Media networks across the globe reach new audiences on new platforms, expand into new business models, maximize their asset exploitation, capture shifting advertising budgets, and basically do more with less thanks to WHATS'ON and BeBanjo.
Looking to optimize the media network's content programming, planning and scheduling across multiple platforms? Do much more with less. Rise to the challenges of this multiplatform era with operational efficiency, business agility and profitability. Engage audiences, contain operational costs, and optimize content ROI across local, regional and global entities.
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Let us guide you through the successive steps as your content moves through the different stages of a typical broadcaster’s workflow. See how the WHATS’ON platform can manage and/or orchestrate all this as one content-centric workflow that delivers the best value out of your content.
One system can manage the workflow for all your linear channels end to end, from the creation of the strategic master plan with possible scenarios, over the chosen transmission plan with time slots for programmes, series, trailers, promotions, branding and commercials, right down to the fully fledged playlist complete with secondary events and graphics. Information is exchanged with the other systems and the final schedule is communicated to the viewer or to the websites and magazines. After transmission, your calculations and reports are based on the actually transmitted schedule.
In WHATS’ON you can also have your linear schedules automatically drive your catch-up and preview services. Linear and VOD: unified workflows managed with the same tools on the same screens.
With the Transmission Grid Plan managers can define, view, inspect and manipulate the strategic long-term schedule directly in WHATS’ON so that their work can immediately be refined by the long-term planners.
Scheduling Artist: the suite of augmented intelligence solutions facilitating rating-optimized automated scheduling.
Distributing a large catalogue to your own OTT service and to third-party affiliates? Across multiple territories and business models? No probleml! BeBanjo lets you manage your non-linear scheduling workflow end-to-end, from one visual interface. With the most advanced functionality in the world, there is no on-demand scheduling scenario BeBanjo can't handle with ease.
Track your on-demand operations at a glance. See what is scheduled where, what went live, and track metadata and rights statuses.
Exploit your content to the fullest. Find content that has never been scheduled before by just a glance at the visual interface.
Enjoy the powerful search for VOD schedules. Filter your content by dates, content, platforms, licensors, requirements, or any metadata field.
Also, you can also have your linear schedules automatically drive your catch-up and preview services. Linear and VOD: unified workflows managed with the same tools on the same screens.
Efficiency is boosted and decisions are greatly enhanced when Acquisition, Planning, Scheduling, Sales and Finance teams work in perfect sync on real-time rights data from a single source of truth. This data is captured from the earliest stages and gets enriched along the content supply chain thanks to easy-to-use web apps.
As your content moves across platforms and exploitation windows, rights, restrictions, holdbacks and obligations are automatically verified on a granular level.
The respective teams keep real-time insight into what is available for planning or selling, while they effortlessly deal with underlying rights, royalties and revenue shares.
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.
Media rights 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 plans based on both linear an nonlinear rights.
Available Rights Catalogue: Keep a real-time view on what is available for planning and selling.
Underlying Rights: Speedily reuse product extracts on multiple platforms without infringing on anybody's rights and restrictions.
Revenue Share: Automates complex calculations of revenue shares owed to distributors, platforms and other beneficiaries.
WHATS'ON Marketplace: Offer tour content to buyers worldwide with both content metadata and avails automatically synced between WHATS'ON and Vuulr.
WHATS'ON Rights Out: Cut through the complexity and pitfalls of selling content rights and optimize a key revenue stream.
The ability to connect with the fans on their terms and manage the complexity and unpredictability of live sports events will determine the return on investments in live sports.
You need a system with the flexibility, openness and functional depth to:
1. Capture the dynamics and complexity of rights, obligations and restrictions
With the only sports-specific rights verification tool on the market, WHATS'ON offers:
2. Put data at the centre of your operations
With:
3. Connect with the fans on their terms
With:
When taking decisions affecting long-term planning, acquisitions or productions, management will want to do that on the basis of a proper trend analysis of stock use in the past. Also, at the end of a financial period (month, six months…) a company is obliged to review its financial status.
With WHATS’ON you know the value of schedule and stock at any moment in the past, present and future, and you can provide accurate reports for reviews, monthly closings, stock trend analysis and informed management decisions.
You can set up amortization rules, create multicurrency payment schedules and manage your commercial inventory.
Finally, you can calculate the achieved ROI on different levels (transmission, day, channel, contract …).
This AI-assisted management web tool for Content ROI optimization:
When you are juggling with multiple formats and different video, audio or subtitling versions to schedule your content on diverse publication systems in diverse countries, more automation is your salvation.
For VOD, get the drag and struggle out of the complex process of having every piece of content prepared and rendered into one file—complete with promotions, branding and commercials—that has the correct format for the diverse platforms. Be in control of the whole process end to end, and have the files sent to the respective publication systems with descriptive data about when and where the content should be made available.
