Conserve video minutes with 24/7

Today we want to show you how to conserve video minutes with your 24/7 stream on your TV, Mobile and Web Apps.

Being a cord cutter used to mean giving up access to 24/7 live news coverage or simply linear broadcasting which conveniently runs in the background and plays show after show without any viewer interaction necessary. With OTT platforms such as Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, SmartTVs, cord cutters now have an abundance of both on-demand and live-streaming resources available.

For the operator publishing linear 24/7 streams to OTT platforms, as well as to Mobile Apps and Web Apps  is much cheaper than via traditional cable TV or satellite TV (we are talking about 6-7 $$$ figures in annual savings!). That said, the bandwidth consumption for linear 24/7 streams has to be factored in of course,  and can be greater than for simple VOD delivery. Still the cost is much (!) lower than with traditional cable or satellite distribution, but if you have a growing number of Connected TV viewers who keep the 24/7 stream running in the background for hours, it might consume your bandwidth package faster than you expected, and you will have to either purchase additional minutes or upgrade to a larger package.  

Here is something you can do right now in order to reduce bandwidth usage on linear 24/7 streams:

 Enable the “Time-Out Notification”. This feature can be enabled with one click on your OTT/ConnectedTV apps and asks your viewers after a specific period of time, which you can define, if they are still watching. It pauses your stream until the viewer confirms via their remote control that they are still watching.