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Company Webcast and Hegnar Media join forces to provide webcast services

Company Webcast and Hegnar Media join forces to provide webcast services

Oslo – 04 December 2019 – Euronext Corporate Services and Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon today announced a partnership to bring Euronext webcast solutions to the Norwegian market. Webcasts and webinar solutions are now part of new services by Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon.

Euronext Corporate Services help listed companies to make the most effective use of capital markets and support organisations with innovative solutions and tailor-made advisory services in Governance (iBabs), Compliance (InsiderLog), Communication (Company Webcast), Investor Relations (Advisory and IR Solutions).

Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon is the market leader on streaming quarterly presentations for companies listed on Oslo Børs.

Oslo Børs will play a key role in offering the solutions of Euronext Corporate Services to the Norwegian Market.
– Webcast is part of this new offering from Oslo Børs that will help companies to improve their visibility and communication and support their journey on the capital markets. Hegnar Media, with their strong market position, is the right partner for us when we now enter the market for streaming presentations, says Håvard S. Abrahamsen, CEO of Oslo Børs.

Using the technology platform of Company Webcast, a subsidiary of Euronext Corporate Services, enables Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon to offer better streaming services and products to their clients.
– The partnership grants us the exclusive right to use the webcast platform of Company Webcast. This will make it possible for us to improve our offering with higher quality streaming and more opportunities for our customers. We are fully focused on the Investor Relations streaming services, and together with Oslo Børs we are going to increase our market share in this market, says Erlend Damon Stokke, leader of Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon.

CONTACTS
Oslo Børs
Geir Harald Aase, Communications Manager, Oslo Børs: +47 48 03 75 71 / gha@oslobors.no

Hegnar Media
Erlend Damon Stokke, Leader Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon: +47 97 05 50 20 / erlend@hegnar.no

For more information see the Official Euronext press release

About Euronext Corporate Services
Euronext Corporate Services offers innovative solutions and tailor-made advisory services to support listed companies’ journey on the capital markets. With 600+ listed companies working with Euronext Corporate Services in 15 countries, our 80 professionals help companies to make most effective use of the capital markets.

About Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon
Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon is the market leader in Norway for Investor Relations webcasts, and a full service video production company for production of infofilms, commercials and animation. Hegnar Media Videoproduksjon is a part of Hegnar Media AS, a leading Norwegian media company focusing on business news, companies, stock market, investing, entrepreneurship and lifestyles.

About Company Webcast
Company Webcast is a market leader in Western Europe for webcasts and webinar solutions. We provide a new generation of webcast solutions to maximize visibility on capital markets and beyond, through our state-of-the-art platform. Company Webcast was acquired by Euronext in 2017.

Company Webcast nominated for FD Gazelle 2019!

Company Webcast, a Euronext Company is one of the 770 fastest growing companies in the Netherlands! We are therefore an FD Gazelle 2019!

We are also growing fast this year: + 40% revenue growth in 2019. We see this strong growth in all the different markets in which we operate, such as studio webinars, our new offices in Paris & Brussels since 2017 and the municipal market.

Reasons for this strong growth are our leading webcast and webinar platform and our professional guidance and support of our employees. Since we are part of Euronext we are also growing strongly internationally.

Do you want to know more about the possibilities of webinars or webcasts for your organization? Contact us and we will gladly inform you about it.

IPO Webcast Prosus NV

On September 11, 2019, Prosus celebrated its first trading day on Euronext Amsterdam. Prosus is the largest consumer technology company in Europe.

To celebrate the first day of trading, Bob van Dijk, Group CEO of Prosus and Naspers, sounded the gong, a well-known tradition that marks the opening of the markets across Europe. On this occasion, the historical Euronext building in Amsterdam, Beursplein 5, was fully decorated in Prosus’ colours. The company invited all who contributed to the success of the operation and webcasted its ceremony to its employees.

