3Play Media

Our Mission

3Play Media is committed to making web video widely accessible, using technology and human expertise to deliver high-quality video accessibility services at a fair cost and unlimited scale.

Who We Are 

3Play Media was founded in 2007 by four MIT graduate students researching affordable ways to make video accessible through innovative technology.

We serve more than 10,000 customers across multiple industries, including education, media & entertainment, government, and enterprise companies. Our solution helps customers to increase the value of their online video by making it accessible, usable, searchable, and SEO-friendly.

In February 2022, 3Play Media acquired Captionmax, a leader in live and recorded captioning, localization, and audio description services. The acquisition included National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, providing exciting geographic expansion for 3Play Media into the Canadian market.

The addition of these two companies to the 3Play Media family adds a complementary suite of services, firmly cementing 3Play Media’s position as the premier media accessibility provider in North America.

What We Do 

We offer premium closed captioning and transcription, live captioning, audio description, localization, and ASL interpreting solutions at competitive prices. We provide a user-friendly account system, fast turnaround, flexible APIs, and integrations with a multitude of video players, platforms, and lecture capture systems.

Our commitment to innovation has led to 7 patents (granted and pending)–all of which focus on making the captioning, audio description, translation, and transcription processes more efficient and less expensive.