YuppTV partners with Foxxum, a leading Smart TV solution provider

Global distribution reach expands through Foxxum connected devices

The world’s largest OTT player in South-Asian content, YuppTV, is making strong strides in expanding globally. YuppTV has formed a strategic partnership with Foxxum, the leading provider of Smart TV solutions, making its envious collection of online TV channels & movies available on an exclusive range of new devices, hence further extending its global reach.

YuppTV provides content in 14 languages with an offer of over 250+ TV channels, more than 100 TV shows and over 5000 movies. Following the association, YuppTV services will be available on the Foxxum App Store, having presence in Western and Eastern Europe, Nordics, Russia, Northern Africa, Australia and LatAm.

Further commenting on the development, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO of YuppTV said: “We are glad to enter into an alliance with Foxxum, hence extending the content offered by YuppTV to an exclusive range of devices. We have always endeavored to provide the South Asian expat community with the most enthralling entertainment solution and are excited to open our doors to newer audiences.”

“At Foxxum, we are constantly pursuing the opportunity to bring together hardware platforms and good quality content, which is entertaining and relevant for the audience. We are happy to associate with YuppTV, which presents an exhaustive list of South Asian TV channels & Movies and are affirmative at enhancing the value of the entertainment solutions that we provide to our users”, explains Ronny Lutzi, CEO at Foxxum.


About YuppTV

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.
YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added every day. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads.

For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/

About Foxxum

Foxxum is a global leader in the development, operation and commercial marketing for innovative Smart TV solutions. As an established pioneer in the sector, Foxxum works closely with leading companies at all stages of the global consumer electronics value chain to develop Smart TV solutions – from silicon vendors to device manufacturers and network operators. Worldwide partnerships with premium broadcasters, the most important video producers and distributors allow Foxxum to provide a best in class content portfolio containing the most
important global content brands as well as country specific local content providers.

Foxxum’s development and platform expertise offer viewers the best Smart TV user experience possible, with innovative Smart TV technology, a global entertaining content portfolio and an outstanding design. Foxxum provides its clients with highly tailored, personal collaboration, which includes the possibility of jointly tapping into profitable revenue streams in a technology sector with enormous growth potential.

Further information can be found at www.foxxum.com.

Blog Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/06/yupptv-partners-with-foxxum-leading-smarttv-solution-provider.html

YuppTV makes Live Streaming effortless with the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Live Streaming Platform

Las Vegas, April 24, 2017: One of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, YuppTV, announced the launch of Freedocast Pro Device and Freedocast Live Streaming Platform. Providing end-to-end solutions for users to go LIVE instantly, anywhere anytime, the Pro Device & Live-Streaming platform also enables users to broadcast live videos on multiple platforms such as, Facebook and YouTube Live, Twitter/Periscope and others.

The latest offering, Freedocast Pro Device broadcasts live videos in HD Quality. The Device can be connected to any video source including camera and switcher to go live and can be easily controlled via Android/iOS App. The App can be used to preview, control & monitor live broadcasts. The Device also has a rechargeable battery supporting over 2 hours of continuous live streaming and offers HDMI IN/OUT & MIC-in for AV source connectivity.

To best suit the needs of broadcasters, Freedocast Live Streaming Platform is designed as a one-stop-solution providing cloud transcoding & Adaptive Bitrate streaming for best viewing experience in low bandwidths, real-time analytics, viewer interactivity with chat moderation, Ad-integration, pay -per-view, geo-blocking & password protection for control of events. Any external encoder can be used to go live through Freedocast Platform and simultaneously stream to multiple platforms

Commenting on the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “The rapid growth of Live broadcasting could change the way users consume content. In this age of information overload, people expect to see events unfold in real-time. Globally renowned for our technical superiority in the field of internet TV and OTT, we at YuppTV are now extending the same expertise in live-streaming. With the launch of Freedocast Pro Device & Freedocast Live Streaming Platform, we further intent to deliver cost-effective, scalable, and robust LIVE broadcasting solutions. We shall continue to innovate and provide the best services to constantly address the needs of our users.”

