AfricaXP Selects Babeleye to Manage Rich EPG Metadata

CAIRO -- Babeleye, the multilingual video content metadata platform, today announced that it has been selected by AfricaXP to manage rich EPG metadata of its linear channels distributed to two of AfricaXP's customers. Babeleye will provide total management and distribution of programming information to top TV platforms Zuku, a leading pan-African pay TV platform, and WatchAfrica, which offers a premium subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service. AfricaXP delivers a full catalogue of quality African content channels via a unique cloud-based content delivery platform directly to broadcasters across the entire African Sub-Saharan region and beyond.

This announcement comes as Babeleye opens a new office in South Africa, its second office on the continent and its first in sub-Saharan Africa.

AfricaXP needed to streamline the distribution of channel programming information to partners such as Zuku and WatchAfrica. With the Babeleye solution, AfricaXP is able to easily and instantly feed ready-to-use rich metadata into their partners’ electronic program guides (EPG) and eliminate the error-prone and time-consuming manual preparation of data. Babeleye is also able to provide customized and localized metadata relevant for the region, another important consideration for AfricaXP.

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