Quickstream
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What actually happens when you submit to nine app stores
Submission is the part of a launch most plans treat as a formality. It is the part most likely to move the date.
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The four numbers that actually run a streaming service
Most streaming dashboards report plays. Plays are the least useful number on the screen.
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Micro drama: why ninety-second vertical episodes work
The format looks like a novelty until you look at where the money comes from. Then it looks like a very deliberate piece of design.
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What a CMS for video actually has to do
A folder of files with a web interface on top is not a content management system. Here is the list it has to satisfy.
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Captions earn their keep twice
Most organizations produce captions because they have to. The second return — everything becoming searchable — is usually the larger one.
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Rights windows are a data problem, not a spreadsheet problem
Every title you licensed has a territory, a start date and an end date. If those live in a spreadsheet, they are being enforced by somebody remembering.
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Subscription, advertising, pay-per-view — choose per title, not per service
Picking one model for the whole catalog is the most common way a service leaves money on the table.
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Why nobody can find anything in your back catalog
The library is not the problem. The metadata that was never written is — and it is written at ingest or not at all.
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Nine platforms, and the four things that actually differ between them
iPhone, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Samsung, LG, Fire TV, Google TV and web. People assume the hard part is nine codebases. It is not.
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What a white-label streaming app should actually give you
Branded channel, vendor-published app, your own developer account — three arrangements sold under similar words, and only one puts your name on the store listing.