TikiLIVE Mobile Apps Now Available at Google and iOS Stores

While TikiLIVE has long been available on a variety of set top box platforms through our Android based APK, some of our users are surprised to know that we also have mobile apps for both Android and Apple devices. Our goal is for your content to be easily accessible at all times.

In keeping with our mission, we’ve spent significant time and resources over the past few months strengthening our Android and Apple mobile apps to ensure they share the same easy to use interface of our other online offerings.

Mobile Data Usage is Exploding

As of October 2014, according to Pew Research, 64% of Americans own a smartphone. This is a huge segment of the country and one that should not be overlooked. Even more shocking is that over 60% of adult cell users use their phones to access the internet. This means that, as a content provider, you must cater to this huge segment of the population.

We understand the importance of reaching mobile users and have developed robust smartphone apps for both Apple and Android devices. A few of the features that your users will enjoy include:

Allow Your Users to Watch Live Broadcasts from Their Mobile Phone

As more people look to their smartphones for content, it’s important that you have the ability to feature yours across a variety of devices. Reaching your users through as many devices as possible will allow you to ensure you’re available wherever your users choose to access your content. With TikiLIVE’s new mobile apps, you’ll be able to reach your mobile users regardless of their carrier or smartphone preference.

We don’t want to get in the middle of your viewers who prefer one operating system over the other, which is why we created apps for both of the top mobile phone operating systems.

Electronic Program Guide On Mobile Phones

If your users have used our STB technology, it’s probable that they are accustomed to our state of the art Electronic Program Guide (EPG), which allows your users to quickly access content from a variety of different providers. Our revamped programming guide is faster and more informative than the ones found from a cable or satellite providers. Not only is our programming guide far superior to what you can get from them, but it’s also easily accessible from your mobile device!

Foreign Language Support

While smartphone usage is astronomical in the US, the market is also strong overseas. For this reason, we’re constantly adding support for additional languages within our mobile apps. We currently offer support for the following languages:

English
Portuguese
Spanish
Chinese
Japanese
Romanian
Urdu
Arabic
Punjabi
Dutch
Russian
Italian
German
French

Ready to Use Our Mobile Apps?

If you’d like to learn more about our Android or Apple mobile apps, give our office a call today or shoot us an email. We’ll be happy to walk you through the process of downloading and installing our app, which you can then pass on to your mobile viewers.

HTML5 Channel Manager Released in TikiLIVE 6.2.0

You asked for the new features and functions and we responded with an all new Channel Manager that can be managed on all of your devices! That’s right the Channel Manager is fully HTML5 compatible.

What are some of the other major benefits of our Channel Manager? Let’s get under the hood and see what’s inside shall we?

Create & Update Playlists from Your Mobile Device. No PC or Mac needed to create your playlists. Create and manage your playlists easily from your mobile phone or device, instantly!
Ingest Advertisements Directly into Your Video Playlist – and Monetize. High traffic channels will earn you money. The all new Channel Manager allows you to ingest VAST compatible ads directly into your playlists. You have complete programmer control. You decide how many ads and where they are placed in your lineups.
Easy to Use Interface. We’ve worked hard on the latest release of our Channel Manager to create an interface that is powerful, yet easy to use. We’re sure that you’ll have mastered the new interface in just a few minutes.
Full Playout Support for Mobile and STB Devices. One of the beauties of HTML5 technology is that it is supported across a variety of devices. Whether your viewers access your content from a mobile device, a set top box, or even a media dongle, the new Channel Manager will be fully supported.
Updated Electronic Program Guide. Our brand new EPG is fully upgraded, allowing any changes to sync instantly through our scheduling platform. This allows the information that is updated on a mobile device to instantly be updated across all viewing platforms.

Other New Features of TikiLIVE 6.2.0

We have bundled a number of other major updates into the latest version of TikiLIVE. Below are a few of the features you’ll want to have installed on your next upgrade;

FAST Suggested Search. We have added to our latest version of a powerful search technology using Sphynx. This shortens search time while delivering the results FAST. Sphynx is the most powerful search algorithm technology today and now it’s in available to you in our latest release!
Device Control with TikiLIVE’s Master Operator. The newest Master Operator allows you to have full control over your users and manage each device they use to consume content. Master Operator offers an unprecedented ability to control what users may access from your content offers at all times.

Try Out TikiLIVE 6.2.0 Today! You may test our latest version by logging into www.TikiLIVE.com free account.

As you can see, we’ve been hard at work on developing the latest TikiLIVE platform.

