WorldNow - Advertising, Technology and Streaming Video Solutions: Worldnow Video

With more than 13 years of digital media experience, Worldnow's video platform dominance is driven by its patent-pending technology designed specifically for local media enterprises. Worldnow is the digital partner of choice for more than 400 local media clients, including CBS Radio, Cox Communication, Gray Interactive and Raycom Media among others. Video platform clients enjoy a dynamic  and feature-rich end-to-end solution that encompasses live video broadcasting/streaming, HD encoding, frame-accurate editing and a broad selection of distribution options to any platform and device, from web to mobile to connected TVs.  Worldnow also offers a dynamic  and customizable standards-compliant video player, supporting VAST and OSMF standards.  

Designed for Media-Based Workflow
Complex tasks are made simple with Worldnow's browser-based tools that allow any non-technical staff to easily edit, manage, assign and distribute video content and advertising. Worldnow's flexible video solution allows you to build and customize a workflow that will meet your individual needs. Video can be captured automatically, scheduled or set on-demand.

Cutting Edge Video Editing
With browser-based access to your video assets, Worldnow allows partners to manage their content with a state-of-the-art editing interface that includes frame-accurate editing, close-captioning data capture and near-immediate access to live feeds.

Distribution and Socialization
Worldnow provides social tools and an agnostic approach to video distribution, enabling clients to customize syndication relationships and viral distribution strategies. Our partnerships provide numerous opportunities to distribute content to more than 20 of the most popular social and video portals. Our connected TV app provides access to the next generation of television sets as well as set-top boxes like Roku. For syndication partners, video content is easily distributed via automated MRSS feeds.

Video For Mobile, Live Streaming and On-Demand
Worldnow's video appliance can distribute all common formats including mobile for both on-demand and live streaming destinations. The hardware fully supports the creation of common mobile video formats such as h264, 3GP and Windows Mobile Media, in both standard and high definition.

Viral Player
Our  powerful  video player allows users to e-mail, embed, link or bookmark video content extending  the social and viral conversation around your video. Clients can increase interaction by attaching comments via the advanced video commenting feature that is tightly integrated into the user experience of the Worldnow player.

Player Customizations
Worldnow's exclusive Video Player Widgets give partners the ability to create custom video players with simple, easy-to-use tools. Individual player elements can be placed anywhere on the page, either attached or detached from one another.  Customizations include a set of 17 color themes and overlay controls. For clients with development resources, the Video Player Widgets API affords maximum control over the player size and style to create a variety of video experiences.

Ad Compliance, Revenue Generation
Worldnow customers are industry-leaders in developing local and national advertising revenue. Worldnow's video advertising solutions are IAB compliant, including VAST and V-PAID standards, provide ad serving for pre-roll and overlay advertising, comprehensive reporting, tools for syndication and revenue programs such as a national ad network and local sales consulting.

Flexible Solutions
Worldnow's video management system employs an open architecture tailored to the individual needs and strategic goals of our partners in a variety of formats including h264, Flash and Windows to ensure play out on all devices including Apple IOS and Android. Worldnow is compliant with more than 33 video codecs covering more than 98 percent of the video formats used across the internet and connected devices.

Open Platform
Worldnow provides an open platform that allows customers to integrate proprietary and legacy systems for ad serving, news management as well as customizable consumer interfaces.  The Worldnow video player maintains the strictest compliance with the latest standards to maximize ad placement and revenue generation.  In addition, the Worldnow video player will continue to fully support new standards such as HTML5 and mobile advertising specifications.

Supported File Formats
Worldnow's distributed and hosted media management systems support all common video codecs, such as H.264, H.263, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MOV, WMV and AVI. Our video appliance installed locally in your own racks handles all aspects of video acquisition, management, syndication and distribution, supporting HD, SDI and analog capture, file-based workflow and live streaming.

Best-of-Breed Partners
The Worldnow video platform integrates with industry-leading partners including content delivery networks (CDN)s, analytics vendors , ad insertion engines and rich media advertising vendors to provide a flexible, interoperable solution that accommodates clients' and advertisers' changing needs.

Reliability and Scalability
Dependability is a Worldnow hallmark and the video platform is no exception. In addition to delivering high-quality reliable service every day, Worldnow's integration with content delivery networks (CDN)s provides scalability at a moment's notice. Major news and weather events break without warning and when they do, our customers' websites can instantly respond to the resulting spikes in video and site traffic.

Service and Support
In addition to the secure, scalable video system architecture, Worldnow's human support is second to none.  From the 24/7/365 fully trained  in-house technical support team to the on-site training and strategic revenue consulting offered by our client services team, partners are supported from start to finish.