Freedocast offers tailor-made solutions for broadcasters to aggregate, edit and broadcast events in-real time to their studios and multiple platforms. This solution is aimed to improve Broadcasters efficiency and productivity to stay ahead of competition. Celebrities and influencers can maximize the value of their social media programs by hosting special interactive sessions through Freedocast. Broadcasting sporting events, webinars, etc can be streamed to multiple platforms to increase the audience size and bring in new revenue streams for the broadcasters.

YuppTV will demonstrate its new offering Freedocast Pro and Freedocast Platform at NAB show 2017 at YuppTV booth SU11402CM, Las Vegas Convention Centre.

About Freedocast

Freedocast is a product by YuppTV, pioneer and one of the world’s largest online over-the-top (OTT) entertainment solutions provider. Freedocast is a live broadcasting solution which enables the user to live stream instantly anywhere anytime. Broadcast simultaneously to multiple platforms like fb Live, YouTube Live, etc. Freedocast provides Adaptive Bitrate Streaming which enables streaming even in low bandwidth.

For more information: http://www.freedocast.com

 

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/04/freedocast-pro-device-launched-by-yupptv.html 

YuppTV unveils originals, bringing unconventional storytelling and cinematic brilliance to the digital space

Announces partnerships with prominent directors and production houses from the movie industry to provide high quality digital content.

Hyderabad, 16^th March 2017: Mr. Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV along with YuppTV’s Brand Ambassador “Superstar Mahesh Babu” has launched YuppTV Originals, the OTT platform’s foray into original content production. Exploring concepts beyond cinema, YuppTV Originals is set to bring forth unconventional story telling in collaboration with the top talent from the movie industry. This new content will be available in episodic format for the digital audience, exclusively on YuppTV’s platform.

At the launch, Uday Reddy, Founder and CEO of YuppTV said, “We disrupted the entertainment sector with technology by launching YuppTV in 2006. Now with YuppTV Originals, we aim to disrupt the content space, following the needs of our evolving audience, and our vision of providing high-quality engaging content. Besides, YuppTV Originals will empower the content creators by providing direct access to the audience and thereby streamlining distribution. I’d further extend heartiest welcome to our associates from the film fraternity, ensuring optimum growth for the content ecosystem.”''

Speaking on the occasion, Tollywood Superstar Mahesh Babu said, “I congratulate YuppTV for this novel concept and associating with big names in the industry. I am confident that ‘YuppTV Originals’ will have a wide reach, and recommend artists and visionaries from the industry to make use of this opportunity to showcase their creative pursuits and connect instantly with the internet audience.”

YuppTV Original’s initial focus to be on regional content in episodic format, while also making endeavors for Feature Film Production. To produce their first few series, YuppTV has associated with prominent production houses such as I-candy creation, Early Morning Tales – a division of Vijayanthi Movies, TrendLoud – The digital arm of Vision Times, Madhura Entertainment and Tamada Media.

Commenting on the partnership, popular Tollywood Director Deva Katta -  said “Originals provide immense creative freedom for the evolving talent in the industry. As YuppTV provides a direct reach to the audience it will also help us pool in fresh talent and bring their creativity to the spotlight. Myself, my partner Krishna Vijay and our company iCandy Creations is delighted to be part of Originals and look forward to a prolonged partnership in producing engaging new-age content.” 

               

YuppTV Originals’ first mini-series, Endukila, presented by Deva Katta’ iCandy Creations, written and directed by Laxman Karya will be launched during Ugadi, followed by another exciting series produced by Swapna Dutt’s Early Morning Tales-a division of Vijayanthi Movies and director supervision by Nandini Reddy. Catering to global audiences, YuppTV is overcoming the language barrier by including subtitles and will be dubbed in other languages. YuppTV is further calling out the talent in the industry to come on-board and become part of this digital evolution.

