Sheffield firm Zoo Digital working with streaming giants like Amazon, Netflix and Disney hails 'increased demand'
A Sheffield company which subtitles and dubs many of the world’s most popular films and TV shows says it is seeing “increased demand” for its services from streaming giants.
Zoo Digital provided an update to investors ahead of its annual general meeting on Tuesday afternoon. The company works with around 12,000 freelancers and has around 400 permanent employees around the world, with about 70 based in Sheffield.
A recent investor note lists Amazon, Disney, HBO, Warner Bros and Paramount among the firm’s customers, with Netflix, Amazon Prime and Paramount+ named among its distribution partners.
Chair Nathalie Schwarz said: “The providers of streamed content in the global media and entertainment industry are evolving their offerings, which is creating an increased demand for our tech-enabled services as well as new emerging opportunities for our business.
"This is mirrored by Zoo’s own position having completed our restructure and the right-sizing of our operations for profitable growth as well as evolving our service offerings to meet changing requirements from customers.
“As a result, the board expects to deliver revenues for H1 FY27 of at least $23.0 million (£17.4m), an increase on both H1 FY26 and H2 FY26 and in line with management expectations.
"The board remains focused on disciplined execution, operational efficiency and cash generation as it seeks to translate improving activity levels into sustained revenue and profit growth.
“In FY27 to date, we have seen an increased level of activity, driven predominantly by the localisation of existing content, rather than new productions, which has led to an increase in media services and subtitling work.
"This has been typically one-off in nature but demonstrates the flexibility of Zoo’s customer-led “end to end” offering and our ability to provide a broader range of services to support our customers.
"We are also starting to see emerging indications of an increase in the pipeline of original content coming through, which is expected to contribute to revenues in H2 FY27.
“The board is confident that the structural shifts across the providers of streamed content in the global media and entertainment sector play to Zoo’s strengths.
"These providers are increasingly seeking to replicate aspects of live or near real-time traditional linear television to drive growth, both by attracting new audiences and engaging existing subscribers.
"This is leading to investment in new formats and different content categories with shorter turnaround times. In this area, Zoo continues to leverage its core competitive strength in providing a proven technology platform and tech-enabled solutions, blended with our human expertise and AI, to meet customers’ changing requirements whilst maintaining market-leading quality and security.”