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SHIFT72 Platform Features

Ingestion I Protection I Optimization I Customization I Delivery I Revenue

 

Adaptive Bitrate Streaming                Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

Encoding & Ingestion

SHIFT72's encoding and Ingestion processes optimize your content for today's audiences, ensuring premium quality playback across multiple devices and enhanced streaming experiences for audiences around the globe.

 

  • Industry Leading Encoding

Encoding workflows that ensure optimal playback performance of your content and enhanced delivery to your customers.

 

  • Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

Deliver exceptional viewing experiences to your audience. Intelligent player and delivery technology monitors and adapts video playback based on your customers connectivity speeds and device capability in real-time.

 

  • Your Secure Digital Library

Effortlessly transfer your entire content catalogue to your platform using our streamlined ingestion process. Our secure cloud based storage ensures your content is protected using advanced encryption methods.

 
 
 
 
 

Content Protection

Industry leading DRM copy protection with advanced real-time regional control over territory access. Your content is your most valuable asset and protecting it is our priority.

 

  • Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Secure your content with studio-grade DRM, protecting and encrypting access to your titles across multiple devices. We match best practice content protection with an equal focus on customer enjoyment.

 

  • Geo-Blocking

Control distribution windowing and regional sales from your platform dashboard in real-time and block or unblock content access by territory, site-wide, or for individual titles.

 

 

Tools for Conversion

Grow your database, own your customer and leverage the lifetime value of your audience. Your platform comes complete with marketing tools proven to attract and convert visitors to paying customers and increase ROI.

 

  • Pre-Purchase

Build hype, grow social awareness and extend revenue windows by providing pre-purchase offerings on films before they’re released.

 

  • Promo Codes

Boost sales and increase customer engagement with specials and retention offers. Create, control and apply Promo Codes to individual films or to your entire catalog at anytime from your Dashboard.

 

  • Bonus Footage

Reward loyal customers and dramatically improve sales conversions. The Bonus Footage feature allows you to list unlimited bonus content for specific titles, resulting in increased sales and happy customers.

 

  • Tailored Recommendations

Guide repeat purchase behaviour by delivering personalized shopping experiences. Purpose-built platform algorithms provide tailored content recommendations, creating a unique customer journey for every user.

 

  • Watchlist

Increase site engagement, encourage return visits and gain insight into your customers’ future buying intentions. The watchlist module provides analysis of your users buying signals, enabling you to tailor highly customized and targeted marketing offers that convert.

 

 

Complete Customization

Tailor your platform to your brand and business model. Benefit from our in-depth knowledge and years of experience in online film sales. Our platform interfaces are designed for conversion, matching your business requirements with proven VOD best practices.

 
  • Your Platform

Directly and safely distribute your content to a global audience with state of the art VOD technology. Our solutions range from packages designed for Film Festivals, Distributors, Production Companies, Digital Retailers or Single Title Releases, all hosted under your own domain name and fully malleable to your brand guidelines

 

  • Your Branding

You retain full control over your platform. Add your logo and colors without any coding knowledge or allow our experienced creative team to integrate a stunning custom design.

 

  • Content Curation

Curation tools provide granular control over content display on your platform. Arrange titles, carousels and collections with ease and seamlessly rearrange your platform display at any time with an intuitive drag and drop interface.

 

    
 
 
 

Delivery & Devices

Deliver your content at optimized speeds across multiple devices. Your customers experience superior playback and the freedom to enjoy your content on more than one screen.

 
  • Multi-Screen Devices

Deliver content across multiple devices while maintaining the highest quality playback and studio-grade DRM copy protection of your titles. Your audience is mobile, we ensure your content is too.

 

  • Edge Location Content Delivery

Blazing fast streaming and download speeds via our global Content Delivery Network ensures optimal viewing experiences. We support multiple CDN’s with over 170,000 edge streaming locations, serving data to your customers from the closest possible location.

 

  • Offline Viewing

Exceed customer expectations and stand out from your competition with the ability to deliver secure viewing experiences without the constraints of an internet connection.

 

 

                 

 

 

Revenue

Maximize your business potential and access untapped revenue streams. Our platforms are flexible to your business model and put you in control of your revenues.

 
  • Multi-Currency Support

Provide a localized platform experience to a global audience. Our payment modules support all major credit cards and currencies, extending your offering worldwide.

 

  • Regional Price Controls

Set country-specific pricing, sell at local currencies to your users and increase your sales conversions with advanced real-time regional price controls.

 

  • Real-Time Payments

Total control over your revenue streams and returns. With your platform, 100% of your sales revenue flows directly to your bank account the instant a sale is made.

 

  • Reporting and Analytics

Gain deep insights into your customer and sales activity with analytics and reporting tools. Improve your marketing ROI, monitor user behavior and accurately drive your business decisions based on real-time data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Interview with Cannes Marche du Film Director

 

 

 

Filmfestivals.com dailies live coverage from

> Live from India 
> Live from LA
Beyond Borders
> Locarno
> Toronto
> Venice
> San Sebastian

> AFM
> Tallinn Black Nights 
> Red Sea International Film Festival

> Palm Springs Film Festival
> Kustendorf
> Rotterdam
> Sundance
Santa Barbara Film Festival SBIFF
> Berlin / EFM 
> Fantasporto
Amdocs
Houston WorldFest 
> Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
Cannes / Marche du Film 

 

 

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