- Overview
- Live TV & Video Support
- Custom Clients
- Reporting & Admin
- EPG Support
- Social Networks
- GEO Filtering
- Integration
- In app messaging
- Content Management
- Encoders
Overview
TV by you, delivered by ipic.tv
Create a TV service that you can offer to your subscribers, on any video device they own.
More than set top box delivery…
With more and more consumer devices capable of displaying your video services, ipic.tv gets your content onto those screens.
Rapid Implementation Time…
With our hosted service you can have a trial service up and running over a course of just a few weeks.
Differentiated Content…
No need to be confined to just existing broadcast content, seamlessly integrate internet content into your service.
Scale automatically based on loads…
Based on cloud technology, our service repsonds instantly to peak time
Integrate your billing systems…
We have a comprehensive API that you can integrate with, alternatively we can push details into your OSS
Reporting and admin…
Full admin console with reporting available to let you view usage of the system in real time
Live TV & Video Support
Deliver Live TV channels over unmanaged broadband connection. Our service will choose the appropriate stream for the device that the user wants to watch the content on and sets up the connection.
Integrate with your existing headend
With the introduction of some encoders you will be able to get your TV streams into a format suitable to delivery to a large variety of devices. Our stream server solution will ensure only those authorised to watch the content will be able to do so.
Integrate with Internet Video & Other Content
Bring in other internet channels to set your TV & Entertainment services apart. Our service treats all content the same and thus ensures a very consistent user experience.
Custom Clients
As our service is based on being an API, you can deliver custom webapps as well as mobile apps on which can be used to view your products.
We can supply and help you maintain template apps to be used on the most popular mobile platforms. This saves you have to write these and you can customise these to your brand guidelines.
We have template apps for iPad, Windows Phone and Android. To get the download details, request an invite onto our demo site.
Reporting & Admin
Deliver Live TV channels over unmanaged broadband connection. Our service will chose the appropriate stream for the device that the user wants to was the content on and sets up the connection.
Generate reports
We can generate usage reports for the system. This is available either in csv format for excel use or over our API delivered using JSON or XML.
EPG Support
Multiple EPG Provider support
ipic.tv will easily integrate with your existing EPG services. Out of the box we have support for XMLTV, TMS and Digiguide
No EPG, No Problem
If you need to get EPG for the channels you are offering we can integrate with a provider who can make the information available to us.
Now and Next or 14 days you choose
We can store EPG data in our database for any time into the future. If you simply want “Now and Next” functionality or extensive scheduling our API will support you.
Deliver EPG to all devices
The same API resource can be used to deliver EPG to any of the devices you are supporting
Search Capabilities
Our service maintains a searchable index of all the content on offer. Subscribers can search out their favourite programs, actors directors to see when that content is showing.
Favourites
In addition to searching, subscribers can mark programs as favourites so they can be reminded about them later
Social Networks
OAuth Support
Users can authenticate themselves using the social network profiles, making it quick and easy for them to access the service.
Deliver updates as part of the viewing experience
Users can see their social network updates delivered as they watch TV. They can also tweet or post updates directly using the API.
Matching EPG Data to trends
Twitter hashtags can be tracked if they correspond to the program that the user is watching. They then get realtime updates of what social network users are saying about this content.
Facebook like
Users can ‘like’ a program on facebook, thus creating a link that others can use to access your service and growing take up.
More features coming
We continue to build up this aspect of our service
GEO Filtering
Powerful control to allow you segment customers
If you need to isolate specific areas on your network we can ensure video only gets delivered to customers in those regions. This allows you to gradually roll out service as capacity increases throughout your network and reduce network load by ensuring streaming servers located to customer are used.
Integration with Geo Information Providers
We can control what countries or regions can access your service by querying geo location providers.
Geo Reporting
See what regions access the service, where the most popular ones using reports compiled from our admin console.
Integration Endpoints
Integration with your billing systems
Want to offer a premium service to your customers? Our integration into your billing systems means customers can be validated when the register and purchase content through the site and have it added to their monthly bill. From a customers point of view you can instantaneously offer additional content without having to go to your support or call centres.
Our integration points
You can integrate our service so you will be able to maintain a single unified view of your customers. Our service can track users using your own customer id’s and you have the ability to assign or remove content that they can get access to.
In app messaging
Give your customers easy access to you
You can easily add support to let your customers send comments of support queries directly to your support department. Your subscribers simply enter the text they wish to send you, we will supply all the other relevant information to ensure support staff have all the information they need to work from
Send target messages to your users
If you need to get information messages out to your customers, our Message Of The Day facility allows you to send message to very focused groups of people, or indeed all of them at once. You can tell who read the message from the report console.
Content Management
Manage Live TV & Video from our console
For live TV organise your TV content in packages and decide on the best way to provide them to your customers. You can set up trials that commence on registration, or simply give them a free package with options to purchase additional ones. Our system makes it easy to set this structure up and manage
Integrate VOD content into your service
Add VOD content and decide if you want to offer it as part of subscription, or ppv.
Encoders
Integration with encoders
We work closely with encoder providers to achieve a tight integration with their outputs. We have worked closely with Envivio on a number of accounts to deliver streams optimised for customer requirements.