentions. Forward-looking information is identified by the use of terms and phrases such as “may”, “would”, “should”, “could”, “expect”, “intend”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “plan”, “foresee”, “believe”, and “continue”, or the negative of these terms and similar terminology, including references to assumptions. Please note, however, that not all forward-looking information contains these terms and phrases. Forward-looking information is based upon a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Stingray’s control. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward-looking information. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk factors identified in Stingray’s Annual Information Form (AIF) dated June 8, 2017, which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Consequently, all of the forward-looking information contained herein is qualified by the foregoing cautionary statements, and there can be no guarantee that the results or developments that Stingray anticipates will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences or effects on Stingray’s business, financial condition or results of operation. Unless otherwise noted or the context otherwise indicates, the forward-looking information contained herein is provided as of the date hereof, and Stingray does not undertake to update or amend such forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law.

 

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November 1, 2017

Coveo Expands Annual Centraide Fundraiser to Increase Donations for Montreal Charities

AI-powered search company Coveo expands corporate social responsibility efforts to Montreal, with a focus on supporting local charities where funds go farthest

San Francisco, CA, and Quebec, QUEBEC – November 1, 2017

Coveo’s annual fundraiser with Centraide, also known across Canada as United Way, is expanding to its Montreal office. For the past 6 years, Coveo’s Quebec City team has supported the Centraide as its exclusive charity of choice. Each year, Coveo commits to matching what employees donate dollar-for- dollar, raising $75 000 last year alone, and over $250 000 in the last five years.

Centraide is a federated network of individual offices around Canada, each led by volunteers who work with community projects aiming to break the cycle of poverty and social exclusion. In addition to its efforts to eradicate poverty, projects focus on supporting children, and creating vibrant neighborhoods across Canada.

“Coveo continues to choose Centraide as the recipient of our corporate fundraising initiative because we strongly believe in their efficacy to identify which local agencies are most in need.” says Guy Gauvin, Chief Operations Officer at Coveo. “Due to their seasoned involvement at the community level, they have a strong grasp on which charities are making positive local impacts, yet who might not have access to the sizable marketing budgets that larger foundations do. We are confident that every dollar donated is utilized down to the last cent in local projects that have a high impact in the community”.

Beyond monetary donations, Coveo is also involved in the field with Centraide, donating equipment to local charities each year and sending its technical team for much needed help with setup, among other initiatives. Coveo’s dedication to the cause has earned the company the title of IT Organization of the Year by Centraide, twice in the last five years.

Coveo solutions combine elements of three important technologies: Intelligent Search, Predictive Analytics and Cognitive Computing. The company’s goal is to make it ever easier to gain the benefits of these transformative technologies and the company’s results speak for themselves. In June, GAAP subscription revenue for the quarter grew 86% over the June quarter 2016 and 17% over the March 2017 quarter. In the first half of the year Coveo added 45 new employees, reaching over 300 world wide, and successfully launched its Montreal office which has already filled 40 new positions, with another 20 positions expected to be filled by the end of Q3 2018. Coveo also unveiled its newly renovated, multi million dollar headquarters located in Quebec City. Over 200 attendees including the mayor, Régis Labeaume, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Lili-Anna Pereša, President and Executive Director of Centraide of Greater Montreal shared, “Coveo is a valuable partner and a role model for social engagement in the technology sector. The company’s support helps us invest in the community where needs are greatest so that we can make the biggest possible impact. Their contribution helps us break the cycle of poverty and improve the quality of life of people and families in need. Overall, their generosity helps make our community a place where everyone has an equal chance to develop their full potential and improve their quality of life.”

Coveo’s campaign officially kicks off November 1st and runs until November 30th, 2017, in conjunction with Coveo’s Quebec City headquarters.

To learn more about Centraide or to donate, visit centraide.ca and unitedway.ca

About Centraide of Greater Montreal

Centraide of Greater Montreal covers Laval, Montreal and the South Shore. About 57,000 volunteers are involved with the agencies that it supports, and 22,000 volunteers work on its annual campaign. Centraide is supported by private, public and parapublic corporations and institutions as well as large trade unions that hold 1,600 workplace campaigns every year. The money raised is invested locally to break the cycle of poverty and social exclusion. Quebec has 18 Centraides that support 1,500 community agencies and projects that offer help and comfort to 1.3 million vulnerable people. For more information: www.coveo.com and follow our blogLinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube accounts.

Coveo is a trademark of Coveo Solutions, Inc.

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November 1, 2017

Stingray Business Signs its Largest In-Store Media Solutions Contract to Date

  • Four-Year Agreement with Farmacias del Ahorro Exponentially Grows Stingray Business’ Operations in Mexico with its partner Basha
  • Stingray Business, working collaboratively with its Mexican affiliate Basha, selected as Farmacias del Ahorro’s exclusive background music, and digital signage content and technology provider for the chain’s 1,600 pharmacies and 1,600 clinics (with an expected annual growth of 200 pharmacies and clinics.)