If you would like a back office demo or more information about what’s included in the latest release, please call us today at 305-743-6722.

OTT: Share Your Video Channel Directly With Your Audience

If you follow the news even a little bit, you’ve likely heard about the huge success of digital streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon and the outcry from customers who are finally throwing their hands up in disgust as they look at their cable and satellite bills that keep climbing.

Consumers are making a stand with their wallets and cancelling cable and satellite subscriptions in favor of more cost effective streaming platforms. This move to “Over the Top” TV platforms as opposed to expensive television networks should be great news for aspiring content providers looking to get their content out to as many people as possible.

What is OTT?

OTT or Over the Top television is the process of using broadband Internet to deliver video content directly to TV users through a variety of internet-connected devices such as PCs, gaming systems, streaming devices, smart TVs and set top boxes. OTT in essence completely bypasses the traditional cable and satellite providers to deliver high quality video content to viewers.

If you look at some of the most popular shows as of late, you’ll see shows like Orange is the New Black, House of Cards and other newcomers that are drawing huge audiences to streaming providers. This strategy of creating original programming was sheer genius and has forced viewers to sign up for these streaming services to ensure that they are able to watch these wildly addictive shows. These shows have made OTT mainstream and proves that the future is bright for independent, freethinking content.

TikiLIVE Makes OTT Broadcasting Extremely Easy

If you’re interested in trying your hand at producing streaming content, one of the most important decisions you’ll have to make is the streaming provider that you choose. With scores of options it can be incredibly overwhelming trying to find a provider that meets your needs.

If you’re looking for a provider that can have you up and running in no time, TikiLIVE may be your best option. As a leading content provider for over 10 years, we offer a wide range of features that will make getting your content online extremely easy.

A Robust Content Delivery Network

The last thing that you want is for your content to become wildly popular while your provider is not able to keep up with the demand from your growing user base. TikiLIVE knows a thing or two about growing pains and is ready to handle the growth of your viewing audience.

We have several measures in place including a rock solid content delivery network that will minimize the buffering and streaming issues you may have seen with many of the low-cost streaming providers. With a network of servers located around the world, we promise that we’ll be able to handle the popularity of your streaming content without a single hiccup.

Access Across a Variety of Platforms

In today’s OTT landscape, it’s important that your content is viewable on any number of devices. Whether your users are accessing your content from a Smart TV or a Roku device or even a smartphone or tablet, you want to make the viewing experience as easy and seamless as possible.

That’s why we offer full HTML5 support, which makes it possible for your content to be viewable on all types of set top boxes as well as any smartphone or tablet. This cutting edge technology will allow your viewers to have a wonderful viewing experience that’s to their unique device. As more people view streaming content from devices with small screens, it’s important that you do not overlook this huge segment of your user base.

Create Your Own Custom Channels

Instantly create custom channels that will allow you to be featured alongside the big players like Amazon, Netflix and Hulu. Thanks to TikiLIVE’s Monster Encoder, uploading your content is extremely easy. You can leave the complicated video encoding worries to TikiLIVE and just focus on creating content that your viewers will enjoy.

Manage Your Website and Content in the Same Interface

With a TikiLIVE account you not only get a platform to publish your video content, but you also get a fully functional website that is accessible through your TikiLIVE control panel. With a website powered by WordPress you’ll easily be able to build your brand outside of your video content all from the same platform.

If you’re not familiar with the WordPress platform you should take solace in the fact that it powers millions of websites on the web and requires little to no experience in web design to get up and running.

Manage Your Social Media Accounts Like a Pro

Aside from creating content, updating your social media accounts can feel like a full time job. With TikiLIVE you’ll be able to instantly share your videos with all of your social media accounts with the click of a button. This should help you to organically grow your audience across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other popular social media networks!

Get Your Content Out to the World

As you can see the OTT revolution is here and it’s up to you to hop onboard! Partner with TikiLIVE to ensure your content can be seen by the world. For more information on how easy it is to setup an account, contact us today.

How to Create a Media Package on TikiLIVE

When you are introducing your business to the world, it’s crucial to stand out. You could have the most revolutionary product or service in the world, but nobody would know it if you don’t have a slick media package making the case for your business to the public. But publishing a high-quality traditional print media kit is costly, with no assurance that it won’t end up in a pile of unread mail in the offices of the media outlets, customers, or investors who could help your business most.

In our current digital age, print media is losing its effectiveness simply because printed matter has less of a place in people’s everyday lives as their worlds are contained in smartphones, laptops, and tablets. To get noticed, you’re going to want to put your media kit into the digital workflow where potential investors or customers or the media can learn about your company wherever they are, on whichever device they’re using. What better way to achieve this than with video?

