Mumbai, India, February 10, 2017: Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology arm of Prime Focus, the world’s largest media services powerhouse, has signed a deal with Tata Sky, India’s leading content distribution platform providing Pay TV and OTT services to create exclusive subscriber communications for their Value Added Services (VAS). The deal includes developing 100s of creative assets monthly on a diverse range of Tata Sky services that cover fitness, health, music, devotion, English, cooking and many more.
Tata Sky has been working with PFT since August 2015 to create promos for its default platform – Channel 100. PFT produces shoot & edit-based promos as well as static visual designs for Tata Sky. PFT also creates promotional and awareness films for Tata Sky’s Live TV mobile app and IVRs (Interactive Voice Responses) across 12 languages. PFT’s cutting edge technology, CLEAR™ has enabled superior output on all creative assets developed for Channel 100.
Some of Tata Sky’s landmark projects that PFT has delivered promos for include Actve Fitness with Suniel Shetty, Dance Studio powered by Dance with Madhuri Dixit, Actve Cooking with Master Chef Shipra Khanna, Summer Camp, MultiTV campaign and the #MyKindofMusic campaign for Tata Sky Music+.
With the help of analytic inputs from Tata Sky, creative approach to all communications created ensured higher ROI with new benchmarks on missed call, online subscriptions and call center efficiencies.
“Considering the quantum and pace of multi-level communication to our subscribers, we had a choice to tie up with a single partner who could understand our brand and deliver to scale or to deal with multiple vendors, each having a different creative interpretation of Tata Sky. Going with the first option was the obvious choice. PFT, understands our brand guidelines and has helped us deliver creative outputs in a systematic and cost efficient manner said Malay Dikshit, Chief Communication Officer, Tata Sky. “We look forward to a long-lasting partnership with PFT that will help us deliver a wide array of quality content and services to our subscribers”
“Our roots in creative services and pioneering technology, CLEAR allows us to offer the most comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions to Tata Sky. It is a great honor to be working with them to curate and create communication.” said Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Founder and CEO, Prime Focus Technologies. “PFT works as a video agency for brands and is backed by high caliber talent and cutting-edge technology to help them transform into content destinations. We endeavor to help Tata Sky push the boundaries of creative thinking and redefine quality benchmarks of the industry.
PFT works with over 200 leading brands including Amazon.com, Soch, Vodafone, Nestle, Kellogg’s and LG and many more. It has a robust set of Brand-specific media solutions delivered and managed through CLEAR.
About Tata Sky
Tata Sky Limited (‘Tata Sky’) is a joint venture between the Tata Sons and 21st Century Fox. Incorporated in 2001 and launched services in 2006, Tata Sky is India’s leading content distribution platform providing Pay TV and OTT services. With the objective of connecting to the best content in the world on any budget, any screen, anytime and anywhere, Tata Sky was the first to launch multiple products and services that redefined the subscribers’ viewing experience in the country.
Tata Sky has been a pioneer in the HD Set Top Box segment having significant market share in the category. It has been continuously adding new channels and platform services across various genres and languages to beef up its content offering to cater to all segments of the audience. Tata Sky currently has its footprint spread across 1.5 lakh towns with over 15 million connections in India.
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