Planetcast
Planetcast, also known as Planetcast Media Services, is a privately owned company headquartered in India. Founded in 1996, the company employs approximately 1160 individuals and reported $61.6M in revenue as of 2024, functioning as a tier 2 media tech buyer. The company specializes in media managed services, providing uplinking and downlinking services for the broadcasting and satellite communication industries. Planetcast offers teleporting, content management, pre and postproduction, distribution for multi-platform/multi-devices along with satellite-based telecom services and mobile connectivity via DSNG vans.

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Founded

1996

Headcount

1,160

Headquarters

India

Primary Segment

Media managed services

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

25

News Summary:

Planetcast acquired BroadStream Solutions on September 11, 2026, integrating BroadStream's integrated playout, captioning, subtitling, and broadcast workflow solutions to anchor a new Products Division alongside Planetcast’s global media services and distribution infrastructure. This followed the company's announcement on September 10, 2026, that it would unveil four AI and automation tools at IBC 2026 in Amsterdam, aimed at helping media companies create, operate, deliver, and monetize content with increased speed and control. Earlier, on June 22, 2026, Planetcast appointed Kaushal Nanavati as Senior Vice President for Sales & Business Development (Domestic), bringing over 25 years of industry experience to strengthen its leadership team and expand its footprint in India. The company also won the "Sports Broadcasting – Singapore" category at the 2026 Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ Awards on May 30, 2026, for its Cloud.X Turbo deployment, which transformed live sports delivery for beIN Asia Pacific across 12 APAC markets by supporting over 40 simultaneous live events through a hybrid-remote broadcast hub with 99.99% uptime.

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Planetcast offers 9 products in the media tech industry. Planetcast's product portfolio comprises of video business systems, connectivity and distribution services, content supply chain, media managed services, broadcast professional services and video processing and playout.
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Planetcast's revenues were less than $100M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Planetcast's revenue into 8 different product categories, the largest of which is playout and channel origination services. For full access to Planetcast's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Planetcast's customers primarily consist of broadcast Media Production and Distribution, technology, Information and Internet and entertainment Providers companies. Examples of Planetcast's customers include Times Internet, Warner Bros. Discovery and Prasar Bharati. Planetcast has commercial and technical partners like Wurl, BeIN Media Group and Appear. Planetcast has suppliers like Venera Technologies.

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