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  • Goquest media ventures announces strategic investment and collaboration with short form video content company digibooster

    Goquest media ventures announces strategic investment and collaboration with short form video content company digibooster

    MUMBAI: Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures (GQMV) today announced a strategic investment in Digibooster, South Asia’s largest short form video content platform.

    The strategic seed investment funding round sees Digibooster raise an undisclosed sum from GoQuest Media Ventures (GQMV). 

    Digibooster is a content market platform for media and entertainment professionals looking to buy or sell video content.  The company showcases the best of all forms of video content including films, animations and TV and web series to buyers across the world creating conversations and opportunities for sales, branding and distribution through its rich library of content.  Digibooster is focusing on becoming the go-to place for anyone looking to buy short format content including content websites, brands, Facebook pages, YouTube aggregators and even individual influencers looking to build deeper engagement and traffic on their websites and pages.

    The investment from GQMV will allow the Digibooster team to grow the business by utilizing GQMV’s network of clients, industry connections and employees.  It will also expand its leadership and business development to accelerate growth and use the funds to build the team and technology to reach out to global clients. 

    GQMV’s equity investment is part of the company’s strategy to embrace new ideas and technologies and to highlight the company’s ongoing commitment to be the largest marketplace for worldwide content.

    Vivek Lath, Founder & Managing Director, GQMV commented, “I’m delighted that GoQuest Media can assist Digibooster in its growth and development and be a part of the evolving TV and media landscape.  Collaborating with and investing in Digibooster gives GoQuest Media another opportunity to shape the market that we and our partners work in.”

    Nandini Mansinghka, Founder Investor of Digibooster commented, “We are excited about the next level growth of Digibooster with GQMV as our strategic investor and partner.  We see an amazing opportunity to build Digibooster into the platform of choice for anyone looking to buy or sell short format content.  We tremendously value the deep expertise and industry network GQMV brings to build Digibooster into one of the most sought-after media companies in the next 12 months.”

    Santosh Kumar, CEO of Digibooster added, “We are excited to welcome GQMV on board.  It’s a vote of confidence for all of us at Digibooster that such a marquee name in the Media industry has decided to put their might behind us in our vision of becoming a world-class Global short format video content marketplace.  We will use the funding to build the tech team.”

  • Goquest Media Ventures picks up drama content from China, Thailand, Taiwan

    Goquest Media Ventures picks up drama content from China, Thailand, Taiwan

    MUMBAI:  Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures announced a raft of new acquisitions from China, Thailand and Taiwan. 

    Collaborating with leading Chinese streaming platform iQiyi, GoQuest Media has secured the rights for Vietnam to the epic drama series Tang Dynasty Tour (36 x 45’).  The costume drama, an iQiyi Original directed by Zhu Dong-Ning and produced by Gordon Chan revolves around Yun Ye, who one night falls asleep and wakes amid the opulent brickwork of an ancient Tang Dynasty palace.  Yun soon meets the troubled Li Anlan, a Tang princess disowned for being born out of wedlock.  Spurred to life by survival and his desire to stay at Li’s side, he embarks on a series of adventures ranging from hysterical to heart-wrenching.

    Entering the Asian drama space, GoQuest Media is also pleased to announce the acquisition of content through its Vietnam office, headed by Harshad Wadadekar, general manager – distribution business.  These include the rights for Vietnam to series such as Blind Date which is the Chinese remake of Dori Media’s hit romantic scripted comedy Ciega A Citas, An Oriental Odyssey, The Lost Swordship, Mr Swimmer, Legend of S. Fire Walker from Media Culture Ltd, Hongkong, The Masked Lover, Behind Your Smile, Swimming Battle, Home Sweet Home, Between from nationwide cable TV network Sanlih E-Television, Taiwan and A Billion Love Game, and Chaoweha from Thailand’s True4U.  

    Commenting on the acquisitions, GoQuest Media MD Vivek Lath said, “It is a privilege to be offering viewers in Vietnam great content homegrown in Asia and providing the ever-challenging TV market with good quality programming.  There is huge potential for Asian content and we strongly believe that shows such as these will be well received.'

  • GoQuest Media to globally distribute Cinema Vision content

    MUMBAI: GoQuest Media Ventures, a distributor of international content to television channels and digital platforms, has joined hands with Cinema Vision India (CVI) promoted by Siddharth Kak to facilitate distribution of content globally.

    Cinema Vision India has made some of the most iconic and popular Television shows which includes Surabhi, Bhoomi, Colours of India and India Dhanush.

    GoQuest is all set to showcase a plethora of CVI’s content in MIPTV. All of these will serve as an introduction to India’s culture in one single space.

    Through this partnership between the two, they plan to reach millions of viewers across the world to rediscover India in all its rich diversity of music, dance, art, history, customs and lifestyle in a contemporary format. With one of the new age content distributors taking on to disseminate Indian cultural content at a global level, this is going to be an unforgettable voyage of a Cultural Discovery of India. We hope your quest for knowing the Indian cultural content will be met here.

