VOD
Everything VOD. Operators can use Horizon to manage their deliveries.
Managing non-linear content in your own service can be challenging and if you are a content provider active in a market where your content is made available through a number of distributors you can easily be responsible for making your content available at 10 or even 50 different endpoints.
Having a solution that automatically publishes your content, support different business logic for distribution and updates, can provide metadata in different formats and drive endpoint specific transcoding workflows is key to be able to scale the operation.
One place for all your distribution of VOD content
The VOD module manages all your needs related to distributing and publishing your VOD-content regardless of whether it is on your own your own service through your OVP or to a third party distributor.
It keeps track of all your different libraries of content making sure that every distributor gets the right content.
It manages the last mile of distribution making sure that all the required metadata as well as your assets and localisation is in place before distribution.
It keeps track of all deliveries, manages retries if problems arrive during deliveries and logs it all for easy follow-up with your distribution partners.
Support for all types of delivery logic
The VOD module is able to deliver content automatically to everything from the most rudimentary FTP delivery to more sophisticated API-powered solutions. It can deliver assets using all the usual methods like FTP, SFTP, Aspera and others as well as automatic retries to endpoints that are temporary offline.
But more importantly it has built in support for different types of delivery logic such as:
- Deliver full package on creation
- Update metadata only
- Unpublish and redeliver to the endpoints that do not support metadata updates
- Pull content quickly from selected services
- Deliver high profile content just-in-time near its publication to avoid risk of leaks
- Prolong existing licenses without the requirement to redeliver all assets
Supported metadata formats
Different endpoints requires different metadata formats and even though they follow a standard they almost always have their own version.
The VOD-module supports any kind of metadata format and delivery including standard formats such as
As well as proprietary formats such as
- Apple TV Feed
- Ericsson Media Platform/MOTT
- Google Content
- Jinni XML
- Microsoft Xbox
- Vimond API
- Smart Vision
Adding new formats and integrations is part of our service and something we do on a frequent basis.
Complete control and tracking
With high volumes it becomes increasingly important to keep track of content and deliveries.
The VOD module helps out with that by logging all updates and messages being sent as well as keeping track of the status of your library; what is ready for distribution; what is late; what has been queued for delivery and what has been distributed.
Everything you need to efficiently manage a larger number of endpoints with a lot of content on a daily basis.
Let your distributors access your content easily through Horizon
The automated delivery managed by the VOD module can be complemented with a portal for content access, Horizon.
By providing your distributors with an account for Horizon they are able to order redeliveries, access content lists and metadata and control the speed of delivery to their own platform.
That eliminates a lot of the work that traditionally has required a lot of emails and work for the content provider and gives the distributors a way to keep control of their own service and plan for coming content premieres.
Are you looking to outsource your entire distribution and don't want to manage point to point integrations? July provides such a service powered by Comet and the VOD module.
The service can be catered to your needs and include localisation, transcoding, QC, time logging of end of start and beginning of end credits and more.