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I Watch BTS Online Concert Multi-view – Big Hit Entertainment-Kiswe, Signing MOU
Big Hit Entertainment has joined hands with Kiswe Mobile, a live streaming solution company in the U.S.
Big Hit Entertainment has joined hands with Kiswe Mobile, a live streaming solution company in the U.S.
Big Hit and Kiswe announced that “Big Hit’s CEO Yoon Seok-joon, Kiswe chairman and founder Dr. Kim Jong-hoon and Mike Shabel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the 8th and promised global partnerships between the two companies.”
Through this partnership, the two companies will start to expand their global business and services in earnest by pursuing innovation in the global fan experience. In particular, it plans to introduce various services centering on Weverse, Big Hit’s global fan community platform, and implement ‘one-stop service in the music industry’.
The strategic partnership was made with the aim of maximizing the synergy of the capabilities of both companies to provide music fans around the world with a more enjoyable and extensive performance experience. Big Hit’s strong content planning and artist IP and Kiswe’s technology will meet to develop and introduce customized services so that fans can enjoy content in an optimal way in a changing global performance environment.
The first collaborative project is “Multiview Live Streaming,” which will feature six angles on one screen at BTS‘ online real-time performance “Bang Bang Con The Live” on June 14, offering a multi-view service that allows users to choose the desired screen.
Kiswe is a global company co-founded in 2013 by Dr. Kim Jong-hoon, former head of Bell Laboratories, and Wim Swaldon and Jimmy Lin. It has multi-channel convergence technology based on cloud servers and ‘multiview live streaming’ source technology that allows users to watch entertainment content and sports broadcasts on a customized basis. High-definition and high-quality videos are also delivered efficiently with low capacity, providing rich digital video experience by broadcasting live streaming of many global events such as the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Big Hit aims to deliver Big Hit’s powerful content to global fans more effectively through strategic partnerships with Kiswe. Based on its content planning capabilities that maximize fans’ enjoyment, such as BTS‘ online streaming festival “Bang Bang Con” held in April and online real-time performance “Bang Bang Con The Live” to be held on the 14th, Big Hit plans to develop a new performance viewing method tailored to the characteristics of content and various needs of fans in the future with Kiswe.
“Through this agreement, we have opened up various possibilities of innovation in the global market by meeting Big Hit’s contents, planning, and Kiswe’s technology,” said Yoon Seok-joon, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment. “Based on Big Hit’s philosophy of considering fans’ needs first, we will find a place to maximize synergy in partnership and develop and introduce services that customers want.”
“With the partnership between Kiswe and Big Hit, we have expanded Kiswe’s activities in the global sports and media sectors to the music sector, allowing the two companies to challenge new businesses,” said CEO Mike Shabel. “We expect this partnership to be the beginning of fan experience innovation.”
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AMAZER – BLACKPINK COVER DANCE CHALLENGE FINISHED. 81 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED!
Corporate event between global K-POP cover dance application ‘Amazer’ and artist ‘BLACKPINK’ has successfully finished.
Corporate event between global K-POP cover dance application ‘Amazer’ and artist ‘BLACKPINK’ has successfully finished.
This challenge, which took place with the release of BLACKPINK’s second single “Ice Cream,” is a collaboration between ‘BLACKPINK’ and ‘Amazer’ followed after the release of first single “How You Like That.”
As 7,816 contents were uploaded by 1,972 users from 36 countries around the world, the total number of users participating in the two BLACKPINK Challenge events held in ‘Amazer’ reached about 3,000 users, 81 countries.
BLACKPINK’s first album, which will be released on October 2, will also have a challenge targeting worldwide cover dancers in ‘Amazer’, and as this is BLACKPINK’s first full-length album since debut, lots of participation are expected.
‘Amazer’ is a global K-POP representative app based on 1.2 million global users in 175 countries, where people can upload and share their cover dance, cover song videos with other users, promote K-POP to the world by collaborating with various artists and expanding new play culture in the current Untact-era.
