How Rask AI helped a Czech TV Company Break the Ceiling in Viewership

This case study is based on a video interview with Lukáš Záhoř, Chief Producer of Fameplay TV.

The client

Fameplay TV is a Czech internet television available through its web platform, mobile applications, smart TV app, and YouTube. Specializing in 'infotainment,' Fameplay TV produces a range of content, including short video segments, longer narrative series, and live-action shows, aiming to entertain and inform their audience.

Besides crafting their diverse content, Fameplay TV also offers production services to various clients and partners, primarily collaborating with sports organizations such as Olympic teams, support groups, cultural entities, and individual creators.

The challenge

Operating approximately 100 channels across eight platforms, Fameplay TV manages a significant volume of content production and distribution. However, as a Czech-based company, they soon hit a ceiling due to the limited size of the local market.

With only around 10 million Czech speakers, the available audience could not generate enough revenue to sustain the production costs. At the same time, the cost of traditional translation and dubbing was too prohibitive to consider. This situation was disheartening for the production team, who started considering shutting down some of the shows.

At this critical point, Rask AI emerged as a solution for localizing Fameplay’s content.

Lukáš Záhoř

Fameplay TV Chief Producer

At the beginning of this year, we decided not to turn our backs to AI, but to face it and try to get the most out of it for audio-visual production. And so we systematically started to test tools. None of the other players in the market has reached the quality of Rask AI. And it just keeps improving.

How Rask AI brings value

Importantly for Fameplay TV, Rask AI brings together transcription, translation, and overdubbing –  the necessary steps for adapting and sharing their content – into one convenient package.

Lukáš Záhoř

Fameplay TV Chief Producer

The shows we translated with Rask AI still have the same sound of the voice of the original narrator. We didn't have to change it. We didn't have to go back to the editing room. We do it all online in Rask. Which is why we can afford it.

The process begins by converting episodes from Czech into English and removing complex phrases or idioms to simplify translation down the line. Later, the content is transformed into various languages before distribution. The production team begins by translating episodes into English and simplifying phrases or expressions. Afterwards, they adapt the content for other key markets, including Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and French. The last step is creating highly shareable shorts from every episode.

A particularly successful example of this approach is “Životy slavných”, the 10-minute biographies show distributed by Fameplay TV. After the show gained over a hundred thousand subscribers in the Czech segment, the production team used Rask AI to translate and overdub the episodes into six other languages, each with its own YouTube channel.

In just three months, four of the channels became eligible for monetization on YouTube. To qualify for YouTube monetization, channels must amass a minimum of a thousand subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time. Achieving this milestone in such a short period is remarkably fast, signifying high production quality and the demand for such content in diverse language markets.

Lukáš Záhoř

Fameplay TV Chief Producer

With Rask AI, you can quickly test whatever market you think is suitable for your content.

With hundreds of channels in their portfolio, Fameplay TV is now working on implementing this strategy across a wider range of shows to boost their reach and revenue.

Fameplay TV's early adoption of Rask AI was crucial for their localization journey. They actively tried out new features like Lip-sync and voice cloning, giving direct feedback to ongoing improvements and building a strong relationship with Rask AI.

Rask AI’s affordability, speed, and quality make it the platform of choice for Fameplay TV, helping them grow outside the box and fulfill their full potential in edutainment.

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