THE WORLD IS DIGITIZING

LEADING
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 WHO WE ARE?
We are world’s leading content digitization and digital transformation company.

•  17 years of digital and domain expertise

•  Cross-media value : Print, Audio, Video and Mobile
•  Diverse Solutions : Digitization, Digital and Media Monitoring
•  137 customers in Media, Publishing, Content Aggregators,
Libraries, Government since 1999
•  Multi-Lingual expertise
•  Multi-skilled delivery team of domain experts, technologists,
process evangelists and quality professionals
•  Consulting
Alliances Members of
S TAT E - O F - T H E - A RT D E L I V E RY FA C I L I T I E S

Global Delivery Center, Corporate Headquarters,

Chennai R & D Center, Bangalore
OUR VISION & MISSION
VISION STATEMENT

Shaping the future of digital content

MISSION STATEMENT
We will achieve our vision through:
•  Customer service by creating exceptional customer value
•  Technology by using the best and the most relevant solutions
•  Research by innovating and improving continuously
•  Thought Leadership by being a catalyst and accelerating change
•  People by attracting and nurturing the best talent
GLOBAL MARQUEE CUSTOMER BASE
Media Monitoring
Digitization Services Digital Services
Services
F R O M C O N T E N T C R E AT I O N TO C O N S U M P T I O N

DIGITIZATION SOLUTIONS DIGITAL SOLUTIONS MEDIA MONITORING SOLUTIONS

D I G I T I Z AT I O N S O L U T I O N S
Transform content in any legacy format to digital formats of choice

•  Digitization (print, audio/video, microfilm, microfiche, manuscripts)

•  Prepress services (Copy editing, Typesetting, Cover design, XML Conversion,
Proofreading)
•  Format conversion (PDF, ePub, .Mobi, iBook Author, XML, custom)
•  ePaper /eMagazine (true-to-print web replica with interactive features)
•  Indexing services (subject and keyword)
•  Meta-tag integration
•  Delivery expertise in 16 languages
•  Quality focus: ISO and Six Sigma certification
 Digitized 750,000 pages in 4 months for a leading Indian
Digitizing 34 German magazine titles for Bauer Newspaper
Digitized
30 million CAFs processed for leading
160 million Insurance Policies digitized Newspaper dating
telecom companies
back to 1740
Expertise in Non-English Digitized 13 of the Top 100 Global
Can count 2 of Top 4 Tech Giants as clients
Newspaper Digitization Newspapers

First company to digitize Non- Patent Pending Tools for Digitized 4 of the Top 10 Indian
English, Malayalam Newspaper Newspaper & Book Digitization Newspaper

Working with 3 National Libraries

Digitization / Transformation Partner for Top 6 Content Aggregators

2514 Newspapers 274 Journals 30000 Books

400 million pages
17 years and counting
 D I G I TA L S O L U T I O N S
Follow and engage a global audience across mobile platforms.

•  Mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows

•  eCommerce and eSubscription platform
•  Reader app for iOS and Android
•  IP-based solution for comic book content
•  Advertising and subscription integration
•  User experience consulting
•  Digital marketing

Developed 20 Apps for leading 22 Million page views for The Hindu
1.5 million downloads
Media Houses every month
MEDIA MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Enabling  media  monitoring  firms  achieve  scale  and  
efficiency  through  disrup8ve  solu8ons  and  strategic  
collabora8on.   •  Clipping (print, broadcast, web)
•  XML extraction for device
•  Content comparison
•  Text matching
•  Image matching
•  Ad monitoring
•  Summary and Transcription
•  RTV Logging and Coding
•  App development
•  Cloud-based delivery platform which can be
integrated with customer’s current infrastructure
 225 Million clips
delivered in the past 10 years
Won the highest First Pass rate award globally from
Captive Development Centers & Portal Development for leading Agencies

Exclusive service provider for

14 languages covered
3 centers across
India as part of Over 125,000
BCP
Work with 31,000 publications with a
clips a day
TAT of 30 mins to 24 hrs
21 agencies from across the globe
THE NEW YORK TIMES
(FOR PROQUEST)

