Rudaw an Erbil-based Kurdish media network delivering content through web, radio, print and broadcast.
Challenge:
The challenge for Rudaw was to find the best online media broadcast partner who can accommodate its audience spread, dual-language, dual-dialect and multi-content delivery.
Solution:
KWIKmotion met Rudaw need for multi-platform content distribution by significantly increasing viewership. Using the platform to enhance the channel’s live stream on is portal and YouTube engaged the community and converted a larger number of viewers. Using the best encoding solution Rudaw developers were able to create live, linear, or on-demand audio and video streaming applications for live events, news, streamed music and live radio. KWIKmotion suite delivered video and audio streams to any player and any device, over any protocol, from its single media server, saving on upload bandwidth while delivering the best-possible-quality streams to each user device
WHAT RUDAW HAD TO SAY:
- Rudaw found in KWIKmotion a partner platform that can package, publish and distribute music, radio and live TV in the form of streamed audio and video content in addition to fully exploiting YouTube, Twitter and Facebook around the idea of customization and ease of navigation.
- KWIKmotion secure streaming server and password-protected player addressed our online security concern saving us time and money. All the essential tools and services are there. Our video and audio files are always encoded to the best quality, playable with no buffering thanks to super-fast CDN.
- Support engineers behind KWIKmotion are always a phone call away, and once the issue is resolved, we are notified immediately via sms or email.
- As a news portal, we rely heavily on social media news feeds, so it was essential to work with a streaming provider who can support our social media platform. KWIKplayer proved compatible with Twitter player cards enabling us to embed our video content directly in our account on Twitter site and mobile app. In addition, whenever anyone tweets a link to an embedded video on our site, that video will be directly embedded and playable within his or her Twitter feed as well. Same goes for Facebook, we post through the KWIKplayer share button with active or passive sharing.