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Nomad Media Teams Up with Powerful Partners at NAB Show 2024
Nomad Media’s Collaborations Bring Innovative Content Management and Drive Business Results at NAB Show 2024
April 8, 2024
Digital Workplace
Let Nomad Media and AWS open up new worlds of cloud productivity
Our AWS Digital Workplace Competency Designation
AWS created the Digital Workplace Competency certification to highlight companies that can deliver productivity-focused solutions on the AWS platform. Nomad Media’s flagship product, the Nomad Platform, aligns the power of the AWS Cloud’s cloud collaboration services with customers’ needs to transform their media operations.
Nomad Media has now qualified for and was awarded the Digital Workplace Competency certification by AWS. This Competency award certifies that Nomad meets AWS’ high bar for excellence in delivering solutions to AWS customers.
Nomad Digital Workplace Industry News
Nomad Media’s flagship product, the Nomad Platform, is designed to provide a high-value experience for industries transitioning to cloud productivity solutions. Nomad Media is constantly engaged in helping customers use the Nomad Platform to add cloud-base collaboration to their businesses.
Here are some examples of Nomad Media’s activities in the Digital Workplace industry.
AWS Partnership
Nomad Media Achieves the Amazon Digital Workplace Competency Designation
Feb 6, 2024 – Nomad Media, (“Discover your Content’s Potential”), announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Digital Workplace Competency, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Competency Program.
February 6, 2024
Blog
Nomad Media Knows Sports
Nomad Media is in New York at the SVG Summit showcasing content management and distribution
December 11, 2023
Blog
Nomad Delivers Newsroom Integration for Graham
Success Story: Graham Media Group was able to consolidate all aired news stories within the cloud, easily accessed by all member stations.
April 10, 2023
Blog
Nomad Partners With Rumo
Nomad and Rumo by Spideo Collaborate to Bring Innovative Content Management and Discovery to NAB Show 2023.
April 6, 2023
Digital Customer Experience
AWS M&E Webinar Highlighting Nomad
Learn how FanDuel is using Nomad to make, manage, and monetize their media and entertainment content.
November 8, 2022
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Nomad Media & Smart Cities
What is a smart city? One of the great attributes of the smart city model
November 12, 2021
Digital Workplace
Nomad & Public Safety
Nomad allows public safety agencies to easily manage, stream and analyze their video content and live feeds, securely and cost-effectively.
October 21, 2021
Digital Customer Experience
Nomad Partners with NOAA to Solve Maritime Video Challenges
Nomad is excited to announce it was invited by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
September 22, 2021
Digital Workplace Case Studies and Success Stories
Nomad Media is proud to present real-life examples of how customers are using the Nomad Platform to enable their employees to collaborate on AWS Cloud-based media production and distribution projects.
The Nomad Platform provides users with the ability to share files via links, make collections of assets which can also be shared, and even comment on files and collections. The Nomad approach of creating proxy clips also allows users to simultaneously create unlimited numbers of working samples without altering or locking the original asset. This allows users to share media production tasks safely without concerns about editing conflicts.
In addition, the Nomad Media Explorer for Adobe connects Adobe Premiere with the customer’s AWS Cloud account, allowing users to find and work with cloud-hosted assets directly from Adobe Premiere. The Nomad Media Explorer semi-automates the creation and use of media clips in Adobe Premiere projects, streamlining the media production process. Multiple people can use the Nomad Media Explorer to work with the same assets concurrently, allowing project work to be shared out collaboratively among production personnel.
Customer Case Study: FanDuel Group
Online Video Platform Leverages a Premiere Live Streaming and Video-On-Demand Solution in Nomad Media
Executive Summary
Online sportsbook and gaming company FanDuel Group (FanDuel) used the Nomad Media Platform, a cloud-based content- and asset-management platform, and AWS technologies to adapt to evolving customer needs and provide low-latency streaming video. The company needed to transform its content-management, archiving, and live streaming systems for over-the-top (OTT) content and other distribution opportunities. FanDuel used Nomad Media, which is powered by AWS services, to implement robust media services for video on demand and live streaming, centralized asset storage, and metadata enrichment. FanDuel has reduced its time to market for new features and improved its ability to organize and stream content worldwide.
Transforming Content Management Using Nomad Media & AWS
Online sportsbook and gaming company FanDuel was growing both its customer base and its portfolio of brands as it began to recognize emerging industry trends. To respond to evolving customer needs and maintain its growth, the company needed a more efficient and agile content-management system (CMS) and live streaming solution for OTT content.
The company realized that it could take advantage of the power and agility of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its offerings to customers. FanDuel engaged Nomad Media, an AWS Digital Customer Experience ISV Competency Partner with a digital-asset-management software company, to transform its content and asset-management needs for OTT. Using artificial intelligence (AI), FanDuel optimized and enriched its content to provide more value for customers.
"We quickly saw that the Nomad Media Platform could transform the way that we managed and distributed content, saving us from tons of manual work.”
Eric Girard
Senior Manager of FanDuel TV and FanDuel TV+, FanDuel Group
Improving Content Delivery, Search, and Asset Management
Using AWS, Nomad Media is simplifying content management, discovery, and streaming so that FanDuel can focus on producing excellent content. FanDuel uses AWS Regions for FanDuel TV signal acquisition. In addition, the company uses Nomad Media to manage Amazon CloudFront—a content delivery network service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience—to deliver content to customers on whatever devices they use, worldwide and at scale.
Live content delivery for FanDuel TV+ is managed by Nomad Media and powered by AWS Elemental MediaLive, a broadcast-grade, live video processing service. To push live media from its studio to Amazon CloudFront for delivery to customers’ devices, FanDuel uses Nomad Media and AWS Elemental MediaConnect, a high-quality transport service for live video. Then, FanDuel distributes the content using Nomad Media and AWS Elemental MediaPackage, which prepares, protects, and distributes video content to a broad range of connected devices.