Video makes an impact on the senses that the static materials in a traditional print media kit just can’t compete with. Dynamic, engaging, able to compress a lot of information in a short time and easily consumed on digital devices, video is the ideal medium for your company’s media package.

TikiLIVE is a robust content-delivery infrastructure that broadcasts your video in stunning high definition without the buffering or hiccups that can plague other online video services. When you upload video, it is encoded and optimized for playback on all devices.

Our intuitive dashboard makes it easy to arrange and enable the videos you want to broadcast on your channel. You can update the information in your kit (i.e., change or post new videos) at any time without incurring the costs of additional print runs that go with traditional kits.

Just give media reps, investors or customers the link to your channel page, and all the videos in your media kit will be available to them for viewing. It’s a great and cost-effective way to get noticed!

Post As Many Videos as Your Company Has Stories to Tell

Your video media package is your chance to tell the stories of who you are and what really drives your company ¬— the passions you embody, the problems you strive to solve, the value you provide. The video element gives you the opportunity to transcend the dry facts and canned messages that usually populate these media kits. You can provide a number of videos on different subjects to illustrate all the facets of your company.

Some suggestions for the types of videos you may want to include in your video media package on TikiLIVE include:

Company welcome/introduction: Craft a first impression of your company. Give a high-level pitch on what your company does and what sets you apart. Consider having this video autoplay when the viewer first accesses your channel page.
Company history and profile: A brief look at how the company started and how it has progressed over the years. Introduce key executives. Give some facts and figures of interest.
Product and service information: Create videos detailing the products and services you offer. Demonstrate their features and benefits. Incorporate case studies. Show how and why your products or services have value.
Frequently asked questions: Anticipate and address questions that viewers are likely to have about your company. Invite viewers to ask further questions via social media or phone contact.
Vlog posts: Blog-entry style videos that briefly cover topics of interest to your business or industry. If you’re a software company, film some brief “tips and tricks” pieces that make using your product easier. Comment on trends in your industry.
Investor information: Enumerate what your company has to offer potential investors. Go over your standing in the marketplace and reveal future initiatives that will boost returns on investment or draw the interest of venture capitalists.
Media coverage: Compile any appearances your company has had in the media: clips from news items, features, articles, industry publications, coverage of company events.
Upcoming events and initiatives: Show you’re a company on the move by producing videos that show what lies ahead: trade shows, product launches, user conferences, conventions, awards ceremonies, thought-leader lectures or panels. Build hype for events for which you want media coverage.
Awards and honors: Show how your company excels by describing any industry or local-business awards your company has received. Footage of awards ceremonies and acceptance speeches would be very effective here. Solidify your company’s position as a recognized leader in its industry.
Testimonials: Invite customers or others you have a positive business relationship with to record their impressions of and experiences with your company. Have them describe what is so great about your company and what sets you apart from your competitors. Show that you have a proven track record of success with a real-world human touch.
Causes: If your company lends support to charitable causes, create a video detailing what those causes are and what they mean to your company. This is a great opportunity to humanize your company and portray yourselves as contributing members of the community, while raising awareness about the causes that are important to you. If possible, provide footage of company members participating in activities related to these causes — holding a fun run, volunteering with the Special Olympics, cleaning up a park, etc.

Use TikiLIVE to Craft Your Company’s Image

With high-definition video, a reliable delivery infrastructure and an easy-to-use channel manager, you can use TikiLIVE to create a memorable and compelling media package for your company that fits right into the digital workflow of today’s media professional, investor or customer.

Don’t reduce your company to a stack of paper to be recycled. Sign up for a TikiLIVE account today and start creating your video media kit.

Tips for Avoiding DMCA Copyright Notices on Your Live Stream Channel

Live streaming on your own IPTV channel puts unprecedented broadcasting freedom in the hands of more people than ever before. But, to paraphrase an old saying, with great freedom comes great responsibility.

In the case of Internet broadcasting, that responsibility means knowing the legal issues surrounding content copyright and taking steps to ensure that you comply with copyright law.

This means not using others’ creative works in your broadcast without their permission. These works could include (but are not limited to):

Music
Film or television clips
Artwork
Logos or branding
Photos
Licensed characters
Written content (scripts, published works, etc.)

Copyrighted works are protected from online infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This law, passed in 1998, protects copyright owners from having their material used without permission on the Internet, while also limiting the liability of Internet service providers whose subscribers infringe on copyrighted material.

