Leverage our decade of experience in custom streaming media and OTT platform development to drive digital transformation for your business, in any industry. Optimal streaming platforms should deliver quality audio and video to users at a large scale and across different devices, yet organizations often struggle to maintain a reliable user experience at high capacities. At PDG Consulting, we harness the streaming industry’s most advanced technologies and best design practices to overcome these obstacles, and help you maximize on your ROI.
How PDG's Streaming Media Services Can Help
Alleviate Bottlenecks
We ensure platform performance and streaming quality are at the forefront of our design. By utilizing intelligent edge management principles that ensure streamers have the best experience, developing auto-scaling content metadata distribution systems, and designing lightweight client-side video players, and more, our experience across the entire audio/video streaming lifecycle translates to delivering the best streaming solutions from end-to-end.
Utilize Analytics and Gain Insights
Take advantage of your data. We use events collected from streaming devices and head-end services to build Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that display the health of your streaming platform to create alerts that notify teams of critical platform issues, and to provide analytics—such as customer viewership trends or performance improvements.
Deliver to Everyone
Ensure your content can reach all users, regardless of their device, location, or reason for streaming. We understand how your content needs to be encoded and packaged (from HLS to MPEG-DASH, to CMAF) and how to write extensible client applications to reach all your users (from common HTML5 frameworks to custom apps).
Alleviate Bottlenecks
We ensure platform performance and streaming quality are at the forefront of our design. By utilizing intelligent edge management principles that ensure streamers have the best experience, developing auto-scaling content metadata distribution systems, and designing lightweight client-side video players, and more, our experience across the entire audio/video streaming lifecycle translates to delivering the best streaming solutions from end-to-end.
Utilize Analytics and Gain Insights
Take advantage of your data. We use events collected from streaming devices and head-end services to build Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that display the health of your streaming platform to create alerts that notify teams of critical platform issues, and to provide analytics—such as customer viewership trends or performance improvements.
Deliver to Everyone
Ensure your content can reach all users, regardless of their device, location, or reason for streaming. We understand how your content needs to be encoded and packaged (from HLS to MPEG-DASH, to CMAF) and how to write extensible client applications to reach all your users (from common HTML5 frameworks to custom apps).
Why Choose PDG for Streaming Media Software Development?
We understand that the digital world and OTT technologies are constantly changing and as a result, the needs of our clients change, too. Our approach to software development is Agile and divergent and enables us to create a unique experience for our clients. Contact us today to learn more about how our streaming expertise can adapt to your business and help you transform the way your organization manages your streaming services.
Project Name
DIRECTV STREAM Content Provider DAI
Overview
We led the initiative by designing, integrating, and testing an upgraded technology stack from the Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) vendor used in the over-the-top streaming platform at DIRECTV. The design allowed us to synethically separate the National (Content Provider owned) and Local (Distributor / DIRECTV owned) avails within a single commerical break, and request for ad decisions for each avail separate from the Content Provider ad decision services and DIRECTV's own ad decision services.
This involved iterative cycles of functional, integration, client, and load testing with focus on platform stability and user experience once the new content provider ads entered the system. We project managed this effort across numerous cross-function DIRECTV teams, external vendors, and content providers.
Tech Stacks
Elasticsearch | Kibana | Splunk | New Relic | Yospace | INVIDI
Project Name
Converged Ad Delivery
Overview
PDG spearheaded the multi-year effort by leading the project design, test management, and launch planning across DIRECTV and vendor teams. PDGC designed and developed the central measurement platform for reporting Hard Interconnect (HIC) ad placement success metrics back to the ad sales teams, as well as internal DIRECTV monitoring services and systems alerting. We previously led the Hard Interconnect deployment on DIRECTV Satellite and were looked to as experts on the DIRECTV STREAM rollout.
Tech Stacks
Go | Kubernetes | Elasticsearch | Kibana | Prometheus | Grafana | Sumologic | Couchbase | AWS S3 | AWS SQS | Kafka
Project Name
DIRECTV Advanced Advertising
Overview
PDG designed and oversaw a complete re-architecture of the DIRECTV satellite advertising platform, which more than doubled the number of ads that could be targeted to customers and brought down the amount of required lead time to play out a targeted ad from 24 hours to under 4 hours. This re-architecture enabled DIRECTV to enter the advertising interconnect managed by Comcast/NCC which doubled DIRECTV's yearly advertising revenue. PDG also designed and developed two critical applications in the advertising platform and built out real-time alerting and reporting dashboards used by the 24/7 advertising operations teams. PDG continues to lead incremental architectural changes for the satellite platform and is also assisting in architecting the next-generation advertising platform for streaming services such as DIRECTV NOW.
Tech Stacks
Java | Angular | Oracle SQL | Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft IIS | SOAP | REST | Kafka | Hadoop | Splunk
Project Name
AT&T TV Program Scheduling
Overview
PDG fully migrated the DIRECTV TV / VOD Guide metadata pipeline to the cloud. This included movie poster images, celebrity headshot, aggregated guide schedules & celebrity biographies over a satellite using Kafka, Couchbase, GoLang, & Kubernetes.
Tech Stacks
GoLang | Kubernetes | Amazon S3 | Couchbase NoSQL Database | Java | Kafka