Eko, formerly known as Interlude, is a media and technology company that enables production and web distribution of interactive multimedia videos. The software was used for the

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produced music video for

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

's ''

Like A Rolling Stone "Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 20, 1965, by Columbia Records. Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted fro ...

''. Interlude was originally founded in 2010 and was rebranded as Eko in December 2016.

Technology

Eko software constructs audiovisual multimedia within which users have selection options for streaming choices from a traversable video tree. The availability of different video streams allows for a change in viewer perspective or for narrative-branching.

Structure

Eko was founded by Israeli rock musician

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. Eko is based in New York and Tel Aviv, and is backed by

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, Marker LLC, Innovation Endeavors, Warner Music Group, Sony Pictures, Samsung, and Walmart.

Awards

* 2013: Yoni Bloch was awarded the ''Prime Minister's Prize for Initiatives and Innovation'' for Interlude. * 2014: ''Best Small Digital Agency'' * 2014: the Sony interactive music video for Bob Dylan's ''Like A Rolling Stone'' won four Gold Lions; several sources name it as one of the best music videos of 2013.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://eko.com/
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