“This research highlights how news organizations are responding to years of change driven by evolving media habits, multi-platform production, funding pressures, the pandemic, and new technologies,” says Rob Ambrose, Co-founder and Managing Director of Caretta Research. “The findings reveal that despite acute challenges, there’s a remarkable wave of optimism among industry professionals. At the same time, it points to the opportunities to embrace fully “story centric” working and updated newsroom workflows and systems.”

According to the study, many news organizations are struggling with traditional workflows and legacy systems. Specifically, one-third say their current newsroom computer system (NRCS) does not meet their needs. While more than half faced budget cuts in the last year, only a small number actively track the cost of covering stories or measure ROI. The report also reveals a notable trend of adopting AI-enabled tools and rethinking content delivery across platforms. These changes are vital, as news operations aim to maintain relevance and engage audiences in a highly fragmented distribution model.

“Newsrooms must now create more content for multiple platforms with fewer resources. Our findings highlight the crucial role technology and modern toolsets play in supporting journalists to meet the evolving demands of their audiences,” states Marcy Lefkovitz, SVP of Product Innovation at Dalet. “Our partnership with Caretta Research enables us to share a current view of newsroom operations. The result not only outlines ongoing challenges but also provides actionable insights for future success.”

Key findings of “The Future of Newsroom Workflows” include:

• 45% of news operations experience significant challenges with legacy systems, limiting access to field content, and requiring users to switch between multiple systems to complete tasks.
• Websites are the leading platform for news distribution, but a significant portion of the industry still lacks dedicated digital teams for content production.
• Despite significant changes driven by digital and social media platforms, there’s enormous optimism, with 68% of news people feeling “good” or “very good” about the future of their news operation.
• Further insights into crucial topics shaping the future of newsroom operations include strategies for managing and tracking costs.

Respondents noted that modernized tools greatly simplify newsroom operations, underscoring the importance of selecting the right systems and implementing timely updates. To navigate the complexities of legacy system replacement, data, and workflow migration, Dalet recently introduced a comprehensive Competitive Upgrade Program to maximize transformation benefits, efficiencies, and cost savings.

“The Future of Newsrooms” – Research Methodology

The independent research was commissioned by Dalet and conducted by Caretta Research in July and August 2024 among global respondents in a wide range of roles, including newsroom management, editorial and production roles, technical and engineering, and craft and operational functions. Participants work for over 60 diverse news organizations, mainly public and commercial broadcasters, as well as local network affiliates across the U.S.

Download the “The Future of Newsrooms” Report

Producers, editors, reporters, managers, IT specialists, executives and industry analysts are invited to download the full report here.

About Caretta Research

At Caretta Research we know how the media technology landscape is complicated. We care about helping media technology buyers and suppliers understand the market and make great decisions based on accurate data and focused insights.

Through Caretta Portal and Caretta Consulting we combine decades of experience in the industry with continuous hands-on research and an extensive network of technology buyers and decision-makers to help vendors understand and target their potential market, and to help buyers identify the most-suitable solutions—saving time, reducing risk and lowering costs. To learn more visit www.carettaresearch.com.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Peloton, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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The expansion of the popular upgrade program coincides with Caretta Research’s upcoming report, “The future of newsroom workflows”, prepared in partnership with Dalet. The report found 45% of news operations experience significant challenges with legacy systems. Specifically, outdated tools and fragmented workflows that limit access to content from the field and require users to jump between multiple systems to complete tasks.

“Working with outdated systems is a challenge we recognize at RNZ,” states RNZ News Officer Mark Stevens. “Our dedicated team has worked wonders with legacy systems, including one that dates back to 1999. However, as new ways to plan, create and distribute stories emerge, the limitations with these legacy tools increase. We need to provide our storytellers with modern solutions so they can concentrate on delivering quality content to our audiences, not managing the growing technology gaps.”

Read the full story behind RNZ’s decision to choose Dalet for their new editorial system here.

Switching to Dalet gives customers a cutting-edge news workflow solution, leveraging the latest technology and backed by over twenty years of experience.

“In today’s climate of austerity and efficiency, continuing to spend on outdated newsroom systems isn’t sustainable. However, simply replacing a legacy system is not enough to drive progress. News organizations need a partner with deep industry expertise and cutting-edge technology to achieve the best financial and operational outcomes. That partner is Dalet,” states Tara Bryant, Chief Revenue Officer at Dalet.

