Stream Crowdsourcer
As used by
Like an inbox but much better. Better because it's designed to handle huge amounts of video and image content and to make it is as easy as possible for you to evaluate and distribute the best assets.
The inbox can accept a variety of formats sent via email as attachments, mobile phone MMS/SMS messages or via ftp upload. The Stream Crowdsourcer can also transcode the various formats on the fly into one universal format for easy integration to your website.
At the core of the product are comprehensive moderation tools allowing you to modify and approve content at a variety of levels. Reuters used the ingest, moderation and transcoding capabilities of the Newsdesk Transcoder to power the Times Square billboard as part of their 'Everday Smiles' campaign.
The entire system allowed users to send in photos directly from their phone, the best were selected by moderators and these were converted into an RSS feed which fed the sign directly. Users were given confirmation of their choice by SMS and the images on the sign were captured for use within the online galleries.
Accept multiple image and video formats
No more clogged email
Displays EXIF data
Moderation tools built in
Commenting system for moderators
Live mobile recording directly into the system
- Ingest and Capture
- Content in a variety of standard media formats - images, video, audio (jpegs, giffs, mpegs, wmv, movs, 3GPP to name but a few) - can be ingested by the system in a variety of ways. Accepting a wide variety of media types ensures the widest possible net is cast to attract and accept the most amount of content. The submmision process should be as unrestrictive, simple and accessible as possible.
- Mobile Submissions
- Submitting content via mobile phones represents an exciting method of submission and will probably evolve into the most popular method in the near future. Camera quality on mobile phones is improving rapidly and the mobile internet, with the more recent handsets, is really becoming a reality.
- MMS
- Presently the system accepts incoming media content from mobile phones via MMS. The present filesize limit imposed by the networks is currently around 100kb. Depending on the quality of the video this equates to around 10 secs of video. There is an expectation that as data revenues become more significant for the mobile network providers that this restriction will be lifted.
- Live Mobile Recording
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For 3G phones it is possible to make a video call to the system and for this video call to be recorded directly into the system. This avoids the restrictions placed by the networks in relation to sending MMS messages.
