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Media Distribution and Aggregation Platform

Custom storefront management solution built to simplify content distribution for a US media and entertainment company.

Overview

TatvaSoft built a content distribution and storefront management platform for a self-reliant film distribution company serving the film fraternity. The application enables filmmakers to distribute, sell, and rent content across Netflix, iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon while managing titles, pricing, territories, and marketing campaigns from a single centralized portal.

Customer

A US-based media and entertainment company specializing in digital content distribution and storefront management services.

United States

Media Distribution and Aggregation Platform Case Study

Challenge

The client wanted to develop an app that allows the filmmakers to distribute their film hassle-free online. Also, the client was concerned about selling and renting the film to their customers. The distribution services support various platforms like Netflix, Google Play Store, Amazon, iTunes, and much more.

The client requirement revolved to create solutions that worked as a base for the content owner to rapidly promote their media properties in a more effective and efficient manner. The challenges faced in developing the solution are as mentioned below

To manage all the dynamic titles and other movie-related data requirements on various platforms and territories.
To maintain and manage the dynamic data for season availability, price, selected metadata across multiple retailers, territories, and titles within a single click.
To seamlessly integrate with Facebook and create an advertisement campaign for the different platforms likes iTunes, Microsoft, and Google Play store.
To maintain updates on the price, availability, and territories of different studios.
Unable to implement different filters and sorting.
To allow the multiple platform updates using a single excel template.
To manage the functionalities like price, rating, availability, and much more.

Solution

TatvaSoft has delved deep into the client’s business problems and decided to develop a web portal for the Media & Entertainment industry-based client for effective streamlining of processes. The web application was created using latest tools and frameworks like .NET, Angular , Bamboo CI, AWS, etc. This application will track the minute details of the filmmaker's film distribution across different platforms and territories. It allows maintaining its titles, assets, services, sites, and orders. All major platforms are supported, including iTunes, Netflix, Google Play store, and others.

The Storefront Manager platform consists of three modules that will allow content owners to search, update, and market their media properties more efficiently and comprehensively than ever before.

Some of the key highlighted modules of the solution are

Search

It allows a user to search their content from the libraries available across all tracked retailers. With the search module, users will generate reports about their content that will be displayed on a dashboard and can be exported or sent to other modules in action.
Value Ad

It gives a user searchable and filterable functionality in real-time, real-world view into their available library. It helps users to easily identify custom broad or specific groupings of content.
Updates

Users can update film and television season availability, pricing, and selected metadata across multiple retailers, territories, and titles with just a few clicks. All updates are delivered directly to the retailers.
Marketing

The system allows a user to easily create Facebook ad campaigns for any film or TV season on iTunes, Google Play, or Microsoft. Localized campaigns are programmatically created for every title/ interest/ territory/ language combination that exists or for the one that users specify. All campaigns are dynamically linked to their specific title availability and can automatically pause or update themselves.
Exceptions

Users can upload their data using sheet upload and the system generates the exceptions based on user's data and current retailer side data by comparing their metadata fields (like rating, price value, price window, etc..). Users can fix these exceptions which creates an update to deliver the provider metadata on the retailer. By using automatic fix feature users don't need to fix individual exceptions which helps them to fix titles in bulk.
Additional Pages
- Sales Admin Pages
  A page where the sales team can choose a Provider, choose a content type for that provider, choose payment terms, search, etc.
- Billing Pages
  List of previously billed amounts. Also, it is seen whether they are pending or paid. Along with this, it shows the upcoming invoice amount and its payment due date.

Expertise

Tools & Technologies

MVC
AngularJS
Bamboo
Visual Studio
Microsoft Windows Server
ElasticSearch
AWS RDS Services
AWS S3
AWS Messaging Service
AWS Cloud Watch
AWS Code Deploy
PING
Facebook APIs

Result

TatvaSoft has developed a web portal that will allow content owners to search, update, and sell their content in the market. Tatvasoft’s custom software solution provided huge advantage in profits, efficiency and management. The client has gained several profitable outcomes by using our solution. Some of which include:

Simpler management of all the platforms with a single back-end
Insertion of multiple clients with a single click
Based on the template library, updates can simpler and calculative
Provides a roadmap to add new releases
Facilitates new users for the retail price as well as price multi-tier pricing.
Effective growth in customer based and so higher revenue streams in the client's business.

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