Entriq, Inc.
Entriq, Inc. is a multinational digital media company headquartered in Carlsbad, California, USA. Entriq is an Irdeto company and a division of MIH, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of media group Naspers Limited (LSE:NPSN; JSE: NPN). Additional offices are located in New York, Minnesota, and internationally in the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, China and Australia. Entriq provides technology and content management products to content owners, copyright holders, and distributors to manage, protect, monetize, and deliver their digital content to audiences across all digital devices and platforms. Major clients include the CBS O&O sites, Oprah.com, and Martha Stewart Omnimedia.
History
Founded in 2000, Entriq emerged as a division of MIH Limited (Naspers), the global provider of pay media platforms and services that launched South Africa’s first pay TV service in 1984. The company has been acknowledged for its digital media leadership and expertise in content management, workflow, syndication, media control, and monetization with the industry’s most flexible and complete solutions. Entriq increased its product offering by the 2008 acquisition of DayPort.
DayPort
On March 10, 2008, Entriq announced its acquisition of DayPort, a leader in video publishing, content, workflow, and syndication solutions. DayPort was previously backed by private investors in Mankato, MN, but needed a larger parent with global reach. The precise terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but it is rumored to be around US$45 million. Entriq has valued the deal between US$10 million - $50 million. Under the terms, DayPort CEO Cory Factor joined Entriq as Chief Technology Officer, along with other DayPort executives who took on senior level roles at the merged company.
Executive Leadership
- Graham Kill, Chief Executive Officer: Became CEO when Entriq joined the Irdeto group in 2008, succeeding previous CEO Jan Steenkamp
- Guy Tennant, Chief Operating OfficerKuo, Benjamin F. (2008.03.11). ”Interview with Guy Tennant, Entriq”.
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- Zach Vela, Chief Financial Officer
- Cory Factor, Chief Technology Officer: Formerly CEO of DayPort
Product Offering
Entriq offers all-in-one digital media services to manage, protect, monetize and deliver multimedia content to broadband Internet, mobile, and IPTV devices. Clients choose which scalable tools they want to manage, protect, track, and/or monetize with ad or pay capabilities for their media assets. Entriq’s acquisition of DayPort in March 2008 helped strengthen their product offering.
Entriq’s product suite includes: Publish, Control, Monetize, Syndicate, Discover, and Analyze products, plus additional capabilities to leverage user-generated content, coordinate Approvals, implement Players and solutions. Entriq also provides consultancy services and support, designed to build custom interfaces and web sites.
Clients
Entriq clients include some of the world's most popular content at providers in the pay media industry. Major clients include:
- Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions
- Martha Stewart Omnimedia
- CBS
- ShopNBC: Entriq technology helps power this multimedia retailer and one of the U.S.’s leading home shopping channels
- BSkyB: Entriq supports delivery of pay-per-view television content for the UK’s largest pay TV provider
- ESPN
- Viacom/MTV
- HoneyShed: Entriq helped implement this radically new entertainment/shopping web site
- Prince: Entriq enabled his Billboard "Best Use of Technology by an Artist” in 2004
- VeriSign
Recognition
- EContent Magazine's Top 100 2008 finalist
- StreamingMedia Readers' Choice Award 2007 finalist
- EContent Magazine's Top 100 2007 winner
- Royal Television Society Innovation Award