MUMBAI: Zee News has inked a marketing, licencing and distribution deal with BBC Worldwide. BBC Worldwide will market, licence and distribute Zee News' archive clip footage worldwide on BBC Motion Gallery website.

As per the deal, BBC will source news and current affairs content only from Zee News in India for its Motion Gallery website.

Zee News CEO Barun Das said, "Worldwide, Zee News is viewed as a responsible and serious news channel. It's little wonder that Zee News Limited is the only news and current affairs media company in India from whom BBC will source content for its prestigious Motion Gallery website."

Following this, Zee News will join the league of some of world's leading broadcasters like BBC, CBS News, NHK Japan, CCTV China and ABC Australia in providing content to BBC Motion Gallery which houses video clips that have been selected from the archives of these broadcasters worldwide.