Deluxe has taken on content preparation duties for ITV’s recently launched channels ITV

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Encore and ITV Be. The work, which includes ingest, transcoding, compliance edits, quality control, metadata and the creation of subtitle files and audio description, is part of a wider, on-going asset preparation deal between the two companies. ITV director of broadcast operations Helen

Stevens said: “We needed a partner that was agile enough to handle large volumes of content and able to scale up when we hit peaks, such as launching channels or delivering to additional platforms.”