The NZ smarts behind Squid Game's global success

The NZ smarts behind Squid Game's global success
Steve Renata is leading Kiwa Digital as it partners with Netflix, Amazon, and Disney. (Image: supplied)
Henry Burrell
If you have watched the English dubbed versions of Netflix’s Squid Game, Money Heist, or Lupin, then you’ve seen art made possible by New Zealand-made software.Kiwa Digital’s VoiceQ platform was used by its client VSI in Burbank, California, to dub English over the original Korean, Spanish, and French of those titles respectively, contributing to huge viewer numbers and a surge in the popularity of dubbed content.The first season of Squid Game is the most successful Netflix show of all time, with Netflix reporting in November...

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