This is Global Listings.
Talent. Technology. Television.
Our products and services reach 6.6 billion TV viewers worldwide and we operate in 26 different timezones and 36 languages.
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Working strategically with broadcasters, on an international level, delivering their EPGs to the multi-screen world: IPTV, VOD, OTT, satellite, cable, terrestrial
EPGS
Global Listings is THE international expert when it comes to delivering EPG data.
Whether it’s linear or non-linear, digital, terrestrial, IPTV, OTT… we work with over 100 different platforms worldwide on a daily basis.
Our services include the facility for 24-7 EPG updates as well as fully augmented EPGs, sideloading, series linking etc.
In addition we store and deliver images on a per-series, per-season and per-episode basis, enabling us to provide maximum visual exposure for your channel’s brands.
ENHANCED METADATA
Global Listings supplies a 360-degree service for broadcasters’ programming content.
Our custom-built, state-of-the-art database enables us to store hundreds of metadata values against every single episodic record.
This includes detailed data from cast info to production year, and from VOD licence data to Twitter hashtags.
And of course this can all be stored in multiple languages in line with our Global Translations service.
TRANSLATIONS
We translate from any language in the world, into any language in the world.
Our translation services span content from TV programme descriptions to filming scripts, and from websites to PR & marketing materials.
Our professional linguists (25,000+ individuals) are based locally in their native countries, enabling them to keep abreast of the very latest and most subtle changes in the evolution of their language.
Our unique Global Translations service results in client savings of up to 80% within six months.
HIGHLIGHTS
Our bespoke highlights documents serve as a shop window for a TV channel's programming schedules.
They boost a TV channel’s profile in the marketplace through the use of eye-catching images and outstanding editorial.
Our dedicated teams have a real passion for TV – delivering exceptional, accurate and bespoke content to tailored specifications.
Our highlights provide journalists, features and listings editors with exactly what they need to feature your TV content - in print and online.
EDITORIAL
Global Listings has a team of fully qualified editors and journalists.
Whether you need a sharp, succinct EPG description, a 1,000-word article or a 3-word marketing tagline, we have the expertise.
We can generate text to any given brief, no matter how tight and specific.
We produce ready-to-publish, ready-to-go-live content that’s bang on brand and really grabs the reader’s / viewer's attention.
We deliver schedules, highlights, EPGs, VOD data and other materials using a state-of-the-art distribution system featuring bespoke, targeted mailing lists for each client’s individual regions
Our Clients
What the industry says about US
NBC Universal Global Networks, Central and Eastern Europe
We have worked with Global Listings on the launch of new channels into Central and Eastern Europe and have been very impressed with the standard of service, prompt responses to schedule amendments and proactivity in getting schedule and highlights information in plenty of time, as well as the delivery of our EPG content.
TV-VISIE, TV LISTINGS PUBLISHERS, BELGIUM
We are very happy with the press schedules that we receive from Global Listings. The documents they produce and deliver to us are very clear and complete with all the required information. The TV channel information is always up to date. A great service and the teams are a pleasure to work with on a daily basis.
Latest News
Thursday, June 4th, 2026
An uncomfortable truth for every platform: your most expensive content can be your least-watched — not because it’s bad, but because no one can find it. A vague, generic or poorly structured synopsis does real, measurable damage. It buries titles in search. It confuses recommendation engines. And it loses the click in the half-second a […]
READ MOREMonday, June 1st, 2026
Every programme synopsis is read twice. Once by a human deciding what to watch. Once by an algorithm deciding what to surface. Most synopses are written for neither. That’s the problem GL-SEO™ was built to solve. Our metadata intelligence layer engineers every synopsis to work on both fronts at once — natural and compelling for […]
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My AI avatar has something to admit. Yesterday I built an AI version of myself — one photo, a short voice clip, a script. Watch what “she” says about the 20% she can’t do. In fact, watch to the very end — she cuts off mid-sentence. The AI couldn’t finish the one last line I gave it. […]
READ MORETuesday, May 26th, 2026
Decoded by Thalia™ is back — and this season I’m decoding the most underestimated 200 words in television: the programme synopsis. Not the trailer. Not the artwork. The synopsis — those few lines of text that quietly decide whether your show is found, clicked and watched… or scrolled past forever.
READ MOREThursday, January 15th, 2026
Freelancers often ask why passing a translations test doesn’t always lead to immediate work. In broadcast localisation and metadata, approval means your quality meets the standard — not that demand is guaranteed every week.
READ MORETuesday, June 23rd, 2026
So how do you turn a catalogue of overlooked titles into a discovery engine? This is what GL-SEO™ does, end to end: → Structures every synopsis around how audiences search. → Layers SEO precision into editorial copy that now reads better. → Localises across 40 languages, with cultural nuance intact. → Delivers across linear, VOD, […]
READ MOREThursday, June 18th, 2026
On a FAST or VOD platform, your synopsis is often the only salesperson your content will ever get. No prime-time slot. No trailer break. No billboard. Just a thumbnail and a few lines of text, competing against thousands of other titles for a viewer who decides in seconds. In that environment, metadata isn’t supporting the […]
READ MORETuesday, June 16th, 2026
Optimising one synopsis for search is hard enough. Now do it in 40 languages — without losing the SEO signal, the tone or the cultural fit in any of them. That’s the challenge GL-SEO™ solves at scale. We don’t translate a master synopsis and hope. Each market receives a synopsis engineered for its own search […]
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