Quickplay Unveils Major Enhancements to its Next Generation Video Platform Service and Delivery Capabilities at IBC 2015
Capabilities empower video service providers to profitably meet rising consumer expectations for the highest-quality and most engaging premium video experiences over any network or device
Amsterdam(10 Sep 2015)
Quickplay, the global expert in powering premium video to any device, today announced the roll-out of a number of significant enhancements to its market leading managed video platform service, designed to address major friction points that can inhibit the growth and profitability of multi-screen, next generation pay-TV and OTT premium video services.
Consumers now expect personalized discovery across video sources, a large on-demand catalog, first run original programming, and the hottest live content delivered with the highest quality to any device and over any network. Meeting these expectations is complicated by the ever changing, highly fragmented and non-standardized device, DRM, and player ecosystems and the inherent variability of unmanaged IP networks.
Quickplay is addressing these market issues with key enhancements that unlock and open the power of the Quickplay virtual head end and 24/7 managed service for rapid and efficient launch and low cost and agile operations, with the most advanced self-service content enrichment and merchandizing capabilities available. New platform enhancements include:
Leading Service Delivery Model - significant investments in IT infrastructure, network, and expertise to enhance the efficiency, operations and delivery of Next Generation premium video experiences. With the renewed operating model, service providers and content programmers benefit from a portfolio of over 220 leading service functions, 200 video engineers and media specialists, and a growing set of delivery centers across North America, Asia and Europe to facilitate 24/7 support, globally. The model manages all platforms and the end to end delivery of multiscreen, next generation Pay TV and OTT premium video services, further augmented by best practices, advanced performance metrics, and streamlined procedures. Service providers and content programmers reduce capital expenditures and risk while increasing customer responsiveness, time to market, and carrier grade scale and quality of service.
Content Merchandising Service – next generation content management and merchandising tools and service capabilities that replace or augment a traditional Content Management System (CMS) by offering complete flexibility, extensibility, and control for providers to rapidly and cost effectively build and adapt Next Generation TV (NGTV) offerings with access to a suite of metadata and video content lifecycle capabilities. Operators and content programmers can monitor the status of content assets in the virtual head end, dynamically enable new commercial models by adding content and metadata, configure store front merchandising, create new pricing, product packages and promotions, and generate reporting and analytics to measure and drive service adoption, usage, and profitability.
OpenVideo Virtual Head End Gateway – a set of open, extensible application programming interfaces (APIs) that supply service providers and content programmers with a curated selection of backend capabilities to launch differentiated services. This approach is informed by taking the learnings of more than a decade of Tier 1 deployments, resulting in the development of APIs that address the current flawed model of disjointed, monolithic solutions with a flexible, modular approach to enable ease of integration to third party OVP middleware stacks, existing CMS, and end user applications. Current capabilities include advanced content discovery, secure playback, carrier grade quality streaming and powerful merchandising and monetization with support for DRM, cloud DVR, OSS/BSS integration, streaming and authentication. The Virtual Head End Gateway enables premium viewing across all networks, leveraging 4G LTE Broadcast - eMBMS, WiFi, 3G, and 4G- to launch new services such as live event streaming, subscription based services, periodic push updates, mobile CDN and IoT services
Next Generation UX/UI Design Pack – a next generation video hub experience that adapts to all screens and resolutions, accelerating the unified, next generation discovery and viewing experience across video services and sources, including Live and VOD pay-TV services, OTT services, and Web content. The full-featured design pack provides a conceptual layout with visual hierarchies that enable intuitive navigation, search, main screen and second screen integration, recommendations, support for cloud DVR and playback, user personalization and social integration for both Live and VOD content. The Design Pack serves as an accelerator for providers looking to launch OTT and NGTV services quickly and efficiently.
“Quickplay has enhanced and configured its market-leading platform service to support the changing needs of today’s multi-screen pay-TV and OTT market; simply put, the quality of OTT premium video streaming in the current market is not keeping pace with consumer expectations, nor do first generation OTT services have the agility or flexibility required for the enrichment, curation, monetization, and discovery of premium video content,” said Wayne Purboo, President, CEO and Co-founder of Quickplay. “These enhancements, together with our recent acquisition and integration of LTE Broadcast capabilities, mean that only Quickplay can provide the simplicity, speed, and disruptive economics of a managed service model coupled with the advanced features, control and flexibility required to launch and manage a winning video service.”
Quickplay will be exhibiting the enhancements to its Next Generation Video Platform Service at IBC 2015 on its stand: 14.D27; additional capabilities to the platform are earmarked for roll-out over 1H 2016.
About Quickplay
Backed by a decade of experience, Quickplay is the global expert in powering TV over any device, allowing premium video service providers to focus on growing their business. Quickplay’s proven services leverage an open platform, cloud economics, and best-of-breed partners so providers can move faster, operate leaner, and offer the best TV experience anywhere. With facilities and experts in Toronto, San Diego, Singapore, Chennai, and Frankfurt, Quickplay enables one billion viewers around the globe to fast forward to a next generation of TV with over 700 live channels, 4,000 live events each year, and two million securely-managed premium content assets. Quickplay has successfully launched multiscreen video services for the likes of Verizon, AT&T, Rogers, Bloomberg, Bell and TELUS, Singtel and AccuWeather.