Announced at the China Esports Conference (GEC) in Shanghai, ActiveVoices is being billed as a first-of-its-kind AI platform, empowering creators with features like instant translation, dubbing, and multi-platform publishing across YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and Instagram. At launch, the platform features support for more than a dozen languages, including English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Indonesian, and Arabic, enabling creators to overcome language barriers to expand their global audience reach and revenue opportunities without incurring additional production costs.

“AI can either centralize control or empower people. ActiveVoices is built entirely around creator empowerment,” said Adam Adamou, Co-Founder and CEO of OverActive Media, in a company announcement. “With one click, creators can authentically engage new audiences in Madrid, Riyadh, Shanghai and beyond, amplifying their original voices rather than manufacturing new ones. ActiveVoices ensures creators retain complete control of their content and identity while effortlessly unlocking global fanbases and revenue opportunities.”

“ActiveVoices is more than a product; it’s a strategic growth engine for OverActive,” he added. “By combining high-margin SaaS revenue with our owned distribution and creator network, we’re building scalable digital infrastructure that transforms our audience reach into long-term commercial value. This marks a pivotal step in OverActive’s evolution, expanding our business into a global media and technology platform.”

OverActive, which went public in 2021 and is traded on the TSX, is best known for its ownership of esports teams, including its Toronto-based Call of Duty League franchise, Toronto Ultra.

The company, which Bell Media acquired a minority stake in in 2019, says it’s uniquely positioned to scale ActiveVoices by leveraging its direct digital reach with its global fan base, boasting more than 1 million followers across Toronto Ultra’s channels alone. The platform will debut with a pilot program branded KOI Voices, offered initially to partners and its creator network under its Spanish pro esports organization, Movistar KOI, and the Toronto Ultra brand, with additional partners to be invited in the coming months. Following the pilot, ActiveVoices will officially launch as a commercial SaaS product for esports teams, agencies, and creator networks.

OverActive has partnered with multimedia translation company, Aview, to support infrastructure and tech development.

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Founded in 2012 by journalist and entrepreneur Allison Smith, Queen’s Park Today is targeted at Ontario lawmakers, political staffers and insiders, while Parliament Today was launched in 2021 to cover federal politics and all things Parliament Hill.

The deal, which closed Oct. 1, establishes Village Media’s first-ever bureau on Parliament Hill.

Both newsletters will now operate as part of The Trillium, Village Media’s legislative bureau at Queen’s Park, which it launched early last year.

Katherine Declerq will continue her role as editor of Queen’s Park Today, in addition to taking on editorial duties at Parliament Today. Before joining Queen’s Park Today this summer, Katherine was CTV News’ bureau chief at the legislature. Reporter Alan S. Hale will continue to write the Queen’s Park Today newsletter under The Trillium banner, while Parliament Hill reporter Palak Mangat will continue to write the Parliament Today newsletter.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled to have these talented journalists join our team,” said Jessica Smith Cross, editor-in-chief of The Trillium, in a Village Media announcement. “Today’s announcement is a reason for optimism about the future of Canadian news.”

Allison Smith also joins Village Media as the founding editor of the soon-to-launch TorontoToday, covering the community of about 300,000 from the Island on the south to Bloor on the north, Don Valley Parkway on the east and Bathurst on the West.

“I have called Toronto home for 16 years and I am so excited to turn my journalistic eye on the city,” said Smith. “There is so much local news that goes unreported. TorontoToday is going to change that.”

“We like to call it one plus one equals three,” added Jeff Elgie, CEO of Village Media. “Subscribers who’ve loved Queen’s Park Today for years will get access to The Trillium’s exclusives, and The Trillium’s subscribers will love getting Queen’s Park Today in their inbox every weekday morning. Everyone gets more than they signed up for.”

Village Media currently operates 25 local news websites across Ontario, including GuelphToday, SooToday,BarrieToday, Sudbury.com and BurlingtonToday.

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“Pink Triangle Press has made the difficult, but necessary, decision to pull back on structural costs, which saw a number of valued and talented employees leave the organization last week,” David Walberg, Executive Director of Pink Triangle Press, told Broadcast Dialogue in an emailed statement. “It was our responsibility to align our cost structure with current market realities in order to protect the continued health of the organization overall.”

“We are certainly not the only media or digital organization making these kinds of decisions,” Walberg continued. “I am confident that the changes we have announced, as difficult as they are, position Pink Triangle Press well for a bright and sustainable future as an important voice for LGBTQ2S+ communities in Canada and internationally.”

The company’s publications include Xtra Magazine and gay travel site, Pink Ticket Travel. A spokesperson said three of the layoffs were tied to content positions at Xtra, while the rest were technical staff working across PTP’s dating product and back-end infrastructure teams.

Among those announcing their departures from Xtra are Jordan Currie, Associate Editor, Audience Engagement, who managed the publication’s social media presence and comment sections, and video producer Lito Howse. Both had been with the magazine for the past three years.

Founded in 1984, Xtra covers queer and trans culture, politics, sex, relationships and health. The publication’s roots are grounded in The Body Politic, the groundbreaking gay liberation newspaper launched in Toronto in 1971. After Xtra’s circulation overtook that of the original publication, The Body Politic was shuttered in 1987 to ensure the financial viability of the organization.

Former CBC News General Manager and Editor-in-Chief Jennifer McGuire moved into the role of Managing Director at PTP in January after joining the publisher a year earlier, initially in the role of Chief Content Officer.

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