Curate selections of programs for OTT services, Squeeze or OnAir graphics.
Using AI assistance if you wish.
New TV services is depending on you being able to highlight content and help your customers discover content quickly. That content might be tonight’s big football game, the latest movie being available in your library or a new episode of your reality show.
Selecting content to highlight, group lists of content together, getting it into your different services, and making sure it appears and disappears when it should can be challenging.
Comet’s Selections module is designed for the people in your organisation that know your content best.
It is easy to use, gives a good overview of the content you have chosen to display and when it is displayed and unlike algorithm based content discovery solutions you can rest assured that you have total control of your content without losing the ability to personalise parts of your service.
A modern TV service can contain a lot of different lists for different purposes and the Selections module helps you manage them all. It supports the following types of lists as a standard:
Editorial lists like “Christmas classics”, “Cops in the Eighties” and similar selections of movies and series that creates a theme.
Lists associated with a particular movie, series or episode. Can be used to power your binge watching process or to create personalisation like“ Since you have watched this movie you should also like this content”.
Create ordered lists of content freely for any desired purpose.
Create virtual channels based on content in your library to for instance create a traditional lean back experience in your OTT-service.
Use automatically created lists along with your selections to easily highlight your latest content, your most watched content, content in a specific genre and more. Either use lists created by Comet or rely on a third party content discovery system like for instance VionLabs™ to provide Comet with ready made lists.
Selections supports all your content which means that you can add your movies, series, seasons and/or individual episodes. You can also work with live content and traditional TV broadcasts making it possible to mix both nonlinear offerings from your library with tonight’s premieres on your traditional channels.
Once you’ve setup your selections you are able to also setup your different services and sections on each service. That way you are able to power your entire OTT-service for multiple platforms and regions using the Selections module.
You can define a service and indicate for which platforms, regions and audiences it is valid. You can set up a structure with all your different sections like the First page, the film page, film/action page and a series page.
Once your service is setup you can just start adding content to it by placing your selections on it using drag and drop. That way you will have all content setup for a new service within a day.
To make an OTT-service come alive you need to make sure that you have fresh content displayed in a prominent place at the right time.
Selections helps you by offering an easy to use yet powerful way to program your Selections to change their content over time. That is particularly handy for Selections that provide content for your service front page carousel and other highlighted spots in your service.
Programming is done by simply jumping forward to when you want the change to have effect, add and remove content as you see fit and change the order of your content. You see all your changes in the interface and are able to jump back and forth between your programmed changes to see how the content in your service changes over time.
Providing content for your OTT-service often means providing content for different platforms, you might have a web service, a separate service that powers your mobile apps and a third that powers your smart TV apps.
They all need to get access to the content they should display and when to display it. To make it simple for them the Selections API always provides an instant snapshot of what should be made available in your service. That way none of your services needs to take licenses nor programming into account when fetching content, they just have to fetch content from the API on a regular basis whenever their cache dies.All the heavy lifting and logic related to programming is managed by Comet making the API very easy to use.
