Saffron Digital and Verimatrix collaborate on OTT content security

Saffron Digital and Verimatrix Collaborate to Offer Enhanced OTT Content Security

LONDON and SAN DIEGO — Saffron Digital, a premium video platform provider that simplifies the management and delivery of multi-platform video services, has partnered with Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen video services around the globe, to offer advanced revenue security and monetization tools to broadcasters and operators.

The new partnership enhances Saffron Digital’s premium OTT platform, MainStage, with Verimatrix’s proven revenue security solution. VCAS for Internet TV, powered by the multi-network Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™), platform, provides a complete multi-screen security solution for OTT services over networks implementing the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and MPEG-DASH protocols, including both live (broadcast) and VoD content delivery. In addition, VCAS offers a harmonized rights management approach, a critical component of a full range pay-TV service offering.

Integrating VCAS into MainStage will enable Saffron Digital’s customers to deliver video solutions that can be monetized across any device and business model by giving them the robust revenue security they demand.

Malachi Bierstein, SVP Sales and Marketing for Saffron Digital said, “Today’s pay-TV operators and broadcasters expect enhanced content security across all IP connected devices with access to both live and on-demand content. We have teamed up with Verimatrix to enable our mutual customers to deliver on that promise in a seamless and cost-effective manner that drives increased engagement and service revenue.”

“Our software-based revenue security solutions are well-suited to protect premium video services on a global scale,” said Steve Oetegenn, president of Verimatrix. “Integrating VCAS with Saffron Digital’s award-winning platform will enable them to offer content partners a secure platform that maximizes their revenue and supports access to the premium content that subscribers crave. We are looking forward to working with Saffron Digital and to collaborating with them to optimize the secure delivery of over-the-top (OTT) services around the globe.”

Visit Saffron Digital at NAB Connected Media IP stand N1222 located in the North Hall and Verimatrix at stand SU7510.