Overview
The media and entertainment markets are booming. Young generations demand instant access to content from anywhere at any time. Technology is the driving force behind this digital media revolution, and 5G network connectivity is accelerating this trend further. Alibaba Cloud’s one-stop media solution provides media organizations with a range of powerful multimedia services to produce, upload, process, manage, and deliver your digital media content with ease and intelligent insights across multiple formats, platforms, and locations. Download Whitepaper>>>
Solution Highlights
One-Stop Media Solution
Alibaba Cloud's robust media service capabilities ensure a seamless cloud experience throughout the entire media lifecycle from video production, media storage, video processing, and content management, to video play and distribution.
Intelligent Operations
The video big data and AI services offer capabilities on personalized content recommendation and content management such as illicit content identification, advertisement identification, scenario recognition, and speech recognition.
Fast Video Distribution
Based on more than 2,800 global Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) nodes, Real-Time Streaming (RTS) supports tens of millions of concurrent streams and a maximum end-to-end latency of two seconds.
Quick Deployment
The out-of-the-box video SDK features help rapidly deploy multiscreen live content offerings on all mainstream platforms without changing your legacy architecture.
Industry Best Practices
This media solution was born from Alibaba's years of in-depth industry practices with Youku and Taobao and has developed many industry best practices that can be replicated quickly.
Cost Efficiency
The Pay-As-You-Go billing method allows you to pay flexibly. This media solution also supports resource package pre-payments to save additional costs.
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Contact SalesAlibaba Cloud Is a Robust Partner for Your Entire Media Journey
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Video Production
Record, edit, and livestream videos with video SDK or online with real-time beautification, special effects, and other capabilities
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Media Storage
Upload media content from various sources, resume from breakpoints, and store them with the secure, low-cost, and highly reliable OSS service
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Video Processing
Transcode videos offline or in real-time with Narrow Band HD transcoding technology, flexible watermarks, and customizable templates
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Content Management
Manage content in the console, ensure content compliance through smart AI, and enhance content security with encryption and detection technologies
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Video Play and Distribution
Play videos on all platforms with standard player SDKs and distribute videos to over 2800 nodes worldwide
Tailored Media Solutions
Short Video VOD
This one-stop solution provides video playback and video management capabilities with advanced features, such as real-time commenting and advertisement playback. ApsaraVideo Player SDK provides simple, fast, and secure video player services on the cloud with customizable features and a highly-integrable interface design. ApsaraVideo VOD and APPServer manage videos on the cloud, providing secure, stable, and fast video distribution services. This solution can be used for tasks outside of entertainment, such as education, corporate training, and convergence media.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
Long Video VOD
This one-stop solution provides video playback and video management capabilities with advanced features such as real-time commenting and advertisement playback. ApsaraVideo Player SDK provides simple, fast and secure video player service on the cloud with customizable features and highly-integrable interface design for easy implementation. ApsaraVideo VoD and APPServer manage videos on the cloud, providing secure, stable and fast video distribution services. This solution can be widely used beyond entertainment, such as education, corporate training, convergence media.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
Real-Time Streaming
Real-Time Streaming (RTS) is a leading interactive streaming feature that Alibaba Cloud developed based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). RTS uses Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) to transfer data. RTS relies on ApsaraVideo Live and leverages the various Content Delivery Network (CDN) nodes and network resources of Alibaba Cloud CDN worldwide. RTS supports tens of millions of concurrent streams and a maximum end-to-end latency of two seconds while minimizing deployment costs. RTS provides robust technology and resource support, helping Taobao’s livestreaming during the Double 11 Global Shopping Festival.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
Broadcast Live
Broadcast Live is an integrated hybrid solution to ensure a livestream is ingested, processed, and distributed to a global audience. With this solution, you can establish a highly available global platform to manage a broadcast event for your audience with a great experience on mobile devices, PCs, TVs, and other smart devices, without installing, configuring, and managing costly infrastructures. This solution can be redeployed in any Alibaba Cloud region, and live broadcasts can be deployed and operated globally in minutes. It is scalable and unbound by infrastructure constraints. It can run concurrently many times in the same location.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
Secure Media Archive
Storing and processing content growing repositories is a major challenge for most of our customers. Alibaba Cloud’s Secure Media Archive solution helps organizations migrate, store, and protect their media content. Thanks to Alibaba Cloud’s extensive suite of products and services, we can provide organizations with all of the necessary tools to ensure content is ingested, stored, and encrypted seamlessly to meet the industry’s best practices and standards.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
Personalized Content Recommendation