Company Webcast, a Euronext Company, was responsibly for the production of the live webcast of this IPO event. You can view the after movie of the IPO celebration below:

Deutsche Telekom Case Study

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, with some 178 million mobile customers, 28 million fixed-network lines, and 20 million broadband lines. For Deutsche Telekom, livestreaming is becoming increasingly important to communicate with employees about products, technologies, organizational- and strategic topics across the whole Deutsche Telekom Group.

Mr. Alexander Olschok, IT Project Lead at Deutsche Telekom: “Livestreaming is a new way of communication within a big company like Deutsche Telekom. Every employee, every unit should be able to get new information in particular for those which are not working at the core locations/offices”.

Webcast and webinar vendor selection process

After a careful thorough selection process in which Deutsche Telekom started with 18 different webcast and webinar service providers, they made a short list of webcast vendors based on their technical and commercial skills and proposition. Finally Deutsche Telekom selected Company Webcast as their preferred webcast supplier. “Company Webcast was able to outrun all competitors on both technical- and commercial scope”, comments Alexander Olschok. Company Webcast will provide livestreaming and webcast technology with an integrated peer-to-peer distribution facility to Deutsche Telekom for the next three years (2019, 2020 and 2021). Deutsche Telekom will be able to produce webcasts, interactive webinars and livestreams all by themselves. Deutsche Telekom estimates to produce 60 to 100 live events each year.

Integrated Peer-to-peer streaming technology

As Deutsche Telekom wants to reach more and more employees with livestreaming in the coming years, they were looking for a new corporate webcast platform that was highly scalable and had peer-to-peer technology integrated in the webcast platform. Although Deutsche Telekom already had a webcast platform in place, they were looking for a new webcast supplier due to high operational effort when producing a webcast and to security limitations. The top-5 reasons for Deutsche Telekom to choose Company Webcast as their new preferred webcast provider were: service deployment within AWS, Scalability, Covering all Deutsche Telekom workplaces (also with Microsoft Browsers), The integrated peer-to-peer distribution and the Pricing of the complete technology. Also the Usability of the webcast platform was highly appreciated.

Why choose Company Webcast as webcast supplier?

Deutsche Telekom IT was involved foremost by configuring the corporate network to use peer-to-peer respectively WebRTC technology and by rolling out the Company Webcast protocol handler (CVS tool) for all DT workplace clients across the world. In this way also Microsoft Browser, who lack the WebRTC technology, could join the peer-to-peer distribution of a livestream. Alexander Olschok: “because of the easy to use cloud service of Company Webcast, we produce the webcast of Deutsche Telekom internally. The previous webcast solution was on premise and livestreaming was configured by Deutsche Telekom operations. Before we had high operational efforts to produce a live webcast. Also in comparison of our old webcast platform, we now being interoperable on all client platforms, covering mobile devices and offering livestreaming on an international scope.

I would definitely recommend Company Webcast to other companies. The interworking with, in depth webcast knowledge and technology of Company Webcast is a great Experience. My tip for other companies that are thinking about livestreaming is to start with the viewer in mind and not the solution itself!”

Do you want more information about the Company Webcast peer-to-peer webcast technology? Please contact us or visit this webpage.

Studio Experience

To easily get acquainted with professional studio webinars, Company Webcast has organised a Studio Experience in our studio’s in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague and Brussels this summer. Webinars are becoming increasingly popular due to their enormous effectiveness. Organisations such as Heineken, DUO, DSM, CNV, AkzoNobel and PME organise many successful webinars every year. However, for many organisations, webinars are still a fairly new tool and there is sometimes a threshold to start using.

The studio experience has already taken place in all our studios! An experienced Company Webcast project manager has demonstrated how a professional webinar works, both before and behind the scenes (from presenting, to the role of the host, interactivity with participants, the webinar tools that you have available, etc.). In addition, we told everything about the latest webinar trends, benchmarks and best practices to organize a successful webinar.

