LicenseStream

LicenseStream Enterprise

We Make Licensing and Monetizing Content Easy
ImageSpan's LicenseStream helps enterprises monetize their content cost-effectively by providing a completely automated licensing platform for digital media.

Manage Your Digital Content from A to Z
LicenseStream manages the entire media transaction cycle of: registration, rights, permissions, pricing, assignment, license generation, commerce management, royalty and billing settlement for existing and newly created digital content.

Unleash Profit Growth by Outsourcing Your Licensing Costs
By eliminating time-consuming legacy tools and manual processes typically used until now, the LicenseStream automated platform speeds the pace of transactions, expands revenues, lowers transaction processing costs and ensures profit growth isn't curtailed by content syndication costs - enabling enterprises to cut licensing costs up to 90 percent!

How LicenseStream Can Boost Your Revenue
The LicenseStream platform supports a mix of products and licensing/pricing models to increase revenues dramatically without increasing costs.

Advantage Flexibility
With LicenseStream you can track and distribute millions of payments to affiliates, content partners, creators and advertisers.

Protects and Consolidates Digital Assets to Optimize Their Value
Protecting content with LicenseStream gives media companies the confidence to place their digital assets on the Web safely, reducing the risk that they will be either stored and forgotten or pilfered online.

Everything Your Business Needs, On One Platform
LicenseStream also helps optimize the value of digital assets by consolidating internally- and externally-produced content on one platform, where it can be easily viewed, reused and blended with other content.

ImageSpan's licensing technology uses the ONLY global licensing standard for digital media.

Enterprise Benefits

User Benefits:

• Enables content owners to license, sell, track, manage and collect royalty payments for all types of digital media, including photos, video and audio
• Cuts costs by up to 90 percent by eliminating paperwork, pricing hassles and middlemen
• Spurs business growth by reducing complexity and dramatically speeding-up transactions
• Helps users of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ and Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 software get paid more easily for their content by offering a cost-effective, automated licensing and billing solution
• Offers a transparent licensing environment to avoid liability, copyright infringement and transaction headaches
• Tracks content on the Web to ensure you get paid fairly for your work
• Maintains a private set of reusable license parameters, royalty arrangements and clients

Enterprise Features:

• Automated transaction processing, billing and collection services
• Automated usage history tracking and reporting
• Industry standard and customizable license packages for all types of media and usages
• Dynamic and customizable content pricing engine
• Unlimited rights-managed licensing for individual content providers
• Direct access via Adobe Bridge CS3 and from within Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ so that your creative users never need to leave their favorite applications
• Ability to add keyword content, so it can be distributed to other large stock libraries or posted at Google Base
• Uses standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS www.useplus.org), the international, multi-industry standards body for image licensing adopted by Adobe, Getty, Corbis and thousands of other organizations

Enterprise Scenarios

Here are four strong scenarios of businesses and organizations that have used LicenseStream Enterprise to successfully manage, track, audit, license, assign rights and distribute their digital content on a global scale. Take a brief moment to read about how Enterprise can strengthen your business in myriad ways!

The Challenge:
A major media company needs to develop new business models to deliver content across multiple digital channels, but current processes keep it from efficiently protecting, licensing and selling their content across distributed networks.

The LicenseStream Solution:
ImageSpan's LicenseStream provides a custom console to license and distribute content across multiple channels with multiple business models, including subscription, ad-supported delivery and direct download.

The Challenge:
The recent explosion in eLearning means one client is tasked with delivering content to both corporate campus locations and to individuals in the field, posing important licensing management and piracy concerns.

The LicenseStream Solution:
Internap's Content Delivery Network coupled with LicenseStream's licensing-token technology enables the client to distribute to students globally with a full set of authentication, tracking and management tools, thereby providing the artist with fast, internationally viable and totally secure licensing rights in no time.

The Challenge:
A global education publisher is overwhelmed with the administrative costs and inefficiencies of sourcing, tracking and settling rights on over 100,000 images licensed annually from a growing list of specialty providers.

The LicenseStream Solution:
Automate and aggregate the flow of all content sourcing into a single dashboard equipped with a full set of management tools for maximum ease-of-use in this complex, multi-variant environment.

The Challenge:
A major TV brand is launching an integrated digital business that involves licensing their content across multiple platforms to be distributed via Internap's Content Delivery Network (CDN).

The LicenseStream Solution:
Internap's CDN coupled with LicenseStream's licensing-token technology enables the client to have a highly flexible licensing solution that addresses all of its business models, built right into its delivery solution. Internap provides the client with full visibility into content activity and associated revenue all in one dashboard.