Media & Entertainment

Media Distribution Service

Web portal built to automate film distribution workflows and large-scale media asset management for a US media company.

Overview

We developed a web portal that streamlines how filmmakers distribute, sell, and rent their content across platforms like Netflix, Google Play Store, Amazon, iTunes, and more. The solution automates order processing, handles media asset uploads exceeding 100 GB, manages title metadata across territories, and provides a centralized financial dashboard for tracking sales and revenue from different distribution retailers.

Customer

A leading film distribution company based out in USA managing digital media assets and global content delivery across multiple distribution channels.

United States

Challenge

The client is from the media & entertainment industry who desired to streamline the workflow of their existing ecosystem. Thus, decided to create a platform that will help filmmakers to channelize their work and offer the best to their audiences. They faced challenges in maintaining their filmmaker’s order details by obeying a traditional method which isn’t simple always. The filmmakers also faced challenges while uploading 100 GB media files and were required to follow the repetitive process after getting a connection error or termination of a running process. Also, the process was manual, so the client wanted to expedite the process by automating the existing web-based solution.

The client faced some key challenges during the implementation of the project such as

Unable to create a single, streamlined order processing platform for digital media distribution
Develop a system to support all major media and assets format
Manage title and additional movie-related data and asset requirements dynamically based on various platforms and territories
Check the media files and verify that it satisfies the requirements
To develop a system that allows the uploading of media assets of more than 100GB size
To create a centralized financial model to view sales and other financial information from different platforms
Searching/aggregating large volume of records for generating dashboard data

Solution

TatvaSoft developed a web portal using open sourced frameworks like Angular and .NET that streamlined the method of filmmaker’s film distribution across different platforms and territories. It allowed managing of film titles, assets, services, sites, and orders. All major platforms are supported, including iTunes, Netflix, Google Play store, and others. TatvaSoft offered a streamlined web portal to collect huge data of the filmmakers and also serve them with prompt support. It also uses the BizTalk server to read financial data provided through various channels like FTP transfer and Email and dump those raw data in the database. The application also has inbuilt web crawlers to fetch data from various websites and dump them in other databases.

Security

The security module identifies users of various portal applications and their roles so that they can be presented with appropriate data visibility and capabilities.
Asset Acquisition

The Asset acquisition modules deal with how media is brought into a platform, identified against customer metadata, and qualified as a deliverable asset.
Mastering and Finalization

This module is responsible for engagement of both computers and humans to review media content for issues and log problems found, route tasks to mastering to resolve issues if possible, and route source request tasks if the source cannot be corrected.
Preservation

Long-term preservation gives the platform an ever-growing library of content which can fulfil customer needs.
Title Metadata Curation

Title metadata is often just as imperative for order fulfilment as media and platforms strive to maintain the largest, most accurate title database in the world. Elastic search used to handle a large volume of data through queries.
Order Fulfilment

The Order Fulfilment module is for the creation and management of these orders, determining prerequisite work in order to fulfil, start other processes to complete those prerequisites, starting and monitoring the actual delivery process, and handling issues as they arise.
Source Spec Management

Source Spec Management gives the platform a crucial link between assets, orders, and service requirements.
Resource Management

This module helps in order to keep their operations running at a high level, prioritize backlogs to meet immediate demands, and proactively address issues.
Dashboard

The financial dashboard provides a transparent view of revenue from different distribution retailers.

Expertise

Tools & Technologies

MVC
Angular
Protector
Microsoft BizTalk Server
Visual Studio
VS Code
Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Web Server
SQL
BizTalk Orchestration
ElasticSearch
Bonita
AWS S3
Reach Engine
PING
RabbitMQ

Result

As a leading web development company, TatvaSoft crafted a scalable unique web portal that provides smooth order processing of digital content in less time with effective customer support. The client has been able to achieve multiple benefits such as /p>

Streamlined business processes
Increased client’s operational efficiency
Expanded volume and enhanced business outreach
Able to procure other perks like automated and emphasized process management, quick and graceful changes adaptability
Easy maintainability and uploading of large size files, multilingual support, and complete control over distribution strategy.

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