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Prime Focus Technologies signs deal with SkyShowtime for creation of a modern content platform

By PFT
July 2, 2024

Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the creator of AI-powered technology solutions for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry, has signed a deal with SkyShowtime – Europe’s newest streaming service. A joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, SkyShowtime brings together the best of Hollywood and local entertainment in one place. PFT will create a modern content platform and manage centralized creative operations for SkyShowtime using its flagship product, CLEAR®.


In June 2023, PFT began working with SkyShowtime to deliver support in their creative operations, enabling the management and distribution of content to different end points through CLEAR®.


PFT has already started working on Implementation, Project Management, and more for SkyShowtime. In the coming weeks, various creative operations activities for SkyShowtime shall switch over to CLEAR® for deployment of key workflows including:


  • Content Deliveries: Automated content deliveries from NBC Universal with advanced content validations for various content types
  • Archive Services: Tiered content storage and archival options with smart policies
  • Digital Distribution Services: Transcode, package and deliver to various SkyShowtime destination endpoints

Think Automation. Think CLEAR.


About Prime Focus Technologies


Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) is the creator of CLEAR® and CLEAR® AI. It offers streaming platforms, studios, and broadcasters transformational AI-led technology and media services powered by the cloud that help them lower their Total Cost of Operations (TCOP) by automating their content supply chain. PFT works with major companies like Walt Disney-owned Star TV, Channel 4, ITV, Sinclair Broadcast Group, A&E Networks, Warner Media, PBS, CBS Television Studios, 20th Century Fox Television Studios, Lionsgate, Showtime, HBO, NBCU, TERN International, Disney+ Hotstar, BCCI, Indian Premier League and more.


For more information, visit www.primefocustechnologies.com


About SkyShowtime


SkyShowtime is Europe’s newest streaming service. A joint venture of Comcast and Paramount Global, SkyShowtime brings together the best of Hollywood and local entertainment in one place.


From movies, and original series from the iconic brands of Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks Animation, Paramount+, SHOWTIME®, Sky Studios, and Peacock to SkyShowtime Original series, SkyShowtime is Europe’s new home for premium entertainment. Launched across all of its markets in 2023, SkyShowtime is available in: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. It is available through select television providers in some markets and across Apple iOS, tvOS, Android devices, Android TV, Google Chromecast, LG TVs, Samsung Smart TVs, and the web.

For more information, visit corporate.skyshowtime.com/about/


Press Contact


T Shobhana
Senior Vice President and Global Head of Marketing
Prime Focus Technologies
Los Angeles, CA
t.shobhana@primefocus.com