Valuing Avid, Valuing the Industry’s Future
On August 3, 2023, Reuters wrote that Symphony Technology Group and Francisco Partners are “among the private equity firms competing to acquire media editing software maker Avid Technology.”...
Read MoreAnalysis: Massive Value Shift in Media Industry
This builds on a post earlier this month, excerpting a preliminary view of the 2022 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS) trend index. Having completed the survey efforts for 2022, we can now publish the...
Read More2021 Rankings of Most Important Commercial Trends in Global Media Technology Sector
This is the first of a series of articles that discuss select findings from Devoncroft’s 2021 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS), the largest annual global study of media technology industry trends,...
Read MoreAnalysis: The Lessons of Verizon Digital Media Services (Edgecast)
On September 1, 2021, private equity firm Apollo closed on its acquisition of Yahoo (formerly Verizon Media) from Verizon. At precisely the same time, the Verizon Media Platform business rebranded...
Read More$1.275 Billion: Analysis of Adobe’s Acquisition of Frame.io
Last Thursday (8/19) Adobe announced its intention to acquire Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform, in a $1,275,000,000.00 all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close during...
Read MoreHarmonic Activist Investor Looks Forward to Realizing Harmonic’s Full Potential
Last Monday, April 12th, Harmonic announced a cooperation agreement with Scopia Capital Management, a New York based hedge fund with over $1 billion of assets under management. The agreement was...
Read MoreAnalysis of Kaltura IPO Filing
Kaltura, “the video experience cloud,” filed an S1 on March 1, 2021 to support an intended initial public offering (“IPO”). The public offering was delayed earlier this month. Multiple...
Read MoreUpdate: Evertz Acquires Ease Live (part of Sixty AS)
This is an update to Thursday’s post about Evertz’s announced acquisition of a DTC Interactive Graphics Company. We had speculated the unnamed acquisition target was Bergen Norway based Sixty...
Read MoreAnalysis of Technicolor Restructuring, and a Serious Discussion about Post-Production
On September 22, 2020 Technicolor announced the “successful completion of the final steps of the financial restructuring of the company.” In plain terms, Technicolor – #1 market position...
Read MoreEvertz Q1 FY 2021 Revenue Plunges 46% as Pandemic Bites, Outlook Looks Better
Last week Evertz announced its earnings result for the first quarter of its 2021 fiscal year, which covers the three-month period ending July 31, 2020. The results are a telling data point about...
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