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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 10 | October 2015

InMedia

Xstream Launches Version 8
Of Its OTT Platform At IBC

OTT Platform provider, Xstream, launched version
8 of its next generation, turnkey video management
system at IBC 2015...

X

stream, a premium provider
of OTT and TV Everywhere
services, launched version 8 of their
award winning video management
system, Xstream MediaMaker, at
IBC in Amsterdam. The new version
is designed to automate complex
processes end-to-end, accelerate
time to market, simplify supply
chain management and optimise
merchandising and monetisation offering customers the opportunity to
expand, scale and grow their Internet
TV offerings with a personalised and
relevant viewing experience across
any device in multiple countries and
regions, all managed from one easy
to use platform. Available both as
a cloud service and as on-premise
operation, the new version comes with
a wealth of new features and out-ofbox functionalities and is designed
to empower operators to securely
monetise their content, offer end-users
a personalised and powerful viewing
experience of live and on-demand
content, to make content operations
simpler and fully automated, resulting
in reduced cost and churn, quality
issues and time delays.
"We are extremely excited to present
and launch our latest version of our
video management system, Xstream
MediaMaker 8 at IBC 2015" said Simon
Hoegsbro, CEO at Xstream. Xstream
MediaMaker 8 combines our 16 years
of experience, our proven technology,

with a range of breakthrough
innovations and enables operators,
studios and broadcasters to quickly
create and launch next-generation
Internet TV service without building
a multi-vendor solution or using
expensive hardware. As an end-toend integrated solution, Xstream
MediaMaker 8 saves customers from
high upfront investments in online
video infrastructure and helps increase
the return on investment, reduce
supply chain complexity and drive
down total cost of ownership."
Amongst the new features, tools and
services included in the extensible
version 8 of Xstream MediaMaker is:
*	 An operational dashboard with
advanced aggregation and fulfillment
tracking enabling fast time-to-market
with minimum manual work. Detailed
pre ingest overview and description
of any issues to resolve e.g. missing or
wrong format meta data or missing an
episode of a series season;
*	 Workflow manager enables simple configuration of relevant services
in minutes. Services include e.g. multi
DRM packaging, transmuxing, image
and subtitle processing, multiple CDN
upload and archiving;
*	 Next generation monetisation
functionality - with sophisticated
merchandising and voucher technology, that supports multiple countries,
currencies, languages and customer
groups managed efficiently in one

Nostalgie Selects WinMedia
Radio To Extend Network cont'd...
The WinMedia Radio installation for
Nostalgie Côte d'Ivoire includes:
*	 1 production workstation
for ingest and editing;
*	 1 for music scheduling;
*	 1 for traffic;
*	 1 On-Air studio & 1 back-up studio;
*	 1 for streaming and podcasting;
*	 1 for logging.
WinMedia Radio maintains a
centralised Media Asset Management
content catalogue that seamlessly

manages
all
programmes
and
associated data, while modular taskspecific tools streamline production
and distribution. WinMedia Radio
allows the broadcaster to reduce
production costs by centralising all its
production and planning operations
in Abidjan, while WinBizz maximises
revenues.
Fully integrated with WinMedia
Radio, WinBizz is a scalable,
enterprise-wide solution that allows
Nostalgie Côte d'Ivoire to centralise its

place. With flexible product pricing
and lifecycle availability any content
or bundle can be offered to the market locally and/or globally. Advanced
vouchers and coupons functionality
further enables efficient monetisation;
*	 Credit card payments are out-ofbox supported with Paymentwall Brick,
and a range of additional payment
methods can be setup;
*	 Multi-tenancy capabilities enabling operators to deploy Internet TV
services for multiple countries or
brands that can be flexibly differentiated locally;
*	 Improved Live features with preintegrated core technology from Elemental ensuring easier monetisation
and delivery of Live TV & live events;
*	 Advanced Household management with multiple profiles for users
as well as parental rating that can be
used to restrict access to any content;
*	 Best-in-breed Device management handling e.g. concurrency
control and geolocation restrictions.
Extensive statistics and reporting
capabilities offers valuable insights to
digest and further optimise the business performance;
*	 Elaborate editorial management
of e.g. carousel banners, sections highlighted, content categories, ordering,
associated web pages and relevant

recommendations;
*	 Rich and proven front end APIs
are available to flexibly deliver truly
unique and compelling experiences to
all targeted users and devices anytime,
anywhere;
*	 Enriched modular architecture
with enhanced API infrastructure for
powerful third party integrations or integrations with existing infrastructure;
*	 Rich end-user experience with
e.g. cross platform playback and
resume, personal watch list and favourites, household management with
parental rating, efficient search and
discovery with recommendations.
"Xstream MediaMaker 8 is truly one
of a kind," said Mike McMahon, CTO at
Xstream. "Extensive flexible product
capabilities and pre-integration with
preferred solution partners offers
rich out-of-box capabilities and fast
time-to-market. One of the integrated
modules within Xstream MediaMaker,
MediaMaker Loading Dock is second
to none, a patent pending solution that
offers a unique and innovative supply
chain automation. We will continuously
be enhancing the platform with regular
significant product updates executing
a strong and focused product roadmap
developed in partnership with
customers, partners, consumers and
industry trends."

multiple stations and markets onto a
single system. With WinBizz, Nostalgie
Côte d'Ivoire's sales managers can
benefit from the powerful real-time
online booking feature. Wherever
they are in the country, they directly
connect to the centralised database to
offer available time slots to customers
for any output, whether on-air or
on the broadcaster's website. Once
the ads are booked, they are directly
and automatically scheduled in the
playlist of the targeted broadcast
area. WinBizz also facilitates account
executives' day-to-day operations by
streamlining the invoicing process
thanks to advanced payment terms
and credit management capabilities,

and easy export to accounting systems.
Seamless
integration
between
WinBizz and WinMedia Radio delivers
numerous efficiencies to Nostalgie
Côte d'Ivoire, including live log editing
and real-time spot reconciliation.
WinMedia On-Air is a proven and
highly reliable automated solution. It
allows the broadcaster to swiftly shift
from live sessions to pre-recorded
programmes and to automatically
trigger the seven area-specific
advertising breakdowns. Based on
a redundant architecture, it also
provides numerous security tools including a backup playout system - to
make sure every single point of failure
is removed.
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