Key benefits of the Dalet Competitive Upgrade Program include:

• Complimentary news workflow consultation for an operational audit and insights into story-centric news production, collaboration, and remote operations.
• Financial incentives for transitioning from legacy solutions to Dalet, along with the resulting operational cost savings.
• Seamless transition for your data and workflows by tapping into Dalet’s expertise in managing hundreds of successful customer migrations.
• One year of free training through the Dalet Learning Hub, supporting change management and adoption.

To learn more about the Competitive Upgrade Program, please visit https://go.dalet.com/upgrade

Sign up here to receive the upcoming Caretta Research “The future of newsroom workflows” report prepared in partnership with Dalet.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Peloton, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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“RNZ’s upcoming centenary marks not just a celebration of our past, but a bold stride into the future,” said Mark Bullen, RNZ’s Chief Technology Officer. “This investment underscores our commitment to digital transformation, leveraging modern technologies to streamline operations and enhance our capacity to deliver timely news and information.”

Key to RNZ’s tech transformation is Dalet Pyramid, a news solution that enhances resource sharing and story collaboration for chaos-free operations that are open and auditable. The integrated solution will modernize content production and delivery with a story-centric approach. The replacement newsroom management solution includes planning, story editing and approvals, wire feeds, contact management, publishing, rundown management and archiving. In addition, the updated audio editing and management solution will let RNZ staff capture, edit and publish audio anytime and anywhere. The tech upgrade represents an investment of NZ$4.5M for the implementation and first five years of operation.

“One of the systems we’ve been relying on dates back to 1999,” remarked RNZ Chief News Officer Mark Stevens. “To put that into perspective, in 1999 Nokia 3210 topped phone sales and Google had just hired its first employee. Our dedicated RNZ kaimahi (staff) have worked wonders with these outdated tools, finding creative solutions wherever possible. However, we owe it to our storytellers to provide them with state-of-the-art technology so they can concentrate on delivering quality content to our audiences.”

Dalet was chosen to deliver the new system after a rigorous six-month tender process with almost 200 specific requirements, including RNZ’s role as a lifeline utility needing a hybrid cloud and on-premise solution. This ensures that RNZ can remain on air to deliver news broadcasts during any civil defense emergencies.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with RNZ to revolutionize their editorial workflows, enhancing both efficiency and flexibility,” said Ren Middleton, VP of Sales APAC at Dalet. “Dalet is the leader in sophisticated, automated, AI-enabled media workflows. This partnership aligns perfectly with our mission to empower storytellers to deliver compelling narratives to diverse audiences.”

Dalet works with many of the world’s top public media organizations including France Télévisions, the BBC and Australia’s SBS. The company’s ethos of empowering storytelling matched RNZ’s aims for the new system. RNZ will transition to the new system in 2025. Dalet is now working with the broadcaster on a comprehensive staff training program.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Peloton, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com

About RNZ

RNZ is New Zealand’s independent non-commercial public media organization and has proudly been so for almost 100 years. RNZ delivers a diverse range of content that reflects New Zealand’s culture, social and regional diversity. It serves as a platform for quality journalism, creating a space for open dialogue and informed discussion on topics that matter to New Zealanders. RNZ has more than 60 content-sharing partnerships and collaborations in place. It means RNZ content is available to many online media, print, radio and television services in New Zealand and the wider Pacific. This improves the accessibility of RNZ content for New Zealand and overseas audiences and provides a valuable source of unique local content for other media.

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“Customers across every market vertical need to transform both their operations and business models for greater efficiency and monetization. Our commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements uniquely positions Dalet to lead these transformations,” states Santiago Solanas, CEO, Dalet. “Our renewed solutions portfolio delivers on the promise of AI efficiency with a customer experience that enables you to navigate industry uncertainty and thrive, all while safeguarding the integrity of storytelling.”

Experience Dalet Solutions for News, Sports and Entertainment

IBC2024 attendees can book a meeting with Dalet to discuss the following news, sports and entertainment workflow and business solutions:

Solve newsroom chaos with Dalet Pyramid

Dalet’s story-centric news solution, Dalet Pyramid, modernizes news operations with an advanced digital-first news workflow that mutualizes resources and optimizes story collaboration to promote a chaos-free news operation. AI-enhanced workflows and centralized planning transform the way global news operations can facilitate multi-format news workflows on a future-proofed platform that runs with full flexibility across cloud, hybrid and on-premise environments.

Updates shown at IBC2024 include a customizable Dalet Pyramid Planner dashboard and UI improvements that enable users to see stories, media and assignments exactly as they want. Attendees can also preview the new Dalet Pyramid browser-based rundown management capabilities that enhance the production of live shows. The next-generation rundown enables collaboration with real-time co-authoring while still working in a story-centric workflow.

