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  • News agency nnis ties up with AFP to supply video clips to Indian media

    News agency nnis ties up with AFP to supply video clips to Indian media

    NEW DELHI: Indian video news agency nnis has tied up with global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to deliver high quality in-depth video content to Indian TV and online media.

     

    The partnership allows TV and online broadcasters to access AFP’s global TV coverage alongside nnis extensive coverage of India, according to a joint statement by AFP and nnis.

     

    Through this partnership innovative, industry-leading video content will be developed and disseminated to cater to the precision of digital with the scale of TV.

     

    “We are excited by this partnership because nnis will allow us to reach a wide range of clients in India’s rapidly expanding video market,” AFP chairman and CEO Emmanuel Hoog said.

     

    Hoog said AFP’s extensive global network and vast experience in international news coverage would ensure that Indian on-line and TV broadcasters receive the best coverage available.

     

    nnis CEO Arup Ghosh said his company had been on the lookout for new opportunities to change, expand and strengthen its position for future success.

     

    “I am thrilled to announce that in AFP we have found the perfect partner to help us achieve our goals and take our business and services to the next level,” he said.

     

    nnis produces a comprehensive slate of more than seven hours of daily fresh content/coverage across News, Sports (Domestic and International), Entertainment, Special Feature Stories, LIVE Feeds, Events and Customized content.

     

    nnis’ content is subscribed by host of national/regional TV clients, online publishers, OTT platforms and leading VAS players. To meet the need for breaking news, nnis also offers LIVE video feed to its TV subscribers.

     

    The Paris-headquartered AFP operates 200 bureaus in more than 150 countries and territories. AFP currently transmits some 200 videos a day on global events in English, French, German, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. AFP’s daily file includes live coverage of major global events. 

  • AFP to launch international news service

    AFP to launch international news service

    MUMBAI: French news wire Agence France-Presse (AFP) is broadening its focus with the launch of AFPTV International.

    AFPTV will offer video reports every day and plans to produce 150 reports a month. Initially these reports will be in English and French. Reports in Arabic, Spanish and other languages will follow.

    AFP company chairman Pierre Louette said, “On the basis of a service set up in 2001 called AFP Video, we are moving on to AFPTV, a new international service made up of around 40 video journalists and several production units worldwide.”

    “We need to develop video production to enable the growth of our multimedia products. While video is at the heart of the agency’s multimedia plans, multimedia development is central to the agency’s development prospects,” he added.

    AFP’s television production was started in 1996 under a partnership accord with US financial news agency Bloomberg. AFP global news director Denis Hiault said, “We opted for a novel approach unlike that practised by the competition a decade ago.

    “We process news with our own specific vision, our multicultural approach, in order to best analyze it. Rather than offering just the umpteenth version of a Baghdad booby-trapped car attack or the latest riot, our film comes with keys to understanding the news, with analysis that gives meaning to the information,” he said.

    AFPTV service grew after the setup in 2005 of two test production centres, one in Baghdad, the other in Warsaw covering Eastern Europe.

    “The choice of the location of our production units was based on our decision to provide something extra in comparison with the competition, as well as offering coverage of geographical areas they had shunned,” Hiault said.

    AFP has set up permanent video positions in New Delhi, Istanbul, Bangkok, Cairo, Nairobi and Rio de Janeiro.

    “This is AFP’s most ambitious project since the launch of our international photo service two decades ago. It’s a new opportunity to demonstrate our editorial know-how and bolster our place in the field as a primary source of information. Our video footage is based on the same criteria of excellence as our text dispatches,” said Hiault.

    AFP this year plans to further increase its capacity to collect images. “By the summer of 2007 the agency will have internet-quality images thanks to telephone-camera equipment being distributed to journalists on a voluntary basis,” said Louette.