German commercial broadcaster Tele 5 has renewed a multi-year contract with SES Platform Services, the technical services subsidiary of Astra satellite operator SES.
Under the agreement, SES Platform Services will provide Tele 5 with services which include editing and distributing video and metadata (such as information about licence periods, pictures, trailers and brief descriptions) – from live broadcasting to video-on-demand (VOD).
Tele 5′ inventory of more than 8,000 hours of HD video material and over 2,000 assets – from feature films to magazine formats and original reporting – is stored in Fluid MAM (media asset management), a web-based media management application developed by SES Platform Services and based on cloud technology.
The service enables companies to digitally manage their video and metadata before supplying the content to internet or VOD platforms. Tele 5 will use Fluid MAM to deliver more than 1,200 hours of VOD content annually.