Monetize more across sports and entertainment with Dalet Flex

In addition to powerful news workflows, Dalet powers end-to-end content production and media supply chain workflows with Dalet Flex media asset management (MAM) and workflow orchestration, enabling sports organizations and entertainment companies to produce, manage, package, distribute and monetize content effortlessly. Key integrations with digital storefronts like Veritone Digital Media Hub further enhance library and archive monetization opportunities.

Dalet Flex continuous updates, also shown at IBC2024, include a range of operational efficiency capabilities, including enhanced growing-file management and editing capabilities that accelerate workflows. Improved UX functionality provides faster, easier metadata management. Plus, new cost-monitoring capabilities track cloud storage and processing costs.

Faster editing for news, sports and entertainment workflows

Cloud–native Dalet Cut web-based editor for collaborative and multiformat storytelling lets Dalet Pyramid and Dalet Flex users edit and publish content from anywhere with speed and ease. AI-generated and translated captions and graphics increase speed and efficiency. New Dalet Cut updates include editing growing files and new modes with three- and four-point editing as well as audio improvements with auto ducking and improved monitoring options.

Product Technology Highlights

Visitors to the Dalet stand at IBC2024 can also see the following new product capabilities:

• New AI integrations – Dalet Media Cortex presents a multi-engine approach to metadata enrichment and normalization of multiple sources across large-scale libraries and archives that gives customers consistent, accurate results. The new integrations provide secure, trainable AI models with flexible deployment options – both in the cloud and on-premise – for facial recognition, logo detection, speaker identification and more. Visit the Dalet stand to discuss real use cases, such as the complexity of multiple language requirements and how incorporating AI can automate translations of captions, graphics, voiceovers and more.
• Advanced media processing – Dalet AmberFin delivers premium transcoding at scale on-premise and in the cloud and now gives customers even more deployment flexibility, updated best-in-market pay-per-use pricing, as well as additional codecs and tools that optimize media supply chain workflows. The elastic pay-by-the-hour media processing business model and flexible deployment options make it the best value for premium transcoding.
• Ingest and playout without limitations – Dalet Brio provides high-density ingest and playout while Dalet InStream enables elastic ingest in the cloud for leading media-centric organizations. Ingest as you need, without limits with multi-channel, cloud-native solutions. New features provide additional codec support and continued improvements for a better user experience. Scale, manage and centralize your livestream ingest while reducing the cost of operations.

Dalet Customer and Partner Events at IBC2024

Dalet is gathering sports, media and news professionals for the Dalet Pulse Party on Sunday, 15 September, 17:00-20:00 at The Jetty. After three days on the IBC show floor, join partners Veritone, Caretta Research, and RISE to enjoy an evening of fun and networking. Spots are limited and fill quickly. Register your interest and we will confirm your attendance based on availability.

Dalet customers and partners are invited to the popular “After Work” happy hours at the Dalet stand 7.A43 for snacks, drinks, and conversation. Stop by on Friday and Saturday of the show from 17:00 to close.

Book a Meeting to Experience Dalet

IBC2024 attendees can book a meeting with Dalet to discuss workflow and business needs. Press and analysts can schedule a media briefing with Alex Molina at alex@grithaus.agency.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Peloton, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com

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Dalet upgrade program highlights include:

• Expedited migration and implementation services to help customers quickly move data and workflows.
• Financial incentives for transitioning from legacy solutions to Dalet Flex, in addition to the resulting operational cost savings.
• Free Dalet Learning Hub training access for one year to assist users with change management and accelerate adoption.
• Complimentary media workflow consultation that provides a detailed assessment of a company’s media workflow strengths and bottlenecks as well as a blueprint for a successful transition.

Upgrade to “Tech Forward”

Lack of media workflow agility, efficiency and support have put stakeholders under pressure to evolve and adapt to new requirements. According to McKinsey research, “technical debt is basically the ‘tax’ a company pays on any development to redress existing technology issues, and it accounts for about 40 percent of IT balance sheets.” The article concludes that addressing the technology issues can “free up engineers to spend as much as 50 percent more of their time working on value-generating products and services; reducing costs by cutting back on time needed to manage complexities; and improving uptime and resiliency.” In essence, become a ‘Tech Forward’ company.*

“In today’s competitive landscape, media workflow efficiency and agility isn’t just important — it’s absolute,” states Dalet CEO Carl Farrell. “Traditional solutions no longer suffice: they can’t adapt, scale, connect, or provide the speed required in our fast-paced industry. Greater than the sum of its parts, Dalet provides a powerful, connected ecosystem that scales and evolves right alongside your business, providing you with outstanding ROI. Our low-risk upgrade program provides all of the key elements to make the successful leap and accelerate your digital transformation journey today.”

