Front Porch Digital has hooked up with thePlatform to offer its customers thePlatform’s cloud-based video-publishing services.
Front Porch Digital will integrate thePlatform’s mpx video-publishing system into the Front Porch Digital LYNX cloud-based CSM system for managing media assets.
Chris Drake, vice president of business development at thePlatform, said, “With mpx, Front Porch Digital can now offer its customers a complete, hosted multiscreen video-publishing solution in the cloud.”
Front Porch Digital’s LYNX customers will be able to use mpx to upload, manage, and distribute videos to their own websites, third-party sites, smartphones, tablets, and more.
In addition, mpx provides LYNX users with a simple Web-based console for managing their video libraries, customizable video players with automated social networking tools, enterprise-grade reliability, and more, all accessible from the LYNX interface, Front Porch Digital said.
“More and more of our DIVArchive customers are embracing our LYNX cloud-based solution for storing and managing their assets with adaptable, on-demand scalability that reduces capital expenses and operational costs. Now, those customers can get the same benefits from a renowned video-publishing solution that’s available directly through LYNX,” said Andy Hurt, vice president, product management and marketing, Front Porch Digital.
“thePlatform makes video publishing easy and scalable for many of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world, and now the same mpx reliability and performance our customers get through our DIVApublish system is available in our cloud solution as well.”