Comcast
The nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services
Project Description
Support Comcast's the Fan, a group of broadband video players where users can watch movie previews, music videos, news updates, sports replays, and more.
Requirements
- Integrate search between a media publishing solution and StreamSage Inc., which is central to Comcast's content search and discovery capabilities.
- Develop a unique user interface and player for each content category.
- Allow more than fifty content providers to upload their content to the Fan's players.
- Provide more options for users to customize how they view content.
- Make it easier to switch content delivery networks (CDNs).
thePlatform's Solutions
- Automatically communicate media updates to StreamSage, helping automate publishing workflows.
- Create accounts for each content provider to manage their media before publishing to the Fan's players.
- Gives users the ability to create their own playlists with videos they choose, tag videos for later viewing, and find other videos with related content.
- Provides a server object model to simplify moving final content between CDNs
Reults
Comcast's theFan is a top 20 video site, streaming millions of clips per day including sports, music, and news videos to its broadband customers.