Using Nomad Media, FanDuel has implemented intelligent content discovery for its customers. The company can find and tag specific objects and people, enriching the metadata of various scenes. With enhanced metadata, customers can easily find content based on a variety of search queries, and FanDuel is better prepared for future monetization opportunities. To enhance the search experience on FanDuel, Nomad Media uses Amazon OpenSearch Service, which makes it simple to perform interactive loganalytics, near-real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. With Nomad Media, FanDuel also offers personalized recommendations based on this metadata.
Nomad Media also simplifies digital-media management with features focused on organizing images, videos, audio, and documents. The solution stores media using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. On AWS, FanDuel’s storage can scale as much as it needs efficiently and without managing any hardware. In addition, it has enhanced data archiving capabilities.
Nomad Media is powered by the AI capabilities of AWS services, including Amazon Rekognition, which automates image recognition and video analysis with machine learning. Using Amazon Rekognition, Nomad Media simplifies the auto-discovery and tagging of information inside videos, such as celebrity faces. It also streamlines screen detection and label analysis for an improved production workflow. In addition, the AI that powers Nomad Media enriches FanDuel’s content with on-screen graphics and automatic transcriptions, subtitles, and other accessibility features. “We’re able to off-load a huge amount of annotation and speech-to-text work by using Nomad Media and AWS,” says Girard.
Nomad Media also uses AWS for translation services, because FanDuel distributes its content in multiple languages. As a result, FanDuel can distribute its live FanDuel TV and streaming FanDuel TV+ experiences in multiple regions. As a result of its work with Nomad Media, FanDuel gained support and expertise from the AWS team. By engaging Nomad Media through the AWS Marketplace, FanDuel decreased the software procurement cycle substantially so that it can reduce its time to market drastically.
"On AWS, we have everything that we need in terms of agile services and AI capabilities to deliver a truly powerful content- and asset-management solution to our customers.”
Adam Miller
CEO and Co-founder, Nomad Media
Unlocking Further Innovation in the Cloud
FanDuel has a long-term vision for its innovation using Nomad Media and AWS. The company plans to increase automation, form new industry partnerships, and make further enhancements to its live media and gaming products.
“On AWS, we have everything that we need in terms of agile services and AI capabilities to deliver a truly powerful content- and asset-management solution to our customers,” says Adam Miller, CEO of Nomad Media.
Benefits
- Reduced time to market drastically
- Achieved light procurement cycle
- Minimized manual work for metadata discovery and asset organization
About FanDuel
FanDuel Group is an online sportsbook and gaming technology company that provides fantasy sports, the FanDuel TV+ streaming service, and the live FanDuel TV network. The company was founded in 2009 and has developed multiple award-winning apps.
Customer Success Story: Madison Square Garden
Premiere Arena Leverages a Premiere CMS Solution in Nomad Media
About the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the center of New York City, New York in midtown Manhattan. Known colloquially as “the Garden” it is the home of world-famous sports teams such as the New York Knicks of the NBA and New York Rangers of the NHL. Every year it hosts hundreds of popular concerts and other special events. It opened at its current location in 1968 and remains one of the world’s premiere event facilities.
Customer Success Story: Madison Square Garden
Premiere Arena Leverages a Premiere CMS Solution in Nomad Media
About the Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the center of New York City, New York in midtown Manhattan. Known colloquially as “the Garden” it is the home of world-famous sports teams such as the New York Knicks of the NBA and New York Rangers of the NHL. Every year it hosts hundreds of popular concerts and other special events. It opened at its current location in 1968 and remains one of the world’s premiere event facilities.
CHALLENGE
Massive amount of on-prem archival video content in varied, disparate, and sometimes outdated formats on VHS, Beta, CD, and hard drives in storage. No way to index or retrieve years’ worth of historical content.
SOLUTION
An unprecedented cloud-based solution with full asset digitization, migration, and consolidation to Nomad Media’s centralized system. Easily index and access all archived video content through Nomad Media’s interface. Processed over 6500 hours (and counting) of content, all searchable through Nomad Media’s AWS-powered AI features like facial recognition, label detection, and transcription translation. This was done in a very fast turnaround time.
BENEFITS
- Import of almost 1PB of legacy content
- 400 million files/assets.
- AI analysis with face recognition
- Adobe Connector
- Partner Portal
- Speed to market
- Reduced development time
- 6500 hours equal to 700TB asset content
Successful Outcome
Madison Square Garden was able to process an unprecedented amount of content which led to quicker project workflow turnarounds and faster go-to-market and monetization capabilities.
Key Nomad Features
AWS Elemental Link Support
ONE CLICK TO BROADCAST: AWS Elemental Link support is streamlined within the Nomad Platform. The AWS infrastructure setup is simplified in an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that allows for live video transmissions to be set up within minutes. Simply plug-in the AWS Elemental Link device and it shows up automatically in the Nomad dashboard, ready to broadcast. Additional features like multiple-output profiles and automatic saving of the broadcasts for later viewing or editing are out-of-the box with the Nomad Platform.
POWER OF NOMAD: All existing video and content are also available for broadcast. Any video stream (live of recorded) can be transmitted along with the AWS Elemental Link broadcast to create rich live video experiences. Nomad uses CloudFront and AWS Media Services to broadcast the streams using the best-in-class streaming capabilities of AWS. As the demand for the streams grow, Nomad scales accordingly.
The Nomad Platform: AWS-Based Solution for the Very Best in Live Streaming Video Management
