Quickplay, a privately owned Canadian company founded in 2004 (formerly Firstlight Media), provides cloud-based software systems for video businesses. Its platform facilitates the distribution, management, and monetization of premium video content across multiple devices and networks. As of 2023, the company employs approximately 180 people and generates annual revenue of less than $25 million.
Quickplay joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners, on multiple occasions. Announcements regarding this partnership were made on September 10, 2025, at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam. The program includes software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. Additionally, Quickplay launched AI Studio, a platform using multi-modal AI to analyze video content, generate metadata, and automatically identify key moments for highlights and social media clips. The platform uses trending topics and prompt engineering to inform its selections.
Quickplay offers 3 products in the media tech industry. Quickplay's product portfolio comprises of content supply chain, video business systems and media managed services.
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Quickplay's revenues were less than $50M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Quickplay's revenue into 3 different product categories, the largest of which is tV and online video platforms (OVP CMS). For full access to Quickplay's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Quickplay's customers primarily consist of media and TV services and telecoms services companies. Examples of Quickplay's customers include DirecTV, Telus and Saudi Telecom Company (STC). Quickplay has commercial and technical partners like Google, Evergent and NPAW. Examples of Quickplay's suppliers include Media Excel, CleverTap and Google.
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