Cleeng and Twistage partner to provide a turnkey in-video monetization solution

Amsterdam, NL, December 9th – Today, Cleeng announced a partnership with Twistage, a leading video platform that was recently featured in Streaming Media 100: The One Hundred Companies that Matter Most in Online Video. The companies have combined to provide a turnkey in-video monetization solution designed for corporations with complex digital content management.

Twistage customers that were already reaping the benefits of the company’s comprehensive online video platform now have turnkey access into a universal monetization solution. Cleeng enables video content owners to leverage various business models, from pay-per-view to subscriptions while offering an unparalleled ease of use for online users.

“Cleeng’s solution to the for-pay content challenge is both elegant and powerful. It is both simple – customers can activate it with just a few clicks of the mouse – and powerful. Content owners have been clamoring for more flexibility around monetization and Cleeng’s solution provides just that. It offers content owners and distributors a full set of options that for generating revenue while enhancing audience engagement. We are expecting it to drive significant additional revenue for content owners.” said David Wadler CEO at Twistage.

How does Cleeng work?

Cleeng in-video monetization enables any video owner to collect payment for watching all or part of a video. Publishers retain control of their strategy deciding which part of their video to protect between two cue points and the price charged for accessing it. This requires just a single click and uses multiple payment methods including major credits cards, PayPal, SMS and local market methods.

“We are thrilled to partner with Twistage in delivering a major breakthrough to the online video ecosystem, empowering content owners while easing access for online users.” said Gilles Domartini, CEO at Cleeng.

The big idea behind Cleeng is to make content acquisition and sharing effortless. With Cleeng, users with a single user account can access content on any devices at any time. Enthusiasts can also take advantage of a smart social sharing commission system for content creators. Cleeng is a flexible way to monetize any type of content: text, video, images, all with a single tool.

Visit our demo page to see it for yourself: http://cleeng.com/us/features/demos/

About Cleeng

The Cleeng solution is an award-winning monetization platform that equips content creators’ with a single fully integrated solution that is capable of:

• Protecting any type of content
• Selling in context (in-page or in-video), allowing users to preview their content while keeping their ads revenues
• Offering a smart, dynamic shopping cart with multiple payment options to boost conversion rates
• Increasing social commerce to boost sales and reward loyal users.

Publishers save time and money implementing this easy-to-use solution and can test different forms of monetization including lead registration, pay per article, subscription, and more. Cleeng, with offices in Amsterdam and Paris, was founded in 2010 by an experienced team composed of online experts with experience working at Apple, Philips, Best of Media, and Packard Bell.

About Twistage

Twistage is the leader in carrier-grade digital media management, delivering web, mobile, and connected TV solutions including Online Video Platform (OVP), audio and image management, cloud-based transcoding, workflow automation, and more. Already the platform of choice for many leading enterprises and digital publishers, Twistage enables organizations to drive return on existing investment and accelerate their time to market.

Media contact: Benedicte Guichard or Dru Johnston
bguichard@cleeng.com
pr@twistage.com

Twistage Honored in the Streaming Media 100

We’re thrilled to announce that Twistage was included in the Streaming Media 100!

Compiled by industry experts and professionals in the online video space, the list details the hundred companies that matter the most in the online video space. We are thrilled to be sitting in the company of partners, competitors, and even behemoths such as YouTube.

“The companies in the Streaming Media 100 represent many different pieces of the online video ecosystem,” according to Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, “but they all have one thing in common: The world of online video today would be markedly different without any of them. Each one, in its own way, has made the online video industry what it is today and is pushing it towards the future.”

Please check out the full list of companies honored here, or in the most recent issue of Streaming Media Magazine.

An In-Depth Look At Our Image Management Console

With the release of our full media management suites, we here at Twistage felt it was appropriate to dive a little deeper into our platform and show some of the new features to the world. Today we’ll take a look at our Image Management Console.

Populate any number of different gallery widgets with our feed translation tool.

Following the product model that made our video management system so open and flexible, Twistage has developed the APIs and product feature sets for custom image management and publishing. On a macro level the system offers up the ability to ingest, store, organize, publish and deliver images in any format or through any feed reader desired. On a micro level we offer image manipulation tools and detailed API documentation to remotely manage and organize your image assets and deliver them through multiple gallery apps found across the internet. As is always the case with the Twistage product, we view our image management platform as a robust back-end engine to power your image assets and fit seamlessly into your existing workflow.

Image Galleries

Twistage allows publishers to organize their image assets into appropriate galleries and also organize them by tag, mirroring our popular approach to online video management. The galleries are then able to be published in any number of gallery widgets through our feed translation tool. Across the web different image gallery widgets (cool iris, polaroid gallery, flashbox, etc.) require different feeds to populate their data. Any image gallery in the Twistage system is able to be distributed in a variety of feeds across the web, making it simple to plug into existing systems where your IT budget might have already been allocated, as well as into any number of 3rd-party galleries, RSS readers, and even mobile feed services.

Image Manipulation

Twistage’s new image manipulation feature sets give clients the ability to crop, resize, rotate and watermark their image assets.

Crop your images in console or remotely in your own backend

This robust functionality can be acheived in console using a simple point and click mechanism, but also can be handled remotely via the Twistage API or automatically based on various business rules. Twistage supports multiple watermarks for separate brands, changes can be applied on an individual or gallery level, and the image manipulation feature set gives companies all the tools necessary to make their images look and feel exactly as they want.

More importantly, this is all available via our SaaS model so that images are able to be manipulated and managed anywhere there’s an internet connection to work with. Prep work is brought to a minimum and production work is drastically reduced.

Analyze

Want to see how your images are doing? Use the Twistage analytics tool to understand which images are being viewed, where they’re being viewed, and who’s viewing them. And as always, with every Twistage service, we approach analytics through a layer of abstraction, letting you choose where you want to analyze your data. Via our APIs we allow you to check viewing data remotely or in-console.

These are just a few of the variety of features we offer our image clients. Please contact us and we’d be happy to walk you through the platform and see how our image manipulation and management tool best complements your images and other media offerings.

A Full Media Solution

We’re thrilled to announce that Twistage now supports audio and image management to complement our video platform, rounding out the Twistage Suite for publishers with assets across all media verticals.

Through our open APIs the Twistage image platform lets you manage, organize and deliver your image assets with the same flexibility as your video and audio assets.

Following the same API product model that made our video platform a success, the Twistage Image Platform and Audio Platform are available to be accessed within the Twistage console or remotely via our APIs, allowing the most open and flexible solution available for enterprise level publishers. Remote management, album creation, on demand and downloadable audio streaming, these are just a few of the many features that have been developed for our customer base.

Contact us today to see how our media suite can solve your online publishing needs, and expect more in the coming week detailing the features and new developments to our media platform.

Visit us at Streaming Media West

Exciting things are happening over here at the Twistage offices, and among them is doing the final preparations for our booth at Streaming Media West.  Twistage is a platinum sponsor of the event and a gold sponsor of the Online Video Platform Summit running in conjunction with SMW.

Streaming Media West

If you’re in the San Jose area the 17th-19th of November feel free to swing on by the McEnery Convention Center  and stop by booth 501, right as you enter the show room.  Feel free to come with any questions you might have about Twistage, your own video workflow or just to chat.  We’d love to help you in any way we can.

-The Twistage Team