Montreal, October 25, 2017 – Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B), a leading business-to-business multi-platform music and in-store media solutions provider, today announced that has a concluded a groundbreaking agreement with Farmacias del Ahorro, one of Mexico’s largest drugstore chains, that will bring custom music programming and digital signage technology to over 1,600 pharmacies and 1,600 clinics across Mexico.

Stingray Business, working collaboratively with its local affiliate, Marketing Sensorial Mexico, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (operating as “Basha”), has been given the mandate of strengthening Farmacias del Ahorro’s position as a market leader through expertly curated background music channels and state-of-the-art digital content and technology.

This agreement marks an important milestone for Stingray Business in Mexico. In addition to custom background music channels, specially curated for the specific requirement of local drugstores and clinics, Stingray Business and its local affiliate, Basha, will enhance the chain’s customer and patient experience with digital signage content and interactive technology, including digital kiosks and touch screens.

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“It has long been our position that in-store media should be an integral part of every organization’s branding and customer experience strategy,” said Eric Boyko, President, Co-founder, and CEO of Stingray. “Clients visit clinics and pharmacies for a number of reasons, and we believe that our custom solutions will go a long way to create a positive and soothing atmosphere while keeping clients informed. We are excited to have found in Farmacias del Ahorro a partner that also believes in the power of expertly programmed music and interactive technology to enhance the customer experience. It is a privilege to have this opportunity to contribute to the success of a brand so dear to the hearts of the people of Mexico.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Stingray on our biggest deal to date and to have the opportunity to innovate with Farmacias del Ahorro across all digital platforms to enhance the customer experience,” said Jacobo Jafif CEO of Basha. “This is a ground-breaking deal in the Mexican market that represents a major milestone not only for Stingray but for Basha as well. The expertise and technological infrastructure that Stingray brings to the table make it the best partner we could find.”

“Our objective when launching this project was to implement innovative solutions that would provide our customers with a comforting and relaxing ambiance when visiting our pharmacies and clinics,” said Rafael Selvas, CMO of Farmacias del Ahorro. “To achieve this goal, we required not only a provider but a partner we could rely on for state-of-the-art in-store experience. After a lengthy research process, we selected Stingray and Basha for their cutting-edge technology deployed by an experienced and dedicated team. We are anxious to start implementing the result of our collaboration in our locations across the country.”

About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is the world-leading provider of multiplatform music services and digital experiences for pay TV operators, commercial establishments, OTT providers, mobile operators, and more. Stingray’s services include audio television channels, premium television channels, 4K UHD television channels, karaoke products, digital signage, in-store music, music apps, and more. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray reaches 400 million subscribers (or users) in 156 countries and its mobile apps have been downloaded over 90 million times. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has close to 350 employees worldwide. For more information: www.stingray.com.

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October 11, 2017

INTERSET 5.4 DISTILLS BILLIONS OF CYBERSECURITY EVENTS INTO A HANDFUL OF ACTIONABLE LEADS

Security teams radically accelerate threat detection and response with machine learning

Ottawa, ON, Oct. 11, 2017 — The release of Interset 5.4, from the security-analytics innovator, expands threat coverage to 300+ machine-learning models which dramatically increase threat-detection speed and enterprise-wide visibility.

“Security products that incorporate advanced analytics and cognitive computing offer the potential for more accurate threat detection and effective protection against adversaries, yielding stronger security,” writes Gartner, noting that by 2020, 60% of digital businesses will suffer major service failures due to IT security teams’ inability to manage digital risk. “Gartner feels the eventuality in security analytics is a one-platform solution that is able to analyze multiple behaviors (user, host, network, and so on) such that it can detect a longer list of threat types (such as malware, hacking, and compromised users).”

Interset, powered by unsupervised machine learning, has the only security-analytics architecture that continues to process company data as it grows. Its 5.4 release adds Netflow to the data it already analyzes (among them: authentication, endpoint, VPN, file share, directory service, proxy, printer, resource access, and repository logs). The wide breadth of data yields more comprehensive threat detection and clear insight into both the behaviors of entities (users, files, servers, devices) and how they interplay with each other.

“It’s about visibility.” says Mark Squire, Midnight Oil’s Director of Security. “Interset’s unique ability to analyze billions of events and distill them into high-confidence security intelligence allows us to quickly separate threats from the noise. This visibility and focus allows our security practitioners to quickly investigate and remediate threats even as they become increasingly pervasive and sophisticated.”

By adding NetFlow, Interset demonstrates an integrated, holistic approach to security, that brings together formidable big-data processing with unsupervised machine learning, helping enterprises advance to the next phase of security innovation.

In just nine months, Interset has added 150 machine-learning models to pinpoint:

  • Insider Threats
  • Compromised Accounts
  • Infected Hosts
  • Lateral Movement
  • Data-Staging
  • Data Theft
  • Suspicious Activity

What used to take days or months, now takes minutes. A holistic security solution, Interset integrates with existing investments, such as SIEM systems, to expand threat coverage and eliminate false-positive alerts. Its machine-learning analytics also provide security automation that immediately streamlines workforce efforts to minimize operating expenses, while speeding up threat response.