NEW K.ID, the No.1 TV channel for all K-Pop entertainment and source (https://cutt.ly/NEWKID), announced its weekly chart for the 4th week of September.
[Weekly Idol]
TREASURE is on a mission. After BLACKPINK reclaimed their throne in NEW K.ID’s Weekly Idol Ranking last week, TREASURE rose to the top of this week’s chart once again. Considering that TREASURE only officially made their debut last month, it is remarkable to see them go toe to toe with BLACKPINK so fast. YG fans will undoubtedly be happy as YG artists have won the last 11 NEW K.ID’s Weekly Idol Rankings. TREASURE’s new song, ‘I LOVE YOU’ is also attracting a lot of attention worldwide as it topped LINE MUSIC’s Top 100 Chart, which is the biggest music platform in Japan. They also surpassed 200,000 in the album sales just in pre-order, having the best performance among all the newly debuted K-Pop idols this year. Furthermore, the ‘I LOVE YOU’ Music Video brought more than 10 million views on YouTube within 72 hours of its release. TREASURE’s members commented that they do not wish to dwell on the numbers but would rather like to repay the fans with great music.
[Weekly Hot News]
Followed by TREASURE, BLACKPINK, SECRET NUMBER, DKB, STRAY KIDS, SF9, AKMU, RED VELVET, SEVENTEEN, and TXT got into this week’s Idol Ranking. Coming in at the second place, BLACKPINK is releasing their first official studio album, ‘THE ALBUM,’ on October 2nd. YG Entertainment has been teasing the highly anticipated album with members’ unique and individual pictures. The album will be released at 12 AM EST or 1 PM KST. ‘THE ALBUM’ already surpassed 800,000 sales in pre-order and is projected to shatter the records as the most sold K-Pop female artists’ album in the history. With the pre-released singles such as ‘How You Like That’ and ‘Ice Cream’ having tremendous successes, fans are excited to see how ‘THE ALBUM’ will shake up the industry.
Ranked at #5, Stray Kids has been selected as the fastest-rising K-Pop artist in the world according to the joint data analytics done by Twitter and Space Oddity. With this year’s K-Pop Analysis and #KpopTwitter 2020 World Map, Twitter showcased various infographics from the ‘most mentioned K-Pop artist by market’ to ‘Top 10 most mentioned K-Pop songs in the world’. Stray Kids was the only artist debuted in 2018 to break into ‘Top 10 fastest-rising K-Pop artists in the world’. Stray Kids also was placed 10th on ‘Top 10 most mentioned K-Pop artists in the world’, buttressing their status as a rising global artist. Stray Kids’ new album ‘Life’ exceeded 230,000 in sales and topped the album chart in 23 different countries, breaking their previous records.
At the 6th place is SF9 who is planning a new project called ‘FANTASY RACE’ in a celebration of their 4th debut anniversary. It has already been 4 years since SF9 made its debut with a single album, ‘Feeling Sensation,’ in 2016, and gained immense popularity throughout their career. FNC Entertainment announced that fans could expect in a total of 4 different race courses as they can experience a variety of content, including a unique album, ‘SF9 Corp 2’, VLIVE, and an offline pop-up store. SF9 is also performing an online late-night concert, NOOB CON-SF9, on October 10th via VLIVE.
Ranked at #10, TXT is making a comeback on October 26th with refreshed and never seen looks. Big Hit Entertainment released album motion graphics through its official platform, Weverse. This third mini-album will capture TXT’s small stories as they transition from the ‘The Dream Chapter’ series into a new installation. TXT’s ‘minisode1: Blue Hour’ will showcase a changed TXT like fans have never seen before with a new concept. Meanwhile, TXT was also nominated in Radio Disney’s Song of the Summer as the only Korean artist alongside global artists like Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Sia, and Dua Lipa.
NEW K.ID, the only TV channel that allows viewers to enjoy K-POP Idol-related content programming 24/7 and exclusive episodes curated from 10K+ videos, is available at CH 511 for free on LG Smart TVs and XUMO apps on all Internet-connected devices.
