Little Dot Studios has signed multi-platform content agreement with international distributor, Sphere Abacus.
The new partnership sees Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company) license 150 hours of premium long-form programming for its global digital broadcast network. Additionally, Sphere Abacus has appointed Little Dot Studios as its agent for digital copyright management across social and video platforms.
Under the terms of the agreement, the 150 hours of acquired content will be shared globally across Little Dot Studios’ network of genre-based YouTube channels and FAST brands. The content library spans several of Little Dot Studios’ core genres, including Crime, History, Science, Lifestyle and Nature.
Featured titles integrated into the network include series such as Harrods: The Rise and Fall of a British Institution, Ross Kemp: Mafia & Britain, Attack on Pearl Harbor: Minute by Minute, Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck and The Disappearance of William Tyrrell.
Meanwhile, as Sphere Abacus’s digital copyright management partner, Little Dot Studios will seek to protect, manage and optimise the value of Sphere Abacus’s IP across YouTube and Facebook operations, securing and scaling new revenue streams while mitigating rights infringement.
Jonathan Ford, managing director at Sphere Abacus called the deal “an important step in our digital growth strategy. By combining our expertise in premium content and Little Dot Studios’ proven digital rights management, we can extend the value of our IP and optimise distribution of our catalogue across key digital platforms.”
Connie Hodson, director of content acquisitions & partnerships at Little Dot Studios, added: “By combining this premium content acquisition with our specialised digital copyright management services, we are building a sustainable, multi-platform ecosystem that drives reach and new revenue streams for Sphere Abacus’s wider digital growth ambitions.”
This latest agreement follows a recently announced licensing partnership with Warner Bros. International Television Production, bringing an additional 4,000 hours of programming to Little Dot Studios’ digital network.
