College streaming platforms built to run themselves.

What a college video streaming platform has to do

• Live athletics and events. Games, matches, commencements and performances, often several at once, from venues with uneven connectivity.
• Campus channels and on demand. A schedule of live and recorded programming that publishes itself, with lectures and events available after the fact on their own expiration terms.
• Rights and blackout rules. Conference and network agreements decide what can be shown where. The platform has to enforce them automatically, not by memo.
• Sponsorship and ad insertion. Local sponsors and network inventory inserted server-side, measured, and reported.
• Every screen. Apps for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, iOS, Android and the web, plus the campus network.
• Accessibility. Captions and audio description as a matter of course.
• Automation above all. A student volunteer and a schedule should be enough to run it. If the platform needs an engineer to launch a stream, it will not get used.

What we built

A fully automated streaming service for colleges: ingest, scheduling, transcoding, packaging, security, ad insertion, delivery and applications, designed so that a campus runs it without a control room. It was built by the Velostream team and licensed for $30 million.

The automation comes from the same video management system the team built for a 500-channel commercial television service, the one described in U.S. Patent No. 12,581,137: one pipeline for live signals and files, profiles built per source, expiration handled per audience, and no operator required to keep it running.

How we engage

• Build. A platform for your institution, conference or network, on your cloud accounts.
• License. The platform and its source, for organizations that want to own and run it.
• Operate. A managed service, monitored from our Utah operations center.