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.

An Evolving Industry – Lessons from Streaming Media West

Last week a few of us here at Twistage were thrilled to demo and present over at Streaming Media West in Los Angeles. It was really great to meet the various digital publishers in the marketplace, different partners and, of course, our competitors in the market place. All in all, it was a great success and bravo to Streaming Media for putting on yet another successful show in a new location.

But in between the sunlight, celebrity sightings and amazing boogie board waves (note: two of these are false) it was very evident that the online video space is changing. It’s no small secret that the industry went through a major boom in the last few years. In just the last year more than $700 million has been raised by video companies, not to mention the number of new video technology companies that have popped up all over the internet. But these broad numbers don’t paint the specific picture that was stunningly clear at Streaming Media. The focus of technology, and not just the size, is changing at a rapid pace.

Last year Twistage attended Streaming Media West and the associated OVP Summit as a celebration. We had an awesome product, built on awesome technology but had always stayed behind the curtains powering online video and writing code. We wanted to finally show the world what we had to offer. It was a huge success, but more than that we were able to meet executives and innovators from countless other OVPs. They saturated the showroom floor in ‘09. This was a surprise to a colleague of mine, a CDN veteran, who pointed out that just one year before the showroom was filled to the brim with CDNs, big and small. And in 2009 they were scarce.

The same thing happened last week in Los Angeles, but with a different medium. I wandered the halls and noticed only a handful of OVPs, but more livestreaming and mobile video platforms that you could shake a stick at. A huge difference from what we saw just a year before.

The game is changing on a seemingly day to day basis, as new technologies, new trendy feature-sets and new demands hit the market. Fortunately for Twistage we were built on our technology, favoring flexibility from the beginning and the ability to plug into existing systems, so for us these new technologies are new opportunities… new ways to implement the media management APIs that make up our platform. And it was exciting to listen to new mobile platforms, new livestreaming solutions and new encoding startups. They are singing a tune that the OVP market was singing just a year ago, and its a good tune, and an exciting year ahead for us and them.

More than anything, though, I’m curious to see the next wave when we attend Streaming Media next year.