Spherex Media

As the streaming wars go global and the arms race for eyeballs heats up, more and more content needs to be audience-ready in real time. Spherex's Teresa Phillips and nScreenMedia's Colin Dixon discuss the importance of cultural content adaptation in addition to localization for streamers to get content to market faster, grow bigger audiences and drive more revenue.

“It was a collective creative effort to survive,” said Fabrice Sergent, referring to his company Bandsintown’s transformation amid the pandemic. “You have to go deep into the mission of the company, its values and its constituencies, to rebirth out of such a radical threat.”

There are 246 territories among 195 countries, and each has rules and regulations about what is acceptable in a movie or show. If you do not want your content to fall afoul of censors, you need to culturalize it!