Eluvio releases Casablanca next-gen content fabric
Eluvio has announced the full commercial launch of the Eluvio Content Fabric – Casablanca Release and Application Suite to deliver premium live streaming, PVOD, FAST channels and video archive monetisation at scale.
Casablanca is a next-generation content distribution and storage protocol providing ultra-fast, efficient, tamper-proof streaming, download and monetisation of video at scale. It provides advanced streaming and AI discovery features that solve the biggest problems facing media companies by dramatically reducing investments in clouds and CDNs and opening new engagement and revenue opportunities.
The software protocol simplifies distribution by replacing file workflows with a hyper-efficient streaming and delivery pipeline in protocol. This reduces the bandwidth and storage compared to clouds and CDNs and slashes cost and carbon and enables unlimited re-use of the same content (no files/egress), personalisation without compromising scale, and built-in security, authenticity and rights. The new Casablanca Release, Creator Studio App, Media Wallet, Video Editor, Embeddable Player, Content Analytics & Reporting App, and AI Content Understanding Apps are built on the Eluvio Content Fabric.
“Eluvio is solving the most challenging problems of legacy video delivery – complexity, cost and the innovation trap,” said Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Eluvio. “The traditional content publishing and distribution stack has so much complexity because the media, metadata, processing are all part of siloed workflows, and achieving fast or scalable streaming performance is often by brute force. This structure leads to unnecessarily higher costs, inefficiencies and resource demands. And finally, it creates a lock-in of the tech stack that prevents media re-use and personalization-the kind of innovation media companies need right now, especially in the age of AI. The Content Fabric replaces brute force legacy distribution with its content-native approach. Streaming speed, workflow simplicity and cost-efficiency are inherent, and media is data driven and owner controlled, without having to work at it so hard, or pay so much. This simply changes the game for content owners including all rights holders, broadcasters, studios and creators of all sizes.”
The Casablanca Release has brought the novel invention of the Content Fabric protocol to practical scale with advanced streaming features, enterprise grade management, end-to-end audience analytics, proven ultra-low latency performance at global scale, AI content search, summarisation and clip generation, and turnkey digital properties for OTT streaming and archive monetisation.
Key new features of the Casablanca release include: ultra-low latency HTTP live streaming with standard HLS/DASH ABR globally; <=1 second Fabric to client segment delivery times for 99% of clients and segments; forensic watermarking in live streaming (in addition to VoD) using Nagra NexGuard A-B sequences with Fabric JIT transcoding and playout; frame accurate dynamic content insertion in live and VoD streams; just-in-time transcoding of ads and content; a new Livestream Manager that provides automatic and easy configuration of live stream sources; and a new content verification proof API that allows Fabric apps to automatically and cryptographically verify the version hash and authenticity of any content object or offering.
The Casablanca Release also introduces comprehensive AI content discovery including AI content tagging, summarisation, multimodal search and automatic clip generation.
The Universal AI Content Tagging service provides high accuracy automatic labelling, description, transcription and summarisation of content using multiple AI/ML models executing in Fabric as a service. Tags are recorded in the metadata of Content Objects and indexed by the Fabric search service making them automatically searchable and actionable without moving content or metadata.