Solution at a Glance
GroupView is IPgallery’s solution (powered by VideoThru – IPgallery’s Video Division) that enables concurrent group viewing of any content from any source anywhere, anytime, with anyone, on any device, regardless of the group member’s present social community login or service provider subscription or viewing location.
IPgallery allows MSOs, SPs and Content Owners alike to capitalize on content sharing while turning digital rights constrains into transparent charging mechanism.
GroupView is integrated with Social Communities (e.g. twitter, facebook, google+) enabling any viewer to create his/her social community across social communities and cross different service providers to enjoy an all-embracing socializing group experience including of concurrent video watch with chat/talk and additional VAS capabilities anywhere on any device.
Customer’s Challenges
IPgallery’s GroupView is targeted to two main customers’ challenges as following:
1. Service Providers and MSOs
- Compete against the OTT ( iTunes ,Netflix etc )
- Protect the customer baseeven while logged into social communities (e.g. facebook)
- Get more eyeballs and generate more revenues
- To “ hide “ from their subscribers the constrains resulting from the content right agreements
2. Content Owners
- To capitalize on their content while protecting their content rights
- Generate new revenue streams
- Reach out to as many consumers as possible
Our Offering
IPgallery’s GrouView solution targets ,MSOs, SPs and Content Owners as standalone or as a joint solution and supports the following main functionality:
- Handling Content Rights
- Billing settlement
- VAS- nPVR, Place Shift, Time Shift
- Multi Social Communities integration
- Handling multi content sources transparently
Unique Differentiators
IPgallery’s GroupView solution ensures the following benefits :
- Easy to integrate into existing networks and OSS/BSS systems.
- Easy to maintain
- Enable fast roll out of new services
- Enable Customer to easily add functionally with its internal engineering team
- Enables blending of services
- Can run on top of IMS – Relevant for those MSOs and SPs deploying IMS
Addresses the content rights issue
Includes billing and broker capabilities
Possible Activation through social communities e.g. facebook
Business Benefits for the Customers
Innovative competitive positioning
More eye-balls – >More revenues from content consumption and advertisements
Protect customer base – Avoid churn
More revenue generating services.
Lower CapEx / OpEx.
Allowing for Competitive branding
Company References
Bezeq (Israel), MTS (Russia), Globus (Russia), Megacable (Mexico), Melita (Malta), Globul (Bulgaria), euskatel (Spain), & Tier 1 Major Service Provider in India, and more.
