Navigating the Media Landscape: Märta Rydbeck's Insights with James Gilbert for OTT Shorts
In this episode of OTT Shorts, Märta Rydbeck, Chief Commercial Officer at Clipsource, engages in a vibrant conversation with James Gilbert. They delve into Märta's extensive 30-year career in the broadcast industry, covering pivotal moments at Eurosport, TV4, Red Bee Media Broadcast Services.
Märta Rydbeck has a rich history in the broadcast industry. She shares anecdotes from her 13 years at Eurosport, highlighting the pioneering negotiations that laid the foundation for dual revenue streams in broadcasting. She eventually transitioned to her consultancy firm before joining Clipsource, a SaaS B2B platform tailored for media companies. The platform focuses on helping streaming services and broadcasters enhance their PR and marketing efforts, serving as a news wire on steroids for B2B communication.
Importance of Content Marketing
Märta addresses the challenges faced by broadcasters and streaming platforms in serving relevant content to their audience. She underscores the role of platforms like Clipsource in simplifying communication and streamlining workflows, and highlights the challenges of content discovery and the role of services like Clipsource in providing relevant information to B2B partners and journalists.
Challenges in the Media Supply Chain
For global streamers, Märta points out the importance of local adaptation, acknowledging the diversity in regulations and audience preferences across different territories. Clipsource helps in validating and setting rules for metadata distribution, ensuring compliance with local regulations.
Märta emphasizes the need for harmonization of metadata, and structured workflows to support future growth. She cites examples from Clipsource's work with AMC in transforming metadata for platforms like Roku and Xbox.
Cloud vs. own communication platform
A SaaS cloud service like Clipsource solves the obstacles of both keeping all your content up to date, error free and shareable across international and or internal teams, while the teams are having instant access to new features for efficient workflows. In particular when it comes to sharing content and metadata you no longer need to worry about security and managing your own development teams.
“I think a lot of companies have built their own press rooms, and so on, but by having a cloud-based service, you are always getting access to the latest features that have been developed by us, for you.”
The Shift to Data-Driven Strategies
Märta discusses Clipsource's future plans, focusing on becoming a more data-driven company. She highlights the company's modular approach and commitment to developing features based on market needs and customer feedback, steering clear of buzzword-driven strategies.
“The important thing is that we follow both our own insights of the media market, but also stay attentive to our customers’ needs.”