TikiLIVE, a robust content delivery platform, is obligated to comply with the DMCA and promptly responds to notices that claim its subscribers are committing copyright infringement. So be sure to read our policy regarding copyright and the DMCA. If you operate a live-stream channel on the TikiLIVE platform, you need to know what this policy means, how to stay in compliance with the DMCA and what to do if you receive a DMCA notice.

How DMCA Notices Work

When copyright holders see an unauthorized use of their material online, they can send the alleged infringer’s Internet service provider written notice detailing when and where they found the unauthorized content.

These notices typically request the removal of the content from the hosting site and warn of further legal action for failing to comply. TikiLIVE’s DMCA notification guidelines require complaints to provide:

A description of the alleged infringing content
The content’s location on a TikiLIVE channel
A statement that the notice is being provided with the good-faith belief that the alleged infringer’s use of the content is unauthorized
The copyright holder’s (or agent’s) signature on the notice

Per the terms of the DMCA, TikiLIVE then promptly forwards the notice to the subscriber who allegedly posted the unauthorized material. TikiLIVE then has the discretion to take whatever action it may find appropriate to the situation, including removing the content in question from its platform and / or terminating the subscriber’s TikiLIVE account. Copyright infringement is a serious legal matter, and TikiLIVE treats it that way.

What You Can Do to Avoid Getting a DMCA Notice

Here at TikiLIVE we want our broadcasters to have a completely enjoyable and trouble-free experience sharing their content on our platform. To this end, we want to provide these suggestions to keep you from being targeted by DMCA notices:

Use only all-original material in your broadcasts. Write your own scripts, compose and perform your own music, create your own art for the backdrop, produce your own video clips. This really is the only 100 percent certain way to ensure that you are not infringing on anyone’s copyright.
Before broadcasting, review your surroundings. Listen to make sure that there is no music playing from a background source. Make sure no product or service brands or logos are visible to the camera. Ensure that there are no trademarked licensed characters (e.g., Disney characters, comic book heroes, brand or team mascots, etc.) visible in the background.
If you quote a written work, keep it very brief and state its title and author.
Use content covered under a Creative Commons license. This is a type of license that makes a creative work free to use and distribute, but allows its creator to be credited with the work and retain its copyright.

Searching CreativeCommons.org is a great way to find video, music, photos and other media that is legal for you to use under a Creative Commons license. If you use a Creative Commons-licensed work, you should attribute it to its creator in your broadcast somehow, either spoken, in a caption when it appears, or in end credits. (Also, do not use it in pay-per-view events, as Creative Commons-licensed works are only for non-commercial use.)

If you really, really want to use something created by someone else, get permission. Contact the creator directly or through their representation, or through the legal department for larger entities. If you have a musician friend who wrote a song you want to use, getting permission can be as simple as a verbal okay (though getting it in writing would be better). Bear in mind, though, that if you want to get permission from a publisher, music label or film studio to use work that they own the rights to, it will almost certainly be an extremely expensive proposition, if permission is even granted at all.

You may think that you can try to “sneak” unauthorized copyrighted work into your live stream because your broadcast is too small to be noticed. But here in the Internet age, nobody is too small to be noticed. Copyright holders actively patrol the internet looking for infringement. If you use something that isn’t yours online, the chances are good that you will get caught.

What to Do If You Get a DMCA Notice

Bear in mind that we are not giving you legal advice here and that you should consult a licensed attorney for actionable advice on how to proceed.

When you receive a DMCA notice, you generally have two courses of action:

Comply with the directions on the notice and remove the copyrighted material from your channel, or
Send a counter notice to the complaining party stating that you believe you really do have the right to use the content.

Sending a counter notice is likely to result in further legal action, so you should definitely consult a lawyer before choosing to do this.

Make It Your Own With TikiLIVE!

When you stream your channel on TikiLIVE, don’t think of DMCA requirements as a limitation; think of it as an invitation to get creative! We give you the robust content delivery infrastructure, easy-to-use broadcasting tools and ability to play back on all mobile devices and set-top boxes to make your very own mark on the IPTV world.

For more details on how TikiLIVE can put your unique vision out into the world, contact us now.

Broadcast Your Own Video Channel on Facebook and Twitter

Internet broadcasters have the same essential need as traditional broadcasters: to get their programming in front of as many people as possible, as quickly and easily as possible. What better built-in audience is there than social media users? Using Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others has become an automatic, several-times-a-day ritual for people of all ages around the world. What better platform for putting thousands of eyes on your content without having to pursue them?

