- achieve the best possible value as your content moves across platforms and exploitation windows
- optimize the content life cycle with a single powerful toolset for both Linear and Nonlinear platforms
- have your schedules and release plans automatically validated and optimized
- effortlessly deal with restrictions, obligations, underlying rights, royalties and revenue shares
- always know which rights are available for planning or selling, when and where
- always know the value of your inventory and schedules
- manage multicurrency costs, amortizations and payment schedules
Integrated Rights Management
Drives your scheduling, optimizes your release plans, informs your acquisitions and sales
“Planning, negotiating, and balancing out your VOD catalog within the limits of your content budget has become a science in itself and nearly as complex as buying and selling financial products on the stock exchange.”
Ezra Eeman, Senior Manager Digital, Transformation and Platforms at European Broadcasting Union
“Windowing can be a key component in maximizing revenues from a film.”
Negotiating Digital Distribution Agreements, by Simon N Pulman, CDAS
“Selling or retaining rights is a choice between short term revenue and long term growth but not necessarily one everyone can afford.”
Ezra Eeman, Senior Manager Digital, Transformation and Platforms at European Broadcasting Union
“When sales executives enter into discussions with potential buyers, they rely on their internal rights management systems to see if a particular title is available to sell.”
Introduction to Media Distribution by Scott Kirkpatrick, Senior Vice President of North and South American sales, NENT Studios UK
“We are beginning to see a potential conflict between television broadcasters and VOD distributors with respect to VOD and streaming rights, because broadcasters are increasingly seeking a VOD streaming “catchup rights” window (…). “
Negotiating Digital Distribution Agreements, by Simon N Pulman, CDAS
“Distributors can shoot themselves in the foot if their media library, assets and rights are not well maintained.”
Introduction to Media Distribution by Scott Kirkpatrick, Senior Vice President of North and South American sales, NENT Studios UK
Optimize the complete life cycle of your rights
Rights are so complex nowadays that somewhere along the life cycle you may lose track of it all, and leave money on the table.
With WHATS’ON you maintain a wide range of information from the very start—supporting the acquisition of rights and the creation of the contract or the commissioning process—right down to selling your rights. You easily manage and verify complex linear and nonlinear rights and monitor the consistency between your schedules and the licenses and business rules. With our modular rights management you effortlessly deal with underlying rights, royalties and revenue shares. As you move your content across platforms and exploitation windows to maximize revenues, you keep real-time insight into what is available for planning or selling.
At the end of the day you will know when it’s time to negotiate new contracts, and start another life cycle that gets the most out of your content.
Here is how the WHATS’ON rights capabilities support you as a …
Content Coordinator
- Keep track of negotiated agreements between broadcaster and distributor
- Create a rights summary from the original contract
- Register and track a wide range of information about deal, agreement and contract
- Capture all license right information, incl. underlying right agreements
Scheduler
- Monitor consistency between license contract, business rules and transmission schedule / release planning
- Have off-peak linear schedules automatically generated by AI
- Schedule content starting from available rights
- Verify that schedule is valid according to the content’s contract and license rights
- See impact of rights sales on schedule
Finance Advisor
- Simulate value of schedules and inventory
- Manage multicurrency costs, amortizations and payment schedules
- Calculate and redistribute revenue across rights holders and suppliers
- Provide accurate reports for management reviews and stock trend analysis
Sales Officer
- Sell available content based on sales catalogue
- Propose content to prospects and keep track of proposals
- Capture license agreements and holdbacks with potential buyers
- Follow-up on offers, deadlines and tasks
- Simulate revenue distribution
- Gather insights on content that is being sold
“With Rights Out broadcasters manage a catalogue with a clear overview of avails. This catalogue gets its real-time data from the WHATS’ON content repository. Users can select content in the catalogue with a clear view on the distribution rights, propose it to the market or to a potential customer at their request, defining the license agreements, conditions and pricing. They are warned about conflicts with their own exploitation rights and with rights that have already been sold.”
Nikias Arts
Product Manager Rights & Finance – MEDIAGENIX
Leverage the power of integrated rights management solutions
ACQUISITION, SCREENING & BUYING ORDER MANAGEMENT
Supports the acquisition process for license rights, from buying order to invoice approval.
RIGHTS-DRIVEN SCHEDULING / RELEASE PLANNING
One rich set of functionality for optimum schedules and release plannings based on both linear and nonlinear rights.
Gives you a real time view on what is available for planning or selling.
Cuts through the complexity and pitfalls of selling content rights and optimises a key revenue stream.
Speedily reuse product extracts on multiple platforms, without infringing on anybody’s rights and restrictions.
Automates complex calculations of revenue shares owed to distributors, platforms and other beneficiaries.
“If we can make self-driving cars, we can automate release strategies.”
Scott Kirkpatrick
Senior Vice President of North and South American sales for NENT Studios UK