Max Engage with Watson
Max Engage with Watson
Max Engage with Watson leverages augmented intelligence (AI) and automation to aid in the detection of weather and traffic conditions, going beyond what is humanly possible. You will produce better stories faster that are tailored for every screen, and you’ll do it without adding staff.
– Weather and traffic event detection, content creation, targeting, and distribution
– Relevant content served throughout the day across platforms
– True personalization via customized videos & geo-fenced push alerts
– Increased audience loyalty and ad dollars
Additional information
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MISTV Mira: Programme Planning
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MISTV MIRA
With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs. MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.
Advertising sales and traffic
- Multiplatform Inventory - TV, online, OTD
- Pricelists, Coefficients, Discounts, Bonuses, Variable price modifications per client
- CRM, Budgeting, Contracts, Invoicing, Ratings, Campaigns fulfillment evaluation
Programme planning
- Multi & cross channel/network planning, Linear and non-linear (VOD) broadcasting
- Automated changes and series planning
- Content-needs planning and schedule cost analytics
Scheduling
- Daily plans, Playlist, Post transmission log (As-run log)
- Breaks, Jingles and Secondary events
- Automatic scheduling and Alternative schedules
Title & Content library
- Titles-Programs, Films, Series & Episodes
- Title description and categorization, Metadata and MAM integration
- Media management, Shipping, Clip versions, Formats, TCs and Breaks
Rights management
- Acquired rights and Own production
- License contracts and conditions, Runs, Costs, Payments
- Amortizations and Impairments, Dubbing, Used music / Royalties
Automatic booking
- Advertising sales campaigns and ON-AIR self-promotion campaigns
- Optimization of delivery and inventory use
- Adjustable booking targets and conditions
Self-Promotion (OAP)
- Promo library and production requests
- Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management
- Promo inventory views and booking
Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs
- Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI
- RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed
- Server based scheduled jobs, DB links
Professional service
- Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support
- Fast and flexible on demand customizations
- User training and Consulting services
MIS is a long-established, leading player
on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.
Currently, we are delivering for over 35 clients and more than 1000 users in countries across Europe, America, and Africa. Our software solutions ensure easy to manage and uninterrupted broadcasting of hundreds of TV channels and networks. Our clients range from big TV stations (networks) running tens of channels with national coverage to smaller regional single channel TVs. The software is designed with flexibility in mind, so that without changes in structure, it can manage TV station of any size, complexity, and specificity of individual requirements. This is thanks to its extensive functionality across all areas that a broadcasting company may need, coupled with custom made configurations and settings. We offer the market a comprehensive All-in-one solution, with the precision and professional standards of the best of breed approach, delivered with our modular approach.
Your media business under full control
MISTV Mira: Programme Planning
With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs. MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.
Programme planning
- Multi & cross channel/network planning, Linear and non-linear (VOD) broadcasting
- Automated changes and series planning
- Content-needs planning and schedule cost analytics
Scheduling
- Daily plans, Playlist, Post transmission log (As-run log)
- Breaks, Jingles and Secondary events
- Automatic scheduling and Alternative schedules
Automatic booking
- Advertising sales campaigns and ON-AIR self-promotion campaigns
- Optimization of delivery and inventory use
- Adjustable booking targets and conditions
Self-Promotion (OAP)
- Promo library and production requests
- Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management
- Promo inventory views and booking
Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs
- Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI
- RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed
- Server based scheduled jobs, DB links
Professional service
- Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support
- Fast and flexible on demand customizations
- User training and Consulting services
MIS is a long-established, leading player
on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.
Currently, we are delivering for over 35 clients and more than 1000 users in countries across Europe, America, and Africa. Our software solutions ensure easy to manage and uninterrupted broadcasting of hundreds of TV channels and networks. Our clients range from big TV stations (networks) running tens of channels with national coverage to smaller regional single channel TVs. The software is designed with flexibility in mind, so that without changes in structure, it can manage TV station of any size, complexity, and specificity of individual requirements. This is thanks to its extensive functionality across all areas that a broadcasting company may need, coupled with custom made configurations and settings. We offer the market a comprehensive All-in-one solution, with the precision and professional standards of the best of breed approach, delivered with our modular approach.
