Global news and media agency Ruptly has announced a strategic partnership with Wochit, the video library and creation platform used by over 350 media brands worldwide.

The streaming wars are finally upon us, which has led to a full flowering of tech and other programmatic innovations to stand out or power others seeking to compete in this new landscape. As the majors largely are what they are, surprises have emerged from the burgeoning universes of cord-cutting streaming bundles; free, ad-supported streaming; ads that are custom-built for this new era of viewing habits; and helping those watchers make sense of it all.

Wochit joins Kaltura’s Video Technology Marketplace to offer its Video Creation Capabilities to Kaltura Customers. Kaltura VPaaS has been chosen by Wochit to complement Wochit Inside, Wochit’s embedded video creation solution for marketplaces and other platforms

Wochit the leading video creation platform, announced the launch of Wochit Collage. This new functionality allows professional and non-professional editors alike to create one-of-a-kind creative videos. The new, innovative user interface makes it easier than ever to create dynamic layouts of all kinds for better storytelling.

The United Nations (UN) has inked a partnership with predictive video creation platform Wochit, bringing its video content to Wochit’s content library. Through the deal, the UN’s video news wire service, UNifeed, becomes open to Wochit customers.

For so long driven by conventional television broadcasting, now technology has gatecrashed the sports party; it is digital video which is driving the industry. That will become evident in 2019 more than ever.

Video is exploding. Internationally, adults spend an average of 47.4 minutes watching digital video every day, with more than half of that time spent on a smartphone.