MSA Focus is extremely proud and excited to announce that American entertainment company and premier global content leader Lionsgate has selected ForeTV Pulse to underpin its new subscription video-on-demand services.
Lionsgate has teamed up with Comic-Con to create Comic-Con HQ, an s-VOD service dedicated to providing both original content as well as a curated selection of film and TV genre titles. This adds to the Lionsgate s-VOD stable, which also includes Tribeca Shortlist a joint venture with Tribeca Enterprises, providing a prestigious selection of both Lionsgate and Tribeca titles alongside critically-acclaimed films from around the world.
Project co-ordinator Nia Jones explained
“Lionsgate wanted a system that offered easy to use, efficient and streamlined functionality, which could be implemented quickly and would allow a small team of users to easily and effectively curate large amounts of content. In addition to this they were also interested in extended functionality that might allow the manipulation of content to create more targeted or structured catalogues, enabling the future evolution and refinement of their VOD offerings. A new system also had to cope with the differing approaches of the two services within a single installation.
ForeTV Pulse with its intuitive UI, highly customisable meta-data libraries and flexible license definitions easily met these requirements. Automatically populated rights driven catalogues along with the ability to exclude selected license windows, manually place special content and manipulate availability catalogues as much or as little as required were all features that impressed. The benefits being that content managers can either simply pump out a full list of available content or craft a very specific offering of related, linked or themed titles – all exported via a CableLabs standard ADI interface.”
MSA Focus continue to develop their VOD offering, with further new features and functionality coming online later this year, enabling Lionsgate to take advantage of even more capability as their services mature.