LTN Schedule
With Schedule, content creators and digital publishers can:
- Create a 24/7 linear program with a mix of live and archived segments
- Monetize content and increase revenue with API-connected, automated ad-break events
- Extend audience and brand reach with broadcast video playout for multi-destination publishing
Create and monetize your own full-time channel today with Schedule.
AirBox
AirBox Multi Parallel Output allows simultaneous running of two or more SDI or IP streaming SD / HD outputs so that broadcasters can easily deliver parallel output in any combination needed to deliver the content.
AirBox supports a wide range of video / audio formats from almost every known platform for production Third-party video server files like Leitch, Seachange, etc. are supported natively.
Any modifications to the playlist can be made during the on-air session. There will be no locked videos in the playlist except the one being played at the moment. They can be changed, edited or substituted.
On-the-fly commands such as skip to next or jump can change the playback order. Such changes in order are carried out seamlessly without stopping the current session. The powerful Live Show Clipboard facilitates live productions, enabling the insertion and/or execution of different events or live streams.
AirBox enables playlist scheduling for weeks ahead for automated playout. The associated gaps and time overlaps are overcome dynamically to ensure smooth service even when timed activities interfere with each other. If content files or even entire schedules are missing and misplaced, special facilities guarantee continuous operation.
MS Windows 10 compatible.
ListBox
ListBox is an offline schedule reader that offers advanced editing facilities such as searching in text, copying / pasting clips printing schedules, etc.
It is the program editors ' main tool which helps them to create and edit schedules days and weeks before the date.
There is no need for special servers or hardware Even on a smart device, ListBox works flawlessly with software-based trimming and preview.
Meta Connect
Etere Broadcast Management System
A comprehensive and complete scheduling solution providing a range of program planning tools, customisable views and filters along with full rights, media and content validation.
Designed to be scalable, robust and secure, Etere BMS has evolved to provide the most powerful integrated suite of content management modules available. Etere BMS was developed to satisfy the most demanding users by providing an all-in-one-solution with program acquisition planning, content utilisation monitoring, inventory using Etere Media Asset Management.
It integrates with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) metadata, dynamic play-out, post-transmission accounting, rights management and media workflow processing via Etere Workflow and Delivery Platforms.
BMS stands for Broadcast Management System and it specifically refers to the management of licensing rights process, which is a critical element to overall success in the broadcasting business.
Key Features
■ Central tracking of rights consumption and distribution
■ Long-form and short-form rights for multi-platform services
■ Real-time reporting of rights situation and payments
■ Detailed rights management on territory and media diffusion
■ Versatile amortization templates to manage program payment
■ Transparent and powerful inventory management
■ Manage licensed television programs (both single programs and series programs), including their planning, rights management and scheduling
■ Reliable way of managing of one of the most delicate parts of the broadcasting business
■ Organised structure streamlines workflow and increases efficiency
A comprehensive and complete scheduling solution providing a range of program planning tools, customisable views and filters along with full rights, media and content validation.
Designed to be scalable, robust and secure, Etere BMS has evolved to provide the most powerful integrated suite of content management modules available. Etere BMS was developed to satisfy the most demanding users by providing an all-in-one-solution with program acquisition planning, content utilisation monitoring, inventory using Etere Media Asset Management.
It integrates with Etere Media Asset Management (MAM) metadata, dynamic play-out, post-transmission accounting, rights management and media workflow processing via Etere Workflow and Delivery Platforms.
BMS stands for Broadcast Management System and it specifically refers to the management of licensing rights process, which is a critical element to overall success in the broadcasting business.
Key Features
■ Central tracking of rights consumption and distribution
■ Long-form and short-form rights for multi-platform services
■ Real-time reporting of rights situation and payments
■ Detailed rights management on territory and media diffusion
■ Versatile amortization templates to manage program payment
■ Transparent and powerful inventory management
■ Manage licensed television programs (both single programs and series programs), including their planning, rights management and scheduling
■ Reliable way of managing of one of the most delicate parts of the broadcasting business
■ Organised structure streamlines workflow and increases efficiency
Veset Nimbus
Nimbus is an intuitive, all-in-one, cloud playout management platform designed to streamline professional linear channel operations with high levels of operational complexity.
