Bitmovin获得2500万美元C轮融资

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video infrastructure for global digital media companies, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series C financing. The company will leverage this investment to drive the continued expansion of its product innovation and technology leadership in the streaming space. Bitmovin”s Series C round was led by Swisscom Ventures with participation from Climb Ventures, 现有投资者:Atomico, 高地欧洲和康斯坦西亚新业务. The announcement brings Bitmovin’s total funding to $68 million.

"The online video streaming market has grown exponentially—at least 10x—since we started Bitmovin in 2013,Stefan Lederer说, Bitmovin的首席执行官和创始人. "更多的 consumers than ever prefer to watch content on any device and at any time rather than in linear programming. This trend is further fueled by advances in connectivity and consumer electronics, 以及流媒体技术的创新. We’re proud to take a leading role in helping transform the streaming industry by enabling new services around the globe."

全球视频流媒体市场超过了 1000亿美元到2020年，预计将增长过去 2500亿美元 by 2025 as viewer consumption habits increasingly change to favor streaming. 在过去一年内, more companies than ever are relying on streaming rather than linear channels to reach consumers, enabling them to leverage their content libraries and introduce new streaming services to meet viewer demands, 比如Disney+, 派拉蒙+, HBOMax, 发现+, 和其他人. 这一重大转变的结果, Bitmovin saw a 174% growth in the number of broadcasters opting for OTT in 2020.

疫情进一步加速了Bitmovin的步伐有经验的 a 118% increase in video play with 220% more minutes watched, and a shocking 380% growth in network traffic of video on the Internet. This significant increase in demand for high quality video and large resolution video on big screens—Smart TVs, 游戏机, 苹果电视, Roku—put a heavy burden on Internet service providers, resulting in a 15% slowdown on the average bandwidth available to viewers. As a direct result of Bitmovin”s investment in advancing these areas, the company has enabled tier-one media companies to reclaim upwards of 60% of their streaming bandwidth.

"With its strong culture of innovation in engineering and technology, Bitmovin continues to transform the industry with solutions that consistently raise the bar for efficiency, 视频流的质量和性能,费格尔·马伦说, Highland Europe合伙人. "We are very proud of our role in supporting Bitmovin as an engineering and developer-first company that makes it possible for video streaming companies to quickly attract, retain and grow viewership with high quality streaming experiences."

In addition to the shifts to streaming by traditional media and entertainment companies, many new use cases have emerged to take advantage of advances in streaming due to global lockdowns and social distancing measures. New growth-market opportunities for Bitmovin have increased by 180% in areas such as online fitness, 学习, 敬拜, 电子商务, 和其他人.

"Bitmovin continues to set the pace for industry innovation, pushing video streaming to new heights while allowing new market entrants to compete with established players,斯蒂芬·库恩兹说, Swisscom Ventures投资合伙人. "We are extremely proud to be a key partner of Bitmovin”s in seizing this tremendous market opportunity."

Bitmovin powers the world's largest OTT online video providers, 包括发现+, fuboTV, DAZN, 英国广播公司, RTL, 红牛传媒大厦, 环球, ClassPass, 《百家乐软件app最新版下载》, 还有更多, with video developer tools that enable them to build leading online streaming experience. The company, which was recently honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), has a long history of innovation that began with the co-creation of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard by Bitmovin’s founders in 2012, 现在大多数流媒体服务使用的是哪一种.

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