The latest statistics indicate that content streaming began to make up a significant portion of internet traffic as more people had to spend time at home due to the pandemic. With COVID accelerating digital transition, many companies have found themselves on new turf, and their ability to adapt will determine their success in the years to come.
Some of Our Media & Entertainment Clients
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Media & Entertainment Expertise
From meeting consumer demand with streaming services and VOD apps, to capturing engagement with social media video platforms and growing interaction with second screen functionality, our clients stand out because of our technical acumen and domain expertise. This is why we’ve been a trusted partner for many major U.S. television series, live events, and VOD programs including The Daily Show, MTV, Nickelodeon, Big Brother, Jersey Shore, EPiX, and more.
Second Screen
Consuming favorite shows is easier than ever with Second Screen apps. More screens mean more opportunities, from a specific app for one show to mobile tools for sharing opinions and capturing key moments — and we’ll be there to make it happen.
Live Video
Live Video, or Streaming Services, is an impactful way to broadcast your content. It’s ideal for launches, promotions, webinars, and more. Research shows 80% of users favor live feeds to written posts, which makes our live video expertise invaluable.
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Social Media Video Platform
Social media video platform applications are booming; user engagement in apps like TikTok, Snapchat, Dubsmash, and others is skyrocketing on mobile phones worldwide. Use our mobile application expertise to bring your social video app idea to life.
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Video on Demand (VOD)
Give your consumers the VOD experience they want, in the channel they want with the right distribution model, popular functionalities, and effective monetization. We’ll assure that your service can withstand consumer appetite — now and in the future.
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DRM Functionality
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is key to a successful content monetization strategy for digital publishers. Our experts can help you implement DRM functionality to protect digital media ownership and prevent any unauthorized redistribution.
Media & Entertainment Case Studies
Video Streaming
SnappyTV: Edit Live. Share Everywhere
Softjourn collaborated with SnappyTV (acquired by Twitter) and one of its customers, a major international media company, to enhance the Android mobile experience for viewers of a popular TV show. This project included integrating the exciting social interaction options of the SnappyTV platform.
Technologies:
Java SDK SnappyTV Proprietary API
Social Media Video Platform
ClipSync: Interactive Social Viewing Experience
Wishing to restore the social aspect of watching TV in a digital atmosphere, Clipsync partnered with Softjourn to create a social media video platform where users can join their friends for a private showing. This project included engagement features like chats and screen interactions. A white label version of the end product was also developed.
Technologies:
ActionScript PostgeSQL WebORB Hibernate
Social Media Video Platform
JellyTelly: iOS and Android Apps for Meaningful Kids’ Entertainment
JellyTelly chose Softjourn to expand their mobile reach by developing new iOS and Android apps that would provide faith-based videos and devotionals developed for children. This project included simultaneous mobile app development, API construction, and use of the latest technology to provide an adaptive UX.
Technologies:
Objective C Java XCode Android Studio
Video Streaming
Pana Television: Video Streaming Done Easily
Pana Television, a modern African TV content provider, partnered with Softjourn to create an ad-supported video platform. By leveraging Softjourn’s expertise, Pana provided their customers with a fast and easy-to-navigate video website that offered modern streaming functionality and must-have social media integration.
Technologies:
PHP Zend DB Brightcove API
Digital Publication Platform
YUDU Media: Publish Your Content to Apps and HTML5
To meet the needs of a wide range of clients who each use the YUDU Media digital publication platform for different purposes, YUDU partnered with Softjourn to realize a reporting application. This stand-alone solution allows authorized users to generate reports on an as-needed basis.
Technologies:
Java AngularJS ElasticSearch MySql
Outdoor Cinema
Cinewav: Audio/Video Solution for Outdoor Cinema Experience
Cinewav, a Singapore-based startup, approached Softjourn with a unique idea—to deliver a new, immersive approach to outdoor group movie-watching events. Softjourn’s team developed and validated a solution that aligns video and audio perfectly through a mobile application that users can install on their smartphones. Cinewav believes this app could create the largest outdoor cinema and gather sizable audiences without creating noise pollution.
