Australia’s Oovvuu now a WordPress VIP featured technology partner

Photo: Oovvuu founders Greg Moore, Ricky Sutton and Ross McCreath. Article by Mediaweek.

The decision propels Oovvuu into global markets on a giant scale

Mediatech scale-up Oovvuu will be integrated into some of the world’s largest news websites after being selected as a global video technology partner of WordPress VIP.

The decision propels Oovvuu into global markets on a giant scale, as the open source WordPress publishing platform is used by 37 percent of the world’s websites. WordPress VIP served more than 36 billion page views for its customers in 2019.

Oovvuu is one of the first companies added to the prestigious WordPress VIP Technology Partnership program since their parent company, Automattic, raised $300 million in a series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at $3 billion.

The four-year-old Australia-based company uses proprietary machine learning technology to read news articles, watch videos and match them together, to improve news reporting and generate billions in advertising ad dollars. […]

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