A New Era of Streaming
Real-time broadcasts and streaming video have become differentiators for many businesses: in 2019, 87% used video as a marketing tool. Ninety-six percent of users say they used a how-to video to learn more about a product, and 79% of users say video convinced them to make a purchase.
With more than a decade of experience delivering live streaming and events, Softjourn has been a trusted partner in hosting many major U.S. series, live events, and video on demand services including The Daily Show, MTV, Nickelodeon, Big Brother, Jersey Shore, EPiX, and more.
Whether it’s developing a live streaming app from scratch, extending the functionality of existing live streaming services, or integrating with current platforms like Wowza or Brightcove, we’re sure we can find the right solution for your business’s needs
Live Streaming App Must-Haves
We’ll Help You Take Advantage Of These Live Streaming App Benefits
Deliver a consistent experience no matter where your audience is located with adaptive bitrate streaming. With adaptive streaming, we can help you achieve the best video quality and viewer experience possible for both high-end and low-end connections.
Choose completely native Android and iOS apps, or go hybrid. We can advise on what’s best for your situation. Either way, we can ensure the right functionality (such as push notifications, offline viewing, and more) for the right audience, packaged in a seamless UX.
We can build personalized user profiles into your platform, which collect data for you and empower your users to manage their preferences in a customized dashboard. We can also include a robust search functionality that helps users find the media they’re looking for, as well as tells you what content users are interested in.
Enabling payments is one of our core competencies; we can integrate your platform with the best payment solution available and create a seamless checkout process. We can walk you through different monetization schemes and what works best for your vision.
We can integrate social features to encourage your audience to share content with friends and invite new users. Other fan engagement functionality such as Q&A, rating systems, and comments help you engage audiences early and keep them coming back for more.
We can set up your platform to offer pre-roll, mid-roll, or post-roll advertisements that are strategically placed based on a video’s performance to create maximum revenue.
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Why Choose Softjourn?
- We Are Subject Matter Experts. We leverage our experience as domain experts to evaluate, identify, and deploy custom solutions. We design and develop services for live events, live video, and video on demand for those in the media industry to help our clients capture additional market segments, fan engagement, and more. From enhancing existing technology to applying new functionality, we find creative solutions to our clients’ toughest challenges.
- We’re Always Thinking Ahead. To compete, our clients continually need to provide new and better services. Since we have our own R&D Centers, Softjourn is uniquely positioned to help. We’re constantly looking for relevant ways to apply new technology that brings our clients growing needs to life.
- We Constantly Communicate. We are proactively collaborative. It’s why a common compliment we hear is how we make sure our clients are actively involved and constantly updated at every stage of a project. We become a trusted partner in helping clients thrive, developing tailored solutions and services that deliver measurable results, no matter the industry.
- Upgrade frontend or backend features to ensure your live streaming service can handle the demand social distancing has created for live streaming.
- Enhance existing systems and applications or build new ones from scratch.
- Want modern technology or upgrades, but don’t have the time or bandwidth to handle.
- Meet clients’ “cool factor” expectations.
- Collaborate with a tech partner who can hit the ground running due to an understanding of the live streaming industry.