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In a world where the media landscape is constantly evolving, staying ahead of the curve is essential. With the advent of Over-The-Top (OTT) services and shifts in viewing behavior, consumers now face an abundance of content choices and multiple service delivery options. This has created a demand for a flexible and personalized platform that caters to ever-changing viewer expectations.

Consumers now expect highly personalized and engaging content experiences. As a global change leader in media technology and services, MediaKind has acknowledged these challenges and offers a solution that allows operators and content owners to tailor their services to meet the evolving consumer landscape.

MediaFirst: A Cloud-Based Pay TV Platform

Building on its heritage and driven by consumer-focused innovation, MediaKind has introduced MediaFirst - an end-to-end, cloud-based video platform that has been specifically designed to meet the challenges of the modern media delivery landscape. Let's explore what makes the innovative TV platform a game-changer and how it addresses key market challenges.

Addressing the Demands of Varied Market Segments

As a versatile cloud-based TV platform, it can seamlessly integrate with existing network infrastructures, including IPTV, cable, and satellite. This adaptability makes it an ideal choice for operators looking to transition from legacy systems to next-generation TV offerings. Leveraging MediaKind's expertise in streaming technology, MediaFirst revitalizes and retains subscribers within the ever-evolving media ecosystem.

What makes MediaFirst a Game changer?

At its core, MediaFirst is an end-to-end cloud video platform that enables the creation, management, and delivery of next-generation Pay TV. It offers a personalized TV experience, engaging users with live, video-on-demand, and subscription content tailored to their preferences.

Citrus MediaFirst: Transforming TVaaS

Designed for cable, telco, and internet operators, it provides a cost-effective TV-as-a-Service (TVaaS) product. It leverages modern cloud technologies and web services to offer an agile and innovative solution. With MediaFirst, operators can create, manage, and deliver next-generation streaming services across multiple devices, offering subscribers a more effective content recommendation and personalized experience through advanced data analytics.

Personalized User Experience

One of its standout features is its ability to create personalized user profiles. This allows each user to tailor their media consumption experience, from live channels to video-on-demand, on any device. MediaFirst simplifies content discovery by combining profiles to find programming that everyone wants to watch, eliminating the need to search through individual profiles. Users can save channels, in-progress media, recommendations, and recordings in personalized hubs for easy access.

Content-Based Recommendations and Analytics

The Recommendations feature offers subscribers a variety of personalized recommendations based on popularity and relevance, helping them discover content they love. The solution empowers service providers with unparalleled visibility into user data, enabling them to make data-driven decisions and enhance the user experience.

Built for the Cloud

The platform seamlessly integrates on-premises and cloud capabilities, making it compatible with existing service provider infrastructure. Its Cloud DVR offering allows viewers to access their recordings anywhere, on any device, over any network, providing flexibility and convenience.

Agile, Continuous Delivery

Built using agile software development methodologies, the innovative solution enables operators to deploy new features rapidly, keeping pace with changing market conditions. Moreover, the MediaFirst Management Portal empowers pay TV service providers to operate and control their TV platform end-to-end.

Feature-rich Solution with Unique Advantages

Web-Style TV Innovation: By virtualizing managed and OTT services, MediaFirst TV offers the economics, agility, and innovation of web services.

Next-Gen Consumer Experience: It delivers a personalized, data-driven user experience across all devices, ensuring consistent content access.

Agile DevOps Delivery: The platform’s agile PaaS model reduces infrastructure costs and ensures a future-ready TV platform.

Value for Service Providers: A Partner That Scales with You

Robustness: Offers a carrier-grade experience, constantly monitoring the consumer experience

Simplicity: Its managed cloud deployment model simplifies deployment and maintenance

Flexibility: API-driven, with rich platform and client APIs for tailored experiences

Value for Consumers: Enabling Immersive Media Experiences

Unbound: Provides a seamless, unified experience across devices, networks, and regions

Unified: It unifies content types and offers a continuous content experience

Personalized: Users can curate their content space for a personalized experience

If you are already using a Pay TV platform, you must have enchanted with its features. This is because millions of individuals across the world are under one roof of this platform. This craving is the generator for many TV streaming services in their own country and other countries in their first language. If the market is bright over there, why would providers lag behind?

TV Streaming services are now seeking out new market strategies and Pay TV platforms are now on the top list. The roaring number of subscribers is attracting them to invest their hard earnings and get the best ROI ever. Here is a glance at fascinating features of pay TV platform that needed to have to make a shift from traditional video operator to a TV Streaming service provider essential for offering a competitive experience.

· An Open App Store

It is universally accepted that all premium videos cannot be shown on a single pay TV platform, so users usually select a mix of services so that what they can see almost they want. So, an open app that includes as many SVOD services so that users can select the preferred services is the need of the hour.

· A universal search facility

Viewers are not bounded to any specific providers rather they can sign-up and use any TV streaming service that lures them. Facilitating them with a universal search and availing the services worldwide through the set-top box is considered a value-added feature for the viewers.

· Provide recommendations

Recommendations are considered as value-added. They can increase customer loyalty. Many consumers do not get recommendations from their pay TV platform providers even they desire to have them. So, to make a transitional shift and make yourself fit for the future, adjust your old policies and offer recommendations so that new content will be discovered and providers also get the idea about the change of taste.

Below is the list of services that channel agencies and content distributors can offer for your TV streaming service business to target the key cultural communities irrespective of your location of operations.

· Strategy Development

The services will evaluate the foreign language of the programs that are most relevant to your needs. A suitable strategy is developed such that communities belonging to that language attract to your platform with suitable content offerings. Services like Live TV are in trend so, providers need to look for new business strategies to meet the new-age requirements.

· Building a bundle of package

The streaming services offer a bundle of package that will meet both your requirements and constraints. This will also help to achieve new subscribers and retaining the loyalty of existing subscribers.  The content agencies and distributors offer various packages at attractive prices.

· Marketing

The distributors and channel agencies also extend services to the marketing of your platform after fixing a content package. Now, this package needs to right exposure in front of the target audience through the right marketing techniques.