Following customer feedback, Dalet has identified three key legacy workflows that M&E companies can significantly improve upon with Dalet Flex.

Archive Management

• Migrate existing on-premises archives to the cloud for increased accessibility and decreased costs.
• Manage archives with proven media asset management, advanced metadata capabilities and user-friendly tools to easily find and retrieve content.
• Connect archives to the rest of your operation and improve efficiency across your media’s entire lifecycle.

Production Asset Management

• Manage and track your assets and projects through their entire lifecycle from acquisition to editorial to distribution.
• Connect your NLE to the rest of your workflows to access your entire library and drive your media supply chain.
• Harness the power of workflow automation to improve efficiency and increase revenue potential.

Integrated Editing

• Access, prepare, create and distribute content faster with a browser-based editor fully integrated within your ecosystem.
• Connect your editorial workflow directly to your media supply chain to increase efficiency and content speed-to-market.
• Maintain the agility of a browser-based editor while connecting to your high-end editor for more advanced content creation needs. Hand off your edit directly to Adobe© Premiere Pro with the Dalet Xtend panel, bringing your full media library to your edit suite.

Dalet’s consultative approach ensures optimized configuration and workflows with full implementation services, ranging from training to workflow creation and turnkey migration. Extensive onboarding options, from 1:1 to instructor-led, or self-paced online, and 24/7 multi-tiered support ensure customers maximize the value of Dalet.

With the Dalet competitive upgrade program, customers can migrate away from outdated, high-maintenance equipment and gain significant efficiencies on a modern, cloud-native platform that improves wider operations with enhanced collaboration, security, and business intelligence.

For more information, please visit: https://go.dalet.com/upgrade

* Reference Mckinsey research: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/breaking-technical-debts-vicious-cycle-to-modernize-your-business

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Peloton, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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“Dalet Flex continues to deliver immense value with capabilities that make our customers nimbler and more inclusive,” states Mathieu Zarouk, Director of Product Marketing, Dalet. “We are making it easier for everyone to use Dalet Flex from the moment the content is captured through the time it’s distributed, monetized and archived. The camera card management, deep integration with tools like Adobe® Premiere Pro® along with key accessibility design and language support, makes Dalet Flex the industry’s most robust, cloud-native media management, production and delivery platform on the market.”

Dalet Flex can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises. It can be hosted by Dalet or the customer as a dedicated, single-tenant implementation. Dalet Flex for teams, Dalet’s multi-tenanted SaaS solution, is hosted and managed by Dalet.

New Dalet Flex capabilities which are available today include:

• Greater Accessibility

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines were developed in cooperation with individuals and organizations from around the world, with the goal of providing a single shared standard for web content accessibility. Dalet Flex is being adapted to meet the guideline’s principles of perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. The improvements range from color adjustments for greater contrasts to aria labels identifying interactive elements of the page, to reorganizing HTML elements and styles so common items like checkboxes are easier to work with.

• Expanded Language Support

Users can seamlessly switch the Dalet Flex interface between languages, making it easier for customers to support multilingual workforces. Customers requiring other language support should contact their Dalet representative for assistance.

• Camera Data Wrangling

Integrated with Dalet AmberFin, Dalet Flex features advanced camera card and spanned clip management, providing a more efficient and natural management of content coming from camera cards. Users can archive or restore an entire card in a single operation. Dalet AmberFin and Dalet Flex let users browse card assets and, for spanned media, capture basic information about each underlying file. The ability to manage camera card data will enable users in the field or on-set to make content available to colleagues in a more efficient and organized manner.

See Dalet Flex in Action

Please join us on September 1, 2022 to discover what’s new in Dalet Flex. To register for the webinar visit: https://www.dalet.com/events/whats-new-in-dalet-flex-in-2022-so-far/

Beyond the Enterprise. Hello Teams!

Dalet Flex serves as the foundation for Dalet Flex for teams, a multi-tenanted, packaged SaaS offering for smaller workgroups and specific workflows. Dalet Flex for teams democratizes key media logistics use cases, such as library management and multiplatform content distribution, through affordable, pre-configured workflows fully hosted and managed by Dalet. These tried and true configurations make it easy for customers to manage rich, multimedia content libraries; automate content distribution across traditional, digital and social platforms; support a hybrid or remote workforce, and/or build a living archive. With the elasticity of the cloud at their fingertips, customers can quickly scale resources as needed with full control over budgets.

