ICBLive Features
No Boundaries (Global Reach)
On the night of Nov. 2, 1920, Leo Rosenberg spoke into a microphone from a rooftop studio in East Pittsburgh, Pa. His historic mission that night was to broadcast the results of the presidential election between Republican Warren Harding and Democrat James Cox. “We are anxious to know how far the broadcast is reaching and how it is being received,” Rosenberg said. Today inCommands internet broadcasting is connecting you to the whole world. It has become the most popular media communication tool for all generations of people, whether they are at school studying or working on projects in a coffee shop. The Web is accessible just about anywhere and you only need a computer and internet access. Broadcasting is rapidly replacing traditional TV broadcasting. inCommand will connect your content to the world.
Cloud Based
inCommand is cloud based, which means you will eliminate those headaches of managing hardware and software. No more Capital expenditures for hardware, and software upgrades are the responsibility of an experienced broadcasting network like inCommand. The cloud based infrastructure means upgrades are automatic and scaling your content up or down is easy.
Self Service
With inCommand, you get a self-service and self provisioning on-line video distribution platform. This platform offers Content owners a cost-efficient way to share their videos with key audiences and significantly boost their online video presence. inCommand’s easy to navigate account dashboard allows for ease of control of your video content. Clients have the ability to set prices for their content, brand their own channel, Set their broadcast schedule, assign videos to their channels and all this without the need of a web designer. You can even integrate your video platform into your existing web site seamlessly for your customers.
Low Bandwidth
inCommand provides you options for streaming your content. You can set your broadcast for the most optimal viewer experience. We provide integrated auto adjust features. These features will help ensure real-time delivery, even under suboptimal network conditions, with added support for degrading quality during encoding. We take the guesswork out of your broadcasting experience.
Capturing Content
ICB supports many different forms of content including live feed channels and events, pre-recorded and edited content and sports highlights. ICB provides you the customer several ways to capture content to display on your channel. ICB gives you the ability to upload your pre-recorded or edited content using our encoding system. We support many of the popular forms of digital file content. Content can be easily uploaded and stored in your channels Content Management System.
As your content is captured through the ICB platform we store the video content for each live broadcast or pre-recorded video file and content is pushed to your account dashboard content management systems. We log the major attributes of your content and attach it to the content. The media is then immediately stored in your account dashboard so that end users can access your content through your branded channel. You have completed access and control to your content management system through your account dashboard.
Content Delivery
iCB provides a turnkey Content Delivery Service that uses edge technology deployment to distribute the content to the world with no buffering and low delay. We offer our partners a complete managed CDN service that will reach a global audience and will scale for large concurrent usage.
We provide all the connectivity with our CDN’s so you don’t have to. iCB monitors the delivery of service across multiple CDN providers. We make sure that we can trouble shoot ISP issues from the end user all the way back to signal capture. Using the proper CDN services we can ensure quality of service to the end user.
- Secured Stream with Adaptive Streaming
- Multiple Delivery Centers
- Multiple CDN Partners
- Support for low and high bit rate deliveries
- Highly Scalable
Content Management
As content is ingested into iCB’s IPTV service, iCB offers its partners an easy work flow process for the publishing of content. Content Description, images, Setting Prices, and other video attributes related to content are just clicks of the mouse. Publishing video and live events has never been easier.
The media is then immediately stored in the service so that end users can access your content through your channels via their device of choice. You as the Content Partners have complete access to the iCB’s content management dashboard.
Through your account Dashboard you will have the ability
- Streamline Web and Video Publishing
- Meta Data Tagging and SEO
- Schedule Events and sell tickets
- Self Service your Live Events
- Integration to your web site
Encoding and Streaming
H.264 and Other File Formats and Technologies
iCB provides advanced support for the latest in adaptive streaming utilizing open standards based technology. iCB can stream h.264 and Mpeg 4 to viewers globally. iCB supports both windows media and Silverlight streaming as well as flash transcoding for live or pre-recorded events or games.
Revenue Generation
At inCommand our goal is to see you succeed. We provide the tools for you to monetize your broadcast. The inCommand network is built with pay-per-view trechnology integrated into each channel. Through inCommands state of the art content management system you will have control over pay-per-view pricing and offering your content to viewers. inCommand will handle all channel billing, funds clearing, customer inquiries and disputes. The revenue is then passed along to you the channel owner. We then share in the revenue with your organization. We believe in win/win situations.
Public Relations & Marketing
inCommand knows that you can have the best idea in the world, but if the public does not know about it, then no-one will ever see it. inCommand provides designated Marketing Support Representatives/Public Relations personnel, and Collateral Materal proven to work to create awareness, at no additional cost, to help build your viewership. These specially trained Marketing Support and Public relations personnel are on staff to strictly help you professionally get your information out to the public, The goal is to let viewers know your there, and to maximize viewership on your channels. Think of them as your Independent Marketing Team. They help create awareness, maximize viewership, insure success, and let people know that your channel is live.