With TikiLIVE, social media sites effectively become channels for your video – and free, widely seen channels at that. Our robust content delivery system makes it easy to share videos across all social media networks simultaneously from one easy-to-use dashboard.

Embed Your Live Stream and Videos on Demand on Facebook

With over a billion active users per month, Facebook is the undisputed gold standard of social media sites to leverage. Fortunately, Facebook makes it very easy to post video, and TikiLIVE makes it very easy to post videos on Facebook.

The first thing you should do is create a Facebook page for your channel. Then, on your channel page, click the Share tab and click Copy on the URL field. Next, return to your channel’s Facebook page, paste the URL into a post, and click Post. Your channel is now playable on Facebook. This works for live streams, videos on demand, or channel playlists.

There is some variation in how your video will play back on Facebook. In some cases it will play back right on the Facebook page when the user clicks Play. In other cases, clicking Play will open your TikiLIVE channel page in a new tab or window.

This variation is caused by the different types of servers Facebook is hosted on. Different servers are configured with different behavior for playing back video, and neither you nor TikiLIVE has any control over which server hosts your Facebook page.

In either case, the result is the same: Facebook is getting your channel in front of more eyes than would otherwise be possible without spending thousands on advertising or other broadcast methods.

Besides posting to your own page, you can post your channel to other Facebook pages that have related subject matter to your channel.

Is your channel about outdoor sports? Find some Facebook pages on backpacking, mountain biking, kayaking, etc. and post your channel URL there.

Have a gamer channel? Broadcast on pages about gamer culture or the specific games or consoles that you feature on your channel.

Is your channel about giving exposure to your local music scene? Target Facebook pages about the arts scene in your town or state, your local colleges and universities, and well-trafficked music sites, to name a few.

When you browse for Facebook pages to link your channel to, focus on pages that have substantial numbers of members or likes and recent. Connecting with pages that have a sizeable and active user base can bring great exposure to your channel.

Don’t Just Post It…Tweet It!

Though there is a lot of overlap, for whatever reason, some people prefer to confine their social media activity to Twitter. Fortunately, TikiLIVE makes it just as easy to reach the tweeters as the Facebookers.

Your first step, of course, is to open a Twitter account for your channel. Once you’ve done that, you can click the Tweet button under the video player on your TikILIVE channel page.

You will be prompted to log into your Twitter account if you’re not logged in already. Then a text field will appear with the video title and a link to the channel. Modify the text (except for the link) any way you like, as long as you keep the total under 140 characters, then click Tweet.

The video link will now appear in the Twitter feeds of your channel’s Twitter followers. Your channel page also keeps a running tally of the number of times your video is tweeted, to help you get a sense of how well your social media efforts are working.

Just make sure that you have Protect My Tweets unchecked in your Twitter account settings, or your tweets won’t be shareable.

Sharing Is Caring….and Facebook, Twitter and TikiLIVE Make Your Videos a Snap to Share

One of the greatest values of social media to Internet broadcasters is how easy they make sharing their content. Once you’ve posted your channel link, all a user has to do to pass it on to other groups is click Share or Retweet.

The TikiLIVE video player also includes a standard Share control that viewers can use to share your channel content easily to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ wherever they’re viewing the video from.

Anywhere Facebook and Twitter Can Go…Your Channel Can Go Too!

TikiLIVE’s Monster Encoder makes all of your channel’s content viewable in high definition on any video player on any device, so there are no barriers to getting your channel’s content out into the world with the help of Facebook and Twitter.

Sign up for a TikiLIVE account today.

IPTV vs Cable vs Satellite: Which Platform is Best for Live Streaming?

With more and more people “cutting the cord” and moving away from traditional cable and satellite television providers in favor of Internet streaming, Internet protocol television (IPTV) is clearly the space to be in for providers of live streaming content. The reasons for this shift are numerous, but they boil down to the greater freedom IPTV provides both for streaming content providers and consumers in so many ways. Cable and satellite television simply cannot compete with the much lower costs, simpler setup and global reach of IPTV.

Navigating the path to live streaming your event through IPTV doesn’t have to be daunting, though. In fact, it’s probably a lot easier than you think — especially when you use the TikiLIVE platform. Create your own channels to stream your high-definition video to mobile devices and set-top boxes like Roku and AppleTV with minimal investment and technical expertise. Let’s take a look at some of the key advantages that IPTV with TikiLIVE has over cable or satellite for your live streaming events.

