Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
AvailableTM solves the avails problem for Movies, TV Shows, Concerts, Clips, and more. This novel data service is EMA-compliant for system interoperability and EIDR-integrated for title accuracy, covering breakdowns by HD, SD, and Promo Windows.
Now to an outsider this could seem a bit boring, and maybe even to an insider if it weren’t just so unprecedented and COOL.
Updates get processed and published to Distribution Partners the same business day they are received from Content Owners, with few exceptions. And for studios and other Content Owners who request it, AvailableTM can even register your titles with EIDR as a routine courtesy – effortlessly inline with your avails reporting.
It’s nice when the gains are mutual.
A process that had grown entirely out of control is now growing back into control with each passing day, as business-minded Content Owners and Content Distributors join in the beneficial system of exchange.
AvailableTM already services many of the world’s most important Content Owners (over 150 and growing fast), who are using it to push tens of thousands of the world’s most popular titles to some of the world’s largest Content Distributors.
Why do they join? Ease and reliability.
noun
an array of traditionally aggravating and inefficient processes by which a given content owner periodically provides a list of all programming that is available to be screened on a contracting broadcaster’s networks, such information typically including but not limited to the viewing timeframe, the wholesale price, and the video format
“The outwardly simple task of organizing avails on both sides of the business had sent many crying to their mommies in hopeless resignation – when along came AvailableTM by Rightsline.”
BigBroad accesses the Available service through Rightsline’s management suite, not just for avails updates and re-pricings, but also to handle monthly programming for our 30 million subscribers.
Content Owners (like the Studios) email avails to us, or better yet, connect to our web services and pipe in their avails, indicating which Content Distributors they are for. There is no fee for Content Owners to publish their avails to our subscribing Content Distributors.
Our proprietary algorithms normalize all the data to industry standards and verify that all titles are properly identified and matched, using EIDR where possible. Our team of data managers intervenes to handle any exceptions, ensuring the utmost completeness and accuracy.
Content Distributors (like MSO/MVPDs) subscribe to our data feed, access our API, or login to our companion Rightsline solution to get updates on new releases, pricing changes, and promotions. Whether receiving entire catalogs or single records, it preserves their sanity.
Choose among the four paths to enlightenment.
AvailableTM lets publishers and subscribers interact with the service in four convenient ways. Pick one that makes it easy to get started:
THE OLD SCHOOL WAY
via Email, using Excel and CSV as transfer files
THE NEW SCHOOL WAY
via Web Page, using a smart interface to speed work
THE TECH SAVVY WAY
via REST API, as a consumable, data-only, web service
THE TECH FORWARD WAY
via Rightsline, integrated with a complete rights suite
The Available initiative offers content owners and distributors the tools to integrate EIDR and EMA avails, a consensus position which is fast becoming indispensable in today’s media ecosystem. It’s just the kind of leadership we love to see among SaaS platforms that leverage EIDR.