Interset company growth accompanies these technological advancements. “We have seen incredible demand for Interset’s robust capabilities,” say Interset CEO Mark Smialowicz. “Just as the Industrial Revolution transformed manufacturing, big data and machine learning are transforming cybersecurity.”

Learn More: Visit Meet Interset 5.4 for more product details, a solutions whitepaper, and a data-breach infographic.

Citations

  • Gartner, Market Insight: Security Market Transformation Disrupted by the Emergence of Smart, Pervasive and Efficient Security, 01 February 2017
  • Gartner, Market Trends: SIEM Providers Using Analytics as a Competitive Edge, 28 February 2017

About Interset 
Interset is a security analytics pioneer. An In-Q-Tel company, Interset makes security teams efficient by distilling billions of events into a handful of prioritized threat leads. Its unsupervised machine learning measures the unique digital footprint of systems and users. What used to take days or months, now takes minutes. Enterprises deploy Interset’s machine-learning solution to protect critical data across the manufacturing, life sciences, high-tech, finance, government, aerospace, defense, and securities-brokerage industries. To learn more, visit our website, and follow us on TwitterLinkedIn, and Facebook.

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October 4, 2017

Newly Extended Coveo Global Partner Program Enables Systems Integrators to Drive More Revenue with AI-Powered Search and Relevance Technology

AI-powered search company Coveo launches new Partner Program for easier access to AI Powered Search, for partners to create more relevant, personalized digital experiences

San Francisco, CA, and Quebec, QUEBEC – October 3, 2017

Coveo, a recognized leader in AI-powered search, announced today is launching its newly extended Coveo Partner Program to further support and enable their partner ecosystem as they build more personalization and relevance features into their solution offerings.

Successfully implementing Coveo’s technological solution for its customers takes many forms, often executed in collaboration with different partners. In working with industry- leading solutions providers, Coveo has been delighted to see its AI-powered technology interlaid in customer projects, often in novel ways, and to see its solutions proliferate across a wider customer sphere than Coveo could reach alone. The Partner Program supports Coveo’s Partners in their continued work to implement industry-leading, personalized solutions, with faster project turnaround time, and more effective results for their customers in turn.

“Coveo is proud to count leading-edge solutions providers within our Partner network. It’s a company priority to offer our full support to partners in order to create the best solutions to wow our joint customers,” says Louis Tetu, CEO of Coveo. “Coveo has packaged the expertise of its pioneering R&D team and powerful AI-technology into a platform that leverages Coveo’s Machine Learning to deliver recommendations and relevance for different customer solutions in order to serve that goal.”

By injecting Coveo’s industry leading AI-powered search technology, partners will be able to deliver high value customer projects by leveraging Coveo’s usage analytics and machine learning algorithms to identify and define improvements. Partners will be able to enhance the value story and ROI they are able to deliver on and will be able to solve more of customer challenges beyond initial use cases.

Coveo’s Partner Program enables partners to quickly capitalize on high growth sales and marketing opportunities or to grow sales within a partner’s current client base. A full suite of support options are available to partners at each step of the way including a Coveo Partner Portal and exclusive access to Coveo’s extensive training catalog. Knowledge garnered during the training programs empower partners to solve customer challenges beyond initial use cases and to deliver successful, high value customer projects efficiently.

Additional resources include partner licenses for demos, early access release support for incubator projects, solution design consultation and access to a marketing co-op fund for joint go-to-market activities. Partners can also take advantage of the partner success mentoring program, which includes a dedicated Partner Success Manager to ensure partners’ implementations are well-designed right up front.

“We like to work with companies who are on the cutting-edge of important technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence,” said Harry West, Vice President of Human Capital Management Transformation Services at Appirio. “The cognitive search capabilities of Coveo add an AI capability to a lot of the environments our customers use, that otherwise deliver an experience that doesn’t delight the user. We like being able to recommend a high quality cloud based solution that can give customers what they need to stay on the cutting-edge of consumer-grade expectations.”

Coveo is enjoying a period of tremendous acceleration. The Partner Program is a reflection of the company’s commitment to maintaining its rigorous quality standards as it continues to experience high-paced growth. “Coveo’s Strategic Partnerships have played a key role in the company’s growth. As we grow, it’s only natural that we envision our network growing with us,” said Marie-Michele Caron, Global Alliances Director at Coveo. “At Coveo we believe personalized relevant experiences should be the norm across self- service solutions, in all the many forms that they take. Through the solutions our Partners have implemented, we are seeing personalization become much more mainstream and want to continue providing resources in order to help our Partners help their customers reach their relevancy goals.”

To learn more about the Coveo Global Partner Program and how to become a member, please visitwww.coveo.com/en/company/partners

About Coveo

Coveo, the Relevance company.

Coveo personalizes every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified search, analytics and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, ecommerce, contact centers and intranets effortless and efficient. A Salesforce Gold ISV Partner and a Sitecore Platinum Technology Partner, Coveo partners with the world’s largest enterprise technology players and has more than 1,500 activations in mid-to-large sized global organizations across multiple industries.

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June 5, 2017

OnMobile launches its first consumer App ONMO Express in the USA

Bangalore, June 3, 2017: OnMobile Global Limited is proud to announce the launch of ONMO Express in the USA, the company’s first consumer App.

