Vimond Opens New York Office

Vimond Media Solutions has opened a new regional office in New York.

The expansion will support the company's growing business in North America. It is being overseen by Vimond CEO Helge Høibraaten and CTO Glenn Pedersen, who are now both based in New York.

Last year, Vimond was involved in large-scale deployments in North America. These projects included two brands rolling out services based on the company's technology. Comcast and Thomson Reuters are among those launching online services based on Vimond Media Solutions' product portfolio and professional services.

Vimond's product line for online service providers includes the Vimond Platform and Vimond Highlights. The Vimond Platform provides a comprehensive environment for managing and delivering multi-format over-the-top (OTT) services, with full facilities for creative, logistical, and business aspects of the operation. With a modular multi-tenant architecture, it offers sophisticated tools and controls for every aspect of an OTT service, from ingest and encoding, through conditional access to business intelligence reporting.

Vimond Highlights is a new approach to live-to-VOD conversion, combining a dedicated focus on rapid short-form clip production and distribution, to social media with broadcast quality recording and editing tools. Broadcast users include TV 2 (Winter and Summer Olympics), TV 4 (Winter Olympics), NRK (World Cup), DR (X Factor), and Reuters TV (Reuters TV News).

Vimond's new office also represents the expansion of the Vimond team, with the company offering new job opportunities in the New York office.

Helge Høibraaten said: "Vimond's traction in the U.S. made it clear to us that now is the right time for us to take the venture to the next level. We felt we could strengthen our presence far beyond the borders of Europe by establishing ourselves in New York. This way, we can offer high level, on-the-ground collaboration and support to our customers across the US, and a direct channel of communication to the R&D headquarters."

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