Media Industry
Building Engaging User Experiences with Custom Media & Entertainment Software
Media and entertainment brands face constant market disruptions as they need to compete with each other for attention, time, and revenues, and stay close to younger demographics. Customized media and entertainment software products built using innovative technologies allow your brand to quickly upgrade and adapt to user preferences and deliver rich and personalized content across multiple distribution channels at lower price tags.
Tailored media software solutions enable different types of media and entertainment brands to streamline their media planning, content creation, distribution, and revenue generation processes.
| Print Media, Magazines, Newspapers | Television Broadcasting | Digital/ Online Live Streaming & Broadcasting | Music & Soundtrack |
| Movies & Films | Radio Channels & Podcasts | Advertising & Promotions | Gaming & Entertainment |
| Sports Broadcasters | Public Relations | Media Events & Conferences | Content Creators & Distributors |
| Print Media, Magazines, Newspapers | Television Broadcasting | Digital/ Online Live Streaming & Broadcasting |
| Music & Soundtrack | Movies & Films | Radio Channels & Podcasts |
| Advertising & Promotions | Gaming & Entertainment | Sports Broadcasters |
| Public Relations | Media Events & Conferences | Content Creators & Distributors |
Media & Entertainment Software
Custom-built Media Software To Gain a Competitive Edge
- Broadcast live events online to capture audience attention and increase engagement
- On-demand video streaming, live transcoding, analytics, and live chat functionality
- Custom alerts, overlays, chat integration features, and a range of APIs for customization
- Centrally organize, manage, control, configure access, and distribute your media company’s digital assets, including videos, images, audio files, design files, and presentations
- Workflow automation, usage tracking, and integrations with other software, including content management systems
- Manage digital ad booking requests, inventory, and time-slots
- Generate ad-specific recommendations and custom ad packages
- Enhance ad planning by seamlessly managing inventory, ad rates, reporting, booking requests, ad server syncing, and more
- Custom software solutions to create high-quality marketing content in-house
- Advanced design options to create and publish images, graphics, import texts, and other customized forms of printed content
- Publishing software with CMS feature to effortlessly manage and accelerate print and digital publishing
- Deliver omni-channel, immersive user experience across devices with low latency streaming and zero buffering
- Real-time streaming management with builtin monitoring tools
- Seamless distribution of 4K HDR content across devices and networks
- In-built security features for media companies to limit access to their confidential information
- Ensure 100% compliance with data protection regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, GLBA, and others
- Customized rights management tools with sharing, metadata, role-based access, media tracking, security, and other essential rights control
It’s important to engage the right software development partner who can help you drive innovation and change business models to deliver an outstanding entertainment experience with guaranteed ROI.
Media Technologies
Emerging Technologies That Transform Media and Entertainment Operations
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Automatic content recognition
- Easy and faster content creation, curation, and translation
- Personalized and entertaining viewer experience
- Automatic optimization of text, visual and voice search and results delivery
Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality
- Create more engaging and immersive experiences for users with real-life simulations and 3D interactive models
- Replace in-person interactions at crowded front-desks and kiosks with real-time digital connections
- Build and deliver highly interactive media content and personalized advertisement experiences to promote sales and services
Blockchain
- Blockchain-based smart contracts to execute automatic micropayments between the consumer and the creator
- Streamline royalty payments and manage royalty distributions
- Enable efficient micropayment models by tracking media usage data
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Deliver highly personalized content by tracking user activity, location, and listening history through embedded sensors and connected IoT devices
- Track consumers across devices to tailor ad campaigns and enable contextual marketing, such as Connected TV Ads
- Smart venue management with IoT-driven asset tracking, attendance management, and biometric-secure identity platforms
Cloud Computing
- Anytime, anywhere, access to data across all compatible devices
- Flexibility and scalability to accommodate changes and future requirements
- Low cost maintenance with builtin security
- Low latency with capacity to handle high traffic
Data Analytics & Visualization
- Interactive visualizations with colorful, easy-to-read charts and graphs to increase the time spent on content by consumers
- Understand how audiences interact with content to make decisions about the type of content to be created or acquired in the future
- Tailor ad campaigns and promotions, measure the performance of marketing and promotional activities, and implement changes as required
Business Scenarios
Media & Entertainment Software Development for Business-specific Cases
News Portals
- Third-party integrations
- Role-based access controls
- SEO-friendly news portals
- Social login
- Ad management
- Media upload and management
Digital Assets