 

ONMO Express is an App that enables consumers to better express their feeling and emotions through sound, with people who matter to them. Through this App, consumers can set music, jingles, status or their name from a wide catalog as their ring-back tone to play for their callers. Consumers can even set a particular part of the song they love to surprise their callers. The App also allows people to dedicate personalized content for special callers to be played only once and create a moment of surprise.

 

The App is available on both Android and iOS platforms to subscribers of a leading mobile operator in the USA. Following a month-long free trial, subscribers can enjoy the service for $2.99 per month with access to an unlimited number of songs and sounds.
OnMobile has plans to launch ONMO Express and other consumer Apps in some of its other markets as well.

 

“ONMO Express is a major landmark in the history of OnMobile as it is the company’s very first consumer offering. I’m also proud that we have begun our direct to consumer journey in the USA, the world’s most competitive market.” Said Ignacio Martin Velasco – President & Chief Operating Officer – (Europe,
North America, and Latin America)

 

About OnMobile
OnMobile [NSE India: ONMOBILE], headquartered in Bangalore, India, and with offices in all regions of the world, delivers over 575 million music plays daily to mobile customers worldwide. Based on current deployments, OnMobile has
an addressable base of more than 1.5 billion mobile users across several geographies.
For further information, please visit www.onmobile.com
Media Contacts:
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May 9, 2017

Stingray Acquires Yokee Music LTD

Stingray adds three (3) social music apps regularly ranked in the music category’s top 10 in 100 countries

Montreal, May 9, 2017 –Stingray Digital Group Inc. (TSX: RAY. A; RAY B.), a leading business-to-business multiplatform music provider, today announced that it has acquired Israel-based Yokee Music LTD, provider of three (3) social music apps regularly ranked in the music category’s top 10 in 100 countries: Yokee, Yokee Guitar, and Yokee Piano. Together, the apps have reached over 80 million downloads in four (4) years and count 4 million monthly users, with over 50% year-over-year growth.

With the acquisition of Yokee Music – a leader in the development of immensely popular and successful interactive apps – Stingray will benefit from a proven mobile app development and optimization expertise, grow its portfolio of consumer-facing products, and connect with younger music fans around the globe.

Yokee, Yokee Music’s flagship karaoke app, allows users to creatively express themselves and share their love of music with family and friends. Yokee complements Stingray’s existing karaoke services, Stingray Karaoke and The KARAOKE Channel, thus opening the door to powerful content synergy opportunities and growth for the karaoke product line.

Under the terms of the agreement, Stingray will fully own and operate Yokee Music with the continued direction of the company’s current leadership.

Yokee Music Ltd Highlights

  • Founded in 2013 by Gil Selka and Ariel Yaloz.
  • Yokee’s team of 18 consists of musicians, engineers, and product managers specializing in mobile app development.
  • 80 million organic downloads of its three (3) mobile apps: Yokee, Yokee Guitar, and Yokee Piano.
  • More than 4 million music fans actively use the apps on a monthly basis.
  • Ad and subscription revenue sources.
  • Yokee transforms mobile phones and tablets into wireless karaoke machines (camera and microphones included). Yokee empowers users to record, add audio and video effects, share their versions of their favorite songs, and listen to their friends’ performances.
  • Yokee Piano offers music fans the opportunity to play the world’s favorite piano tunes like pros in a matter of seconds.
  • Yokee Guitar lets mobile users play timeless guitar classics and popular radio hits.

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“Stingray and Yokee Music have been long-time friends and partners with a shared passion for connecting people through music,” said Eric Boyko, President, Co-founder, and CEO of Stingray. “I could not be more pleased to officially welcome the Yokee Music team to the Stingray family. This acquisition is highly complementary to our business and significantly expands our reach in the B2C mobile app market.”

“Yokee Music has been a labour of love in which we poured all our expertise, passion, and energy over the past years,” said Ariel Yaloz, Co-founder of Yokee Music. “Joining forces with Stingray is a natural extension of the growth strategy we have been pursuing since our launch and will provide us with exciting opportunities as part of a larger, more diversified company. Working together, I am confident that will foster even greater success and innovation in the mobile app market.”

For more information about Yokee: www.yokee.tv

 

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About Stingray

Stingray (TSX: RAY.A; RAY.B) is a leading business-to-business multi-platform music and in-store media solutions provider operating on a global scale, reaching an estimated 400 million Pay-TV subscribers (or households) in 156 countries. Geared towards individuals and businesses alike, Stingray’s products include the following leading digital music and video services: Stingray Music, Stingray Concerts, Stingray iConcerts, Stingray Brava, Stingray DJAZZ, Stingray Music Videos, Stingray Lite TV, Stingray Ambiance, Stingray Karaoke, Festival 4K, and Classica. Stingray also offers various business solutions, including music and digital display-based solutions, through its Stingray Business division. Stingray is headquartered in Montreal and currently has more than 350 employees worldwide, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, South Korea, and Singapore. Stingray was recognized in 2013 and 2014 as a finalist in the Top 50 of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50TM list, and figures amongst PROFIT magazine’s fastest-growing Canadian companies. In 2016, Stingray was awarded best IR for an IPO at the IR Magazine Awards – Canada. For more information, please visit www.stingray.com.

