Splash Media and Safari Books Online Announce Content Distribution Partnership

Splash Media LP, an Emmy Award winning innovator of digital video publishing, and Safari Books Online, a leading provider of on-demand digital libraries for technology and business professionals, today announced a partnership to add Splash’s extensive video library of creative professional and business training content to Safari Books Online’s on-demand digital library. Safari Books Online’s enterprise and individual subscribers will now be able to access Splash videos with their subscription to the full Safari library. Safari Books Online provides over 7,200 titles from leading technology and business book publishers, in digital text and video formats. Splash Media is a leader in the field of internet video publishing and producer of network-quality communication and training Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) solutions for training professional workforces.

The partnership will add Splash’s on-demand training network, The Success Training Network (TSTN), and Splash Media’s xTrain network to Safari’s online video collection. TSTN is a robust library of more than 300 hours of business skills training content from the world’s most renowned speakers, authors and trainers in the areas of business, sales and self-improvement. Splash Media’s xTrain network includes more than 130 hours of video training for graphic design, web design, digital arts, digital photography and online marketing.

“The high caliber of Splash Media’s training content is a perfect fit for Safari Books Online,” said Jeff Patterson, CEO of Safari Books Online. “We are constantly working to improve the multimedia experience for our users. One of our goals is to fulfill our subscribers’ requests for quality video content, and Splash allows us expand our library of training videos for technology, design and business professionals.”

Splash Media has developed the programming and tools to create and publish customized corporate and consumer training media, along with online networks to boost national and international companies’ communications and eLearning efforts. Utilizing a $5.5 million, state-of-the-art studio and an award-winning production and technical team, Splash Media is able to quickly produce, publish and deliver rich-media content to effectively educate and train professionals and students across the U.S. and around the world. 

“This is a great opportunity for Splash Media to bring our unique approach to broadcast-quality video training to the Safari Books Online audience,” said Chris Kraft, president and founder of Splash Media. “Safari Books Online has a reputation of bringing dynamic, expert-level technology and business content to the marketplace and our content matches the needs of users wanting high quality training in an on-demand video format.”

Since 2001, Safari Books Online has been aggregating the best technology and business books from the leading authors and publishers into an online database that IT, programming, design and learning professionals could quickly and easily search for reliable, definitive answers to mission-critical questions. Safari Books Online was founded as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Education.

To access Splash videos on Safari Books Online, visit www.tstn.com and www.xtrain.com.

About Splash Media

Splash Media LP is a Dallas-based media publishing and technology company that develops online, customized Internet television networks for corporate communications and training. Splash Media utilizes its state-of-the-art television studios to quickly produce, publish, and deliver rich media content. Splash Media offers an innovative, convenient, and efficient solution for communicating with and training associates across the world, via the Internet. Splash Media’s current online networks include www.tstn.com, www.xtrain.com, and www.mptntv.com as well as Splash Stream Solutions for private-label corporate networks. For more information, please visit www.splashmedia.com.

About Safari Books Online

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), founded in 2001 as a joint venture of pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media and Pearson Education, is the leading on-demand reference and learning platform delivering expert content from the world's thought-leaders in business and technology innovation. Safari Books Online offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, lynda.com, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Sun Microsystems Press, Wharton School Publishing, Course Technology, and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. IT professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals rely on Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning, and certification training. Thousands of books, manuscripts, articles, and instructional videos are available from expert authors, innovators, and thought leaders. Safari Books Online is fast changing the way enterprise, academic, and training organizations access information. Safari enables increasingly mobile workforces to get technical and business reference resources anytime and from anywhere. Safari Books Online offers a range of B2B product mixes and pricing programs for every sized organization and a B2C product option for individual users.