CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Cannes Lions, the international festival of creativity, Box today announced that Endemol Shine Netherlands and FremantleMedia North America, two of the world’s largest creators of television programs, are deploying Box’s cloud sharing and collaboration platform. The companies have chosen Box to provide centralized and secure content management, both internally and externally.

“The media and entertainment industry is responding to huge technology shifts which are impacting the way people manage and distribute content,” said David Quantrell, Box senior vice president and general manager of EMEA. “Box helps enable secure content sharing, collaboration and mobility so companies like Endemol Shine Netherlands and FremantleMedia North America can embrace completely new ways of working.”

Box makes it easy for more than 37 million individuals at 47,000 organizations around the world to share and collaborate. With today’s announcement, Endemol Shine Netherlands and FremantleMedia North America join a growing list of media and entertainment companies who have moved to Box including: The Recording Academy®, CAA, Legendary Pictures, Sundance Institute, and Discovery Communications, as well as global organizations like General Electric Royal HaskoningDHV and Schneider Electric.

Endemol Shine Netherlands Deploys Box for Improved Collaboration

Endemol Shine Netherlands is part of the Endemol Shine Group, which is one of the largest independent television and digital production companies in the world. It comprises a global network of 90 companies in over 30 countries. The company annually produces over 350 series across genres, including entertainment, reality TV, game shows, comedy, drama, sport and features. Endemol Shine Netherlands has turned to Box to provide collaboration capabilities to its staff.

“We work with countless broadcasters, digital platforms and licensees worldwide,” said Leon Backbier, ICT Manager at Endemol Shine Netherlands. “Box provides us with a smooth, unified, way of accessing content and a powerful collaboration platform for our disparate workforce. It has fundamentally changed the way we manage assets, especially when collaborating with external teams.”

FremantleMedia North America Chooses Box to Increase Productivity

FremantleMedia is one of the largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, with leading primetime entertainment, drama and factual entertainment programs in over 200 territories, including the UK, the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

FremantleMedia is famous for its worldwide singing talent shows known in the UK as Pop Idol and in the US as American Idol. The company produces more than 10,000 hours of programs, including rolling out more than 45 formats and managing over 350 individual titles each year.

“The way people work is changing so we’re deploying cloud-based tools to meet the demands of the digital content workflow,” said Chad Hamilton, Executive Director, Information Technology at FremantleMedia North America. “Box gives us the ability to collaborate with teams around the world making us much more productive, while providing IT with the safe-guards they need for managing critical information.”

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About Endemol Shine Group

Endemol Shine Netherlands is part of the Endemol Shine Group which is the new joint venture bringing together Endemol, Shine and CORE Media, to create a global content creator, producer and distributor with a portfolio of international hits including American Idol, Big Brother, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Deal or No Deal, Grantchester, Man vs. Food, Masterchef, Mr. Bean, One Born Every Minute, Peaky Blinders, So You Think You Can Dance, The Biggest Loser, The Fall, The Money Drop, Wipeout, and many more.

Endemol Shine Group’s businesses have creative operations in over 30 markets, with a diverse portfolio of over 600 revenue generating formats across scripted and non-scripted genres; coupled with digital, gaming, and distribution operations.

About FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) is the U.S. arm of global media giant FremantleMedia, which includes a distribution arm, FremantleMedia International, a digital and branded entertainment division and a kids & family entertainment business. As one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of TV brands in the world, FremantleMedia’s comprehensive global network has operations in 28 countries, creating over 10,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 45 formats and managing over 350 individual titles. The company also distributes more than 20,000 hours of content in over 200 territories. FMNA and its portfolio of companies, including Original Productions and 495 Productions, produce entertaining and innovative scripted and alternative programs for network, cable, syndicated and online platforms. Their slate includes a diverse range of both critically-acclaimed and award-winning successes including American Idol (FOX), America’s Got Talent (NBC), Family Feud (SYN), Let’s Make A Deal (CBS), The Price Is Right (CBS), The Great Christmas Light Fight (ABC), Deadliest Catch (Discovery), Married to Medicine (Bravo), Party Down South (CMT), Ice Road Truckers (HISTORY), Storage Wars (A&E), The Returned (A&E) and Celebrity Name Game (SYN), among others. www.fremantlemedia.com

About Box

Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE: BOX) is transforming the way people and organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As the world’s leading enterprise software platform for content collaboration, Box helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manage their critical information in the cloud. Box is headquartered in Los Altos, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.