OK, So the Qs come out to fine tune something me and my associates have been working on for a while - was hoping to bring this question to you back in Jan, but a 1-month delay isn't bad....
The bottom line:
Lots of great apps out there to get your content out to the world, take in members etc and we're not at all trying to compete with that market. What we think we have found aniche in is a one-app-sells-all niche. And I need your feedback, as stupid as it may be...
What we have developed is thus:
a. 1 single admin, controlling all sites and content
b. unlimited sites.
c. choice of site type displaying that content (tube, membership, vod) - eg site X is a tube site, tube Y is a VoD site, all using admin-selected content for each site
d. All content is streamed fully protected. All downloaded content is injected with user-identifiable information.
e. The system is 100% modular - a real framework where the core is protected by encryption, but modules can be easily written to extend the core per your needs/growth - simply plug in your own code to /modules and you're away.
f. rudimentary affiliate tracking (to be developed further)
g. cam plugin support.
h. Easy templates to allow a mobile-enabled version of your site in 1-click
i. FULL content protected mobile phone support
j. xxxx your suggestions
This in just out of alpha and running fine on eg
qtube tube site, where free member to paying-member retention is looking damn good (~1:100), cos it's forced to signup after 10 mins, then that free member gets another free 10 mins before being shown the join page options.... It works, but this is a FR-speaking niche.
It is also controlling (same app), the member site
dvdhot.
The content is irrelevant here - what matters is the same content base manages a member site and a tube site - same content but managed differently, Yet same admin.
What is very unique on all this is content if it's streamed is un-rippable. If it's downloaded (an admin opt-in option), it's injected with user data for identification later, so if your content appears on the torrents, you know who seeded it. It's been over 4 monhts since I made my detailed post on how to do this, yet none of the big major players offer this, so it gets packaged into my own, with financial support from my associates.
Wowza license required and non-negotiable if you want this to work. Only Wowza Media have taken the step to allow so much custom access to their streaming server to make it un-hackable do they get the borked seal of approval. So Wowza is essential for this app. Tested to the max we have which is a 25mbs tube and the server is load 0.3.
WMV *not* supported.
User uploads for a tube-enabled site are not supported.
I'd love to here your suggestions on anything not covered here - nothing about billers since all billers will be supported by launch time as that is simple, and on how you thing about a 3rd party app (eg wowza) is essential, as about 3rd party codecs (wmv) not being supported.... These are not options for a content-protected delivery base.... I would like user input on ideas not presented here on how they could work with your work flow (admin has stats etc).
A 21st century delivery app is required to deal with the problems we are faced with - maybe others have others in the pipeline (I've not heard of them). This is a working alpha and coming out to the masses soon.
And I promise you, it is damn affordable.