ZOO Digital

• 12/01/12

  Holding(s) in Company

• 10/01/12

  Directors dealings & Holdings in Company

• 06/01/12

  Purchase of shares by Chairman and employee trust

• 07/12/11

  Purchase of shares by ZOO Employee Share Trust

• 06/12/11

  Half Yearly Report

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  06/12/11

  Zoo Digital's ongoing diversification will help offset the decline in DVD related business, says CEO

  Chief executive Dr Stuart Green believes that the firm's ongoing diversification plan will help it recover from a faster than expected decline in its DVD related home entertainment business.

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  13/07/11

  ZOO Digital spreads its wings beyond Hollywood

  Already established among Hollywood studios, ZOO Digital is targeting more sectors that it believes can make use of its media workflow technologies. Here, we take a look at the business.

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  14/09/10

  How ZOO Digital is Making its Hollywood Dream a Reality

  Boss Stuart Green walks us through a potentially transformational period in ZOO's development. We also get a hint of the potential of the company's tie-up with Multi Packaging Solutions

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  09/09/10

  ZOO Digital’s new iTunes toolset adopted by major Hollywood studio

  The new iTunes toolkit automates the production of menus and bonus features, allowing studios to produce enhanced download content at significantly lower costs. The toolkit is expected to open-up 'a large potential market' and add new revenue streams.

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  28/06/10

  Zoo Digital looks to target additional sectors as revenue momentum continues

  Shares in ZOO Digital (LON:ZOO) have zoomed higher in recent months, driven by a combination of solid results and increasing confidence that the company will continue to deliver good top line growth in the future.

• 10/01/12

  ZOODigital Group: Investment group increases stake in firm

• 06/01/12

  Zoo Digital Group chairman and employee trust buy shares

• 06/12/11

  Zoo Digital hit by move away from DVDs

• 22/09/11

  Zoo Digital on track to meet market expectations

• 10/08/11

  UPDATE: ZOO Digital Group increased profits in FY2011, raises new funds

ZOO Digital Group plc provides software and related services that support the authoring, re-purposing and distribution of creative media. ZOO’s products form an integrated suite of web-based and desktop applications for audio/visual content and printed materials, adapting these media for different languages, formats and delivery mechanisms.  

By centralising editorial and approval processes via secure web-based platforms, ZOO’s proprietary patented software helps customers to increase their speed of production, reduce costs and protect their brand integrity. ZOO’s services enable quicker and more cost effective processes across a wide range of applications and formats, including packaging, printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through, broadcast, music and electronic books.  

The Group’s largest customers include major Hollywood studios, for which the production, marketing and distribution of titles in numerous formats across many geographies and languages has previously been a lengthy, costly and largely manual process. Increasingly the Group’s software is benefiting a variety of companies across sectors where the development of media products, printing, packaging and marketing involves complex processes in multiple countries and languages, particularly where brand integrity is of core importance. 

SOFTWARE
Creating media for global distribution is a labor-intensive, time-consuming process for most companies. ZOO software efficiently automates complex production tasks. Our project management software links the pieces together and helps manage the process.


The Translation Management System helps our clients manage global projects with complex media workflows and thousands of translations.

This system incorporates a number of modules designed to support international media production workflows, including a graphical display of a projects progress, a dictionary of standard translations, as well as the capability to ‘learn phrases’ as they are used in specific contexts. This eradicates the need for duplication, providing ZOO’s clients with significant cost savings, alongside improved brand consistency and control.

The TMS can be licensed alongside our software applications – or if you use us as your production facility then we’ll introduce you to it as we start to work together.

For more info on the TMS CLICK HERE


The Templated Authoring System introduced a systematic approach to disc data structure, fundamentally changing the way major studios create video titles, both physical and digital. 

TAS uses set configurations and a templated approach to basic disc functionality like play and fast-forward, without sacrificing creative control. TAS applies the most efficient structure to the data encoded on the disc. It doesn’t intrude into the creative layer of disc menu design and interactivity.

For more info on the TAS CLICK HERE


The Media Adaptation Tool completely automates the thousands of resizing and localization tasks involved in preparing a major media release for global distribution.

MAT can version virtually any media created with the Adobe® Creative Suite®, from motion graphics rendered in After Effects® to packaging and posters created with InDesign®.

