New Ingest Service Arrives
Today we announced our new mpsManage Ingest Service, which adds to our suite of services designed to reduce the total cost of ownership for running a broadband video company. This service provides an easy way to ingest media and its associated metadata into our media publishing system.
Reducing the total cost of ownership of broadband video
Improving broadband video takes a commitment to innovation across the broadband video solution stack, which involves a wide variety of activities that includes everything from CDN and storage, to transcoding and content delivery, to advertising and players. These services can represent a significant cost to our customers, so thePlatform developed a powerful toolset to reduce costs at every level of the stack. Video ingest is another critical stack component that should help save our customers time and money.
Adapting to a changing video landscape
The Ingest Service was designed to adapt to a number of important trends in the broadband video marketplace including:
- The higher volume of video available online
- The broader range of high quality videos that are expected by web consumers
Traditionally, video providers could either set up a process for manually uploading these videos one-by-one and then customizing the metadata for each item in a laborious process, or opt for an often complex professional services engagement that automated the ingest process using access to their broadband video management solution’s API. This process might also involve integration costs with existing systems and translating your metadata schema before you ingest it. The mpsManage Ingest Service was designed to overcome these challenges.
Overview of Ingest Service, Watch Folders, and Feed Reader
The Ingest Service is a tool for getting your content into mps with a minimal disruption to your business and technical processes. The Ingest Service adds two new methods for adding, updating, and deleting media that are more flexible and adaptable to your video content deployment workflow:
- Watch Folders let you “push” your media and metadata files into an FTP location and then have them ingested into mps with all their corresponding metadata.
- The Feed Reader lets you hook up your existing feeds to the service and have your content get “pulled” into the system automatically.
In addition, the Ingest Service has adapters that enable the system to translate your custom metadata formats such as XML, MRSS, CSV, and others into our internal formats. With our adapters, you no longer have to change the formats you use to deliver your media with metadata. Built for speed and scale, the Ingest Service offers adjustable monitoring times, a high SLA, error-checking and logging tools.
For large content libraries, it’s convenient
Most of our customers will benefit from using the new Ingest Service, and it’s of particular advantage to customers with large media libraries such as movie and TV studios:
- Migrate your content to thePlatform’s system more easily than ever.
- Automate the process of moving your content online.
- Set it up once and let your Watch Folder or Feed Reader run automatically. Error monitoring checks the integrity of your metadata.
For dynamic content libraries, it’s responsive
Sites with quickly evolving and changing content libraries such as entertainment, news and sports sites as well as video portals with many content providers will also benefit from the service:
- Constant Watch Folder and feed monitoring ensures that changes in your content are quickly added to the media publishing system.
- You don’t have to change your business processes or existing content development workflow.
- The service integrates with your existing technology infrastructure and content management systems that can deliver files into an FTP location or a feed.
Download our Ingest Service White Paper
Learn more on the Ingest Service web page, and check out our Ingest Service White Paper, which describes what the service is, how to set it up, and how it helps reduce your total cost of running a broadband video business.
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