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Stingray

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April 20, 2017

La série Like-moi! sera adaptée pour la France, la Suisse et la Belgique

La Presse Canadienne
MONTRÉAL – La série québécoise Like-moi! sera adaptée pour la France, la Suisse et la Belgique.

La société de production Zone3 a annoncé mardi qu’une entente avait été conclue pour l’adaptation des 12 épisodes de la première saison en partenariat avec France 4, la Radio télévision belge francophone (RTBF) et la Radio télévision suisse (RTS). L’équipe de production franco-belge-suisse accueillera bientôt l’auteur et producteur associé Marc Brunet et la productrice Josée Fortier, qui s’assureront de la fidélité de l’adaptation et rencontreront les comédiens.

 

Les deux créateurs étaient déjà passés par Cologne, en Allemagne, en novembre, afin de faire connaissance avec l’équipe de #OMG , titre de l’adaptation allemande. Le tournage de cette version est terminé et les sketchs sont déjà en diffusion sur les chaînes web des télédiffuseurs publics allemands ARD et ZDF.

 

Zone3 a de plus annoncé que le groupe Warner avait acheté une option pour les États-Unis et une autre pour le Royaume-Uni, de sorte que Like-moi! pourrait aussi éventuellement percer les marchés anglophones.

 

Au Québec, une troisième saison de Like-moi! sera diffusée en janvier 2018 sur les ondes de Télé-Québec, toujours avec les comédiens Adib Alkhalidey, Katherine Levac, Marie-Soleil Dion, Guillaume Lambert, Florence Longpré, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman et Philippe-Audrey Larrue St-Jacques.

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February 23, 2017

CVTCORP ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF A CVT-BASED PTO DRIVEN IMPLEMENT DRIVE FOR FEEDER MIXERS

Montreal, Quebec –February 23, 2017— CVTCORP, a world leader in design and development of
revolutionary high efficiency, traction-drive continuously variable transmissions (mCVT), is proud to
announce an implement drive production program for a leading North-American feed mixer
customer.
The launch of a CVT-based implement drive with integrated wet clutch, Electronic Control Unit (ECU)
and patented toroidal CVT technology will allow customers to optimize the mixing process using the
automatic shift under load capabilities of the mCVT with infinite number of ratios. The ECU has a preprogramed
setup that can be customized by the end-user based on the type of feed being mixed.

 

The highly efficient CVT-based implement drive provides the opportunity to operate the feeder mixer
system with a smaller tractor and enables a revolutionary “mix while you drive” functionality at the
same time without overpowering the tractor engine. The traditional gearboxes which are currently
offered in the feeder mixer market have fixed ratios of 1, 2 or 3 speeds limiting the mixing optimization
under different operating conditions.

 
Jeremy Shiflett, CVTCORP VP of Sales, Marketing & Service said: “Our technical team has developed
a highly efficient implement drive that is a game changer for the Feeder Mixer Market. Our vision for
this product is much bigger than just for the feeder mixer market, we see a product that will be
applied on a multitude of implements applications such as tillers, tub grinders and sprayers to name
a few.”

 
Daniel Girard, CVTCORP CEO and founder said: “This is another milestone in our strategy to build our
business around our unique validated mCVT technology. CVTCORP is focusing on providing game
changing products, targeting off-highway and AG applications. Our strategy is starting paying off.”
Production will start in mid-2018 at the new manufacturing operation in South Korea operated with
our partner, JMFT.

 
CVTCORP will be showcasing their products and services at CONEXPO –CON/AGG in the IFPE area,
booth S81049 in the South Hall 3, from March 7th to 12th.

 
About CVTCORP
Founded in 2001, CVTCORP is an international technology company specializing in Continuously
Variable Transmissions (CVTs). The company develops, manufactures and supplies CVTs for
construction, agricultural and power generation markets. The infinite number of ratios provided by
the transmission enables the equipment to do more work with less fuel. At the same time, the
technology offers a cost-effective solution for vehicles and equipment outfitted with their innovative
products. The company is privately held and headquartered outside of Montreal, Canada. For more
information about CVTCORP please visit us at www.cvtcorp.com.

 
Source and information:
Jeremy Shiflett
CVTCORP
jshiflett@cvtcorp.com | 1 (765) 414-6664

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February 23, 2017

OnMobile implements a new corporate structure to enhance growth in key markets

Bangalore, India – 23 Feb 2017: The Board of Directors of OnMobile Global Limited today announced that it has approved a new corporate structure which involves the following changes:

 

Francois-Charles Sirois is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Sanjay Bhambri is President and Chief Operating Officer of India, Asia, Middle East and Africa

Ignacio Martin Velasco is President and Chief Operating Officer of Europe and Americas

Rajiv Pancholy resigns as Managing Director and CEO

 

The new structure is designed to sharpen the focus and address the disparate requirements in each market. “I am very excited to promote Sanjay and Ignacio to their respective roles of President and COO with full P&L responsibility for their respective markets. They both have shown the strengths to appropriately lead and grow the business with success”, said Mr. Sirois.

