Streaming Platforms Judged
On The First Two Seconds

Nobody reads your feature list. They press play, and if the video has not started they are gone. Everything we build in media is arranged around that moment and the delivery chain behind it.

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The Sector

Attention Is Rented By The Second

Start-up time, rebuffering and a confusing catalogue lose more subscribers than pricing does. And unlike most software, the failure is public — it happens during the one live event you sold the whole season on.

So the work goes into the parts viewers never name: encoding ladders, adaptive bitrate, CDN strategy, DRM that does not break playback, and a catalogue model that knows which title can be shown in which territory today.

  • Playback tuned for the connection your audience actually has
  • Rights windows and geo rules enforced by the catalogue, not by hand
  • Live events rehearsed at full scale before the day they matter

What We Build For Media

The platforms between a finished file and a paying viewer.

OTT & Streaming Platforms

End-to-end VOD platforms — ingest, transcode, catalogue, playback and entitlement across every screen you sell on.

Live Streaming & Events

Low-latency live with DVR, failover and the capacity rehearsal that decides whether the big night goes well.

Content & Rights Management

Metadata, versions, artwork, subtitles and rights windows managed once and honoured everywhere.

Monetisation & Subscriptions

SVOD, AVOD and TVOD side by side — plans, trials, coupons, ad insertion and the billing that ties it together.

Apps For TV, Mobile & Web

Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, tvOS, mobile and web clients that share one playback and entitlement layer.

Discovery & Recommendations

Search, rows and personalisation built on real viewing signals, with editorial control your team keeps.

What Decides Whether It Holds

Every one of these is invisible until it fails, in public, at peak.

Encoding & adaptive bitrate

Ladders tuned to your content and audience, so playback degrades to a lower rendition instead of stalling.

DRM & content protection

Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady with token-based entitlement — protection that does not cost you playback success.

CDN & delivery

Multi-CDN strategy, origin shielding and regional routing sized for your concurrency, not your average.

Rights windows & geo

Availability by territory, device and date enforced in the catalogue, so a title cannot leak outside its window.

Playback analytics & QoE

Start time, rebuffer ratio and errors measured per title, device and region — the numbers that explain churn.

Ad insertion

Server-side ad insertion that keeps the stream continuous, with the reporting your ad sales team can invoice from.

What We Connect To

A streaming business is an assembly of specialist services. The build is the layer that makes encoding, protection, delivery and billing behave as one product.

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Encoders & transcoding
DRM providers
CDNs & multi-CDN
Ad servers & SSAI
Subscription billing
TV app platforms
Subtitling & localisation
Analytics & QoE
Social & sharing

How We Deliver

Launched on one region or one title, and load-rehearsed before anything is announced.

Model catalogue and rights

Content model, metadata, versions and rights windows defined first — retrofitting this is painful and common.

Playback core

Ingest, transcode, DRM, entitlement and player built and measured for start time before any UI polish.

Apps and monetisation

Clients across your target screens plus plans, payments and ads, all sharing one entitlement service.

Rehearse, then launch

Peak concurrency simulated end to end, then a soft launch on a limited catalogue or region before the full slate.

What Does Launch Night Look Like?

The concurrency you expect, the devices you must support, the rights you have to honour. Give us those three and we will tell you what has to be built.

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FAQs

Media Questions

What broadcasters, studios and streaming founders ask us first.

If your catalogue is modest and your business is standard subscription video, an off-the-shelf platform will get you live faster and cheaper. Building makes sense when the product is unusual — hybrid monetisation, unusual rights structures, a bundled experience — or when platform revenue share stops making sense at your scale.

If you license content from anyone else, your contract almost certainly requires it, and studio-grade titles will require specific levels. For your own content it becomes a commercial judgement. We usually implement it early either way, because adding DRM to a live platform is harder than starting with it.

By rehearsing it. We load-test at your projected concurrency, run redundant ingest and encoding paths, set up multi-CDN failover and agree a degraded mode in advance. Live events fail on the parts nobody tested, so we test the whole chain.

That follows your audience, not a checklist. Each platform is a separate app with its own store, certification and quirks, so we would rather ship two well than five badly. We help you pick based on where your viewers actually watch.