Streamline the Broadcast Supply Chain

Signiant significantly enhances content flow for television networks, streamers, VOD and cable operators with fast, secure content flow, improving collaboration and streamlining distribution.

Use Cases for Television Networks, Cable Broadcasters and more

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Programming Submissions

Keep ingest and submissions simple with an off-the-shelf ingest portal to manage large volumes of content submitted from hundreds of partners. Content aggregators, distributors, advertisers, affiliates and more need to submit content to broadcasters for production, editing, and eventual distribution.

News Field Production

Empower news field production teams to quickly transfer content under poor network conditions and high latency using Signiant’s intuitive interface. Simplify onboarding and managing freelance news preditors, stringers and fixers, while ensuring editors, producers, and operation crews can access content swiftly before broadcast.

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Highlights, Graphics & Prerecorded Content

Enable remote production teams to quickly deliver, access, and receive timely content, graphics, and highlights for live broadcast productions. The Signiant Platform’s fast file transfer, scalability and global ecosystem capabilities are crucial for real-time decision-making and enhancing productions pre, during, and post-broadcast.

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Remote Access to Content

Utilize Signiant Media Engine to access, review, and act on content seamlessly from any location without moving the asset. Users can quickly access media directly from a web browser or via Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, or After Effects, regardless of storage location, streamlining content access and management. 

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Affiliates/O&Os Distribution

Offer local broadcasters and affiliate channels convenient, automated, and secure access to national content from parent networks. Ensure smooth collaboration and uniform distribution of standardized content packages and graphics, vital for synchronized broadcasts and maintaining quality across diverse locations.  

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Global Media Operations

Streamline intricate global media content operations across a spectrum of locations, facilities, teams, platforms or channels, and across on-premises or cloud infrastructure. Empower both internal teams and external partners with automated or self-service workflows, minimizing friction and redundancy, all conveniently monitored from a centralized user-friendly dashboard.

Signiant Benefits

Automation

  • Automation

    Automate recurring tasks easily to, from and between on-premises or cloud storage. Use hot folder jobs to trigger automatic file transfers and schedule jobs to run at a specific time, all managed through an intuitive web interface.

Storage Independence

  • Storage Independence

    Signiant’s storage independence supports hybrid-cloud/multi-cloud use cases, where broadcasters use a mix of on-premises and cloud storage and/or multiple cloud storage vendors. This flexibility is crucial for media supply chains, enabling companies to tailor strategies to individual cases while maintaining complete control over assets and storage expenses.

Inter-company Transfers

  • Inter-company Transfers

    Signiant Jet provides a simple cloud handshake mechanism for two companies to exchange data while remaining independently in control of their side of the access and storage.

Reliability

  • Reliability

    Checkpoint Restart automatically resumes any interrupted transfers from the point of failure. Receive notifications when transfers are complete, eliminating guesswork and uncertainty from broadcast operations.

Partner Integrations

  • Partner Integrations

    The Signiant Platform has an extensive partner integration library to ensure seamless media ecosystems — including EVS, Telestream, Evertz, Grass Valley, and NEP.

Off-the-Shelf Ingest Portal

  • Off-the-Shelf Ingest Portal

    Signiant Media Shuttle provides a customizable off-the-shelf cloud ingest portal for broadcast teams and partners — with built-in acceleration, metadata capture, pre-transfer file validation (CloudSpeX), and more.

Signiant seamlessly integrates into all broadcast production and operations facets, from episodic content creation to news broadcasts, late-night entertainment, and streaming services. The Signiant Platform ensures efficient handling of data for global distribution, offering affiliates, partners, and, ultimately, viewers access to content swiftly and securely across diverse platforms worldwide.

Trusted by the broadcast industry, including:

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Birkir Björnsson, Master Control Room Playout and Media Services Group

“It [Signiant Media Shuttle] truly simplifies a lot of our day-to-day work. It has streamlined every transfer and everything compared to FTP.”

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The Signiant Platform by the Numbers

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Learn More About the Signiant Platform

The Signiant Platform builds on the foundation of our world-class fast file movement apps and adds workflow-centric production services that make working with media even more efficient.

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