Studio Experience

The following topics were discussed during the Studio Experience:

Presenting a webinar (role of speaker vs. host)
Organising a webinar
Tools for guiding the interaction during the webinar
Studio Experience: simulating a live webinar
Trends, benchmarks & best practices from webinars

Examples webinars

NWO programme Dutch National Research Agenda

On Thursday, March 28, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) organized a webinar to provide information on the recently launched call for proposals National Research Agenda – Research along routes through Consortia (NWA-ORC) 2019. They share details about the rules and requirements and responds to questions submitted by the public. See the example below.

Forget everything you thought about Thought Leadership!

Thought leadership has become a marketing buzzword. Many people talk about it and many claim they know about it. The fact is very few people have studied it. That’s why Bovil and Company Webcast (a Euronext Company), have gathered together experts in the field to break it down and provide a series of “lunch & learn” broadcasts designed to give you the facts and show how organizations deal with it. See the example below

Shell Aviation Access to Experts

At Shell Aviation they believe carbon offsetting will play a crucial role in order to enable sustainable growth. Their experts Scott Toomer and Stephan Adamson will deliver the first Shell Aviation webinar of 2019 on carbon offset credits.

They will discuss the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions while fuelling growth in the aviation industry, match carbon offsetting to your growth strategy and they will discuss the various initiatives of carbon offsets credits that are available in the market and their differences. See the example below

Are you also curious about our studios? View our virtual tours here or contact us to make an appointment for a physical tour.

Signify Case Study

Signify NV (former “Philips Lighting”) is the world leader in lighting for professionals, consumers and lighting for the internet of things. Since the IPO of Signify in 2016 Company Webcast has been a reliable partner for Signify for the quarterly earnings calls with the investment community.

Results webcast

The quarterly webcasts of Signify have around 300 participants of which 66% view the live broadcast. Participants can view the webcast on the Signify website. Anita Singendonk, Investor Relations Coordinator at Signify: “Because the webcast player on our Investor Relations website is embedded, it looks very professional and when watching the webcast the visitor stays on our website”.

View an example of the latest embed Investor Relations webcast of Signify.

Why choose Company Webcast as webcast supplier?

Anita Singendonk, Investor Relations Coordinator at Signify: “Company Webcast is an experienced and trusted player in the field of Investor Relations webcasts. The cooperation between Company Webcast and a native speaker from the pool of operators of the conference call provider works smoothly. The lines of communication between the webcast producer, operator and ourselves during the call are short and clear. During the call the webcast player, used to go to the next slide of the presentation, is easy to use. Overall we highly recommend Company Webcast as webcast provider.”

Webcast technology

Signify recognizes the innovative technology of Company Webcast. What do they like the best?

• The option to embed the webcast player on the Investor Relation website of Signify
• The functionality to register to a webcast upfront and to receive a reminder one day prior to the conference call is a good extra service.
• Because the links of earlier publications remain available for 5 years, the webcasts are part of our library.
• The data provided directly after the call give good insight.

Want to learn more about transparent and simultaneous communication with all your investors and other stakeholders around the world? Click here to see how webcasts for investors relations maximize the impact of your event or fill in the contact form below.

Increase the reach and accessibility of the broadcast by subtitling

We increasingly see that a live webcast or live webcast is also subtitled afterwards. Subtitling these types of broadcasts has many advantages and also ensures that the broadcast becomes accessible to anyone with a hearing impairment (1 in 10 people has a hearing problem!).

Although most participants to a webcast or webinar watch the broadcast live, we see an increase in on-demand usage every year. Around 33% -50% of the total visitors to a webcast or webinar are participants who view the webinar on-demand. Due to this increased importance, it is advisable to also subtitle the broadcast afterwards.

Subtitles in their own language or another language

The subtitle can be used to subtitle in the broadcast language or in another language. The objectives of both still differ. Advantages of subtitling in the broadcast language is explained below. The advantage of subtitling in a language other than the broadcast language is that viewers, who cannot (properly) follow the broadcast, can still follow the broadcast through subtitling. We see this reflected in many companies that, for example, broadcast in Dutch or French and subtitle in English. Or broadcast in English and even subtitle in Chinese!

