mpsConnect
Take the pain out of digital media syndication
mpsConnect services are written for a growing network of specific media outlets such as MSN Video and SprintTV. With mpsConnect, content providers can quickly and reliably publish broadband video to a wide variety of broadband media sites and mobile carriers. Ingest media objects once and publish them anywhere—mpsConnect significantly reduces the time and complexity required to support and manage distribution agreements, letting you concentrate instead on capturing new digital media syndication opportunities.
Connectors are built on thePlatform media publishing services, which are designed to be format-agnostic. As a result, mpsConnect services support a wide range of audio and video formats that are typically found in rich media publishing, including Windows Media, MPEG, MP4, and QuickTime.
Benefits
Publishing policy control
- Customize syndication deals. Create usage plans to nail down the policies for sharing content with distribution partners.
- Provide partner access. Give your syndication partners sub-accounts so you can share information while controlling what your partners can see and do in the system.
Expanded distribution
- Let us maintain the content. Each piece of media is ingested, transcoded, secured per defined business rules, and then published to the appropriate outlet account.
- Plug in to an established network. Easily publish to Sprint TV, AT&T, GoTV, Verizon Wireless, MobiTV, QuickPlay, Comcast, YouTube and other outlets as new connectors are released.
Reduced operational costs
- Keep your media flowing. Seamless system updates ensure that changes to partners' requirements are quickly incorporated into the connector service and distribution is uninterrupted.
- Simplify content upload. The web-based ingest wizard reduces the time you spend uploading media and metadata. You can dynamically select multiple outlet accounts, share common metadata information between them, and validate information for required fields and formatting. Manage your media assets from anywhere over the Internet.
- Integrate with your existing systems. mpsConnect integrates easily with your legacy systems, and you can use thePlatform's APIs to retain the workflow that you're already using.
How it works
- A content provider enters a media object into the ingest wizard.
The ingest wizard has a re-usable "ingest template" for each outlet account that defines exactly the information this outlet requires. When a piece of media is published to multiple outlet accounts, the ingest wizard merges matching ingest templates and produces an ingest form that shows only the outlet accounts with which the content owner has syndication agreements. This frees up staff from repetitive file management tasks that usually plague media ingest procedures. - Media is correctly transcoded.
The publish service obtains the source media file and encodes the files to meet the outlet account's encoding standards. - Publishing to the distribution outlet occurs automatically.
When metadata and the media file are sent to the destination server, the outlet account's internal publishing processes are triggered. This ensures that the distributor's own publishing rules are applied before content is available to end users.