Social Media Tools
Chat, messaging, and blogging are built into ICBLiveTV which allows viewers to comment on videos they see in real time. These
functions can be integrated with Facebook, Twitter, and virtually any other web platform. This allows viewers to establish a dynamic presence in the ICBLiveTV community and bring in additional viewers through the use of social media sites. Contact us to find out how our clients are utilizing ICBLiveTV Networks to escalate their content distribution.
ICBLiveTV on Facebook
People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload and share photos and be a part of an online community that is over 500 million strong. Your ICBLiveTV profile can be linked into your facebook account so your Facebook friends can see your live broadcasts and your uploaded Videos On Demand.
ICBLiveTV on Twitter
Your audience can tweet while watching your live broadcasts. This notifies their followers about your broadcast and can take your videos viral in a heartbeat!
The Twitter option allows you to log in to your Twitter account from your broadcaster dashboard and set up automatic tweets when you post new events, upload videos or write blog articles. You can tweet comments related to specific videos and choose which followers your tweets will go to.
Personalization
The iCB service provides our partners personalized channels to display their own content. Media can be categorized and organized. Channel guides are available to your viewers to show upcoming events.
The service includes:
- Easily Brand-able channel page.
- Customizable User Interface
- Rich and Interactive Viewing Experience that can be customized with your own descriptions.
- Multi-Lingual Support
Interactive Chat
A Chat room is available for each channel so you can easily get in touch with your audience and share exciting news. Users can also interact with each other and comment on your show while watching the live broadcast. The chat is a great method of promoting yourself by sharing different links and new information about what’s new and upcoming on your channel. Specific features:
- user lists
- user can choose text color
- private conversation option
- context menu on users levels: kick, ignore, ban, silent ban
Tracking/Analytics
inCommand offers a range of sophisticated analytic tools which record viewer habits and statistics for every channel. This feature makes monetizing content and building your brand easy. View the daily, monthly, and yearly bandwidth spent, and number of viewers for your channel at anytime by accessing the Statistics in your administrative Dashboard. Match up the content with the appropriate marketing messages to deliver the best ROI to your sponsors. inCommand’s detailed tracking allows broadcasters to get to know their viewers by location and viewing habits; ideal for niche marketing.
24 Hour Programming Capability
The “Channel Manager” allows users to publish video and audio into playlists – complete with integrated advertisements – by seamlessly dragging and dropping content into the channel lineup. The Channel Manager makes it easy for anyone to manage an unlimited number of Standard or High Definition channels and playlists that can be transcoded to be delivered over various device players such as HTTP, Flash, Silverlight, iPTV Set top boxes, iPhone/iPads as well as other popular mobile devices. The Channel Manager is a server based H.264 streaming solution that requires absolutely no proprietary hardware. The software was designed to manage content timelines easily on the fly, and in real time, allowing the content producer to ingest LIVE breaking news or sponsored media spots at any moment.
The Channel Manager automates the following distribution of content:
1. Upload and play-out your VOD content as a linear “TV like” schedule from VOD server
- Drag And Drop Interface Picture
- Easy to Use Drag and Drop Interface
- On the Fly Live Data Integration
- Touch Screen Supported
- Advertising Integration and Tracking
- Expand and Contract your Timeline to View Complete Playlist
- Loop a single Playlist on a channel to keep the same content looping or publish multiple playlists to keep the content fresh
- Playlist can be as short as a few minutes or as long as a full day
2. Utilize Entire Media Gallery, Even 3rd Party Content such as YouTube in your Channel
- Insert both Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) Ready Content
- Pull in Content from other Websites such as Youtube
- Swap out content before going live or do so on-the-fly to keep your content fresh
- Insert Static Images or line up alternative Audio for direct commentary on the content
3. Playout your Media Playlist
- Pseudo-Live content appears like a Live Television Channel
- Embed your players to external sites and stream your channel lineup across multiple domains
- Line up multiple playlists or loop a single playlist to keep your content running 24 hours a day – 7 days a week.
4. Ingest Commercials to Monetize your Playlists!
- On the Fly Video Advertisement Insertion and Updates
- Detailed Analytics tracking Impressions and Click-Through Rate
- Combine with Mide-Roll popup advertisements to dynamically serve Ad spots
Reporting
- Real Time Access to: Web Analytics Report
- Omniture Tag Integration
- Custom Dynamic Real Time Queries
Production
If production services is what you are looking for, inCommand Broadcasting can Help. We have teamed with producers, directors, writers and camera men to bring you a complete broadcast package. Our Crews can bring you round out your production and bring you the most professional broadcast for your organization.
Settlement
- iCB provides Monthly settlement of all transactions cleared for your channel
- Based on Content Owner or Sales Channel
- Financial and Usage Reports
