red bee

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Red Bee Media (note: the company was originally a BBC business unit, called BBC Broadcast, that was sold off by the Corporation to Australian venture capital firm, Macquarie, in 2005 for £166 million) has renewed its contract with the BBC's Future Media & Technology arm to enable the latter's interactive services. The new contract, which was awarded after a formal EU procurement process, has a five-year term, with a provision to extend it for an additional two years. Red Bee (and its predecessor, BBC Broadcast) has powered the BBC's interactive services since their launch back in 1999.

Red Bee Media (note: the company was originally a BBC business unit,
called BBC Broadcast, that was sold off by the corporation) has formed
a new division, called On Demand, which it says will focus on
providing services related to metadata, media management, digital
publishing and emerging platforms, and has been designed to exploit
the "growing market for delivering content to new platforms." The new
division is headed up by Adam Poulter, Red Bee's executive
commercial director. Martin Harvey, who was previously head of sales,
marketing and international development for Red Bee's Metadata
division, has been promoted to managing director of metadata for the
new On Demand division. He will be tasked with managing Red Bee's