# Vidgo: the live television platform Velostream designed, built and operated

More than 500 live channels, dynamic ad insertion, applications on every major device, and certification to carry ESPN networks, achieved as an independent operator. The video management system at its core is the subject of U.S. Patent No. 12,581,137 (https://velostream.com/patent/).

## What the Velostream team built

- Headend and signal acquisition for hundreds of live network feeds, with multi-region failover.
- Transcoding and packaging for adaptive delivery to every screen, with profiles that preserve each source's native quality.
- Dynamic ad insertion across the live lineup, integrated with FreeWheel and Google Ad Manager.
- Content security: Widevine and FairPlay DRM, encrypted storage, watermarking, automated retention and expiry.
- Multi-CDN delivery with automatic routing and fallback.
- Applications for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Vizio, Sony TV, iOS, Android and the web, with subscription management and in-app purchase.
- 24/7 network operations from a Utah-based operations center with broadcast-grade monitoring and real-time alerting.

## Certified to carry ESPN networks

Vidgo was one of only six over-the-top platforms certified to carry ESPN networks. Certification means the platform met the network's technical and compliance requirements for rights management, blackout enforcement and broadcast-grade reliability. The Velostream team achieved it as an independent operator.

## Architecture

Acquire, process, package, monetize, deliver, play back: every step orchestrated by API, monitored, and designed to scale without adding operators. AWS Elemental for media processing, FreeWheel and Google Ad Manager for ad decisioning, Widevine and FairPlay for DRM, auto-healing pipelines and multi-region failover underneath.

## Why the platform could run itself

The system treated live signals and file-based media as one problem: a transcoding profile built per source, security applied at ingest, the same asset serving different viewing groups on different expiration dates, and updates, retention and expiry running without a person in the loop. That design is what U.S. Patent No. 12,581,137 claims.

## The team is intact

The engineers who designed, built and operated the platform are at Velostream today, led by the patent's inventor. https://velostream.com/leadership/

Contact: hello@velostream.com. HTML version: https://velostream.com/vidgo/