As a cloud playout, software-as-a-service solution, Nimbus takes full advantage of the cloud, allowing content owners to manage multiple linear channels flexibly, whilst future-proofing their operations. Being a cloud also provides greater scalability and high levels of redundancy while delivering high-quality video streams over IP.
§ Deliver and monetise channels to OTT and Broadcast
§ Manage multiple channels with multiple live feeds in real time
§ Utilise advanced SCTE35 Capabilities
§ Fully leverage the benefits of cloud scalability, reliability and flexibility
§ Manage efficiently from anywhere using an intuitive web UI
§ Integrate with other solutions using Restful API
§ Access 24/7 support
WHATS’ON
MEDIAGENIX started out in 1992 helping a commercial channel move away from Excel sheets and handwritten programme schedules. After decades of co-creation with an ever growing international customer community, MEDIAGENIX rank among the top of tech vendors in the international media industry, serving customers in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Customers include public and commercial radio and TV stations, on-demand platforms, OTT streamers, telcos and their service providers.
Your benefits
Optimally exploit your content on any VOD services Driven by rights. Fully verified. Completely integrated with multiformat workflow management. Catch-up & preview services driven from the linear schedules.
Manage smart linear channels end to end Integrated workflows, from budget plan to fully crafted playlists. Automatically in line with rights,regulations, business rules, branding and marketing targets. Use the same toolset for your VOD operations.
Don’t leave money on the table Exploit your rights to the full. Always know the value of stock and schedule, and your ROI. Manage your commercial inventory.
Streamline the material workflow Manage and monitor the workflows for both VOD and Linear publication.
Integrate, automate & future-proof media operations Integrate with standard interfaces or with the toolkit to create your own REST API calls. Set up workflows across departments and systems.
Hit the targets and report on everything Calculate and report on statistics, quota values, financial information, content and all other kinds of information.
Effortlessly stay within legal boundaries Always be sure your scheduling is in compliance with parental ratings, and observes licence conditions and government regulations.
Build your audience Schedule promotions — automatically, manually or combined — based on ratings and targets.
Ad Server
ABSolute
ABSolute BMS stores a single database of programmes, commercial and promotional materials in an easy interface for day-to-day scheduling.
Clever category-based classification of programmes makes scheduling and library navigation easy. ABSolute supports manual and bulk data entry for all databases with smart search functionality to speed up data access.
Features
- Database migration supported from existing software
- Incorporates linear and VOD metadata in a single database
- Import, export and transfer metadata between channels
- Rights Management
Take your rights management to the next level by having a full overview of your content rights for linear broadcast, streaming and VOD in one system.
Keep track of the number of utilised runs and allow ABSolute BMS to smart schedule your channel. Preventative scheduling ensures you cannot schedule content without valid rights for the platform, dates or times.
Features
- Rights management for original and repeat airings for movies, series and songs
- VOD rights management, automated content publishing and removal from the platform
- Report generation for content lifespan and amortisation
- Channel Media Planning
Build your linear schedules on a macro or micro level – monthly, weekly or daily planning allows you to see the wider picture and adjust the fine details.
A one-time set-up of your scheduling rules – including repeat patterns and slot types – gives ABSolute the tools it needs to generate a schedule. Our focused automation takes care of the cumbersome tasks, leaving you to focus on the important things.
Features
- Navigate between planning views with ease
- Automate scheduling based on your bespoke rules, locking in your primetime events
- Placeholder scheduling allows you to work ahead at all times – even when content is not yet available
EPG
Import and export your schedules for a variety of linear and online platforms with automated series linking to ensure your viewers never miss an episode.
ABSolute compiles your series and episodic data to export to any platform from one schedule. Platform-specific checks enable you to upload all schedules with confidence. Link relevant imagery to enhance the viewer experience and adjust your schedule down to the minute.