For more information about Dalet Flex for teams including subscription information, please visit: https://www.dalet.com/products/flex/plans/

For more information about Dalet Flex please visit: https://www.dalet.com/products/flex/

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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“As custodians of the history of the game, it’s really important that we provide a simple way for future generations to access and experience the game’s rich history,” comments Spencer Wilson, Operations and Broadcast Manager for the AFL. “Dalet Flex provides a single source of truth for this mammoth archive. You can use Dalet Flex to search the archives, pull content and package it for monetization for any type of sales channel. The core design of the system tracks not only media assets but manages commercial agreements, compliance requirements and transactions tied to those assets. This allows us to set up an on-demand service that radically changes how we can share with our broadcast customers and fans.”

As the governing body of the professional Australian rules football, AFL is the guardian of the league’s video archives, preserving historical game content for its club members since the very first game captured on film in 1909. Concerned with degradation and loss of valuable assets and the growing storage requirements for each of the 400 plus games shot in progressive formats, the organization sought to digitally preserve its entire archive. The AFL used Telstra Purple to configure the Amazon Web Services data servers and data centers that stored the digitized game content and Dalet Flex to facilitate key media logistics functions including archival searches, retrievals, and packaging of content for on-demand and multi-platform distribution. The new on-demand media request workflow enables AFL to significantly expand the use of historical game content and deepen fan engagement from discovery of favorite club heroes of the past to the history of the game.

Dalet Sports Content Strategy and Fan Engagement

The AFL archive project comes on the heels of several high profile sports transformations including Lega Serie A, the National Rugby League of Australia, Arsenal Football Club, and the Ligue de Football Professionnel, all of which implemented Dalet solutions to drive new video strategies to expand their multigenerational fan engagement across digital channels.

“For years, AFL has been producing content and delivering to their fans all ‘for the love of the Game.’ They are leveraging Dalet Flex to enhance their video strategy, and transform from a sport organization that oversees an archive to a media-savvy sport organization that utilizes technology to optimize their high-value content,” comments Ren Middleton, Regional Sales Manager ANZ, Dalet. “Innovative on demand and digital video strategies take experience and understanding. We are able to bring all of our best practices delivering video solutions to a number of iconic leagues and teams, and deliver faster, more efficient, more impactful workflow solutions like AFL on-demand archive.”

Learn more about how the AFL is relying on Dalet Flex to digitize its rich game heritage archives by watching the video below.

For more information about how Dalet sports solutions can help your content workflows needs, please visit https://www.dalet.com/solutions/sports-teams-leagues-federations/

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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“Today’s creative and digital media teams want feature-rich tools in an affordable, easy to consume and to deploy offering. They want minimal overhead and flexibility to manage the fluid movement of resources whether they are working remotely or in the office, or continually onboarding and offboarding,” comments Mathieu Zarouk, Director of Product Strategy, Media Workflows, Dalet. “Dalet Flex has been cloud-native from day one, providing a strong foundation for our multi-tenanted SaaS offering. Key workflows like library management and content distribution were conceived with cloud operations in mind, and perfected through customer feedback and success allowing us to bring these solutions packaged for fast deployment and easy adoption, to a wider audience.”

Available on a subscription basis with three plans – Essentials, Growth, Advanced – Dalet Flex for teams brings all the convenience and affordability SaaS has to offer in an agile media logistics solution designed to support the fluid ebb and flow of creative collaboration. Dalet Flex for teams, which runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is designed with Dalet’s approach to security in mind, can be up and running within one business day. Customers simply log in via the easy-to-use web client to access Dalet Flex tools and workflows. The pre-configured environments are delivered with ready-to-execute workflows such as import /export, review and approval, and distribution. Dalet Flex for teams’ capabilities will be updated regularly through controlled maintenance releases, bringing new features based on customer inputs and feedback.

Dalet Flex for teams provides metadata and asset management sophistication while reducing set-up complexity

Secure auto-scaling and load balancing ensure high availability and resilience, removing the need for the client to deploy their own infrastructure or manage overhead. With the infrastructure complexity and costs managed by Dalet, users can fully focus on their craft, creating amazing content and meeting their audience’s needs, while enjoying a much lower cost of entry.

“The launch of Dalet Flex for teams marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Dalet’s product lineup and our business model,” states Robin Kirchhoffer, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Dalet. “Over the past three years, we have significantly expanded our customer success resources and shifted our focus towards cloud-native, subscription-based media workflow solutions. The introduction of our multi-tenanted media logistics solution is the culmination of our efforts to bring the power of Dalet Flex in the hands of new users and teams.”

