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Engineering practice

OTT

What does OTT software development involve?

Direct answer

OTT software development covers the platforms behind internet-delivered video: catalogue and metadata, entitlement, playback, subscriber management and the operational tooling a content team uses daily. The applications viewers see sit on top of it, across mobile, web and connected TV.

Definition

OTT platform

The back end of a streaming service - catalogue, rights, entitlement, playback and billing - shared by every client application the service ships.

Scope

Where streaming products get difficult

The hard parts are rarely in the player.

  • Content operations

    Ingest, transcoding, metadata and scheduling, used constantly by the team running the service.

  • Rights and entitlement

    What can be watched, where, by whom, and for how long.

  • Live

    Failures happen while an audience is watching, so operational response matters more than recovery afterwards.

  • Subscriber systems

    Plans, billing, churn handling, and store purchase rules on mobile platforms.

  • Scale profile

    Traffic that is flat for days and then concentrated into a single event.

Questions

Frequently asked

This is the practice the AI work is built on

We still take this work on. If the system you are describing should also be making decisions on its own, start with the AI side.