Talk:Migo (company)

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Dear Wikipedia editors,

By way of introduction, my name is Roi Zyril Barrion and I'm an employee at Migo. I am hoping to work with you on updating our company page. As a start, I would like to propose the following change to the first paragraph to update what the company is about and provide more helpful information:

Migo is a multinational technology company with operations in Indonesia. Its integrated proprietary technology stack, which includes an online-to-offline (O2O) video player, expands access to low and middle income customers with limited data consumption.

Migo was founded by Barrett Comiskey. Comiskey was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016 for inventing electronic ink and co-founding the E Ink Corporation.

At launch in the first quarter of 2020, Migo Indonesia will feature content from aggregators including iflix alongside other curated films and TV series from Indonesia, Southeast Asia and other countries.

Further, I would like to propose the following minor updates to the existing sections of the page to update that we are now operational in Indonesia rather than the Philippines, and add additional information about our investors:

Platform - Migo is a last mile platform designed to serve digital products and services to the mass market in developing countries, bypassing traditional telecom networks. On-demand video is the first product on Migo’s platform with commercial operations launched in Indonesia in 2020.

3-day subscription passes to Migo’s TV and film library are sold at neighborhood retailers in Indonesia (warungs), and distributed through Migo’s offline network of local WiFi hotspots. Customers download content to their mobile devices at Migo’s hotspots, and watch offline rather than using up mobile data to download or stream content.

The company has reported 6 hours of viewing for each of its 3-day subscription passes.

Migo has stated it intends to expand its platform’s products and services to include other entertainment (music, games, e-books), e-commerce, and education services.

Technology - Migo’s last mile content distribution network uses satellite for backhaul, local “mini-cloud” servers at retail, and local WiFi transfer for end users to download content from Migo’s clout at any Migo hotspot.

Geographies -- Migo’s Indonesia operations are run out of offices in Jakarta, with an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan and operations center in Manila, Philippines.

The company has stated it intends to expand operations to other emerging markets.

Ownership -- Migo’s investors include Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek .

Roizyrilb (talk) 08:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Roizyrilb,

Before I dive into all these requests, can you take a stab at new citations? Only https://vdocuments.mx/migo-takes-fmcg-approach-to-ott-media-telecom-digest-11-migo-takes-fmcg-approach.html and https://www.marketing-interactive.com/iflix-partners-tech-company-migo-to-reach-indonesian-consumers-with-limited-data work. The rest are too first-party (Migo site, press releases, etc).

Thanks --FeldBum (talk) 15:10, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi FeldBum,

Thanks for your note. Please see updated proposed edits above. I have now used existing third-party citations as references for the edits.

Some information that needs updating like where the company has operations (and offices) do not have other citation alternatives so I kept the website as the reference, which is also what is used currently (i.e. prior to this request to edit). If that doesn't work, we can take out that information but I think it's still more helpful for readers trying to understand the company.

Hope this works.

Thanks -- Roizyrilb (talk) 23:44, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi Roizyrilb

Those sources look better. Trying to break out your requests now.

• Migo is a multinational technology company with operations in Indonesia. Its integrated proprietary technology stack, which includes an online-to-offline (O2O) video player, expands access to low and middle income customers with limited data consumption. This looks good.
• Migo was founded by Barrett Comiskey. Comiskey was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016 for inventing electronic ink and co-founding the E Ink Corporation. This looks good.
• At launch in the first quarter of 2020, Migo Indonesia will feature content from aggregators including iflix alongside other curated films and TV series from Indonesia, Southeast Asia and other countries. I don't see this at https://www.marketing-interactive.com/iflix-partners-tech-company-migo-to-reach-indonesian-consumers-with-limited-data

There's a lot here, so let's start with those three.

--FeldBum (talk) 19:13, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi FeldBum,

Thank you for your response. Glad to hear that those sources provided look better now.

On the third point, we can change to "Slated to launch in the first quarter of 2020, Migo Indonesia will feature iflix content alongside other curated films and TV series from Indonesia and Southeast Asia." which is the quote from the source.

On the first two points, since they look good -- should we now make those changes?

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks, Roizyrilb (talk) 10:37, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey Roizyrilb, couple quick points

• I'll make that change
• I'll make that change
• I can rewrite (since we can't just copy content), but since we're in August 2020, is there any source that this actually happened?

Thanks, --FeldBum (talk) 16:51, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

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