Skitter.TV

Skitter.TV: A Winning Content Delivery Solution for the Entertainment Industry

Skitter is committed to supporting and adding value to the business models of both the content owner and the service provider. Because without content, there’s less value to deliver. And without reliable, cost-effective delivery, it’s harder, riskier and more expensive to get content to viewers. That’s why Skitter.TV is the right technology at the right time for both the entertainment and telecommunications industries.

Skitter’s corporate goal is to make entertainment services delivery more efficient, flexible and profitable for both entertainment and telecommunications companies, as well as more convenient and engaging for the consumer. Skitter directs our service provider customers to the appropriate parties for content acquisition or broadcast retransmission negotiations. We don’t decide channel line-ups and we don’t take a cut from content revenue. In this context, Skitter’s goal is to ensure that content owners and distributors can protect and grow revenue via advertising and merchandising, while helping expand distribution by reaching more viewers in more places.

Unlike many content aggregators, Skitter.TV is committed to working with content owners and distributors to ensure that:
› Content delivery policies and practices are honored
› Content is secure
› Video quality and streaming performance are unsurpassed
› Advertising, PPV and subscription revenue streams are maintained and even expanded

Winning Technology Solutions for Entertainment Delivery

Skitter’s ability to provide broad advertising and merchandising support and our commitment to content security takes a lot of the risk out of exposing more content online. And our advanced technology for video encoding and streaming makes it more cost-effective than ever to achieve high-quality video delivery, whether directly from your content delivery infrastructure or in partnership with our service provider partners.

Unsurpassed encoding technology offers quality and efficiency

Our Skitter Acclaim™ line of video encoders offer more efficient video encoding at a lower cost with stunning picture quality—creating multiple video stream formats in real time. The Acclaim encoders produce industry-standard MPEG-4 H.264 video in standard definition at an average 1.5 Mbps with peaks to 1.8, and high definition video at 3 Mbps with peaks to 4.5. Cost, quality, efficiency, rack space—there are any number of ways that Skitter’s video encoders will rival anything you’ve seen before.

Video server co-location reduces overhead and improves performance

The Internet is by definition a distributed computing environment. Yet many content delivery environments are built on a top-heavy architecture that stresses bandwidth, increases infrastructure costs and degrades streaming performance. Skitter.TV offers entertainment companies the option to co-locate content at the service provider head-end on a highly secured server. Stream videos to Skitter’s cached video server once for redistribution to individual viewers per your contracted access agreements, improving the viewer experience while reducing costs and ensuring reliable delivery. The Skitter.TV environment supports both unicast and multicast streams to support multiple viewers with a single video stream as well as support video-on-demand delivery.

Skitter.TV’s advanced technology brings efficiency, reliability, control and quality to the entertainment delivery ecosystem. Before you make infrastructure investments to ready your content for direct delivery via your Web properties or indirectly through other channels, you owe it to yourself to take a look at Skitter.TV.

Contact us for more information on how to partner with Skitter and our service provider customers or for more details on how Skitter.TV can enhance your own content delivery infrastructure.