Seven.One Studios International has concluded new deals for over 500 hours of content with several leading YouTube aggregators, spanning its factual, scripted series and TV movie library titles.
Spanish tech company DubMe IO has taken a package of German TV movies and scripted series including Think Big and Rocky and the Cop, which it will turn into global assets via its proprietary AI pipeline and distribute in 30 languages across YouTube.
Meanwhile, UK company Content Rocket has licenced a package of German and English-language TV movies for worldwide YouTube use (excluding some territories) and French company Zylo has licensed French-language rights to a raft of TV movies for exploitation in French-speaking Europe and Africa; fellow Gallic business Canal+ Distribution has also acquired some YouTube TV movie rights.
Proving popular as a YouTube play is Seven.One Studios International’s slate of factual titles. Australia-based VA Media, Germany’s Quintus Studios and UK company Little Dot Studios have all taken AVOD rights to packages of factual titles for worldwide use (excluding some territories). Little Dot also has some FAST channel rights. Titles include the Boris Becker Special, Galileo X-plorer, Curse of the Vologne and Every Family Has a Secret.
Tobias Schulze, SVP Global Sales at Seven.One Studios International said: “The exploitation of digital rights – particularly for YouTube – is a growth business for Seven.One Studios International, particularly when it comes to our German language content. The cost of subtitling and dubbing has traditionally held back the distribution of foreign language content into English speaking markets, but this is changing. As the quality of AI dubbing improves, language will be no longer be a barrier.”
The deals were negotiated by Arnaud Trottier and Christine Jais at Seven.One Studios International.