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VUBIQUITY Inks Five-Year Content Deal with OTT Streaming Service FlixFlingVUBIQUITY, the global provider of premium entertainment and technology services, announced a five-year agreement with emerging OTT streaming service FlixFling. VUBIQUITY will provide FlixFling with access to its AnyVU® Content Cloud, the most expansive commercial platform of movies and television shows to facilitate the management, automation and delivery of premium content for any screen. "We're proud to offer a deep library of curated premium titles in the AnyVU® Content Cloud, including our selection of pre-licensed content," said Fred Handsman, SVP of Business Development at VUBIQUITY. "We've built a service that can seamlessly make these titles available to FlixFling's customers across multiple devices and in a variety of ways, including subscription video-on-demand and electronic sell-through." The deal follows a busy year of strategic acquisitions and investments made by VUBIQUITY to further strengthen its market position. The development and launch of AnyVU® Cloud coupled with the acquisition of Juice Worldwide has bolstered the company's OTT portfolio. FlixFling's unique Pay as You Go and subscription OTT service allows customers to rent, purchase, or subscribe to watch movies and television shows on the FlixFling App available on Smart TVs OTT boxes and devices, applications running iOS, Android (News - Alert) or Windows 8, and game consoles. "Our partnership with VUBIQUITY will provide a huge influx of new releases, sometimes months before they are available on other services," said FlixFling CEO Thomas Ashley. "The AnyVU® Content Cloud is a tremendous asset for FlixFling to be working with and we're thrilled to add VUBIQUITY's catalog of premium content to our extensive library of major studio releases, TV shows, indies, and exclusives." About VUBIQUITY VUBIQUITY is a global entertainment and technology company connecting content owners and video distributors to deliver premium content on any screen. Major film studios, television networks and service providers as well as independent studios and emerging MCNs partner with VUBIQUITY for enhanced capabilities in multiplatform video distribution. The only true end-to-end provider of premium content technology services, VUBIQUITY licenses and delivers to over 700 traditional and OTT video distributors across the world. VUBIQUITY is a privately held company backed by The Carlyle Group, Columbia Capital and Valhalla Partners with offices Los Angeles and London. Follow VUBIQUITY on Twitter (News - Alert) @Vubiquity for the latest company news. About FlixFling FlixFling is an application-based streaming movie service available on the most popular Internet-connected devices including web, iOS, Android, Roku, GooglePlay and more. With a catalog of over 15,000 movies and shows, FlixFling features a wide range of titles from Hollywood hits to Indie favorites - available instantly for rental or purchase. FlixFling's unique digital locker storage system, MyFlix, facilitates seamless play of FlixFling titles across multiple devices. Learn more about FlixFling at www.FlixFling.com or follow FlixFling on Facebook or Twitter.
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