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April 10th, 2018
ZEE’s Digital Entertainment Platform ZEE5 Selects BuyDRM’s KeyOS Multi-DRM Platform
AUTHOR: Hunter Levy
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ZEE’s Digital Entertainment Platform ZEE5 Selects BuyDRM’s KeyOS Multi-DRM Platform KeyOS provides a studio-approved DRM lifecycle platform for premium media operators around the globe.
April 10th, 2018—Austin, TX and Mumbai, India — ZEE5, Zee Entertainment
Enterprises Ltd’s brand new digital entertainment platform has partnered with BuyDRM
to secure its online media content. ZEE5 is India’s largest, most comprehensive digital
entertainment platform for language content. It offers the best of Originals, Indian and
International Movies and TV Shows, Music, Live TV, and Health and Lifestyle content -
across 12 languages.
ZEE5 will utilize the BuyDRM’s KeyOS™ MultiKey™ Service, along with KeyOS™
MultiPlay™ SDKs, for its multi-DRM strategy.
As part of the KeyOS Multi-DRM Platform, the MultiKey Service supports the industry-
leading DRMs, such as Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine and Apple FairPlay,
which power the widest variety of premium content for consumers. BuyDRM’s KeyOS
MultiPlay SDKs allow for protected premium content playback using a feature rich player
with multi-DRM support integrated into a client’s app for Apple iTunes and Google Play.
BuyDRM has pioneered DRM as a Service (DaaS), providing highly available DRM
technologies through modern, easy to deploy, secure APIs. Using a variety of common
programming languages, the KeyOS Platform enables major studios, content licensees
and OTT operators to quickly deploy studio-approved DRM within their existing content
workflows.
“We selected BuyDRM as our DRM partner as it offered a Multi-DRM solution to serve
content across multiple devices. The ability to download content and watch it offline is
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extremely critical in a country like India where data costs are still a concern, and that’s
one of the key features offered by ZEE5. For this we needed a strong DRM platform in
place, which BuyDRM was able to provide.” said Mr. Amit Goenka, CEO – Zee
International and Z5 Global.
Christopher Levy, CEO and Founder, BuyDRM, said: “ZEEL is a global media and
entertainment powerhouse reaching over a billion viewers worldwide. BuyDRM takes
great pride in being a technology partner for their digital platform ZEE5 that was recently
launched in India. We are confident that our DRM technology will not only address the
rights of content owners, but also enable consumers to view content when and where
they choose.”
About BuyDRM BuyDRM™ is a leading provider of Digital Rights Management and Content Security
Services for the entertainment, enterprise, transportation and education industries with
customers spanning the globe. With 17 years of market-leading experience implementing
commercial DRM solutions and media technologies, BuyDRM has amassed substantial
success stories for many of today’s largest brands.
OTT and IPTV operators, television networks, movie studios, MVPDs, telcos and
premium content distributors use the BuyDRM award-winning KeyOS multi-DRM
Platform to provide robust content security for their IP video offerings to a variety of
connected and disconnected devices. BuyDRM customers include BBC iPlayer and BBC
iPlayer Radio, BBC Worldwide, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony DADC, Sony Crackle,
Sony Pictures Television Networks, Warner Brothers, Showtime Networks, Deluxe,
Vubiquity, Cinedigm, SONIFI Solutions, ABC Australia, Limelight Networks, AMC
Networks, Telus, Bell Media, Zee Entertainment Enterprises, and Sinclair Broadcast
Group.
For more information please visit http://www.buydrm.com
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About ZEE5 ZEE5 is the brand new digital entertainment destination launched by Zee Entertainment
Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), a global Media and Entertainment powerhouse. With content
across 12 languages like English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada,
Marathi, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Gujarati & Punjabi, ZEE5 is home to 1 lakh hours of On Demand
Content and 90+ live TV channels. The platform brings together the best of Originals,
Indian and International Movies and TV Shows, Music, Live TV and Health and Lifestyle
content all in one single destination. ZEE5 offers ground breaking features like 11
navigational languages, content download option, seamless video playback and Voice
Search.
The ZEE5 App can be downloaded from Google Play Store and iOS App Store. It is also
available at www.zee5.com, as a Progressive Web App (PWA), and on Android TVs and
Amazon Fire TV Stick. ZEE5 also supports Chromecast.
Follow ZEE5 on Facebook.com/ZEE5, Twitter.com/ZEE5India, Instagram.com/ZEE5