TORONTO – Broadcast video streaming company Nextologies announced late last month that it acquired the Video Call Center (VCC), which it said will help it expand its remote production division.
Before the pandemic, Nextologies had already built its own remote production system, called NexToMeet, an app for browser and mobile that allowed for the execution of events.
“Our NexToMeet solution was our first step into the remote workflow and production arena, but now that we’ve all seen the huge potential, we knew it was possible to do so much more,” said Sasha Zivanovic, CEO of Nextologies, in the release.
“With the VCC acquisition, we are able to bring on a team that’s deeply experienced in the entire remote interview process,” Zivanovic continued. “And we’re adding the VCC remote management plane, which has been vetted and refined over years of serving many happy high profile productions.”
VCC has more than 70 major media companies as clients.
“In order to grow, VCC needs to be part of a company with additional products and services, a larger, more global sales team, and greater engineering resources. Nextologies is exactly that kind of company,” said VCC CEO Larry Thaler, who will stay on as a consultant.
The deal was finalized on December 23, according to a release.
“What’s exciting about VCC is that they’ve been enabling remote video feeds and production way before Covid,” Zivanovic said. “We’re getting the chance to bring on this deep bench of experience in all aspects of remote production enablement and workflows and then inject it with a steroid shot of Nextologies engineering innovation.”
