Voddler allows content owners to publish material in a quick and cost-effective way with industry friendly DRM, while at the same time making it easier for the consumer to find and purchase events. Content payment can be handled by ad insertion, sponsorships or by using payment services like PayPal. Content owners can create customized VoD portals to suit targeted viewer audiences.
Create Your VoD Portal Just Like YOU Want it!
Take advantage of the easy-to-use Vortal Generator and create your own VoD portal the way you want it. You can completely decide how it will work and will look like when presented to the customers.
Menu and Icon Structure
You can structure your VoD portal by deciding upon the different menus and icons you want to use for your portal and where you want to position them in the portal structure.
YOU Decide How it Will Work!
Service Types - Presentation or Dynamic Display Object
You decide how you want your VoD portal to work by assigning a service type to each icon in your portal structure. Each service type is represented by either text and pictures edited by you along with a specific behavior (Presentation), or completely dynamic information/behavior gathered from any external source (Dynamic Display Object.)
Presentation and Behaviors
A presentation consists of text and pictures edited by you. If you want to assign a presentation to an icon, you must also choose what will happen when the end user presses the OK button on the remote control - we refer to this as "Behavior". A behavior can be a menu category, VoD movie, radio channel, VoD channel, URL, etc.
Dynamic Display Objects
A Dynamic Display Object is a form of intelligent, customized presentation that gives unlimited flexibility in creating interactive applications. It is downloaded to your customer's set-top box when the user highlights a particular icon in the portal, and can display any dynamic information from the Voddler database or from an external source such as an Internet service.
YOU Decide What it Will Look Like!
Skins and Templates
You can fully customize the way your VoD portal will be graphically presented to your customers by the use of different skins and templates designed by Voddler's professional designers. Each page in the hierarchy structure as well as each portal category can have its own skin, enabling you to create a different look and feel for different parts of the portal.
Furthermore, each icon in the VoD portal can be assigned to a server side Flash template to produce fully customized presentations. You simply select any of the available templates, upload pictures and enter texts directly into the selected template.
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
The portal generator is provided with a comprehensive WYSIWYG graphical editor, which means that what you see on the screen when managing your portal, is also what will be seen by the end users.
Thanks to the graphics rendering software you can use any font you want; the result will still look the same for the customers no matter what client they are using.
IPVoD operators face a dynamic environment where the middleware plays a key role in providing the flexibility to adapt to the constantly changing demands. By using the very flexible and easy-to-use Voddler Region Management you can present different VoD portals to different customers.
Flexible Targeting Based on Customer Properties
You can use many different customer properties when creating page rules for your portal.
The standard customer properties implemented in Voddler are:
To further increase the flexibility, Voddler can easily implement any new customer property, as long as the used field is present in your customer database, and that the corresponding field is exported to Voddler.