Exploring Scripted Formats w/ GoQuest Media

Global VID

English - January 04, 2022 18:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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In today's Global VID Podcast episode (Season 2, Ep.6), we sit down with the co-founder of India's GoQuest Media, a global distribution company that got its start selling Indian content and later made a strategic decision to focus on scripted formats of non-English language drama series. Why? Listen and find out! Vivek also has a great story on how his career started and stick around to the end to hear great insights about how to negotiate with new VOD platforms.
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Vivek Lath is an entertainment entrepreneur and is the Co-Founder/CEO of GoQuest Media. Vivek started GoQuest in 2013 as an exporter of Indian content and since then has established an important space in the global distribution space. GoQuest is a global distribution company with content represented from over 15 countries and deals in over 50+ countries to date. GoQuest also is also building verticals in development and entertainment financing for the global entertainment marketplace.

Vivek Lath has a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University and a Masters in Computer Science from USC in Los Angeles. He started his career working for a boutique management consulting firm in Connecticut and in 2007 he moved back to India. In India he initially worked for TataSky, and then after a brief stint at entrepreneurship he ran all monetization for a movie production and distribution company in India. In 2013 he decided to start GoQuest with his business partner Jimmy George.
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GoQuest Media: https://goquestmedia.com/
Moderated by Eric Y. Lapointe of And Now Global https://www.andnowglobal.com

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Theme song: ''Harvest'' by Nightwood (c)2008, used with permission by songwriters Amber Goodwyn and Erin Ross.
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