BBC Media Services Contract Awarded to Oban Multilingual Strategy Limited and 8 Million Stories Limited

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) awarded a contract to Oban Multilingual Strategy Limited and 8 Million Stories Limited for media services.

This contract supports the BBC World Service's expansion, which was announced in 2015 with a government investment of £85 million per year for four years.

The expansion includes launching 11 new language services (Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba), making the World Service available in over 40 languages.

The contract also supports digital expansion to offer more mobile and video content, a greater social media presence, and new audience engagement methods.

The overarching objective is to reach 500 million people per week by 2022.

The contract value is £13,500,000.