Effectively Managing Content Rights Across Multiple Platforms

The third installment of our series of blog posts on recent projects looks at a challenge facing many broadcasters in the non-linear world – effectively managing rights across multiple platforms.  The Bodhi Tree Group helped at large broadcaster and multi-platform service provider in APAC lay the groundwork for optimizing their rights operations to meet this [...]

Non-Linear Operations: Improving Rights, Scheduling, & Content Management

We continue our series of blog posts on past projects by looking at non-linear operations.  Recently, The Bodhi Tree Group worked with a European VOD service provider to improve their content operations in order to increase the amount of assets and metadata managed.  As with most non-linear service providers, our client faced some common challenges:

Acquiring [...]

Non-Linear Planning: Mind the Gap

In the linear world, planning used to involve walls covered with sticky-notes.  Strategic long term schedules were ever under threat from sudden gusts of wind or slammed doors.  In the non-linear world, planning is still an issue and it seems to be a blind-spot for a lot of vendors offering systems to help operations.  This [...]

NAB 2011: Nevermind the buzzwords…

The dry air of Vegas is thick with buzzwords each year at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show.  2011 was no exceptions with booths screaming workflow, brochures urging collaboration, and IP and The Cloud everywhere you look.
Behind some of those buzzwords and demonstrations are serious industry trends, however, so here’s my take on the [...]