Ninestars transformed the newspaper archive of

the New York Times dating back to 1851 into a
digital collection, helping NYT to distribute and
monetize content globally in partnership with
ProQuest. Achieved 80% automation, an industry
milestone at the time.
PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H P R O Q U E S T
•  Ninestars is a strategic partner to ProQuest
•  Relationship since 2001
•  Ninestars enjoys exclusivity in ProQuest’s HNP program
•  28 million pages; 55 newspaper titles; Content as old as 1764
•  Our solutions are ROI-led. Opportunity to realize revenue through content
distribution. In addition, digital opportunity in content delivered on tablets,
smartphones, etc.
Illustrative client engagement

THE TIMES OF INDIA

RoI-­‐led  digi+za+on  
Connected  ProQuest  and  Times  of  India  in  a  first-­‐of-­‐its-­‐
kind  digital  distribu:on  partnership  in  AsiaPac.    
Illustrative client engagement

T H E S TAT E A N D U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y
AARHUS, DENMARK

Exclusive  digi+za+on  partner  

Ninestars  is  digi:zing  32  million  historical  newspaper  
pages  for  Aarhus  Library,  in  one  of  the  largest  digi:za:on  
ini:a:ves  in  Europe.  SULA  is  the  custodian  of  Denmark’s  
newspaper  archives.    
 Illustrative client engagement

N AT I O N A L L I B R A R Y O F N O R WAY

In its endeavour to be “nation's memory and a

multimedia centre for knowledge and culture
focussing on archiving and distribution”, the
National Library of Norway is digitizing its
entire collection dating back to middle ages.
Ninestars is partnering with NLN to digitize its
newspaper collection of about 70 million
pages.
N E W S PA P E R L I C E N S I N G A G E N C Y ( N L A )

“We look at Ninestars as

a strategic partner and
not as vendor.”
-- Andrew Hughes,
Commercial Director, NLA

Ninestars Impact on NLA

•  Helped publishers associated with NLA generate £31
million in royalties
•  NLA has 70 million clips in its database, all of which
were generated by Ninestars
D I G I TA L J O U R N E Y W I T H T H E H I N D U
Enabling publishers – over 4754
magazines are on board Google Play
Newsstand.
High FPR – First Pass Rate Globally for
Quality
Potential BPO transaction*
W H AT N E X T ?
•  Tech consulting
•  Senseive - Analytics services for Wire agencies
•  Photo De-dupe
•  Big-Data for content transformation and management
•  App marketing partnership on rev share model
•  Content marketing platform
•  Certification
–  ISO 27001
•  Audio / Video Digitization Services for leading broadcasters and
Libraries
T E C H N O L O G Y A D VA N TA G E
•  All production workflows/tools for digitization are developed in-house
•  Large-scale, semi-automated and customizable workflows
•  Well-designed supporting tools such as customer dashboards, issue tracker
and reporting tools
•  In-house R&D team working on collaborative innovation projects with
customers as well as continuous process improvement
•  We offer a platform-based solution, combining assets and services
•  Clips on Cloud, a cloud based solution, for digitization and conversion (this
solution delivered 1 million pages in 4 months for The Times of India)
T H E N I N E S TA R S A D VA N TA G E
•  Leading provider of end-to-end digital content solutions
–  Digitization to App development; Clipping to Analytics; Print to Social Media
–  Global delivery model
–  Trusted by leading media, publishing and media monitoring firms in the UK, Australia,
the US and India
•  We deliver predictability in terms of timelines, cost benefits and quality, freeing customers
to focus on core business
•  Our deep engagement with the content industry translates to a flatter learning curve, better
business alignment, knowledge share and talent sourcing
•  Trusted outsourcing partner to large corporations such as Google, Amazon, Hewlett-
Packard, IBM and ProQuest; key strategic and technology partnership with LTU
•  Strong technology player: Platform and cloud-based services; automated/semi-automated
processes
•  Pioneered non-linear, transaction model in outsourcing; clients see us as a strategic partner
and not just a vendor.
Thank you