It works with any Adobe® CS file, no matter who created it. Our production artists map each element of the master document into the MAT database, including art, graphics and text. Then MAT automatically resizes the art and places the text according to specifications for each market.

For more info on the MAT CLICK HERE


Localizing video titles is more than encoding for the correct region. Every translated word in every menu must be formatted accurately, in multiple languages. The Menu Regionalization Tool localizes menu items automatically, saving time and labor.

MRT matches English words and phrases in a video title's menu with proofed and approved translations from ZOO’s expansive, multi-lingual database. The system traps and flags any menu items outside the database for manual translation. Once the new phrase is in the database, MRT flows it into the menus and stores it for reuse on future titles.

For more info on the MRT CLICK HERE


One Stop to Global.
ZOO offers comprehensive services for major content providers like film studios, television networks and corporate clients who publish and market media for global distribution.

OUR SERVICES
The ZOO creative team includes designers, animators, visual effects artists and editors who specialize in the unique needs of global media producers and marketers.



Multimedia skills from design to gaming
ZOO offers comprehensive creative support from graphic design to 3-D animation. Our in-house talent can design for virtually any media, script and produce bonus features, even conceive, create and code DVD and web-based games.

For more info on Creative Services CLICK HERE

Video & Post
ZOO maintains its own in-house video and post-production facilities. We provide complete support for materials like bonus features, electronic press kits, trailers and TV spots.

ZOO does more than assemble clips. We produce original materials from initial scripts to location shoots, interviews and voice-overs. We are a mini-studio, devoted to creating unique documentary and promotional material for major media releases.

For more info on Video & Post CLICK HERE



Localization
When you’re synchronizing DVDs, Blu-ray discs and marketing material for a single, global release, localization cannot be an afterthought. Producing materials that work in every region and language is a complex undertaking at which ZOO excels.

ZOO has years of experience in preparing discs and marketing materials for global delivery, and we bring the full power of each of our disciplines — creative, production and software — to bear on the challenges of global distribution. Our designers build every asset so that it integrates with our automated workflow technologies. Once a master file is built — for a poster, a package or a disc menu — our systems can translate and version it for multiple markets, automatically.

For more info on Localization CLICK HERE



Authoring & Compression
We provide a turn-key solution for media publishers from designing disc menus to authoring and compressing video for DVD, Blu-ray and video on demand.

ZOO’s production team is tightly integrated with our creative and software teams, making us one of the few media providers agile and responsive enough to serve the global marketplace.

ZOO’s MRT and TAS software solutions enable rapid video title authoring and localization by eliminating hours of production and programming labor. Because our designers build every asset to mesh with our software solutions, ZOO is able to trim days off its disc-authoring production schedules.

For more info on Authoring & Compression CLICK HERE

Consulting
The ZOO consulting team helps clients implement centralized workflows for localizing media releases and marketing materials. We bring all of our creative, production and technological expertise to bear on the challenge of building efficient, effective global strategies for your company.

After gathering information about your current systems, we help you weigh the benefits and costs of improving your workflow by centralizing localization efforts. Together, we’ll formulate a solution, then ZOO will help you build your case and present it to decision makers in your organization. Once you get a green light, ZOO will be there to help you implement your plan, whether it includes ZOO as a vendor or not.

For more info on Consulting CLICK HERE

Directors

Roger Jeynes – Chairman

Dr. Stuart Green – Chief Executive Officer

Helen Gilder – Group Finance Director

Gordon Doran – Commercial Director

James Livingston – Non-Executive Director



Senior Management

Duncan Wain – Chief Operating Officer


Phil Corio – Chief Technical Officer

The Company’s issued share capital consists of 23,796,255 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 15 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”), each share having equal voting rights.

The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury and therefore the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights is 23,796,255.

As of 1 July 2010 the Company had been notified, in accordance with the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, of the following shareholdings amounting to 3% or more of the ordinary share capital of the Company:

In accordance with the AIM Rules (Rule 26), in so far as the Company is aware, the percentage of the Company’s issued share capital that is not in public hands is 51.56%.

*Total shareholding excludes shares held in the ZOO Digital Group Share Incentive Plan (SIP).

** For the purpose of the above table, the investment in the name of Foresight Group has been consolidated. The investment is held in the names of Foresight 2 VCT plc, Foresight 3 VCT plc, Foresight 4 VCT plc and Noble VCT plc all of which are managed by Foresight Group.

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