Alibaba Cloud's Personalized Content Recommendation solution allows you to build and launch a personalization solution on a global basis in the shortest possible time. It brings together fully or partially managed large-scale data warehouse systems to support massive datasets. New data sources, features, and learning models can be tested, measured, validated, and deployed. This way, an inference model can be sought quickly and iterated and improved continually. The solution will also show how the “preferences” result can be exposed to frontend systems immediately. End users can have the best experience based on their real-time actions.Apply This Solution in Your Journey:
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ApsaraVideo VOD
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Content Protection
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Multiple Functions
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Smooth and Stable Playback Services
Content Protection
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Media Storage | Short Video SDK | Content Management | Online Editing
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ApsaraVideo Live
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Multi-Client Support
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Global Coverage
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Security Management
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Video Capture SDK | Video Playback SDK | Livestreaming | Live Video Transcoding
ApsaraVideo Media Processing
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Ultra-Speed Transcoding
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Digital Restoration Service
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NarrowBand HD
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Media Transcoding | Media DNA | Digital Restoration Service | Video Editing
Content Delivery Network
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Stability
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Scalability
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High Speed
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HTTPS-Secured Acceleration | High-Performance and Efficient Caching Model | Access Control | Performance Optimization
Object Storage Service
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Ease of Use
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High Reliability
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Powerful Security Measures
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Flexible with Easy to Use Features | Powerful Data Processing Capabilities | High Reliability and Powerful Security Measures | Cost-Effective Storage
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Contact SalesSpecial Offers
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VOD Resource Plan
- • Resourceful Downstream Traffic Package
- • Highly Compatible Transcoding Package
- • Secure Storage Package
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Live Resource Plan
- • Resourceful Downstream Traffic Package
- • High-Quality Video Transcoding Package
Free Trial
Short Video SDK
- • Customizable Video Recording
- • Video Editing With Visual Effects
- • Video and Image Import
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CDN Resource Plan
- • High Concurrency
- • High Coverage Rate
- • Low Cost
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"Yippi aims to grow its user base to become one of the largest super apps in Southeast Asia, and hopes to continue to work closely with Alibaba Cloud to explore more solutions in data trends and prediction."
Yippi is the popular socializing app that for messaging, content sharing and livestreaming. Alibaba Cloud was a clear choice for Yippi. ApsaraVideo Live provides the necessary networking and computing support as well as real-time transcoding technology for stable high-speed streaming. And by using Alibaba Cloud Container Service, Yippi is able to deploy applications in the agile environment.
“Alibaba Cloud CDN helps MNC in ensuring all content delivered to users in Indonesia smoothly even for some users who only have low bandwidth."
– MNC Group CTO
MNC is Indonesia's leading integrated media company. Alibaba Cloud's mature, full-featured networking solution helps MNC stay competitive in Indonesia's quickly growing digital media market. By offloading network traffic to Alibaba Cloud's CDN, a stable and reliable experience was ensured for MNC's millions of customers. Moreover, Alibaba Cloud's solution has provided optimizations through changes as improved codecs for platform video players.
Alibaba Cloud’s widely distributed availability zones and highly stable computing, storage, and networking services, enabled TFI, the official worldwide online streaming provider for the 38th Hong Kong Film Awards, to deliver smooth and reliable streams to nearly 100,000 viewers in 27 designated territories.
- Wilson Yuen, Founder & CEO, TFI Digital Media Limited
TFI Digital Media Ltd (TFI) is a pioneer in video technology headquartered in Hong Kong. Alibaba Cloud’s robust infrastructure and dynamic services helped TFI to drastically improve network performance, seamlessly migrate to the cloud and significantly minimize costs. Through Alibaba Cloud's CDN, TFI enables client, King's Glory Education (KGE) to avoid unpredictable network latency and unstable speed issues.
“CDN is reliable and OSS is simple and practical, the seamless connectivity ensures quick and reliable access to Changba's data.”
Changba is a free social karaoke mobile app. Alibaba Cloud's storage reliability is a good choice for Changba's architecture, and soon becomes an alternative to Changba's own storage solution. Alibaba Cloud OSS prevents a machine room SPOF from threatening Changba's service reliability. CDN ensures high access speed, even during the highest Internet bandwidth usage periods, such as Double 11 Global Shopping Festival.
Related Resources
Whitepaper
How to Ready Your Content for Today's Media Market
Develop, implement, and deliver your digital media content with ease by building your media platform on Alibaba Cloud
Solution
Personalized Content Recommendation
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Webinar
Media Technologies to Engage with Customers
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Best Practice
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