108 Media Grows Footprint in Asia & Europe

BERLIN: 108 Media is expanding its distribution lines to encompass Korea, Japan and Scandinavia, with plans to extend into the U.K. in the first quarter of the year.

The company, which was founded in 2011, will launch its Korean operations with Play On Cast, an integrated media and content company that produces and distributes HD and 4K UHD content. The partnership will see 108 Media increase sales and distribution activities of Play On Cast’s Korean TV drama series, as well as all 4K content in the North American market.

Additionally, 108 Media secured an output deal with Sidus Pictures, a South Korea-based distribution and production company. A selection of feature-film titles from 108 Media’s catalog will be released on Sidus’s SVOD service on a monthly basis.

Alongside increasing its global distribution operations, 108 Media will continue to launch simultaneous releases across multiple territories throughout 2017, totaling more than 100 titles.

Abhi Rastogi, the CEO of 108 Media, said, “Our strategy has always been to distribute content in any genre from a wide range of media and our partnership with Play On Cast and Sidus Pictures demonstrates our commitment in fulfilling this in 2017. Our increasing global operations are represented by fantastic deals in the Korean territory and we will be closing similar deals in the European market later in the year.”