After almost three years, Mr. Pancholy has cited personal and family reasons for leaving OnMobile and returning to Canada. “I’ve been discussing my departure with the Chairman Mr. Sirois for several months. My time at OnMobile was extremely rewarding. I want to thank all my colleagues and the Board of Directors for their continued support. I wish OnMobile and its people a vibrant future and trust that this new structure will deliver our promise.” said Mr. Pancholy.

Mr. Sirois added: “I want to thank Rajiv for his instrumental services that led the transformation of OnMobile, establishing important operational efficiencies and strategically positioning the company to succeed in the domain of sound”.

About OnMobile

OnMobile [NSE India: ONMOBILE], headquartered in Bangalore, India, and with offices in all regions of the world, delivers over 575 million music plays daily to mobile customers worldwide. Based on current deployments, OnMobile has an addressable base of more than 1.5 billion mobile users across several geographies. For further information, please visit www.onmobile.com

 

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February 21, 2017

Interset Named Gold Winner in User Behavior Analytics at RSA 2017’s 13th Annual Info Security PG’s 2017 Global Excellence Awards®

Behavioral threat detection using big data and machine learning is also named Gold Winner for Best Deployment in USA

OTTAWA, ON–(Marketwired – Feb 21, 2017) – Security analytics leader Interset has been honored with two Gold Awards at the 13th Annual 2017 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards,® including top User Behavior Analytics (UBA) solution and best deployment in the USA (11-99 employees). Fortune 500 companies as well as the U.S. intelligence community and other government agencies use Interset to address a broad range of threat detection use cases. These include fraud and targeted attack detection at financial services companies, insider threat detection projects at utility and global tech companies, and IP protection projects at software companies in markets such as application, gaming and security.

“We’re pleased to receive the top recognition for both the quality of our UBA approach and our ability to deploy security analytics across a broad spectrum of markets with a single, out of the box solution,” said Interset CEO Mark Smialowcz.

Interset is built on an open-source, big data platform specifically designed to rapidly expand use case coverage at scale. Unlike alternative approaches, which run analytics at the event level only and require thresholds to define risk scores, Interset runs more than 200 analytic models out of the box, tying the events and entities involved in an incident together to visualize the stages of an attack as they unfold. Rich contextual forensics validate and enable threats to be stopped before comprise occurs. The result is a smart analytics solution that covers known and emerging threats and can be put to work immediately, without the need for expensive product customization.

The Global Excellence awards were delivered at the RSA 2017 Conference and recognize security and IT vendors with ground-breaking products that set the bar higher for others in security and technology.

To learn more, download the Interset data sheet and to see the power of the Interset platform request a demo.

About Info Security Products Guide Awards
SVUS (Silicon Valley United States) Awards are conferred in 10 annual award programs: The Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry’s Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer World Awards, CEO World Awards, Customer Sales and Service World Awards, The Globee Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards, Women World Awards, PR World Awards, and Pillar Great Employers World Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including the people, products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com

About Interset

Interset provides highly intelligent, accurate insider and targeted outsider threat detection. Our solution unlocks the power of user behavioral analytics, machine learning, and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible, and efficient way for IT teams to operationalize a data-protection program. Utilizing agentless data collectors, lightweight endpoint sensors, advanced behavioral analytics, and an intuitive user interface, Interset provides unparalleled visibility to high risk events. This enables early attack detection and actionable forensic intelligence with reduced false positives and noise. Interset solutions are deployed to protect critical data across the manufacturing, life sciences, high-tech, finance, government, aerospace and defense, and securities brokerage industries.

For more information, visit Interset.com and follow us on Twitter @intersetca.

 

Contact information

Betsy Kosheff,

413-232-7057

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February 7, 2017

Interset Named User Behavior Analytics Finalist in 13th Annual Info Security PG’s 2017 Global Excellence Awards®

OTTAWA, ON–(Marketwired – Feb 6, 2017)Interset, the premier provider of security analytics, has been named a finalist for the 13th Annual 2017 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® in the User Behavior Analytics (UBA) category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with ground-breaking products that set the bar higher for others in security and technology.

Interset is named a finalist as the company completes a record year, growing bookings 300% and doubling its customer base. Interset’s industry-first big-data, machine-learning platform delivers enterprise-scale threat detection across multiple use cases including inside threat, targeted attack detection, EDR, SIEM optimization, and fraud detection. Interset is the In-Q-Tel and U.S. Intelligence Community vendor of choice for behavioral analytics (UBA/UEBA).

See Interset at the RSA 2017 Conference Feb 13-17 North Hall, Booth 4414 or schedule a meeting with us.

Says Interset CTO Stephan Jou: “We’re honored to be recognized for our unique approach in the exciting and highly competitive area of security analytics. With our latest release of the Interset platform, we are aggressively pushing the envelope. This includes leveraging our big data architecture and extensible, advanced analytics engine to rapidly cover new user cases with out-of-the-box machine-learning models and data connectors.”

