Triple wins tender for building The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision collection portal

Dennis Kroonenberg 30 Jan 2025 - 4 Min read

Hilversum, The Netherlands — 30/01/2025

Beeld & Geluid is developing a portal that will make large parts of the public broadcaster's collection accessible online to the Dutch public. This includes hundreds of thousands of programs created between 1920 and 2020. Starting in spring 2026, visitors will be able to search for their favorite programs and watch or listen to them online for free. Digital agency Triple won the European tender and will build the portal.

In 2023, Beeld & Geluid was tasked by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW) with opening the doors of its audiovisual archive to a wide audience by creating an online portal. This portal will showcase a large selection of material from the broadcasting archive. Soon, all Dutch citizens will be able to easily search for their favorite programs or discover suggested content. Radio and TV programs can be viewed and listened to for free, without ads. The available programs will include content that goes further back in time than what is currently available on platforms like NPO Start/Plus.

“We look forward to working with Beeld & Geluid to develop a platform that makes the Netherlands’ rich audiovisual heritage accessible to everyone,” says Lennart van Wijk, Managing Director Cloud Solutions at Triple. "This is an incredible collaboration where we can leverage our technological expertise to connect the past with the future. We’re incredibly proud to contribute to this project."

We’re thrilled that a renowned agencylike Triple will join us in building anonline portal where visitors can explorehundreds of thousands of radio and TVprograms. This will make theaudiovisual memory of the Netherlandsaccessible to everyone. Opening upour archive to all Dutch citizens hasbeen a long-cherished dream, and it’snow becoming a reality. Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Managing Director Beeld & Geluid

Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer and Schalk Stalman formalize the collaboration

About Beeld & Geluid: Beeld & Geluid manages one of the largest digitized media archives in the world, filled with radio, television, YouTube videos, objects, print media, podcasts, and games. Their ever-growing media collection is preserved as heritage for future generations. At the same time, they closely monitor developments in the global media landscape. The starting point for everything they do is the importance of free media for democracy.

For more information about Beeld & Geluid, visit: https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/