1. Cost

A live broadcast on cable or satellite is an expensive proposition, both for broadcasters and viewers. Broadcasting on cable or satellite requires buying airtime from the provider, who has very high infrastructural and promotional expenses and generally isn’t interested in taking risks. As a result, the cost of mounting a live broadcast via cable or satellite is beyond the reach of most independent broadcasters. To reach viewers via cable and satellite providers, the viewers must first be paying substantial monthly fees inflated by padding the channel lineup with unwanted channels, often with a 2-year commitment required. Special events on cable or satellite are almost always presented as pay per view, imposing further fees on the viewer.

With TikiLIVE, IPTV operating costs are well within the reach of independent broadcasters streaming live events. Other than TikiLIVE’s low subscriber rates for use of our content delivery platform, the only production expenses you are likely to incur are for buying the camera of your choice and possibly for Internet connectivity. Unless you present your live stream as a pay-per-view event (which TikiLIVE supports with easy-to-use ticketing features), viewers will be able to see your event only for the cost of their monthly Internet service.

2. Audience size

With cable and satellite TV, your audience is constrained by the number of people who subscribe to these services. If your event is pay per view, your audience size is further limited to people who subscribe to the service and are willing to pay additional fees for the event. With TikiLIVE, your potential audience is anyone around the world with an Internet-enabled mobile device, computer or digital set-top box.

3. Equipment

Mounting a televised event via cable or satellite requires a lot of the expensive, specialized cameras and production equipment used in traditional broadcasting, and viewers need the cable or satellite vendor’s proprietary receiver to watch it. TikiLIVE’s HD Wave broadcasting suite delivers high-definition video that can even be captured by a smartphone or tablet that you already have. The video is encoded for playback on any mobile device with an HTML5-enabled player or any set-top box that the viewer is already using to watch content from providers like Netflix or Hulu Plus.

4. Portability

With cable and satellite, the viewer is effectively tied to the receiver connected to the TV to watch content. Providers are making inroads into offering some of their content to subscribers on mobile devices, but these offerings are often limited. While live streaming events are certainly viewable on TVs with set-top boxes, they are also viewable without restriction on any Internet-enabled mobile device.

5. Promotion

With cable and satellite providers, you often see commercials for their offerings on TV channels, or print advertising in magazines or on subways, or direct mail pieces. These forms of advertising are expensive, and who ultimately pays for them? Not just advertisers, but also the content producers who buy air time, and the customers who buy subscriptions.

With IPTV, your potential audience is by definition an Internet-savvy bunch, so TikiLIVE gives you tools to reach them via their social networks. With just a few clicks, you can promote your live streaming event via Facebook, Twitter and Google+. You can embed videos that you create to promote your event in these networks and on YouTube, where they can easily be shared to increase your potential audience.

6. Pay-per-view

When a cable or satellite company mounts a pay-per-view event, the event producer does not set the ticket price. That price is set by the provider based on a host of factors. And as we recently saw with the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao boxing match, the price can skyrocket, making the event prohibitively expensive for many.
TikiLIVE’s ticketing features put the ticket pricing power in the hands of the broadcaster — you. Easily track tickets sold and tally funds collected for your pay-per-view event. Without all of the overhead of a cable or satellite company, you can keep your ticket prices affordable.

7. Independence

In the end, this is possibly the greatest benefit that TikiLIVE IPTV can offer you. With TikiLIVE, you stage the live streaming event that YOU want, not what the cable or satellite providers’ executive boards or advertisers want. You schedule the event, you promote the event, you set the picket price (if any) for the event, you showcase the subject matter that you feel most passionate about. TikiLIVE puts the power in your hands to put your personal stamp on every aspect of your live streaming event and put it in front of more viewers worldwide than the cable and satellite companies could ever dream of. And it enables you to do this without technical expertise, specialized equipment, or steep financial investment.

Sign up for a TikiLIVE account now or call us at (305) 743-6722 to learn more about our broadcasting platform.

How to Continuously Live Stream Pre-recorded Content

Being an internet broadcaster means freedom. Freedom from having to staff your channel around the clock. Freedom from having to hope people see your videos or hear your audio content at a scheduled time. And the freedom to share your content around the globe, around the clock to reach the widest possible audience at a manageable cost.

With all the potential that internet broadcasting offers, creating a channel that continuously streams your content 24 hours a day, seven days a week must be a complicated, expensive proposition, right?

Not with TikiLIVE!

Our robust and dependable content delivery infrastructure, easy-to-use drag-and-drop programming interface, and cloud-based encoding make your high-definition content playable on any device or set-top box — around the clock and around the world.

Set up a 24-hour continuous stream of content in less time and at a lower cost than you thought possible with TikiLIVE.

