NewTek expands sales footprint in Australia and New Zealand markets adding AVA Distribution

— AVA Distribution to help broaden NewTek’s presence in Asia Pacific markets —

SAN ANTONIO, 2 December, 2022 — NewTek, the leader in IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, today announces a partnership with AVA Distribution to broaden NewTek’s presence in Australia and New Zealand.

NewTek is experiencing significant uplift in demand from the proAV markets as video content creation, and video consumption continues to grow exponentially. As a result, NewTek is expanding its partner portfolio to meet customer demand.

NewTek’s latest partner, is AVA Distribution (AVAD), a wholesale distribution company for AV products based in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. AVAD represents a wide range of consumer and professional AV products in the region. As a newly named NewTek distribution partner, AVA will help deliver NewTek products to regional customers faster alongside supporting customers with content creation efforts.

“AVAD has a longstanding reputation in ProAV markets in the region and adding NewTek and NDI^® streaming solutions offer significant added value to their partners and customers. We are very pleased to add them to our growing partner ecosystem to further position NewTek as a leading and trusted tech vendor in the ANZ region and look forward to our collaboration with AVAD strengthening that position significantly.” States Paul Dobbs, Sales Director, APAC, NewTek.

“AVA Distribution is delighted to be chosen by NewTek to distribute its products in Australia. We are now able to offer our Pro AV resellers a complete range of video production solutions to satisfy the growing demand from corporate, education, and government organizations producing professional quality video,” states Santo Pappalardo, Managing Director at AVA Distribution.

NewTek offers a range of products to support video production across various verticals including proAV, corporate, education, sports and esports, House of Worship and more.

It’s suite of iconic products include the TriCaster^® family of video production systems, PTZ cameras like the recently announced NewTek NDI^® PTZ3 UHD camera, NDI^® converter units, automated video capture solution CaptureCast, replay system 3Play, and other software-defined visual solutions to support storytellers around the world.

Learn more about NewTek’s robust solutions suite for video production, here: NewTek | Software Driven Video Production Technology

About NDI

NDI is a brand of Vizrt Group. NDI software is in the hands of millions of customers worldwide and allows multiple video systems to identify and communicate with one another over IP. NDI can encode, transmit and receive many streams of high quality, low latency, frame-accurate video and audio in real time. This benefits any network-connected video device, including cameras, converters, video mixers, graphics systems, capture cards, and many other production devices. #SDVS #NDIcentral #NDI.tv

About NewTek

As the leader in IP video technology, NewTek is transforming the way people create network-style television content and share it with the world. From sporting events, Web-based talk shows, live entertainment, classrooms, and corporate communications, to virtually any place people want to capture and publish live video, we give our customers the power to grow their audiences, brands and businesses faster than ever before.

The NewTek brand joins those of Vizrt and NDI under the umbrella brand of Vizrt Group. The NewTek brand is 100% committed to its Channel Partners as its route to market.

Clients include: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, New York Giants, NBA Development League, Fox News, BBC, NHL, Nickelodeon, CBS Radio, ESPN Radio, Fox Sports, MTV, TWiT.TV, USA TODAY, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Celebro Media, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Charles University in Prague, Pinsent Masons LLP, and more than 80% of the U.S. Fortune 100.

For more information on NewTek please visit: www.newtek.com, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or connect with us on Facebook.

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