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Vancouver’s BBTV is expanding their partnership with the NBA to include content distributed beyond YouTube. Created in 2016 as a joint commercial partnership between BBTV and the NBA, NBA Playmakers is the premier basketball culture video network working with influencers across fitness & training, fashion & lifestyle and gaming content. In addition to YouTube, NBA […]
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BBTV Launches New Service Offerings to Instagram and TikTok Influencers
YouTube monetization pioneer BBTV has announced the launch of new offerings at scale to influencers across all genres of content on Instagram and TikTok. While BBTV’s bread and butter remains YouTube where over 2 billion people log-in each month, Instagram and TikTok are fast approaching YouTube’s reach with Instagram hitting one billion monthly users in […]
BBTV Puts Independent Content Owners Back in Control of Their Content
BBTV has announced the expansion of the company’s Content Management Plus Solutions to individual content owners at scale, regardless of size or genre. BBTV’s Content Management Solutions help manage fan uploaded copies of content, putting content owners back in control of their IP, while also creating a new revenue stream for the content owners and […]
BBTV Adds Dragon Michele Romanow & Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes To Board
Today newly publicly-traded BBTV provided a corporate update which included the announcement of three new directors to their Board. As part of its preparation for their initial public offering, the Vancouver-born company appointed three new directors to its Board, Marcel Reichart, formerly of Bertelsmann Investments, Michele Romanow, CBC Dragon and co-founder of Clearbanc, and Ryan […]
BBTV Launches Mobile Game With YouTube Content Creator James Rallison
This morning Shahrzad Rafati and her BBTV team virtually opened the Toronto Stock Exchange one week after their successful IPO. But the news didn’t stop there. BBTV announced the launch of a new mobile gaming app, “TheOdd1sOut: Let’s Bounce” in partnership with James Rallison, the creator of one of YouTube’s most popular channels. TheOdd1sOut, an […]
Shahrzad Rafati Regains Control of BroadbandTV With TSX IPO
BBTV Holdings has successfully closed its previously announced initial public offering and is now trading on the TSX. Priced at $16.00 per share at opening, BBTV Shares are down 6% today. Since launching in 2005 BroadbandTV (BBTV) has been a leader in defining and advancing the digital video space. Today, BBTV is the third largest […]
Shahrzad Rafati Aims To Regain Control of BBTV Via TSX IPO
One of Vancouver’s most successful female tech entrepreneurs, Shahrzad Rafati, is attempting to take BroadbandTV public on the TSX in order to buy out German media giant Bertelsmann. Founded in 2005, BroadbandTV (BBTV) provides end-to-end content management and technology solutions for independent content creators and media companies to grow their presence online. According to comScore, […]
BBTV’s Shahrzad Rafati Named Business Woman of the Year
BroadbandTV Founder Shahrzad Rafati has been named CanadianSME Magazine’s Business Woman of the Year in recognition of her success in the media and technology industry. Vancouver-headquartered BBTV is an enabling platform for content owners that is advancing the world through the creation, distribution, management and monetization of content. European entertainment conglomerate RTL Group acquired 51% […]
BroadbandTV Surpasses 575 Million Unique Viewers Per Month
Today, Vancouver-headquartered BroadbandTV (BBTV) unveiled that its video content is viewed by more than 575 million unique viewers each month. According their news release, only Google’s YouTube exceeds BBTV monthly unique viewership. In addition to being second in unique viewership only to Google, BBTV is number one across all media companies in terms of total […]
BBTV Founder Appointed Vice-Chairperson of Invest In Canada
BroadbandTV’s Shahrzad Rafati has been appointed Vice-Chairperson of Invest in Canada. Rafati will jointly oversee the management of the federal agency alongside Chairman Mitch Garber and CEO Ian McKay. As Invest in Canada looks to achieve its objectives of facilitating foreign direct investment, Shahrzad’s addition to its board of directors further builds on the firm’s […]