    “Cinema Vision India is excited to team up with GoQuest. We are confident that the team will give us great audiences for our programs. Through this collaboration we plan to open more avenues towards disseminating Indian culture on a global platform,” says Cinema Vision India producer and presenter Siddharth Kak.

    “We are excited to be working with CVI on such a huge catalogue of programming, showcasing the cultural and natural heritage of India. It gives us immense pride to take this content to the worldwide markets for distribution,” says GoQuest Media Ventures managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    MUMBAI: India based worldwide television content sales agency, GoQuest Media is living up to its name of bringing exciting dramas of various genres to its clients worldwide. 

    A recent development in this regard is Lara’s Choice, a popular Croatian romance drama that has landed in Africa following a deal for the English speaking territories in Africa between GoQuest Media and Beta Films, the global drama and formats distributor.

    Lara’s Choice is a story about the choice of a woman between two men, the choice between career and family, loyalty, and the battle for survival. The show’s 50th episode was viewed by a record-breaking 1.2 million viewers in Croatia.

    GoQuest has been committed to bringing variety to its content offerings to the television and digital platforms in Africa.

    “In the past we have licensed one of the best Turkish dramas to Africa. With the evolving market, more opportunities will arise for Eastern European dramas and a series like Lara’s choice will give the African audience, a new flavour of drama entertainment” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    GoQuest Media brings Croatian romance drama to Africa

    MUMBAI: India based worldwide television content sales agency, GoQuest Media is living up to its name of bringing exciting dramas of various genres to its clients worldwide. 

    A recent development in this regard is Lara’s Choice, a popular Croatian romance drama that has landed in Africa following a deal for the English speaking territories in Africa between GoQuest Media and Beta Films, the global drama and formats distributor.

    Lara’s Choice is a story about the choice of a woman between two men, the choice between career and family, loyalty, and the battle for survival. The show’s 50th episode was viewed by a record-breaking 1.2 million viewers in Croatia.

    GoQuest has been committed to bringing variety to its content offerings to the television and digital platforms in Africa.

    “In the past we have licensed one of the best Turkish dramas to Africa. With the evolving market, more opportunities will arise for Eastern European dramas and a series like Lara’s choice will give the African audience, a new flavour of drama entertainment” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

  • GoQuest Media licenses crime drama series ‘Ezel’ to Ugandan channel

    GoQuest Media licenses crime drama series ‘Ezel’ to Ugandan channel

    MUMBAI: The month of April will see a popular Ugandan channel being thronged by its viewers as GoQuest Media, an India based television content sales agency, has licensed Ezel – a Turkish crime drama series to a popular channel in Uganda.

     

    GoQuest Media Ventures, licenses TV series and Bollywood films to territories across the world. With the Ezel deal, the company claims to have broken the shackles of regional boundaries and are determined to expand the variety of their content offerings to clients all over the world. 

     

    Turkish dramas have proven popularity across the world. We have sold more than 1000 hours of Indian content in Africa. We now hope to do the same with content from other countries,” said GoQuest Media managing director Vivek Lath.

     

    The show is based on Alexander Dumas’ masterpiece Count of Monte Cristo. After betrayal by his best friends and the love of his life, Omer returns with a new face, new identity and with a flawless revenge plan. GoQuest Media has licensed Ezel from the global drama and formats distributor, Eccho rights.

     

    Eccho Rights managing director Fredrik Af Malmborg added, “Ezel is an amazing TV series that has been a success in every territory it has launched so far, most recently in South America where the daily ratings is above 25 per cent. We are excited about the development in Africa and are confident it will work also in Uganda.”

  • Spuul to premier Shree online on day of theatrical release

    Spuul to premier Shree online on day of theatrical release

    MUMBAI: Online movie and television show streaming service Spuul is bringing to its users the chance to catch Hussain Kuwajerwala‘s Bollywood debut with Shree‘s premier on 26 April.

    Users world over would have the privilege to catch Shree on their laptops, desktops and mobile devices the same day for rates starting at $2.99 for 72 hours or $4.99 as a part of a monthly premium subscription plan with unlimited views; whereas movie goers in India will be able to view Shree on Spuul only after 5 June.

    Spuul co-founder S Mohan said, “Today‘s mutli-screen generation want their entertainment wherever they are and whenever they are in the mood. In this landscape, in today‘s rapidly evolving digital landscape, Spuul is well placed to meet the growing demands of movie watchers online and we are delighted to make top-quality movies easily accessible via Spuul on the web and on mobile.”

    Shree is a psychological thriller produced by Ciemme Entertainment and distributed worldwide to digital platforms by GoQuest Media Ventures. It stars Kuwajerwala (Kumkum, Indian Idol) in the title role and tells the story a common man who trades 12 hours of his life in a science experiment to earn quick money and gets entangled in a series of murders.

    Producer Vikram M Shah said, “The whole concept of having the same day and date releases online for Shree is to make sure audiences worldwide can get to consume the content in the format that fits those best at the time, especially for international audiences who have limited access movies other than big banner films. Movie makers need to understand how to better reach out to an audience through versatile platforms like Spuul.”