Amagi says three channels from 4K UHD broadcaster Insight TV have been successfully transitioned to its Amagi cloud platform.
Insight TV Lifestyle, InWonder, and InTrouble are currently delivered to the STIRR platform in the United States, with InTrouble being delivered to the UK and Insight TV Lifestyle to Spain on Samsung TV Plus platform. Additionally, Insight TV Lifestyle is also delivered to the Oona TV platform in Indonesia.
Amagi deployed Cloudport to create the linear OTT channels and distribute them to Free Ad Supported platforms/Connected TVs such as STIRR and Samsung TV Plus.
“Choosing Amagi as our back-end cloud technology provider has brought about a remarkable ease to our operations, reducing overall costs and effort,” said Rian Bester, CEO, Insight TV. “Their solutions are already pre-integrated with STIRR, Samsung TV Plus and other leading platforms. This has made the transition to Amagi quick and hassle-free”.
Hosted on a AWS public cloud infrastructure, Amagi Cloudport packs in advanced features such as automated scheduling, dynamic graphics, live controls, 4K UHD playout, and 24×7 monitoring. It also has unmatched flexibility to support multiple distribution platforms, catering to their unique and individual requirements.
“Amagi is widely accepted by leading OTT platforms/devices across the world – both subscription-based and free ad-supported models. It makes Amagi a very attractive and obvious choice for content owners and digital networks to distribute their content to multiple platforms, across regions” said Srini, co-founder, Amagi. “We are excited to be the technology partner of Insight TV, and enable them to reach streaming audiences in their growth markets”.
Amagi manages 250+ channels, with deployments in more than 40 countries. Amagi clients include Turner Broadcasting, Viceland, Discovery, IMG, MGM, Tastemade, PeopleTV, ShortsTV, PBS America, Viacom18, Quest TV and Zee TV.
