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Wazee Digital, World Poker Tour Extend Agreement
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The World Poker Tour (WPT) has extended its asset management and distribution service agreement with Wazee Digital, with the cloud-native video management and licensing services provider expected to continue delivering WPT shows to both domestic and international broadcasters for several years. The two have worked together since late 2014.
“We felt Wazee Digital was the right choice for the World Poker Tour thanks to the company’s ability to successfully deliver WPT’s assets across the globe,” said Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour. “Now more than ever, WPT is in a position to increase distribution of its assets, and Wazee Digital helps us to do so efficiently and effectively.”
At the core of the agreement is Wazee Digital’s cloud-based, enterprise software-as-a-service media asset management platform Wazee Digital Core, which allows for the storage, viewing and management of WPT assets from all seasons of both the “WPT Main Tour” and “WPT Alpha8” (airing in the U.S. on Fox Sports Regional Networks. Core handles both digital ingest and metadata workflows, along with third-party transcoding and closed-captioning services (via Wazee’s partner Visual Data Media Services).
“The World Poker Tour has to distribute content domestically and internationally in a timely manner to satisfy its large global following,” said Harris Morris, CEO of Wazee Digital. “Wazee Digital is proud to be a partner in that effort, giving the World Poker Tour complete control over its content so the right assets reach the right audiences at the right time… anywhere in the world.”