That aspiring content creators and artists can reach out to us at originals@yupptv.com

YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider for South Asian content, offering more than 250+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 14 languages. YuppTV, recently received funding from Emerald Media, a Pan-Asian platform established by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, wherein Emerald Media acquired a significant minority stake in the company for US$50mn. Emerald Media is led by industry veterans Rajesh Kamat and Paul Aiello, supported by an experienced team of investment and operating executives. The platform primarily focuses on providing growth capital to media, entertainment and digital media companies. YuppTV had earlier raised its Series A round of funding from Poarch Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama.

YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. It has recently launched YuppFlix, a movie on demand streaming service for Expat Market and YuppTV Bazaar an online marketplace for the premium content curator. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad and the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded Indian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.

Visit www.yupptv.com for more information.

Article Source: http://blog.yupptv.com/2017/03/yupptv-unveils-YuppTVOriginals.html

YuppTV Bags the Exclusive Digital Media Rights for the Asia Cup 2016

Atlanta, 11 February 2016: YuppTV, the world’s largest Over-The-Top (OTT) provider for South Asian content, is happy to announce that it has secured the digital media rights for the Asia Cup T20, 2016 to be held on February 24^th – March 6^th, 2016. While YuppTV has secured exclusive rights to stream Asia Cup 2016 live in USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, cricket fans in Singapore will also be able view the tournament via YuppTV app on multiple Internet enabled devices such as Smart TVs, Smart Blu-ray players, streaming media players, laptop, gaming console, smart phones and tablets. The Asia Cup 2016 is scheduled to take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh with the Indian T20 team taking on the host nation on the inaugural day. The much awaited match between India and Pakistan is scheduled for February 27, while India faces the defending champions Sri Lanka on March 1.

Speaking on the announcement, Uday Reddy, Founder & CEO, YuppTV said, “Cricket has always been a sport that has incited much passion and following amongst South Asians. By bagging the exclusive digital media rights for the Asia Cup 2016, we are enabling live, on-the-go access to the tournament for the expat community. This partnership will provide them with seamless, real-time access to all the matches and allow viewers to watch their favourite teams in action on their preferred device!”
In addition to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, non-test playing nations Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Oman and UAE will also be competing for a qualifying spot for the tournament. The qualifying round is scheduled to take place at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium (KSOAS) in Narayanganj, Afghanistan, between February 19 and February 22, with the winner of the qualifiers then joining the test playing nations in the main event.
YuppTV users can catch all the action on www.yupptv.com/cricket/asiacup.aspx or via the YuppTV app on their smart TVs, smart Blu-ray players, streaming media players, gaming consoles, smartphones and tablets.
About YuppTV
YuppTV is one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and On-demand service provider, offering more than 200+ TV channels, 5000+ Movies and 100+ TV Shows in 12 languages from South Asia. YuppTV has 25000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 2500 hours of new on-demand content is added to the YuppTV platform every day. YuppTV offers Live TV and Catch-Up TV technology. YuppTV has its presence in more than 50 countries. YuppTV is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for South Asians living abroad and also the largest Internet TV platform from premium content availability in India. YuppTV is the most downloaded South Asian SmartTV app and it also boasts of 8 million mobile downloads with 4.0 user rating.
For more information: http://www.yupptv.com/
The article is taken from http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160211005886/en/YuppTV-Bags-Exclusive-Digital-Media-Rights-Asia

From a farmer’s son to providing Internet TV access to 400 million households – Uday Reddy’s story

Forty three-year-old Uday Reddy is the Founder and CEO of YuppTV, a brand that has grown to become the world leader in converged Over-the-Top (OTT) live TV and Catch-up TV Solutions. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Although his services attract nearly five million visitors every month with a peak monthly traffic of 20 million, his journey has certainly not been an easy one.

Born to a farmer in Hanamkonda, a small town in Telangana, and brought up amidst scarcity of resources, even Uday wouldn’t have imagined that he would one day walk into the unventured paths of technology and contribute into bringing global Indian communities close to their culture and roots. All he wanted to do was become an IAS officer, and work for his village’s development, particularly in the fields of healthcare and education. Uday recalls,

“I had decided to join civil services during my education at Government Junior College, Hanamkonda. My family supported my decision. I had grown up knowing the problems of rural India and wanted to solve them. I did my engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Delhi College of Engineering with the same intent. I was chosen by Siemens during campus placements and decided to work for a year before appearing for the IAS exams. But then, work took over. I couldn’t leave the telecom field, and my interest in technology grew.”