Features
- More than 30 existing EPG exports available to be instantly enabled
- Automated export and delivery of EPG files via email and FTP
- Multi-language input and export options available
- Time shift across regions, time zones and delay channels
Playlist Building
ABSolute’s Playlist Template gives full control over your media rotation – enter the rules once and ABSolute will build the playlist in a flash.
Choose from more than 15 elements to navigate your playlist’s structure – idents, promos and stings are just a small selection of the elements on offer. Amend the feel of your channel whenever you like – our playlist manager puts you in control.
Features
- Fully automate playlist building at the touch of a button
- ABSolute Playlist Editor accounts for CRO duration, allowing playlist editing before the spot file is available
- Distribute your playlist automatically to your MCR with email integration – ABSolute exports all major formats
Sales Campaigns
Manage and maximise commercial ad sales through our Sales Campaign manager. Build breaks, export break patterns and run CROs for seamless commercial insertion.
ABSolute allows flexibility in your commercial timings, helping strike a balance between commercial and promotional material. Integrated with all the major sales houses for easy access.
Features
- Flexible rules-based break pattern generation
- Export break files for delivery directly to your sales house
- AsRun reconciliation and delivery in one click
Music Jukebox
The ABSolute Jukebox is a lifesaver for music channels. Our proprietary algorithm curates a playlist from your library based on the scheduled music mix.
Whether you want to schedule songs based on artist, decade or anything else, the ABSolute Jukebox makes it simple. Tag songs and mixes, and let the Jukebox build your playlist with the most relevant songs from the back catalogue.
Features
- Unlimited creation of rules for your Jukebox
- Integration with Rights Module for monitoring usage and reporting
- Set rules for festive seasons, special days or unique hours with macro and micro level inputs
Graphics Scheduling
Dynamic Graphics can be updated on air in seconds with ABSolute’s Graphics Module. Static, animated and DVE graphics are just a few of the services we offer.
Curate the on-air feel of your channel with ease and confidence with our integrated graphics automation. ABSolute BMS’s unique partnership with Air Pro playout enables streamlined graphics changes to keep the channel fresh and controlled.
Features
- Multiple graphics packages on offer – mix and match to suit your style
- Dynamic updates performed instantly on air
- DVEs, NNLs and Song Pop-Ups populate automatically from the BMS
- No graphics limitations – if you can imagine it, we can deliver it
Development & Support
Our dedicated operations team are here for you.
ABS Broadcast is built on ABSolute – we depend on it, and we know you will, too. That’s why key product developments and updates are rolled out across the board as soon as they are available. Our support team are always available to provide training or advice.
Features
- Office hours and emergency support available
- Regular developments and update releases
- Our ever-expanding portfolio of features is shared among customers
Dalet Flex
For those involved in Monetizing Content, the task of delivering top quality content has never been more pressurized. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple providers, process it and deliver it to multiple platforms, geographies and on tighter schedules and ensure you are maximizing revenues for that content. How can this be achieved without increasing resources?
Dalet Flex can orchestrate and optimize the entire process. It can leverage your existing investments in best of breed technology, integrating business units and removing error-prone manual tasks. Become more productive, deliver more content, quicker, driving increased revenues and reduced costs.
The core of the platform handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with native applications and our open APIs integrations to key best-of-breed partners.
The result: powerful workflows, driven by metadata and easy to create and maintain using the visual Workflow designer. Each individual piece of content is delivered to the right audiences, on the right platform, and the best time to ensure business returns.
With Dalet Flex you can configure delivery packages that ensure the right parameters are set for each endpoint, such as correct subtitles, multiple language audio tracks, relevant metadata, resized images and correct video resolutions. Easily create the monetization platform that brings more customers and keeps them, whether that is advertising, subscription, transactional or a combination of all of these. Combine this automation with actionable insights and make informed decisions quickly on which content to deliver next to drive more revenue.
Key Benefits
One-stop-shop to manage, publish and syndicate your content.
Monetize new and archived content easily through subscriptions, pay-per-view, ads or all three.