Advantages of subtitling a webcast or webinar

In addition to making the broadcasts accessible to people with a hearing impairment, there are other benefits that can increase the reach of the broadcast:

Subtitles ensure that people can watch without sound
Subtitles make broadcasts easier to understand
Subtitles ensure a longer viewing time

Example of subtitling a webcast or webinar

Below an example of a webinar that is subtitled. To display the subtitles you must first click on the [CC] button in the webinar player.

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research has broadcasted its webinar on the Dutch National Research Agenda in English and also subtitles in English. See the example below.

Please find here more information about subtitling your webcasts or webinars and see more examples. Do you want more information or advice feel free to contact us.

More than 100 listed companies webcast their Investor Relations events by Company Webcast

Company Webcast, part of Euronext NV, opens the trading day. For the first time, they provide webcasts for more than 100 listed companies. Iwan Lawerman, CEO, sounds the gong.

Company Webcast was founded in 2004 and is a market leader in providing conference calls and high-end webcast solutions based on a state-of-the-art platform using the most advanced technology. At Company Webcast, they facilitate conference calls and professional live broadcasts of meetings via the internet.

For publicly listed companies, they provide a range of conference call & webcast services for all types of Investor Relations events: quarterly earnings calls, press events, analyst events, shareholder meetings and capital market days. They are also involved in many internal communications events, such as town hall meetings and periodic management updates. On a regular basis they succesfully produce dozens of conference calls & live broadcasts within Europe for the likes of Agfa, Air France-KLM, Elia, EY, FedEx, Heineken, Keytrade Bank, Philips, Siemens, etc.

Do you also want to communicate efficiently and effectively with stakeholders?

Would you like to know more about using a webcast for your AGM? Download now our free whitepaper via this link and be inspired by two cases from a.s.r and BAM Group that have already successfully used webcasts for their AGMs.

CMD webcasts are becoming the norm for communicating strategy updates

It is essential for a listed company to have regular contact with buy-side investors and sell-side analysts. Many companies organise a Capital Markets Day (CMD) event, often in the low season, to give financial stakeholders the opportunity to meet the management team, obtain more information about the company and gain a strategy update.

According to research conducted by Company Webcast, a Euronext Company, amongst companies listed on Euronext in Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, and Amsterdam, Capital Markets Day (CMD) webcasts attract 411 online viewers on average, of which 52% view the webcast live and 48% view the webcast on demand. Of those 411 online viewers, an average of 47% are (potential) investors/analysts and 53% are employees.

You can now visit the whole research paper or view examples of Capital Markets Day webcast.

KPN chooses Company Webcast solution for reaching its own employees

At the end of December, KPN and Company Webcast signed a contract under which Company Webcast will deliver its webcast and peer-to-peer streaming technology to KPN in the coming years.

As a result, many internal employees can watch a HD quality broadcast (live) at the same time, without the internal network being overloaded.

Within KPN, webcasts are a well-known phenomenon for employees. Various departments are informed by a manager by a webcast or are informed of new developments. Every week there is one or more webcasts to be monitored via TEAMKPN and KPN expects further growth in the coming years.

With more webcasts, traffic on the internal network is also increasing. Especially if several people in the same location all watch a webcast at the same time, the network is pretty taxed. The peer-to-peer streaming solution from Company Webcast prevents the network from being overloaded and ensures that everyone can watch a high-quality video webcast simultaneously, without any problems.

Photo: signing of the contract (from left to right): Louise van der Star (B2B B2B Media Services Tribe), Axel von Maltzahn (Commercial Manager Company Webcast) and John Wagenaar (Product Owner Networking & Infrastructure Services KPN).

More information about the Peer-to-peer streaming solution from Company Webcast, click here.