Uday soon joined Nortel in the year 1995, and his life took off. It was the time of telecom revolution in India. Wireless networks had just begun. Uday recalls how he was flying all across the world. He worked in Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. “I worked as Director of Sales for Nortel. The next 11 years, I got to know how the Serbian and Latin American markets work. This was the golden era of my learning,” he says.

Being an enterprising person, his day job couldn’t hold Uday for too long. In 2006, he started YuppTV USA Inc. His idea was new even for the US standards. Uday had seen the dearth of Indian entertainment content for the Indian expat community living abroad. Even news was not available to them in their own language. He wanted to bridge this cultural gap and help them connect back with their roots. Uday recalls,

 

“I started my office in a basement. Broadband technology was not as evolved as today. Smart TV and smart phones were not as popular. In a way, I started much before the time was ripe. I didn’t raise capital from the market, and invested my savings into the idea. All I wanted to do is make live television viewing available via the Internet. I also wondered why I couldn’t view a show later on the Internet if I had missed the original telecast. It was with an intent to find solutions to these problems that I started YuppTV.”

Uday’s journey was not an easy one. His company was up against the monopoly of one large corporation which dominated the market. He had difficulty retaining his customers too. Soon he ran out of all the capital he had. His ideas were still new, and often incomprehensible, to many people and hence the market had not really opened up. In 2010, he sold his plot and took loans from his friends. This paid off, and soon, YuppTV started building larger customer base and attracting the Indian diaspora living abroad.

Today, millions of people use YuppTV services to watch TV in more than 50 counties across the five continents. With more than five million visitors every month and a peak monthly traffic of 20 million, YuppTV has been setting records across the OTT content industry. With a reach to 400 million households across the world, till date, YuppTV has had over 7.5 million app downloads, making it the second most popular app in Android Playstore in India under the Entertainment category. YuppTV is also one of the most downloaded Smart TV apps. It has also recently won the prestigious ‘Top 100 companies in the world’ award by Red Herring based on innovation, disruption, and technology for year 2015.

Starting out with just two channels, today YuppTV offers more than 200 Indian TV channels, over 5,000 movies, and over 100 TV shows across 13 Indian languages. It presently has over 25,000 hours of entertainment content catalogued in its library, while nearly 5,000 hours of new on-demand content gets added to the platform every day. Uday takes great pride in his success story, but believes that the journey is far from complete. He says,

“It feels good to have come so far. But I believe that the journey is far from over. I have struggled a lot to reach here. I have spent 50% of my time away from my family. We still believe in the startup culture, and do not let our success make us arrogant. Perseverance is still the key. I had to meet a TV channel eight times to convince them to join us. Another channel took more than a year to agree. But once a relationship is established, it is rock solid.”

YuppTV ensures both accessibility and affordability in India with packages starting as low as Rs. 5 per day, and is currently ranked #1 Internet Pay TV platform for Indians living abroad. Uday believes that the three key strengths on which a successful company can be built are market understanding, respect for the potential of new technologies, and people management. Uday’s message to young entrepreneurs is simple – focus. Only when an entrepreneur is clear about what he wants, he can go and accomplish it. “Today technology enables everything. You need not go to the US to run a business there. An entrepreneur located anywhere in the world can go global,” Uday says.

When asked whether he is still pursuing his childhood dreams of becoming an IAS officer and solving rural problems, Uday says that his dream has only got bigger. Currently expanding his business in India, he is also working for the people of Veenavanka, a village located in Telangana. He is using telemedicine to provide healthcare facilities for free. He is also making education affordable and accessible through technology. Once his model is successful, he wants to take the technology across the world and make education and healthcare accessible to all.

Article Source:  http://yourstory.com/2016/01/uday-reddy/