For linear channels, WHATS’ON supports any number of video, audio and subtitling components for the same product. Fully aligned with the current MAM systems, WHATS’ON interfaces with these systems to integrate the file-based workflow (ingest requests, automatic status updates).
To reach and engage your audience, it will no longer do to plan promos on an ad hoc basis.
That is why WHATS’ON provides the tools for campaign style planning of promos in a cross-channel and multimedia environment. With WHATS’ON you can schedule promos—automatically, manually or combined—based on predicted ratings and campaign targets, and in line with regulations and context-sensitive restrictions. You can monitor and optimize campaign performance up to the last minute. WHATS’ON integrates the entire workflow from defining the targets up to production, campaign scheduling, publication and analysis.
WHATS'ON Trailer Grid is the screen on which you can easily schedule promos and where the people who schedule the primary events have an overview that includes the secondary events.
WHATS'ON Promoplan is the standalone application for strategic promotion planning that enables your marketing organization to draw up an optimal promotion plan for all the promotion efforts of the organization and manage the complete promotion lifecycle, from the definition of the goals to building and executing media plans.
This single tool enables coherent management of:
You can have WHATS’ON warn you whenever your VOD or Linear content is scheduled in conflict with any applicable parental guidance rules (Compliance). The lenience with which content is viewed in terms of mature content can vary greatly from region to region and between different channels and platforms. Also, WHATS’ON will ensure your scheduling observes licence conditions and government regulations.
The WHATS’ON Orchestrator is the workflow engine layer in WHATS’ON that orchestrates and automates repetitive manual tasks across the different domains of the content supply chain. It frees media companies from suboptimal workflows and is key in the broadcasters’ transformation to an all-IT approach. Best-practice processes can be tuned to the clients’ specific requirements.
At the back end: the Workflow Business API
The stable and well-documented Workflow Business API connects WHATS’ON to the Workflow Engine, an open source-version of Camunda that runs in the Web and Cloud. It can also connect other applications if so desired.
At the front end: user task lists and administrator dashboards
Users get a task list where they see their current and upcoming tasks and the information they need to complete them. The administrators have a dashboard on which they can monitor the progress of the processes and take action as soon as a task fails, and the workflow stops.
On the user task lists appear all user tasks.
Service tasks are executed by WHATS’ON to
Service tasks can also be executed by other systems, such as Apache NiFi to move files (FTP).
Tasks connected by BPMN
BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) flow charts connect all possible tasks. For complex conditions, we can use the business rules within the DMN Decision Engine or (exclusive, parallel, event-based) gateways. Timers can be included.
Monitoring on three levels
The workflows can be monitored on a
The three most popular use cases for the WHATS’ON Orchestrator are VOD publication, contract approval and subtitling.
VOD publication
Touchless workflow to prepare the data —executing transcoding, image resizing or encryption— and move files.
Contract approval
The automated contract approval process starts with notifying the person that needs to approve or reject the contract, and providing metadata. This person has it on their task list and gets a reminder after a preset time. The whole process up to financial approval and board approval (if required) is monitored.
Subtitling
When a user indicates that a product needs to be subtitled, this triggers an automated process that consists of 3 steps:
Defining how this request will be fulfilled: buying, subcontracting or producing the subtitles.
The status of the subtitling component changes accordingly.
Registering and reporting IP usage
In close collaboration with Soundmouse, the WHATS’ON Orchestrator turns the process of registering and reporting IP usage in own productions and edits (incl. trailers and other promotion material) into a touchless workflow.
WHATS’ON brings the information up to date in its one source of truth for all operations along the content supply chain.
To allow you to calculate and report on statistics or on any kind of information, WHATS’ON offers a comprehensive set of reporting tools, as well as integration with BI tools.
Reporting can be automated, grouped and scheduled, with e-mail integration.
You can measure, monitor and report on content volumes and durations in linear and on-demand schedules to comply with legal, regulatory (quota) or management criteria. You can act on targets rather than react on error reporting, and as you can predict the final values, you needn’t ‘overshoot’ just to be sure. Automatic music and copyright reporting can be tuned to country-specific conventions.
WHATS’ON Content Cockpit is your web tool for greater insight into stock value, accurate predictions of viewer demand, data insights on Content ROI, predictions of potential audience engagement returns, and actionable data to improve monetization potential.
WHATS'ON Schedule Gallery is the easy-to-use, stand-alone web-native tool for powerful multichannel views and multiple managerial presentation views on scheduling data. The app provides extensive and intuitive filtering and visualization modes without the need for any WHATS'ON knowledge. It gives real-time views on content and its metadata and enables a simplified use of operational data for strategic decision making.