Red Bee Media

http://www.redbeemedia.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-bee-media/

Red Bee Media, a privately owned British company headquartered in the UK, provides managed media services. Founded in 2002 as a BBC subsidiary, it was subsequently acquired by Creative Broadcast Services Holdings in 2005 and then by Ericsson in 2014. Employing approximately 1270 people, Red Bee Media specializes in video processing and playout, offering services encompassing playout, OTT management, media management, distribution, master control room operations, access services, content discovery, live and post-production, and creative services. In 2023, the company reported revenues of approximately $250 million.

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Founded

2002

Headcount

1,270

Headquarters

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Media managed services

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Privately Owned

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Red Bee Media will return to IBC 2025. The BBC recently completed a transition, moving the assembly and playout of its news channel from Broadcasting House to Red Bee Media's facilities. Oliver Rook from the BBC discussed the use of Hitomi MatchBox technology during this transition. Ryan Property Tax Services UK leased 32,080 sq ft at MediaCity's Orange Tower, joining other tenants including Red Bee Media. A client using Red Bee Media's hosting services implemented the Automate-IT and Share-IT platforms to automate promo creation and improve team collaboration.

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Red Bee Media offers 11 products in the media tech industry. Red Bee Media's product portfolio comprises of broadcast professional services, connectivity and distribution services, video business systems, content supply chain, video processing and playout and media managed services.

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Red Bee Media's revenues were less than $250M in 2024. Caretta Research has split Red Bee Media's revenue into 12 different product categories, the largest of which is playout and channel origination services. For full access to Red Bee Media's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Nov

11th

2025

18:56

Red Bee Media

Red Bee Media is back at SATIS 2025! EN Our Red Bee Media France is heading back to SATIS 2025. SATIS is the only trade show in France that brings together numerous technological solutions, innovations, and new products dedicated to the media, entertainment, and audiovisual communication markets.

Redbeemedia

Oct

14th

2025

08:23

Emerging Tech, CT_Monitor Company

Open-source broadcast takes center stage in Hilversum

On Thursday, Oct. 9, Dutch Guild organized a meeting at the media center of regional broadcaster NH Media in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Dutch Guild brings together multimedia professionals and organizes networking events several times a year, each focusing on a current technical topic.

RedTech News

Sep

16th

2025

20:29

Events

Red Bee Media

RED BEE MEDIA RETURNS TO IBC 2025 As the leading global media services partner for innovation and growth, we are returning to IBC 2025, where visitors can experience the future of broadcast. Expand your reach and make it easier for your audiences to find the right content.

Redbeemedia

Sep

13th

2025

00:40

CT_Monitor Company

Case Study: BBC News Channel Migration

The BBC recently completed a significant operational change, moving assembly and playout of the news channel from Broadcasting House to their playout partners, Red Bee Media. We spoke to Oliver Rook at the BBC about his use of Hitomi MatchBox technology during this transition.

Broadcast Industry Network

Aug

26th

2025

08:44

Divestiture, CT_Monitor Company

UK arm of global tax firm agrees major MediaCity deal - one of Salford Quays’ largest lettings

A global tax services and software provider has agreed one of Salford Quays' largest lettings, taking 32,080 sq ft at MediaCity's Orange Tower. Ryan Property Tax Services UK joins existing Orange Tower tenants, including ITV, Kellogg's, Intelligent Lending, the University of Salford, Red Bee Media and Horwich Farrelly.

Insider Media

Aug

25th

2025

11:53

CT_Monitor Company

Red Bee Media case study

Client Feedback “Our channels are available in different territories, with various brands and multiple time zones. Automating the promo creation process is essential in our context. With the help of Red Bee Media hosting us, we opted for the Automate-IT platform to automatically generate promos combined with Share-IT to easily bind the creative team to our production environment and ecosystem.

Embrace Fr

Jul

28th

2025

15:26

CT_Monitor Company

Case Study: BBC News Channel Migration

Hitomi TV

Jun

19th

2025

10:15

Procurement and Sales,

Exclusive: Red Bee Media loses TNT Sports playout contract

WBD is taking playout inhouse and moving it from the UK to the US, leading to redundancies at Red Bee Media Red Bee Media has lost the playout contract for TNT Sports in the UK. Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) plans to move playout operations for its UK TNT Sports channels to inhouse operations in Atlanta at the start of August 2025.

Broadcast

Jun

3rd

2025

18:30

Back to the Future of Transcoding

After years spent helping broadcasters, studios and platforms steer through ever-evolving video workflows, I find myself right back where it all began—and the timing couldn’t be better. ‍ Back in the late 2000s , while helping Red Bee Media roll out Rhozet Carbon Coder , I was so impressed by its simplicity and performance that I soon joined the company, shortly after its acquisition by Harmonic .

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May

8th

2025

11:35

Crossing The Pond: A Deep Dive Into UK And US Audio Description

By Marie Campbell, AD Excellence Lead It did not start, as the song goes, with a kiss, but with a rather less subtle, but in its own way poetic, “hickey from Kenickie”. When I first heard that phrase in the movie, Grease, I remember the thrill of learning a new exotic-sounding word for what we Brits rather prosaically called “a love-bite”.

Redbeemedia

Apr

23rd

2025

18:30

Awards and Recognitions,

Red Bee Media has been selected as the Best Automatic Captioning Solutions Partner for 2025 by the Australian Enterprise Awards

Corporate Vision Magazine has unveiled this year’s winners of the esteemed Australian Enterprise Awards. Corporate Vision’s Australian Enterprise Awards are as varied as they are exciting, and the winners of these prestigious awards are celebrated in this year’s edition.

Redbeemedia

Apr

14th

2025

18:30

Awards and Recognitions

Red Bee Media wins the 2025 Hermes Award for Best Audio Description for a Series

We are excited to announce that Red Bee Media has won the 2025 Hermes Award for Best Audio Description for a Series for our work with “Bluey” on CBeebies for BBC Children’s and Education. The Entertainment Globalization Association (EGA) revealed the winners of the 2025 Hermes Awards for Localization Excellence during a ceremony held in Los Angeles.

Redbeemedia

Red Bee Media's customers primarily consist of broadcast television and radio, ball sports and telecoms services companies. Examples of Red Bee Media's customers include BBC, McDonald's and Sky Group. Red Bee Media has commercial and technical partners like Fastly, Lumen Technologies and Akamai. Examples of Red Bee Media's suppliers include Net Insight, Rohde & Schwarz and Synamedia.

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