Technologies:
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Here's how our media experts can bring your idea to life
Media and Entertainment App Development
For more than a decade, Softjourn’s tech professionals have supplied a broad range of tech skills to support Media and Entertainment app development for our clients’ unique market conditions.
Due to our extensive experience, we know exactly what kind of solution will fit our clients’ needs, solve their problems, and help them achieve ambitious business goals. Aware of the latest trends in the Media and Entertainment industry, our specialists stand ready to develop powerful apps that will create lasting experiences.
United by our passion for creating services, we’ve partnered with companies that later grew into successful market leaders. At Softjourn, we help clients get the most value out of the latest technologies, and together we can build great Media and Entertainment applications.
Engagement Models
Why Our Clients Choose Us
Media and Entertainment companies leverage our technology expertise and best practices to bring their ideas to life. We help our clients solve real world problems, increase market share, and grow their businesses.
How We Help?
We build modern technology apps. In Media and Entertainment, this often means user-generated content or user-to-user engagement apps that help brands grow audiences, market reach, and, ultimately, revenue.
How We Apply Our Creativity
Our in-house R&D gives us firsthand knowledge of the best technology and methods. With our expertise, your platform can grow engagement and retention through gamification, rewards, polls, and more.
Why Our Clients Choose Us
Media and Entertainment companies leverage our technology expertise and best practices to bring their ideas to life. We help our clients solve real world problems, increase market share, and grow their businesses.
How We Help?
We build modern technology apps. In Media and Entertainment, this often means user-generated content or user-to-user engagement apps that help brands grow audiences, market reach, and, ultimately, revenue.
How We Apply Our Creativity
Our in-house R&D gives us firsthand knowledge of the best technology and methods. With our expertise, your platform can grow engagement and retention through gamification, rewards, polls, and more.
What Services We Offer
Whether upgrading an existing code or creating a new one, the most important expertise we offer is a proven approach to mitigating risk and containing costs.
Often clients don’t know what product they need, but do know the results they want. Our job is to help define the product and develop optimal solutions to get those results.
To compete, our clients continually need to provide new and better services. We have our own R&D Centers – started in 2008 – which uniquely positions us to do just that.
Our developers and illustrators are experts at UI and UX design. They will work with you to understand your needs in going from idea to prototype to deployment faster and at less cost.
Financial software development has grown exponentially in recent decades. Softjourn is the solution to help you define and develop forward-thinking technology that gets real-world results.
Our core belief is that analyzing and testing is critical because the essential role of software is so important. In the process, our Quality Assurance team helps you create superior products.
Since day one, we’ve been providing application support and maintenance services to each customer on every project. It’s why we’re a proven, trusted partner and reliable asset.
Media and Entertainment Insights
Thought-Leadership
Hybrid Events: Why You Should Livestream Live Events
As it turns out, streaming online can boost your event in several ways! By livestreaming events and offering hybrid events, potential benefits can include increased attendance, new revenue streams, and engaging marketing content.
Tech-Content
Online Streaming: 3 Technologies That Will Drive Streaming Post COVID-19
With social distancing measures expected to last potentially a year, streaming is an important tool for businesses to reach employees, consumers, and each other. However, today's streaming platforms are a band-aid for current needs. Security options, privacy, scalability, and discoverability are all issues highlighted by the news. However, there are technologies, both on the horizon and even in nascent use today, that could change all of that.
Tech-Content
Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI): The Right Ad at the Right Time
The shift from traditional ways of advertising to highly targeted approaches is well underway. The focus on personalized content has intensified in recent years, and with the help of DAI and “manifest manipulation,” it’s now a reality.
Since 2010 Softjourn team have been maintaining the processing system which is a core of our business; they’ve done a great job so far! We value the knowledge transfer process as well as excellent development skills!
Andriy Berezyuk
Business Development Director at UPC
Business Development Director at UPC
We were encouraged because Softjourn asked the right questions and involved people with the right experience in the conversations.
Toffer Grant
Founder at PEX
Founder at PEX
Results are fantastic. On either iPhones or Android phones, the app is easy to use and really attractive. We’re increasing our activity in the consumer market, and these great-looking, great-functioning apps will help us expand our reach.