Dalet Flex is Also Available for Enterprises

Dalet Flex continues to be offered as an enterprise-grade media workflow platform available as a subscription, with custom offerings that can be tailored exactly to any organization’s needs and specific requirements. Dalet Flex can be hosted by customers, in the cloud or on-premises, or by Dalet as a dedicated, single-tenant implementation.

Dalet Flex enables content packaging and distribution for media-rich companies of all sizes

See Dalet Flex for teams in Action

To learn more about the new Dalet Flex for teams and how it can help your specific workflow needs, visit go.dalet.com/en/flex-get-started to book a private demonstration.

Dalet will also showcase Dalet Flex at the 2022 NAB Show on booth 4423 in Central Hall. Attendees can book a private demonstration at: www.dalet.com/events/nab-show-2022. Press attending the show can book a media briefing with Alex Molina at alex@grithaus.agency.

For more information about Dalet Flex please visit: www.dalet.com/products/flex.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

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“Migo facilitates what would have been an out-of-reach, expensive digital experience for the mass market consumer segments, as a snackable and affordable product, and uses Dalet Flex streamline content package and delivery,” states Daniel Money, Operations & Supply Chain Director, Migo. “Dalet Flex is a strategic technology solution that manages our data delivery workflow, as we build an entirely new category for content delivery and consumption using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is telco-independent.”

Migo’s innovative workflow has been shortlisted for the prestigious IBC2021 Innovation Awards and will be presented at the NAB Broadcast Engineering and IT Conference (BEIT) on Wednesday, October 13 at 11:30 AM PST.

An expert in creating new mass distribution models, Migo’s Founder, Barrett Comiskey, developed the technology behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader, revolutionizing book distribution. Migo’s disruptive product is a downloadable “sachet” of content-to-go. Consumers can download Migo content over a local public WiFi at one of the planned 100,000 proprietary kiosks located in small convenience and general stores throughout Indonesia. Once downloaded, consumers can watch offline anytime anywhere, without the need for an Internet connection. The approach is 40 times less expensive than the next best alternative.

“The initial in-house developed software stack, production and content distribution layer was a complicated, tiered design solution. There were many upstream and downstream dependencies that were always changing and initially we made the choice to design it in-house. This proved to be quite challenging to maintain,” states Daniel. “We looked again at the industry for robust and flexible content workflow solutions and were impressed with the Dalet Flex value proposition from the quality of the UI and breadth of use cases. Then I think what really sealed the deal though was the personal side – their technical sales team really impressed us.”

Dalet Flex’s native cloud architecture provided the immense flexibility that Migo needed to adapt to changes caused by the pandemic, while supporting its ambitious growth plans to scale to 1,000 locations this year. It serves as the foundation that connects Migo’s Taiwan, Philippines and Indonesia content operations with comprehensive media logistics capabilities fully orchestrating content packaging. With content priced to compete with a bottle of soda, Migo’s dynamic business model benefits from Dalet Flex’s precision in managing content to mitigate mistakes and optimize operations at every level. Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the end-to-end workflow simplifies the many upstream and downstream adjustments while providing transparency into the business.

“Migo’s business model adds another layer of complexity to the usual digital content packaging and delivery needs,” concludes Patricio Cummins, general manager for Dalet in APAC. “Dalet Flex takes care of the intricacies while enabling users to work collaboratively across locations thanks to cloud infrastructure. Migo can efficiently manage thousands of hours of content within their content warehouse while leveraging in-house integrations for transcoding and distribution.”

For more information about Dalet Flex please visit https://www.dalet.com/products/flex/.

About Dalet

Dalet empowers media-rich organizations to transform their production and distribution workflows – accelerating media operations, maximizing collaboration and creating higher value from content. As a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation, our software solutions enable greater control, enhanced visibility and increased productivity for content professionals and storytellers around the globe. Leading organizations such as Fox Networks Group, Arsenal Football Club, MediaCorp, Audi, and the BBC trust Dalet to support their daily content operations. Our team is driven by a passion for media and committed to empowering a world where compelling stories are beautifully made, effortlessly told and thoughtfully delivered. Learn more at www.dalet.com.

About Migo

Migo levels the digital playing field for 3 billion emerging market consumers by bringing the best bits of the internet to the local corner store in every corner of the world.

After bringing reading into the digital era, Kindle tech inventor Barrett Comiskey built Migo’s disruptive unique tech solution to provide affordable access to digital products and services. Backed by Temasek, blue chip companies and key industry insiders, Migo delivers data 40 times cheaper than the best telco alternative. This cost advantage is projected to grow over time as data consumption increases.

