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Welcome to The Big Picture.

Our quarterly investor newsletter featuring the latest news from ZOO and updates from across the global entertainment industry.

January trading update highlights our accelerating momentum 

Since the half year, ZOO has continued to see the benefits of our cloud-based offering and ability to undertake projects remotely, as we outlined in our trading update on 26 January 2021:

"Increased workflow from preparing back catalogue titles for digital distribution globally means that we now expect our revenues for the full year to be at least $38 million (FY20: $29.8 million) – a 35% acceleration of growth in the second half over the first half. Based on this strong performance, the result for the year is anticipated to be ahead of market expectations."

Well-positioned to benefit from structural shift in the industry

There has been an expansion of budgets by major industry players as streaming becomes mainstream, with content being sourced more broadly from international producers. These trends are underpinned by rising consumer spending on content.

Through our end-to-end service model we are able to support major studios and streaming services as they globalize their content to reach audiences worldwide. We are investing in growing our global footprint as well as benefiting from the resumption of content creation and digitally remastering back catalogues for the global market.

Continuing to invest in growth

On 2 February we unveiled news of strategic hires as part of our talent management programme to enhance our dubbing capabilities and bring in new talent across its European and other key markets.

Following our success in building our dubbing services in Latin America, we are focused on expanding our in-territory expertise across Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia to fulfil projects from leading global content providers.

The latest members of our talent management team introduce themselves in a mini-Q&A feature below.

Quarterly Review

This month, CEO, Stuart Green provides a review of ZOO’s market in the quarter and provides an indication of the opportunities that lie ahead for the company. As the leading innovator and driver of digital transformation in its field, and with significant R&D investment behind ZOO, Stuart explains how the business is perfectly positioned to capitalize on the structural shift that’s taking place in the market. With a medium-term target to achieve $100m in sales, Stuart explains ZOO’s plans to continue to invest for growth, and to win market share to become one of the largest and pre-eminent end-to-end vendors in our sector.

Latest ZOO News

ZOO welcomes new hires to its European dubbing team

Q&A with Mariusz Jaworowski

ZOO’s new Creative Dubbing Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Mariusz Jaworowski tells us about his 21 years dubbing experience with Disney, why he chose to work with ZOO and his views on a revolution in dubbing.

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Q&A with Andreas Kaj

Our newly appointed Dubbing Territory Manager for the Nordic region, Andreas Kaj, tells us about his key priorities for growth in the Nordics, how technology compares across the industry and how ZOO is tackling the biggest challenges brought about by the pandemic.

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Welcome to Teresa Alonsa

This quarter, we also welcomed our new Dubbing Territory Manager for Spain and Portugal, Teresa Alonso. With more than 21 years of experience working for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in Spain, Alonso brings a great deal of expertise to the newly created position at ZOO.

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New Asset Health Check Service

We have recently announced a new Asset Health Check service, offering clients a service dedicated to creating a consolidated, robust repository of reliable localised assets ready for global distribution packages.

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Award win for excellence in localisation

ZOO has for the second year running picked up the award for 'Excellence in Localization for a Global Project' at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards. ZOO’s project with Magnolia Pictures demonstrated the level of innovation that the judges were looking for, particularly in light of pandemic related challenges.  

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Industry Insights

Progressive Equity Research

A note from Progressive Research published on 24 February and entitled “Market developments – more positive news” highlights that ZOO Digital is continuing to benefit from a number of positive trends and industry shifts. The note focuses on the following positive drivers: streaming content on the rise; supplier consolidation; two lasting legacies of lockdown - the acceleration of the switch from broadcast to streaming video consumption and increasing acceptance of cloud dubbing by major media owners and video streaming broadcasters; and the potential for a deluge of new content to go into production as facilities open up.

Progressive concludes that home entertainment industry dynamics suggest an increasingly positive environment is developing for ZOO Digital, with the streaming video market seeing strong and sustainable growth in both supply and demand, while consolidation of media localisation service providers appears less of a threat and more of an opportunity for ZOO Digital to exploit, along with greater acceptance of cloud-based service providers.

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How lockdown has accelerated change in dubbing

By Gordon Doran

ZOO President, Gordon Doran, recently provided the Media and Entertainment Alliance with his insights into how the pandemic and lockdown of global dubbing studios has accelerated change in dubbing

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