Vuze, the Leading Online Platform for High-Res and HD Video, Signs with UTA for Representation
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
BEVERLY HILLS & PALO ALTO - Vuze, the fast-growing online entertainment platform with an established audience of 13 million users, has signed a mutually exclusive agreement with leading Hollywood talent agency United Talent Agency (UTA) to serve as their agent for business development and representation.
UTA will assist Vuze in expanding its reach into Hollywood’s creative community, identify additional studio, network, music label and website content partners, and connect Vuze to consumer brands to build branded entertainment channels.
“Our strategic partnership with UTA will help expand the entertainment options available to the millions of Vuze users,” said Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Vuze Inc. “Vuze is enjoying great momentum and accelerating consumer adoption. Content development with UTA will give our community even more options to enjoy the best selection of high-quality digital content.”
“Vuze is perfectly positioned to help the best creative minds enter into this exciting territory,” said UTA partner Jeremy Zimmer. “We are excited to help Vuze expand their acquisition strategy for content that already has an audience as well as to define and source the content that will work in the future.”
Vuze offers a high-resolution viewing experience in addition to full download of content. To date, Vuze has signed over 100 content partners, including A&E, BBC, CBC, G4 TV, Geneon, The History Channel, inDemand, Ministry of Sound TV, National Geographic, PBS, Pink Planet, Stage 3 Media, Showtime, The Poker Channel, Porchlight, TV Guide Channel, and many more.
About Vuze
Vuze is the world's most popular entertainment platform for DVD-quality and HD video content. With an installed base of 13 million unique client downloads in its first 10 months, 500,000 new viewers joining per week and more than 100 content partners to date, Vuze is experiencing unprecedented organic growth. Vuze attracts and features high quality content from a growing roster of global television networks, premier production studios and thousands of maverick content creators, on the most advanced, most open entertainment platform ever created. Vuze, Inc, formerly known as Azureus, Inc., is headquartered in Palo Alto, with offices in Los Angeles, Paris, and New York.
About UTA
United Talent Agency is one of the entertainment industry's premier talent and literary agencies, representing many of world's most widely-known figures in every current and emerging area of entertainment, including motion pictures, television, digital media, publishing, music, mobile and live entertainment. Collectively, UTA agents represent a significant cross-section of today's most acclaimed and inspiring artists and entertainers, including nominees and winners of Academy, Emmy, Grammy, Screen Actors Guild, Directors Guild, Writers Guild, Producers Guild, Golden Globe, People's Choice and Webby awards. The agency is also globally recognized in the areas of corporate consulting, branding & licensing, endorsements and the representation of production talent.