Babelgum – the independent Web TV Platform

A free internet TV platform supported by advertising, Babelgum Beta, combines the full-screen video quality of traditional television with the interactive capabilities of the internet, offering professionally produced programming on-demand to a global audience with broadband access (a minimum of 450kbit/sec).

As the name suggests, Babelgum’s goal is to act as an international ‘glue’, bringing a huge range of content to a global audience – like a modern-day Tower of Babel. The bubble logo is a fun visual pun on the company name, but also reflects Babelgum’s commitment to a green, global future.

Babelgum’s editorial focus is on three Passions, that is, specific subject areas that we present with depth and a point of view: independent film, independent music and underwater. Each Passion has a dedicated publisher who will select the best content and stimulate the debate. In addition, to the 3 Passions, videos are arranged into 9 theme-related Channels such as Film, Nature, Comedy, Travel, Sport, just to name a few.

The layout and graphics of our website have changed and so has our Player that now comes with a much faster installation process allowing users to view videos full screen right in their web browser.

The Babelgum player provides content owners with a secure platform on which to distribute their programming worldwide and a unique business model that allows them to monetise their assets.

Babelgum is wholly owned and financially backed by Silvio Scaglia and led by Valerio Zingarelli, Babelgum’s CEO (Chief Executive Officer).

Babelgum has offices in the following countries: US with Ethan Podell, president of Babelgum US and Michael Rosen heading Advertising & Sales; Italy with the Marketing department headed by Stefania Valenti; UK with Content Strategy Acquisition led by Simon Kenny; Nice with technical development headed by Egidio Corsini and Dublin where Operations is based.