Katie Staveley

After a few years of uncertainty and caution, broadcasters and production companies that serve them are beginning to have a better understanding of what “the cloud” is and how it can help produce and distribute content internally and for consumer use. We’re seeing many success stories.

It’s “Jonathan Bird’s Blue World,” an educational family-oriented underwater adventure series airing on PBS stations nationwide and hosted by naturalist and underwater photographer Jonathan Bird. Congratulations to Jonathan and his team for the Series 4-opening episode “Aquarius Reef Base” being nominated for a national Daytime Emmy in the Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime Program category.

Yesterday at the Banff World Media Festival – set with an amazing stage, screens, lights, star-studded appearances, and a beautiful backdrop at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel – was undoubtedly an affair to remember for Signiant. Not only was the setting fit for the most glamorous of events, it was attended by some of the industry’s most impressive leaders, some of whom we work with today and others that we hope to work with in the future. We are honored to have participated in the event, and so thrilled to be chosen for this year’s Deluxe Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.

Dallas Audio Post has deployed Signiant’s Media Shuttle extreme file sharing solution to allow customers and partners a faster, easier way to exchange full-resolution audio and video files. Within four weeks time Media Shuttle displaced the use of numerous other file delivery options including FTP, YouSendIt, WeTransfer and Aspera faspX, to become its clients’ preferred approach for moving content within the company’s workflows.

For the past several months, all 29 Hearst stations have used a cloud-based advertising spot delivery system powered by Signiant’s Managers+Agents platform. Currently, the station group is using the new system for national ads, with a plan to do a local ad rollout throughout the summer.

On May 30th, 2013 Digital Production Buzz interviewed Woody MacPhail, Producer, and Luke Van Dyk, Head Engineer, both from the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival highlighting how they are using Signiant's Media Shuttle to collect submissions for their annual film festival.

Groupe Média TFO, the largest producer and distributor of French-language educational and cultural media content in Canada, has standardized on Signiant software to move and exchange large files securely among cable partners, business units across Ontario and global production and distribution organizations. Whether used for in-house production, co-production or content acquisition, Signiant solutions streamline TFO’s broadcast workflow processes and optimize internal bandwidth utilization for increased productivity and cost savings.