Twofour Digital, the technical and facilities arm of the Twofour Group, has teamed up with the leading Digital Rights Management and specialist webcasting and web development company, Makeni.

Philip Haggar, co- founder of Makeni said "I am delighted to be joining the Twofour Digital Board, the move will allow me to build on Makeni's success and offer our clients a broader range of solutions: design and animation, web application development, video production and wap sites. It will ensure that Twofour Digital is a preeminent webcasting and technology company."

Twofour Group Managing Director, Mark Hawkins, added: "Makeni's excellent reputation for web and digital media technology will be a great asset to Twofour Digital. As well as welcoming Philip we will be integrating Makeni's exceptional software developers, led by Lee Atkinson, with our 60 strong software development team. Currently we are working on a number of international webcasting projects in the political arena as well as for major brands including Volkswagen UK and the BBC. With Makeni on board we will be able to grow our technology business even faster and offer all our clients webcasting and content delivery systems second to none."

The Makeni team will be based in Twofour's London Office.

About Twofour Digital

Twofour Digital is part of The Twofour Group, one of the largest broadcast television and business communications companies in the UK with over 170 employees based in its London offices and the head office at Twofour Studios in Plymouth. Twofour Digital provides technical solutions for broadcasting and business communications. It offers website design and build, webTV, web 2.0 services and webcasting as well as post production, design and animation and camera hire. The other companies in the Twofour Group are Twofour Broadcast, a major player in the television landscape both in the UK and internationally, supplying programming to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky, Discovery and a variety of other digital channels, and Twofour Communications which produces powerful Public Sector content for clients including Volkswagen UK, Pfizer, The British Army, DfES, The British Heart Foundation and Reuters.

About Makeni

Makeni Limited is a leading Digital Rights Management and specialist webcasting and web development company which has an excellent reputation for web and digital media technology. Makeni has completed projects across the UK and European media industry ranging from media encoding to multi- channel video scheduling systems with digital rights management. Makeni also builds software that manages webcast, in-store media and content delivery systems, and has carried out many live webcasts including from some of the biggest music festivals across the UK.