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Arkena

Arkena was European company that regroups four entities: Cognacq-Jay Image (France), PSN (Poland), Qbrick (Sweden) and SmartJog (France). These entities were all part of the Media Services division of the TDF Group.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2014/01/20/arkena-joins-together-all-tdf-media-subsidiaries/ - Broadband TV News, 20 January 2014 Arkena provides full end-to-end media services such as broadcasting, playout services, OTT (

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including stand-alone solutions for file transfer, storage and content preparation for any media. Arkena was officially launched on January 20, 2014. Its headquarters are located in Paris and it operates offices in London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Ivry-sur-Seine, and Turku. Almost 500 people are part of the Arkena organization.
http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2014012031865/cognacq-jay-image-psn-qbrick-and-smartjog-merge-into-arkena.html - Rapid TV News, January 20th, 2014. Arkena went out of business as company in December 2019 and after a management buy-out, Cognac-Jay Image took over.

History

The TDF Group created its media services division through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Now, TDF Media Services regroups Arkena and BeBanjo. * Cognacq-Jay Image was located in Cognacq-Jay street in Paris, in the building that is considered as the cradle of French television. :fr:Rue Cognacq-Jay, :fr:Rue Cognacq-Jay - Rue Cognacq-Jay article on French Wikipedia. Since 1996, the year it was created by TDF, Cognacq-Jay Image has been offering broadcasting services to major French TV channels. It also provides headend services and media preparation for Catchup TV and VOD platforms. * PSN was established in Poland by TDF in 1994, initially as a terrestrial broadcast network operator for the Polish public and commercial radio channels. PSN also offers multimedia services based on the group solutions like OVP or CDN, ensuring additional shooting and postproduction services. * Qbrick was a Stockholm-based company with offices in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Spain, created in 1999. It developed its own OVP platform, a

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solution for managing and delivering video content with features such as analytics, monetization and transcoding. Along with its CDN services, Qbrick is serving more than 700 media, telecom and corporate customers. It was acquired by TDF in October 2011.
http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/TDF-Group-Acquires-Qbrick-78576.aspx - Streaming Media Global, 27 October 2011 * SmartJog has been offering global exchange and cloud storage services for digital media assets since 2002. Initially dedicated to the movie industry (studios, post-production houses, right-holders, TV channels and cinemas...), SmartJog extended its activity with a CDN dedicated to audiovisual media. It is part of the TDF group since November 2006. In January 2014, the four companies dropped their name and merged their organisation, products and services. From this date, they all operate under the brand name Arkena.

Organisation

Management

Julien Seligmann, one of SmartJog's founders was in charge of the Media Services division of TDF since 2011.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/tdf-acquires-online-video-platform-qbrick--835766 - Telecom Paper, 28 October 2011 and had been, until 2015, Arkena CEO

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* {{Authority control Television companies of France Telecommunications companies of France 1975 establishments in France Telecommunications companies established in 1975