Live Playlists: Drag-and-Drop Simplicity for Powerful Results

Once you’ve created your content, the hard part should be over. That’s why we’ve developed a playlist interface so simple to use that there’s no need to enlist a computer guru to manage how your content gets out into the world.

With TikiLIVE’s Live Playlists, you see a timeline and a list of your content files that you’ve uploaded and encoded. Simply drag your file to the place on your timeline when you want the file to stream, then release the mouse.

Repeat until all 24 hours of your timeline is filled with your videos or audio tracks just where you want them.

Change your mind about what time a video should play? No problem! Just click it and drag it to where you want it. You can even crop a video that’s already in your playlist if you need to shave off a little time.

TikiLIVE makes content playlists so easy to create and manage that you can spend more of your time creating content and less time figuring out how to broadcast it.

Assign Your Playlist to a Channel and Go Live!

Once you have your continuous stream saved to a playlist, all that remains is for you to assign your playlist to one of your TikiLIVE channels.

Creating a channel with TikiLIVE is another incredibly easy process (Are you sensing a pattern here?).

Simply click Create Channel under TikiLIVE’s Go Live menu and give your channel a name, description, and category.

Once your channel is saved, it is available for assigning your playlists to it. Simply click Assign Video Playlists (or Assign Audio Playlists for internet radio), select the channel where you want the content in the playlist to stream, and click Publish Playlist.

From there, you just go to the Manage Channels page, select the channel and click Broadcast Now.

Just like that, your 24-hour stream is live in high definition on iOS and Android devices and set-top boxes everywhere!

TikiLIVE’s Powerful Analytics Tools Tell You When Your Content Is Being Seen

While it’s great just knowing that TikiLIVE is putting your continuous stream of digital content out into the world, sometimes it’s helpful to have more information about when and how it’s being consumed.

To help you understand how TikiLIVE is working for you, we provide statistics on each of your channels including…

Number of viewers/listeners in a given time period
How long they stayed
Amount of bandwidth consumed

…and other valuable information that can help you make decisions about your broadcasting.

See which content is gaining traction and see which areas in your playlist could use some refinement. See which days and times are the best candidates for effective advertising!

Turn the Eyes on Your Content Into Revenue with TikiLIVE’s Ecommerce Tools

To help support your channels and content creation, we offer a number of options to help you monetize your content.

TikiLIVE integrates OpenX text video overlay ads and video ads, as well as Google AdSense to help make your 24-hour stream a source of revenue.

In addition, TikiLIVE also has tools for making your content available by monthly subscription and collecting the funds.

Use the WordPress Shopping Cart to sell digital downloads of your content.

And should you ever want to insert a live, pay-per-view event into your programming, TikiLIVE has the tools to sell tickets and deliver the event to paid customers only.

Promote Your Content With TikiLIVE’s Social Media Integration

Once your 24-hour stream is up and running, drive viewership and listenership using TikiLIVE’s social media tools. With one click, get the word out about your channel or post sample content to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social media platforms. Maintain a chat page or user forum for your channel. Build a WordPress site for your channel blog. With TikiLIVE, promoting your channel is as easy as broadcasting it.

Run Into a Snag? We’re Here to Support Our Broadcasters

We’ve built TikiLIVE to be as robust, stable and user-friendly as possible, but there may be times where you need a little help getting and staying on the air. When this happens, TikiLIVE’s support team is never further than a click or a call away.

The minute you visit us, our Talk To Us window appears in the lower left of your screen with a list of support options. You can consult TikiLIVE’s comprehensive knowledge base, click to chat live with a support specialist, call the TikiLIVE support line or send an email for less urgent matters. Whichever is your preferred way of getting help, TikiLIVE has got your back, and we’re dedicated to keeping your channels working flawlessly.

So what’s keeping you from broadcasting your content on the Internet 24/7? With TikiLIVE, it’s fun, easy and effective. For more information on how TikiLIVE can help you take to the Internet “airwaves,” call us at (305) 743-6722.

Free TikiLIVE Set Top Box APK

As more people look to “cut the cord” and free themselves from the ridiculously high rates of cable and satellite providers, set top boxes have seen a huge uptick in popularity.

Set top boxes allow your viewers to access content from their televisions just like they could with cable and satellite providers — without the extremely high monthly bills.

One of the challenges of a set top box is the user interface. It takes significant time and development costs to create a user experience that is smooth and easy to use by your viewers.

When starting an IPTV network, the last thing that you should have to worry about is a refined software package, which is why developed a completely free set top box APK that allows you to power your set top boxes with relative ease.