- Version and metadata control
- Maintenance tracking
- Improved security and reliability
- Activity feeds
- Smart search
- Encryption for safe file sharing
AdTech Applications
- Customized ad campaigns
- Programmatic ads
- Data automation
- Real-time optimization of ad strategy
- Analytics to derive user insights
- Integration with multiple demand-side platforms (DSPs)
Digital Rights
- Copyrights and royalty management
- Prevention of data leakage
- Secure sharing protocols
- Centralized asset management
- Media tracking and protection of sensitive as well as gated content
- User roles with custom access and rights
Custom Media & Entertainment Software
- Video streaming apps
- Live streaming apps
- Music streaming apps
- Social media apps
- OTT applications
- Gaming apps with immersive experience
Accounting & Finance Management
- Subscriptions, content monetization, and distribution solutions
- Commission management
- Manage revenue from multiple distribution channels
- Inventory tracking and control
- Customization of pricing models
- Detailed financial reporting capabilities
The Fingent Way
Media Software Development Tailored To Every Brand’s Unique Needs
AI and Data Analytics for Personalized Content Delivery
Fingent works with leading media brands to expand the reach and effectiveness of their messaging by leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, data visualization, in-depth analytics, and content marketing tools. Our customized software solutions allow media and entertainment companies to improve their content marketing strategies and communicate effectively with their users across multiple platforms and devices.
AI-based Chatbots To Improve Consumer Engagement
Integration of AI-powered chatbots with custom media software solutions allow brands to streamline and automate their communication process across a range of digital platforms. Chatbots work round-the-clock to interact with the user, respond to their queries, and provide the right information at the right time. Fingent works with media companies to design innovative digital marketing strategies that drive greater levels of consumer engagement across various social platforms.
Integration of Marketing Automation Software
Fingent assists media companies to integrate marketing automation solutions with their existing or new applications, so they can easily track and measure the performance of their marketing efforts, content, ads, and other promotion activities. Marketing automation and performance analysis enable media brands to keep a finger on the pulse of their consumers and rethink their content creation and distribution strategy.
Unique Platform and Device Specific Experiences
Let it be a mobile app or a web app or a Smart Connected TV experience, Fingent’s cross-platform development capabilities allow brands to build highly scalable, adaptable, and responsive media and entertainment software applications that don’t get outdated in a flash. Our development team and UX/UI design professionals work hand in hand to create multi-platform and multi-device compatible media and entertainment applications.
Personalized media and entertainment software solutions developed by a reputable partner allow brands to broaden their content reach, enhance viewer experience, monetize content, and generate new revenue streams.
Client Stories
Fingent’s Featured Custom Software Solutions for the Media & Entertainment Industry
Fingent assisted Impact XM, a leading experiential marketing agency in the USA, to implement a customized CRM Solution and a project management tool specifically catering to their unique business workflow. Customized software solutions developed by Fingent allow them to leverage the advantages of latest technologies and scale with rapid market changes.
- Centralized data management and real-time tracking of performance and key metrics
- Enhanced business visibility and interdepartmental collaboration
- Greater time-savings and tremendous reduction in manual efforts and errors
- Remarkable improvements in overall efficiency and productivity with a trusted, flexible, and scalable technology ecosystem
Cost
Factors Influencing the Cost of Media & Entertainment Software Development
Custom media and entertainment software development cost is determined by several factors, including:
- Complexity of the media app, such as the tech stack, features, animations, etc. that will impact the overall development time and cost of the project
- Different platforms and devices for which the media or entertainment app is going to be built
- Number of app screens, custom and standard features, nature of complexity, functions, menus, user types, etc.
- Size of the development team hired to build your custom media and entertainment software
- Location of the custom media software development agency to which you’re planning to outsource the app development project
- Cost of design requirements, such as incorporation of simple to complex animations, videos, graphics, and more
- Choosing the appropriate back-end architecture for your application, that is, whether you want to go with monolithic or microservices architecture
- Integration of advanced features and third-party solutions will also determine the total cost of app development
- Innovative media technologies used to enrich the viewer/ user experience, such as AR, VR, IoT, AI, live streaming, on-demand video sharing, and so on
- Estimated time required to complete the media app development project
Engaging the right media software development partner is crucial for mitigating revenue and margin pressures. A trusted software partner equips your media brand to innovate and scale with low-leverage cost structures.
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