Terminology

Asset

The Asset is the entity that represent the value and the content of your service. It can be a TV series episode, a movie, a recorded talk, a live event, a TV channel or a Virtual channel.There are four types of Assets defined

  • MOVIE: Content that can be watched on demand and has a fixed length. For example a TV series episode, a movie, or the recording of a live event.
  • LIVE EVENT: An event that is taking place a specific time for a example a soccer game, a press conference or a music concert.
  • CHANNEL: A traditional broadcast TV channel that can be watched online. The content is not necessary live but the users are watching what is currently being broadcasted at a specific time.
  • VIRTUAL CHANNEL: A virtual channel created from pre-transcoded VOD files.

Business Unit

Our OTT solution caters for a parent-child relationship. Parent: Customer, child: Business Unit. This caters for multiple business units to a customer, where for example assets are ingested only once in the customer, but can be used in one or several business units. This is a cost effective way to ingest, transcode and maintain assets, channels and live events. On asset ingest Customer or Business Unit has to be selected.

A Carousel is a collection of Assets curated by an editor or automatically curated.

Customer

Our OTT solution caters for a parent-child relationship. Parent: Customer, child: Business Unit. This caters for multiple business units to one customer, where for example assets are ingested only once in the customer, but can be used in one or several business units. This is a cost effective way to ingest, transcode and maintain assets, channels and live events. On asset ingest Customer or Business Unit has to be selected.

Hero Banner

The Hero Banner is the first visual element of your streaming service and this is the place where you can place call-to-actions, engaging high resolution images or videos to emphasize your content and brand.

Product

A Product defines the connection between a Publication and a Product Offering. We can for example define a Product that we call “movies” and we want that all users with this Product to have access to all movies in the library. For each of these assets we then create a Publication that has this Product. And for the users we create a Product Offering that gives a user this Product by means of a purchase or by provisioning to the user via the Portal.

Product Offering

A Product Offering represents what is being offered for the User Account to gain access to a Product. An offering specifies a price, currency and what VAT is applied or not. A Product Offering can be defined as a monthly subscription cost or a one-time fee. Product Offerings can also be provisioned to End User Accounts using the Portal.

Publication

A Publication defines under what conditions an Asset is available for the User Accounts. It defines from when the Asset is available, for how long and what Product a User Account needs to have to be eligible to watch.

End User Account

An End User Account is the consumer and user of your streaming service, and the one in a household that is charged for the bill. An End User Account is created either by the user self signing up or an Administrator of the streaming service sends an invitation.