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Sep 7, 2012
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Corporate | 7 September 2012 11:00
bmp media investors AG: bmp acquires stake in castaclip GmbH
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07.09.2012 / 11:00
bmp acquires stake in castaclip GmbH
Berlin, 7 September 2012
The Potsdam-based video content network castaclip has successfully completed a financing round in which bmp media investors AG (ISIN DE0003304200) participated together with the existing shareholders. bmp took the lead in this round and now has a 16.5% stake in the company.
castaclip operates a marketplace for short-form online video content (VCeX), in which marketers, owners of rights and website operators can sell and market premium videos. The company has developed its own platform that allows market participants to show, market and charge for video content automatically according to 'contextual relevance' via thousands of websites. castaclip already has content partnerships with reputable companies such as dpa-AFX, Red Bull Media House and NBCu.
On the occasion of the financing round, founder and managing director Ekow Yankah said: 'We are delighted about the participation of this experienced and well connected group of investors and grateful for their confidence in our company. We will use the funds to expand further our position as a leader in technology and scale our business model in further markets.'
Oliver Borrmann, CEO of bmp media investors AG, said: 'castaclip is a very attractive addition to our portfolio, which, with dailyme.tv, Instream Media and Freshmilk Net TV, already includes three companies from the video segment. We consider the video segment to be one of the especially lucrative growth drivers in the online and mobile segment. castaclip has already developed an excellent technology platform and has thus demonstrated the ability to combine content, coverage and marketers professionally.'
About castaclip GmbH
The video content network castaclip brings together owners of rights, website operators and marketers on its innovative video platform VCeX to market additive video coverage. castaclip enables content producers to sell their online video portfolios in a controlled manner via website operators and marketer networks with a broad reach. In turn these can use the comprehensive range of video contents to increase and market the video coverage. The VCeX platform supports market participants in implementing complex video publishing workflows – from rights management, content management, streaming and all publishing processes to delivery, marketing and settlement.
More information at http://www.castaclip.com.
About bmp media investors AG
bmp media investors AG (ISIN DE0003304200) invests in growth companies in the field of media and marketing services in Germany and Poland. It focuses on companies in the seed, start-up and expansion stages.
To date, bmp media investors has performed over 40 equity investments in the media and marketing services segment. Its most successful exits include K2, Bankier, Nokaut, nugg.ad and Pomocni. Its current portfolio includes brand eins Medien AG, Xamine GmbH, Self Loading Content GmbH (dailyme) and, recently, Retresco GmbH.
For more information, please contact:
bmp media investors AG
Corinna Riewe
Investor Relations
Schlüterstraße 38
10629 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 302 030 5567
Fax: +49 302 030 5555
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.mediainvestors.com
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| Language: | English |
| Company: | bmp media investors AG |
| Schlüterstraße 38 | |
| 10629 Berlin | |
| Germany | |
| Phone: | +49 (0)30 20 305-0 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)30 20 305-555 |
| E-mail: | [email protected] |
| Internet: | www.mediainvestors.com |
| ISIN: | DE0003304200 |
| WKN: | 330420 |
| Listed: | Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart; Warschau |
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