Migo launched in Indonesia in 2020. Its product is micro-subscription passes providing customers access to entertainment, education, financial services and more at the neighborhood cloud (aka Migo Download Stations or MDS) hosted at convenient retail locations.

The company plans to rapidly expand in other emerging economies with huge mass market segments in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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“NextRadioTV has an ambitious roadmap in terms of both new content production and new channels, like BFM Lyon,” comments Antoine Robelin, Broadcast CTO, NextRadioTV. “Underpinning the entire operation with an agile platform like Dalet Galaxy enables us to centralize all of our media operations and optimize productions. More than 1,000 journalists and editors are able to work with the Dalet Galaxy system. They work collaboratively and share their content across all NextRadioTV brands. This gives us tremendous flexibility with regards to feeding channels and distribution outlets, including our new BFM Lyon channel.”

NextRadioTV’s digital transformation with Dalet has enabled the group to launch new initiatives like the ultra-targeted regional station BFM Lyon quickly, while keeping in line with the brand’s content strategy across multiple locations. With a reputation for always being the first to broadcast breaking news, the Dalet tools help NextRadioTV verify, editorialize and broadcast content before any other media outlet.

“Launching BFM Lyon, the second regional channel after BFM Paris under Altice France, marks a major step in our network expansion strategy. Thanks to the advanced collaboration framework and powerful connectivity, Dalet Galaxy has helped broaden our reach while accelerating a digital transformation that allows us to continue to scale with ease,” adds Antoine Robelin.

A single Dalet Galaxy MAM, orchestration and editorial platform powers NextRadioTV’s massive multi-channel, multi-format and multi-output programming, from news and sports to long-form and radio programs, allowing individual teams to manage collaboratively everything from content ingest, editing, graphics and playout, to multi-platform distribution and archives.

Johann Zemmour, General Manager EMEA-APAC, Dalet comments, “The agility of Dalet Galaxy is very important for NextRadioTV’s product-oriented production approach, in which they use a studio to produce a show and decide later where and when that program content will appear on TV, radio and digital. Dalet Galaxy allows them to use their resources independently of their channels, enabling NextRadioTV to leverage a wide range of content for new channels as well as manage distribution across their many platforms in an incredibly efficient manner.”

Dalet systems have supported BFMTV programming throughout their entire history, from a small newsroom of 50 people to what is today several hundreds of simultaneous users and advanced workflows covering all production and playout operations. Serving all operations across multiple locations, the Dalet Galaxy systems facilitates immediate content sharing across all departments, supporting desktop editing for fast turnaround news and sports via Dalet OneCut, and advanced packages crafted on Adobe Premiere Pro CC brought seamlessly into the collaborative workflow via Dalet Xtend.

About NextRadioTV

NextRadioTV is an independent multimedia company. Its business focuses on five areas – general news, sports, the economy, high-tech and factual entertainment – available on television, radio and digital media. The Group has recognized know-how and expertise in managing innovative audiovisual projects.

About Dalet

Dalet solutions and services enable media organizations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximizing the value of assets. Based on an agile foundation, Dalet offers rich collaborative tools empowering end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, post-production, archives and enterprise content management, radio, education, governments and institutions.

Dalet platforms are scalable and modular. They offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical functions of small to large media operations – such as planning, workflow orchestration, ingest, cataloguing, editing, chat & notifications, transcoding, play out automation, multi-platform distribution and analytics.

In July 2019, Dalet announced the acquisition of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform business. An acceleration of the company’s mission, the move brings tremendous value to existing Dalet and Ooyala customers, opening vast opportunities for OTT & digital distribution.

Dalet solutions and services are used around the world at hundreds of content producers and distributors, including public broadcasters (BBC, CBC, France TV, RAI, TV2 Denmark, RFI, RT Malaysia, SBS Australia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Canal+, FOX, MBC Dubai, Mediacorp, Fox Sports Australia, Turner Asia, Mediaset, Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), sporting organizations (National Rugby League, FIVB, LFP) and government organizations (UK Parliament, NATO, United Nations, Veterans Affairs, NASA).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

Dalet® is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital Media Systems. All other products and trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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KEXP is a Seattle, Washington, based radio station and arts organization renowned for featuring breaking new artists. KEXP approached Dalet to unify all of its media acquisition, production and delivery under a single advanced MAM platform with extensible and rich collaborative production and metadata tools to curate a continuously growing catalog of exclusive performances and music libraries. The Dalet solution will transform KEXP’s ability to create, manage and distribute a full range of live, recorded and on-demand audio and video content to enhance its brand’s reach across traditional and new media platforms.

