BeBanjo and IVORY agree on a business partnership to accelerate sales of BeBanjo solutions in France and Belgium.

A deal to bring operational control and efficiency to VoD and TV professionals in the region.

London, United Kingdom, and Boulogne-Billancourt, France, September 9, 2021 – BeBanjo, the maker of products that help teams managing video-on-demand (VoD) and TV plans, schedules, rights, workflows and metadata chose IVORY’s Business Outsourcing Services to accelerate its success in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

With the multiplication of VoD, TVoD, AVoD, SVoD platforms, catalogue owners need to manage the publication of thousands of titles, to a large number of platforms, devices, business models and in multiple geographies. BeBanjo came to market in 2008 with SaaS products to help the incipient On-Demand business professionals control their data to make their operations easier, faster, and better. The core technology built by BeBanjo, called Movida, was designed to help VoD and TV editorial and sales teams to handle schedules, rights, metadata, publications, and jobs.

Movida comes with 3 additional modules to simplify integrations:

• Metadata to manage and automate the complexity of delivery to different OTT platforms
• Sequence to enhance control and collaboration on complex VoD workflows
• Reporter, a data warehouse allowing to connect any business intelligence tool

BeBanjo scheduling solutions are web-based and available as SaaS only. Leading media groups around the world are successfully using BeBanjo products daily to bring control and efficiency to their On-Demand and TV business, such as: AMC Networks, BBC Studios, BT TV, Cirkus, ITV, Orange or Telefónica.

IVORY will assist BeBanjo to calibrate its local strategy, manage its partner ecosystem, ensure that the company gets seen and heard, and provide strategic account management. This collaboration will extend IVORY’s reach to VoD teams to help them succeed in their digital transformation at scale by boosting efficiency and reinforcing collaboration.

François Chabat, BeBanjo CEO: “BeBanjo is a global company, with established operations in the USA, UK and Spain. After evaluating different options to expand our success in France and reaching out to our contacts locally, it appeared that adding our expertise with IVORY’s market insight and business development capability would be a winning combination.”

Julien Gachot, IVORY CEO: “IVORY works very closely with broadcasters and leading media groups. Our mission being to support strategic transformation projects, we wanted to contribute to our customers success in the rapidly growing On-Demand services. We feel particularly privileged to represent BeBanjo products and services to help our industry seize new opportunities.”