DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·01
Video Streaming
HLS, DASH, low-latency live, multi-CDN failover and adaptive bitrate.
§ IND · 0625+ media clients · 1B+ streams delivered
Streams that don't
buffer at peak.
Live and on-demand video, headless CMS, recommendation engines, DRM. We've scaled platforms past Super Bowl traffic and lived to ship the post-mortem.
§ 01 — Media Domain Nuances
Building Media is different.
DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·02
Content Management
Headless CMS with editorial workflows, scheduling, and approval queues.
DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·03
DRM
Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady — token-based, geofenced, audit-logged.
DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·04
Recommendations
Personalized homepages, related-content engines, A/B tested ranking.
DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·05
Subscriptions & Billing
Tiered access, family plans, paywalls, dunning, anti-piracy controls.
DOMAIN · CHALLENGED·06
Analytics & Telemetry
QoE metrics, viewing-session analytics, churn signal detection.
§ 02 — Integration Stack
The tools we typically wire.
STACK
Streaming
MuxJW PlayerBitmovinAWS MediaLive
STACK
CDN
CloudflareFastlyAkamaiAWS CloudFront
STACK
DRM
WidevineFairPlayPlayReadyBuyDRM
STACK
CMS
SanityContentfulStrapiCustom
STACK
Analytics
Mux DataConvivaNPAWDatadog RUM
STACK
Recommendations
AWS PersonalizeAlgoliaCustom MLRecombee
§ 03 — Risks & Mitigations
The predictable traps. The way out.
R·01
Risk
Peak load buffering
Mitigation
Multi-CDN with origin shielding + ABR tuning
R·02
Risk
Piracy
Mitigation
DRM + watermarking + concurrent-stream detection
R·03
Risk
Catalog churn
Mitigation
Editorial workflows + scheduled publishing + automated rights checks
R·04
Risk
Recommendation staleness
Mitigation
Online learning + content-cold-start signals
§ 04 — Media Receipts
Recent shipped work.
CASE · STUDY
Live Streaming Scale
Re-architected a live sports platform for 2.4M concurrent viewers.
LiveScaleCDN
- ✓2.4M peak CCV
- ✓Rebuffer 1.2% → 0.3%
- ✓0 outages year 1
CASE · STUDY
OTT Subscription Launch
Built a tiered OTT product with paywalls and family plans.
SubscriptionsPaywallBilling
- ✓120k subs in 90d
- ✓Churn -22%
- ✓ARPU +18%
CASE · STUDY
Headless CMS Migration
Migrated 14 properties from a legacy CMS to a unified headless stack.
CMSMigrationPerformance
- ✓14 properties unified
- ✓Editor TTC -65%
- ✓Page LCP <1s
§ 05 — Media · Testimonial
Word from a senior operator.
From CMS to player to CDN — they understood every layer. Our editorial team and our SRE team both came out happier.
READY · TO · BUILD · MEDIA
Ship your next media milestone.
Whether you're pre-seed or post-IPO, we have the Media expertise to accelerate your roadmap. Discovery call is free; we won't pitch — we'll listen.
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