Lightcast Features

Lightcast delivers a complete suite of features to manage, distribute, and monetize your content effortlessly. From AI-driven automation and multi-platform streaming to custom-branded apps and advanced analytics, our end-to-end OTT solution is built to scale with your success. Explore all the tools that make Lightcast the ultimate streaming powerhouse.

• Intuitive, award-winning media management system (CMS)
• Meta-Channels, Channels, Sub-Channels, Media Groups to organize extensive media libraries
• Real-time control over multi-tier navigation structures and categories across all your mobile apps, TV apps and websites
• Watermarks / Logo management and rendering
• Multi-language and subtitle upload, management and delivery
• Image upload and management: gallery images, thumbnails, poster images for all your apps, players and websites
• Metadata management: edit and save video metadata including titles, descriptions, keywords for discoverability
• Audio file upload, management & delivery: for radio, podcasts, music and more
• Audio publishing and delivery across all your WebApps, Websites, Mobile Apps and TV Apps

• Industry-lreading embeddable web-player with your logo, branding and backlink
• Player configurator to design your own web player
• Extensive App Framework with templates for all major app stores and device platforms
• The world's first App Builder to build custom-branded TV Apps, Mobile Apps, WebApps and more
• Customizable app templates with real-time media control for iOS, Android Mobile, Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, AndroidTV, GoogleTV, Samsung SmartTV, LG TV, Vizio, CarPlay, Android Auto, WebApp/Browsers
• Screencasting: instant ChromeCast and Airplay from your Websites, Webapps and Mobile Apps
• Free auto-publishing of on-demand and live-stream media to all major Social Media Platforms
• Video & Audio Podcast Generator

• Multi-platform subscriber authentication
• Multi-platform PPV authentication
• Subscriber products: create and sell multiple subscription bundles or tiers
• Live-PPV products: create and sell PPV tickets for live-events
• Manage PPV durations including post-event on-demand availability
• Multi-source pre/mid/post-roll ad-serving
• Multi-source VAST integration
• Integration of all industry-leading FAST providers
• Ad-marker manager: set ad-breaks and call your ad sources for every video
• Internal ad-serving: serve your own promos, ads, sponsors and direct advertisers

• Global, Bitrate-Adaptive, Tier-1 CDN Delivery
• Upload, manage and render multiple Watermarks onto your video files
• Automated and integrated video transcoding & optimization, generating 12 optimized bitrate- and format-renditions from each upload
• Unlimited Simultaneous Viewers
• Limitless Scalability: no bottlenecks CDN capacity
• Unlimited Subscribers
• Unlimited PPV Customers
• Unlimited Number of PPV Events
• Unlimited Bulk-Uploading
• Video, Audio, Image, Metadata Uploading via Media Cloud
• Large bulk Video and Audio File Uploading via FTP optional
• High-Performance CDN Storage with Edge-Caching
• CDN Origin-Shield

• Comprehensive LightcastAPI: retrieve all your contents, files, metadata, playlists, live-events, schedules for integration into any website or app
• Ingest API: connect your MAM or local content and metadata storage servers
• Bring your own or build your own: connect the Media Cloud CMS and all of its contents to your websites and apps
• Sync with your Database or Mailinglist Service
• Player Builder & Embed Tool
• EPG API Feed
• Embeddable Live-Event Count-Down
• Embeddable Playing Now / Up-Next Widget