Interset is purpose-built for big-data enterprise environments with a non-rules based approach using more than 200 proven machine learning and advanced analytics models. To learn more about Interset’s unique approach, download the Interset data sheet.

About Info Security Products Guide Awards
SVUS (Silicon Valley United States) Awards are conferred in 10 annual award programs: The Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry’s Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer World Awards, CEO World Awards, Customer Sales and Service World Awards, The Globee Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards, Women World Awards, PR World Awards, and Pillar Great Employers World Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including the people, products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com

About Interset

Interset provides highly intelligent, accurate insider and targeted outsider threat detection. Our solution unlocks the power of user behavioral analytics, machine learning, and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible, and efficient way for IT teams to operationalize a data-protection program. Utilizing agentless data collectors, lightweight endpoint sensors, advanced behavioral analytics, and an intuitive user interface, Interset provides unparalleled visibility to high risk events. This enables early attack detection and actionable forensic intelligence with reduced false positives and noise. Interset solutions are deployed to protect critical data across the manufacturing, life sciences, high-tech, finance, government, aerospace and defense, and securities brokerage industries.

For more information, visit Interset.com and follow us on Twitter @intersetca.

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January 19, 2017

INTERSET’S IMPRESSIVE 300% GROWTH IS FUELED BY DEMAND FOR SECURITY ANALYTICS-DRIVEN, ENTERPRISE-READY THREAT DETECTION

Ottawa, ON, Jan. 18, 2017Interset, the premier provider of security analytics for detecting insider and targeted outsider threats quickly and with certainty, today announced it has closed out 2016 with record 300% year-over-year bookings growth and again doubled its customer base. Interset enhanced its industry-first big data machine learning platform, specifically architected for enterprise-scale security operations by expanding to over 200 analytics models and tripling use cases coverage. Interset also won a host of awards, and continued operational rollouts at In-Q-Tel customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community.

 

“Interset’s hyper-growth comes as the market recognizes that security analytics with machine learning is the only way security operations centers can quickly and accurately pinpoint real threats,” said Interset CEO Mark Smialowcz. With many enterprises experiencing tens of thousands of security alerts daily, more intelligent threat detection is essential to determine where to focus limited resources.  “Yet Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools, which have been central to many security team’s playbooks, were never designed to handle the massive amounts of data required to capture and surface threats in real-time. Force fitting these tools only exacerbates the problem, with universal rules creating false positives and manual processes taxing the limited resources of most organizations,” Smialowcz added.

 

The well-known limitations of SIEM only partially explain Interset’s rapid adoption. Most User and Entity Behavioral Analytic (UEBA) products remain based on rudimentary rules-based analytics lacking machine learning and built on traditional SQL architectures. As a result, their success is quickly hampered by the same challenges facing SIEM — false positives and an inability to scale. Interset, with the investment, partnership, and guidance of the U.S. Intelligence community, has benefited from extensive testing and deployment of its technology on end-to-end big data architectures. This has enabled private sector enterprises adopting the Interset approach to easily deploy the industry’s only out-of-the box security analytics platform to leverage the powerful combination of machine learning and big data.

 

Interset customer wins in 2016 covered multiple use cases including a mix of fraud and targeted attack detection at several financial services companies. Additionally, Interset closed insider threat detection projects at a large US utility and a global hi-tech company, as well as several IP protection projects at software companies in the application, gaming and security markets. The wide breadth of use case project wins underscores the extensibility of Interset’s security analytics engine.

 

Interset introduced extensive new product capabilities, expanding well beyond traditional UEBA with the addition of:

 

Interset expanded its strategic partnerships and integrations with Intel/McAfee, Leidos, FireEye and HPE. Additionally, Interset completed native integration and operational deployments with Splunk and HP ArcSight SIEM tools, and became the first Security Analytics/UEBA solution to complete native integration with McAfee DXL and ESM.  Interset also released a connector for FireEye TAP, enabling internal threats detected by Interset to be correlated with threat-intelligence and perimeter threats discovered by FireEye.

 

Interset also claimed its share of technology awards in 2016 including:

 

About Interset           

 

Interset provides highly intelligent, accurate insider and targeted outsider threat detection. Our solution unlocks the power of user behavioral analytics, machine learning, and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible, and efficient way for IT teams to operationalize a data-protection program. Utilizing agentless data collectors, lightweight endpoint sensors, advanced behavioral analytics, and an intuitive user interface, Interset provides unparalleled visibility to high risk events. This enables early attack detection and actionable forensic intelligence with reduced false positives and noise. Interset solutions are deployed to protect critical data across the manufacturing, life sciences, high-tech, finance, government, aerospace and defense, and securities brokerage industries.

 

For more information, visit Interset.com and follow us on Twitter @intersetca.

 

 

Contact:

Betsy Kosheff
bkosheff@interset.com
413-232-7057

 

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November 16, 2016

Zone3 accélère son développement et se dote de trois grandes divisions

Monsieur André Larin, Président du conseil d’administration, annonce aujourd’hui la création de trois grandes divisions. Il annonce du même souffle les nominations suivantes :

Brigitte Lemonde devient Présidente de Zone3 Création et Production

Luc Benoit devient Président de Zone3 Financière

François-Charles Sirois devient chef de la direction de Zone3 Corporation.

