Products

Streaming and platform products, delivered with the engineering to run them.

Media and entertainment

Piracy Insights Platform

Distribution intelligence for rights holders and their advisers.

Measurement of how content moves across unlicensed distribution networks, delivered as anonymised aggregate telemetry. Access is provisioned by organisation type.

EnquireAccess by arrangement. Details on request.

Swarm propagation

Territory demand

Swarm size over time

Streaming platforms

Stream Ladder

Per-title encoding ladder design and validation

We build an encoding ladder for each title from measured objective quality. Every rung is justified by a VMAF target and a device capability matrix. A regression harness comes with it, so when you change a codec or preset you can show that quality held.

Per-title ladder construction against VMAF targets
Codec comparison across H.264, HEVC, and AV1
Device and decoder capability matrices
Bitrate spend modelling per title and territory
Encode regression harness for preset changes
Packaging validation for HLS and DASH

Coverage: H.264, HEVC, AV1
Refresh: Per encode
Delivery: Pipeline integration, reports

Playback Signal

Quality of experience telemetry from the player out

Client-side playback telemetry aggregated into startup time, rebuffer rate, and bitrate distribution, broken down by CDN, device, player build, and territory. When playback gets worse you can trace it to a cause in one pass, without days of argument between vendors. Everything is reported at percentiles, because averages hide the sessions that went badly.

Startup time and rebuffer rate at percentile
Failure attribution by CDN, device, and player build
Bitrate distribution and downshift analysis
Release-over-release regression comparison
Alerting on percentile movement
Raw event export to your own warehouse

Coverage: Web, mobile, connected TV
Refresh: Real-time streaming
Delivery: Dashboard, API, warehouse share

Delivery Steering

Multi-CDN selection and failover

Each session's CDN is chosen from live measurements, and traffic fails over automatically when a provider degrades mid-event. The commit levels in your contracts constrain every decision, so traffic moves for performance while staying within the deals you have signed.

Per-session CDN selection on live measurement
Automatic failover on error and latency thresholds
Commit-level and cost-aware traffic shaping
Synthetic and real-user measurement blended
Per-provider availability and penalty reporting
Origin shield and cache-hit ratio tuning

Coverage: Any HTTP CDN
Refresh: Continuous
Delivery: Steering service, API

Licence Gateway

DRM licences under one policy model

DRM licences are issued from a single policy model, through a network of multi-DRM providers together with self-hosted licence servers, so entitlement checks, concurrency limits, and output protection stay consistent across browsers and devices. Every licence decision is logged in full, which means an access dispute can be reconstructed afterwards.

Widevine licences from one policy
Entitlement and concurrency enforcement
Output protection and HDCP policy per tier
Key rotation and rolling licence windows
Full licence decision audit log
Offline playback with persistent licences

Coverage: Widevine
Refresh: Per licence request
Delivery: Hosted service, or self-hosted

Live Edge

Low-latency live with event-grade redundancy

Glass-to-glass live delivery with the latency budget accounted for segment by segment, and the redundancy a fixed-time event needs: two encode paths with hot failover. It is built for broadcasts that cannot pause while someone finds a fault.

LL-HLS and DASH low-latency profiles
Segment-level latency budget accounting
Dual-path encode with hot failover
Ad-break signalling and SCTE-35 handling
Event rehearsal and load qualification
Live-to-VOD clipping and archive

Coverage: Multi-region
Refresh: Live
Delivery: Managed event, or your infrastructure

Title Performance Index

Cross-platform viewership benchmarking

Normalised performance data for film and episodic content across streaming, broadcast, and transactional windows. Each title is scored against a cohort of comparable releases matched on territory, genre, budget band, and release pattern, so the result shows whether it over- or under-performed. Catalogue decay is modelled out to 36 months for library valuation work.

Territory-level completion and drop-off curves
Comparable-title cohorts with confidence bands
Catalogue decay modelling to 36 months
Day-and-date versus staggered release comparison
Genre and budget-band normalisation
Revision history on every restatement

Coverage: 61 territories
Refresh: Weekly
Delivery: API, S3, warehouse share

Windowing Advisor

Release sequencing and licensing yield

Models the revenue impact of release-window structures across theatrical, premium transactional, subscription, and free-to-air. It is built for distribution and licensing teams negotiating multi-territory deals, and shows what shortening or collapsing a window does to downstream yield before the term sheet is signed.

Window-length elasticity by territory
Licensing yield forecasts per platform tier
Cannibalisation modelling across windows
Output-deal versus title-by-title comparison
Scenario branching with saved assumptions
Negotiation-ready export packs

Coverage: 38 territories
Refresh: Monthly
Delivery: Web application, export

Solutions

Licence Gateway applied to three corporate use cases, each with a Widevine demo that runs in your browser.

Video projects

Example designs for video on Cloudflare, each with a sequence diagram and the platform limits that apply.

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Registered office

VI Data Services Ltd
128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom

Telephone

020 8058 7616

Company number

17420568
Registered in England and Wales