The OctopusMT Simulcasting service takes your existing broadcast stream and creates a live online high quality stream. Streaming your broadcast online extends your product offering and enhances the experience for existing customers. Even better, this provides access to a whole new online audience including 16 million UK households with broadband, 1 million Sony PS3 and over 1 million Nintendo Wii consoles.

Viewing video online is becoming the way for users to view programes and the ad revenue online will exceed traditional TV this year in the UK. Find out more about the UK video usage statistics here.


Key opportunities and advantages:

• Charge monthly subscriptions
• Additional advertising revenue
• Sponsorship opportunity
• Increase reach
• Syndicate content for additional revenue stream (eg. Facebook, Myspace etc)
• Incorporate interactive function such as ‘call to action’

Features:

• Cost effective broadcasting
• Low setup costs
• 24/7 monitoring and support
• High quality video
• Easily deliver video to Personal Computers/web books, Smart Phones, the Nintendo Wii (over 28 Million sold worldwide) SONY PS3, and many other devices.

OctopusMT provide the fully managed service by taking the feed directly from your existing broadcast and will encode and deliver this online. OctopusMT can also design a bespoke player for your site to fit with the current design and to include bespoke functionality such as integration with 3rd party systems such as Omniture and Web trends.
OctopusMT is also able to provide hardware to install into your playout facility to take the live video feed and encode it onsite before delivering it to the Content Delivery Network.