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Channel Studio

Create online channels with optional ad insertion

virtual channels, with optional ad insertion, in the cloud

Schedule, create, monetise, and distribute your virtual channels by using VOD assets and live events, with optional monetisation opportunities and a seamless playback experience.

Choose the preferred distribution model for your virtual channel: with optional ad insertion; a stream enriched by data-driven dynamic graphic overlays; a ‘pop up’ channel’; a barker channel; or free ad-supported television (FAST channel) syndicated to multiple platforms.

Channel Studio provides you with a new avenue for monetisation, driving greater audience engagement with higher live viewing figures.

Key features

QUICKLY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY REPURPOSE YOUR EXISTING VOD ASSETS AND SCHEDULED LIVE EVENTS TO CREATE ‘LIVE’ CHANNELS

Ingest content via: S3, API, MRSS/RSS, direct upload

Leverage remote locations for content, stored externally

Seamlessly create linear electronic programming guides (EPG)

DATA-driven dynamic graphic overlays for upsell within virtual channels

Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) or ad marker insertion, distribution to fast platforms

broadcast

Think of your virtual channel like a TV channel: loop for up to 24 hours or schedule your content daily.

MONETISATION

Monetise your channel by choosing your preferred model: with optional server-side ad insertion, or with dynamic graphic overlays.

SYNDICATION

Syndicate your channel live to YouTube via the easy-to-navigate backend, with automated ‘replay’ content generated within minutes from stream.

A simplified workflow

SCHEDULE

Effortlessly create new channels without the complexity of traditional scheduling software. Using a simple drag & drop interface, create playlists within playlists (manual or dynamic), schedule programming and ad breaks.

CREATE

Encode and package the schedule in real time. Add in live events to the existing schedule function (live feeds can be encoded via RTMP/RTP/HLS, or SRT), combine them with VOD assets. Deliver your content via multiple CDNs.

AD INSERTION

Monetise your way, by choosing the most profitable advertising model, to fit your end-user experience (SSAI, CSAI), and with existing ad-server pre-integrations.

DYNAMIC OVERLAYS

Leverage the innovative solution that lets you create dynamic, data-driven graphic overlays to present real-time offers, including moving graphics. Match the broadcast experience for retail and commerce opportunities.

DISTRIBUTE

Seamlessly distribute your content: to your own apps, to Simplestream’s App Platform, or to a growing collection of FAST platforms. Syndicate your live channels to YouTube, via the pre-built functionality.

MONITOR & ANALYSE

Monitor your virtual channels – with or without ad insertion – thanks to a robust set of real-time data analytics and attribution tools. Reporting is comprehensive and simple to set up.

Your success is at the core of what we do

Learn from our clients’ stories

How Simplestream helped Crafter's Companion with the creation and syndication of a virtual channel including VOD assets and live streams, via Channel Studio.

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How Simplestream helped National World to power the launch of Shots! TV channel in the cloud, with Channel Studio.

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How Simplestream innovated the TVSN teleshopping experience by expanding its services on multiple platforms, including virtual channels with graphic overlays.

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Don’t take our word for it. Hear from our customers

Since we joined forces with Simplestream, the content management systems have allowed us to better commercialise an archive of over 100,000 videos, and distribute live streams at over 1,000 race-meetings a year. They proactively help us improve the services we can offer – both B2B and B2C – with speedy and efficient support when required.

Will Hayler

Head of Digital Content

Racing TV