Protect your existing investments in best of breed solutions by integrating them through a single platform.
Manage and deliver engaging Live and VOD Content at the right place and the right time
Make business-driven decisions based on real-time analytics.
Dalet Flex helps you meet the goals of modern distribution: to deliver more quality content, to more audiences and channels, driving more revenue without spending more resources. Automated workflows will reduce the driven by the deep metadata that only Dalet Flex can provide.
Join the connected content supply chain revolution - video your way
WO Network
WO Network simplifies every aspect of network ad sales and commercial operations, from proposals and planning, to deal maintenance, stewardship, and billing. With accurate inventory and revenue accounting for all ad types, WO Network is the cornerstone of your growing sales and commercial operations, empowering users to sell with confidence, reduce liability, and improve efficiency by automating and centralizing operations across properties and media types.
PLATINUM BROADCAST MANAGEMENT
MediaQX TV Attribution
mediaQX forms a bridge between off-line and on-line broadcasts TV viewership data & obtained from millions of connected TVs. Attributing TV campaigns to online conversions (website visits, mobile app downloads, even sales) is a challenging task for advertisers.
- Which channels or shows drive quality online traffic?
- What time of day or day of the week is more effective for your TV campaign?
- How to maximise Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS) for TV campaigns ?
mediaQX AI fills the gap between offline and online worlds of advertising to understand cross-channel performance better and gives you a deep behaviorial analysis by gathering data from millions of Connected TVs.
Max Engage with Watson
- Weather and traffic event detection, content creation, targeting, and distribution
- Relevant content served throughout the day across platforms
- True personalization via customized videos & geo-fenced push alerts
- Increased audience loyalty and ad dollars
WO Marketplace
WO Streaming
The exponential growth of mobile devices, allowing for 24/7 connection, has been a boon to streaming digital audio. To profitably tap into this growing audience, publishers need the ability to manage distribution and monetization from the office, from home, or while on-the-go.
WO Streaming helps broadcasters monetize streaming digital content via direct-sold campaigns, as well as through WideOrbit’s ad sales partners and our programmatic digital audio platform. Our solution makes it simple to drive revenue, expand listenership, and extend content from linear broadcast to digital audio platforms.
WO On Demand
WO On Demand is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that simplifies management, monetization, and measurement for on-demand audio content, including podcasts. With dynamic server-side ad insertion, robust ad templates, podcast hosting, download/impression/revenue reporting, broadcast-to-podcast functionality, a dynamic RSS engine, and powerful programmatic capabilities, WO On Demand includes everything audio publishers need to drive revenue.
WO On Demand can also be paired with WO Streaming to provide side-by-side management of your digital audio inventory across channels, and with WO Ad eXchange to provide holistic yield optimization across your direct sold and programmatic channels.
CenturyLink Vyvx Broadcast IP Backbone
Broadcast video acquisition from HD-SDI source to IP-native data streams, connecting most of the major sporting venues and production hubs with rights owners and cloud environments.
WO Traffic
WO Traffic is an end-to-end solution built for the changing local landscape, providing a solid foundation from which stations can manage, execute, and scale ad sales both today and into the future. Even the largest ownership groups can leverage new revenue streams by unifying station operations on a shared technology infrastructure, one that provides a single system of record and that offers integrated solutions to drive efficiencies, reduce costs, and maximize revenue.
Eluvio Content Fabric
Neither cloud nor CDN, the Eluvio Content Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.
The Content Fabric is a single backend source for master asset servicing including media, metadata and code, with inherent linking of components, re-use, rights, and versioning. Streaming and file based video presentation are delivered just in time, globally, from the source objects to consumer with ultra-low latency. There are no file copies and the content security does not trust the infrastructure (trust less).
An embedded blockchain ledger, contract-backed content, and dynamic composition enable personalization, rights control, monetization, and re-use of media and metadata across properties.
Tier 1 Hollywood Studios, Broadcasters and new mobile streaming platforms use the Fabric for radically simple, fast, and inexpensive supply chains.
Limelight Video Platform
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