“At KEXP we pride ourselves on being one of the few radio stations tightly connected with artists,” says Kevin Cole, Senior Programming Director. “We champion breakout bands not supported by commercial media outlets. Our mission is to help our audience of passionate and intelligent music fans discover and explore the best new music across all music genres.”

“KEXP has leveraged open source music metadata repository MusicBrainz to build a metadata schema that allows us to capture detailed information about each artist, recording, genre and more,” says Chief Engineer Jamie Alls. “It enables us to store, index, search, distribute, re-distribute or associate with other content. All of this rich information will contribute to building a unique library that will serve the organization for many years to come. The decision to invest in Dalet is driven by our understanding of its ability to manage this entire process while working with external systems like MusicBrainz.”

 

KEXP’s 43 DJs are widely recognized as experts in their field, presenting the newest emerging popular artists alongside established bands. Artists championed by the station include Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Nirvana and Soundgarden. KEXP’s varied programming mix includes a real-time on-demand playlist, a two-week archive of radio shows and an array of podcasts.

KEXP also features in-studio performances and interviews transmitted live on air or pre-recorded, edited and then broadcast or made available on-demand. The Dalet installation lays the groundwork for the station to better leverage social media platforms for trends and analytics for on-air talent and programming to produce audience-driven playlists.

“KEXP is a true visionary,” says Frederic Roux, Director of Sales, USA & Canada, Dalet. “Its approach to transforming a radio station into a true multimedia production with connected audiences is a major leap forward. We are very proud to be part of this high-profile project and help deliver the technical foundation that will allow KEXP to shape the next generation of its operations and content distribution.”

Roux continues, “Dalet Galaxy is an open and scalable platform built on a flexible workflow engine and central repository. It orchestrates any complex combination of automated processes and human tasks, taking away the complexity of technical operations to allow a focus on the user experience and business process, increasing productivity, quality and reach.”

 

Dalet Galaxy is a production, playout and distribution system designed for media convergence, underpinned by the powerful workflow engine of the Galaxy platform. The integration at KEXP provides a complete digital environment, enabling smooth integration with a number of key third-party applications. All pre-recorded programs and audio/video content production for commercials, station promos or jingles will be created using Adobe® Audition® or Avid® ProTools®. Audition and ProTools users will push files and associate metadata to the Galaxy central repository where it will be indexed, stored and synchronized with the MusicBrainz database.

About KEXP

KEXP is one of the most influential listener-supported non-profit music media organizations in North America. More than 200,000 listeners from around the world tune in to the station each week over the air and online. On KEXP’s YouTube channel, videos of exclusive in-studio performances garner more than 1.7 million views per week. KEXP produces over 500 live performances each year. For more information, please visit www.kexp.org.

About Dalet

Dalet software-based solutions enable media organizations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximizing the value of assets. Dalet products are built on three distinct platforms that, when combined, form versatile business solutions that power end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, production, archive and radio. Individually, Dalet platforms and products offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical media workflow functions such as ingest, QC, edit, transcode and multiplatform distribution.

The foundation for Dalet’s productivity-enhancing workflow solutions, Dalet Galaxy is the enterprise NRCS and MAM that unifies the content chain by managing assets, metadata, workflows and processes across multiple and diverse production and distribution systems. Specially tailored for news and media workflows, this unique technology platform helps broadcasters and media professionals increase productivity while providing operational and business visibility.

Dalet AmberFin is the high-quality, scalable transcoding platform with fully integrated ingest, mastering, QC and review functionalities, enabling facilities to make great pictures in a scalable, reliable and interoperable way. Addressing the demanding needs of studio production, multi-camera ingest, sports logging and highlights production, the innovative Dalet Brio video server platform combines density and cost-effectiveness with high reliability.

Dalet supports customers from the initial planning stages to well beyond project execution. Our global presence includes 15 offices strategically located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America and South America, and a network of more than 60 professional partners serving 87 countries worldwide. This collective experience and knowledge enables our customers to realize potential increases in productivity, efficiency and value of their assets.

The comprehensive Dalet Care program ensures deployments remain up and running with 24/7 support 365 days a year.

Dalet systems are used around the world by many thousands of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France TV, RAI, RFI, RT Malaysia, VOA), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, MBC Dubai, MediaCorp, Mediaset, Orange, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros, Sirius XM Radio), and government organizations (Canadian House of Commons, Finnish Parliament, Australian Parliament).

Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

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