 

Zone3 Création et Production

La création est avant tout une question de talents. En regroupant tous les producteurs et créateurs de sa grande famille sous cette division, Zone3 compte augmenter son impact et sa créativité. Étant responsable de toutes les activités de production et de création du groupe au Québec, l’équipe est complètement dédiée et commise à être la plus performante dans le marché.

 

Zone3 Financière

L’une des grandes forces de Zone3 est sa capacité exceptionnelle à gérer et mettre en place les structures financières essentielles à chaque projet de contenu et de production. Zone3 Financière a pour mandat de mettre en valeur cette expertise et de développer plusieurs partenariats avec des entreprises du secteur. La division comprend le financement des productions, la gestion administrative, les services techniques, les services juridiques, les services informatiques, la gestion des droits et de distribution.

Zone3 Corporation

Zone3 Corporation a pour mission le développement de projets internationaux et d’alliances stratégiques. La consommation de contenu est en forte expansion dans le monde et le rayonnement de Zone3 à l’extérieur du Québec est un objectif central du groupe au cours des prochaines années.

 

Ces trois divisions relèveront du conseil d’administration de Zone3 Inc. Les sociétés Cinémaginaire (Denise Robert, présidente) et Ad Lib Plus (Lorraine Richard, présidente) qui font également partie du groupe, conserveront leur autonomie.

 

« La croissance et les ambitions de Zone3 nécessitent une nouvelle répartition des tâches. Je suis convaincu que cette réorganisation et ces nominations permettront à l’entreprise de continuer sur sa lancée et de maintenir et faire grandir ses partenariats stratégiques avec les diffuseurs de contenu. Je salue aussi l’implication active de nos actionnaires, Telesystem et la Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec et l’appui qu’ils donnent à Zone3 depuis sa création » a commenté monsieur Larin.

 

« Le récent départ de Michel Bissonnette a accéléré la mise en place d’un plan pour poursuivre l’expansion des opérations de Zone3 au Québec, une initiative qu’il avait lui-même préparée. Il laisse derrière lui des équipes très fortes, ce qui est la marque des grands gestionnaires. Je profite de l’occasion pour le remercier du travail accompli au cours des dernières années. Au nom de la grande famille de Zone3, je lui souhaite la meilleure des chances pour la suite » a déclaré monsieur Sirois.

 

BIOGRAPHIES

 

Brigitte Lemonde

Présidente Zone3 Création et Production

Productrice exécutive

Passionnée de télévision et de contenus de tous genre, Brigitte a débuté sa carrière à Radio-Canada où elle a occupé divers postes de direction dans les secteurs Programmes, Production technique et Services aux productions extérieurs avant d’être nommée directrice des émissions Culture et Variétés en 1999.

En 2004, Brigitte entre chez Zone3 où elle occupe successivement divers postes clés qui font appel à sa fine connaissance des milieux télévisuels et culturels, mais également à sa capacité de tisser des liens privilégiés avec ses équipes. Pour elle, les gens qui forment les équipes sont au cœur de toute la création et la production.

 

 

Luc Benoit

Président Zone3 Financière

Producteur exécutif

Avant de se joindre à Zone3 en 2002 pour occuper le poste de chef de l’exploitation financière, Luc a occupé les postes de directeur financier et de vice-président, finances et administration de Motion International et de My Virtual Model. Comptable agréé et bachelier en administration, Luc a exercé sa profession pendant près de 12 ans au sein de la firme Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton

 

François-Charles Sirois

Président et chef de la direction, Telesystem

Chef de la direction Zone3 Corporation

François-Charles Sirois possède plus de 15 ans d’expérience en fusions, acquisitions et financement d’entreprises. Son sens de l’entrepreneuriat combiné à sa capacité de concrétiser des coentreprises avec des partenaires novateurs permettent à Telesystem et ses entreprises de suivre le momentum dans les secteurs des médias et des technologies.

Monsieur Sirois est président exécutif du conseil d’OnMobile Global et président du conseil de Stingray Digital.  Il siège également sur les conseils d’administration de Telesystem, Zone3, iPerceptions, Interset Software, CVTCORP Transmission, Telesystem Énergie, la Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine et Alpine Canada Alpin.

 

 

À propos de Zone3

 

Avec quelque 850 heures de télévision produites chaque année pour les marchés francophone et anglophone, Zone3 est le chef de file de la production télévisuelle au Québec, et compte parmi les plus grands joueurs au Canada. Fictions, variétés, magazines, émissions jeunesse et documentaires, Zone3 contribue à la programmation de nombreux diffuseurs d’ici et d’ailleurs. Ses productions originales remportent la faveur d’un large public et marquent les mémoires. Un succès qui se traduit chaque année par un impressionnant lot de prix et de distinctions. Zone3 appartient à Telesystem et à la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

 

 

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Source : Zone3

Relations de presse : Roy & Turner Communications

Elisabeth Roy, eroy@roy-turner.com

 

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