Set Top Box Android Application Package

We’re excited to have just completed the newest set top box APK for Android. This APK allows you to control set top boxes and dongles to provide a unique experience to your viewers. If you have an Android based set top box or dongle, you can download our set top box APK absolutely free.

Features of The New TikiLIVE Set Top Box APK

We’re constantly tweaking our APK to ensure that we are offering a rich feature set to our end users. A few of the most popular features of our free APK include:

Multi-language Support: We’ve recently added support for the following languages.
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Thai
- Traditional Chinese Cantonese
- Urdu
- Vietnamese

Fast Channel Guide: How many times have you become frustrated with your cable box because the channel guide was extremely slow? Our EPG (electronic program guide) is optimized for both speed and ease of use so you can offer viewers a “better than cable” experience.
Video On Demand: Another benefit of using the TikiLIVE set top box APK is that your viewers not only have instant access to all of your TikiLIVE channels but you can also offer video on demand functions similar to options provided by cable and satellite providers.

Benefits for STB Manufacturers and IPTV Providers

As a set top box manufacturer or IPTV provider, it’s important to strategically choose the set top box software that will run on your devices. We offer benefits not seen with many of our competitors’ offerings.

Revenue Sharing: Your business must be profitable. For this reason, we’re now offering revenue sharing for manufacturers who choose to offer some of our premium content on their STB devices.
Support for a Wide Range of Devices: Our free set top box SDK can be used on dual core or quad core Android set top boxes as well as HDMI dongles. This allows you to offer a wide variety of STB options for your customers.
Ease of Branding: With our SDK you have complete control over the branding of the user interface. This allows you to include your own logos and branding to strengthen your company’s image.
Demo Content: Another benefit of using the TikiLIVE SDK is that you can demonstrate the capabilities of your set top boxes and dongles by demoing streaming content to your users right out of the box.

Benefits for Set Top Box Users

While our set top box SDK offers a whole host of benefits for manufacturers and IPTV providers, we are most excited about the benefits that end users will experience when using our software, including:

A Variety of Channels: Viewers will easily be able to scroll through a whole host of channels related to all sorts of content. No matter the subject matter, TikiLIVE offers hundreds of channels to choose from.
High Quality Streaming: With servers located around the world, viewers will not experience buffering and streaming issues that are common with many of the free streaming providers.
No Commercials: Viewers quickly grow tired of commercials, especially when it comes to streaming content. Choose whether or not you want to include commercials and handpick the ones most likely to interest your viewers.
User Friendly: Through extensive testing, we’ve developed an interface that is easy for all ages to use. Whether viewers are young or old, the simple to use electronic program guide is simple to learn and extremely intuitive — even for users that have never used a set top box.
Updated Daily: TikiLIVE’s channel offerings are constantly updated to give viewers access to an almost endless supply of fresh content.

Interested in More Information on the Free TikiLIVE Set Top Box APK?

Download the APK now or call us now at (305) 743-6722 for more information about our set top box APK and how it can fuel the growth of your business.

How to Start Your Own Cooking Show

So you know your way around the kitchen and feel like you have the type of personality that could be a draw for television and Internet viewers? If so, you may just have what it takes to create your very own cooking show. The problem is how in the world do you actually make it happen?

Purchase a Video Camera

If you’re looking to share your skills with other enthusiasts, you’ll need a high quality video camera to capture all the action! Fortunately you won’t have to spend a fortune to be able to deliver high quality HD streaming video to your fans. For just a few hundred dollars you can purchase a video camera that will more than suffice for your needs. No longer do you need a full production staff with cameras costing tens of thousands of dollars like in the old days. Thankfully with the advances in camera technology, a video camera shouldn’t set you back too much.

Ensure You Have a Reliable Internet Connection

Since streaming your cooking show online is likely your most cost effective option, you’ll want to make sure that you have a reliable Internet connection. Forget about using your smartphone as a hotspot — you’ll need a dedicated high speed Internet connection that will allow you to stream without issue. Internet speed problems can really prove detrimental to the quality of your video if you aren’t careful.

Partner With a Reliable Content Provider

Just as a reliable Internet connection is important to the effective streaming of your content, a reliable content provider is equally if not more important. A reliable content provider should offer a robust, secure content delivery network (CDN) that will allow your users to easily access your content, regardless of their location. The last thing that you want to do is have streaming issues during the launch of your new cooking show! Nothing tells your fan base that you’re not ready for the “big time” like poor video quality.

TikiLIVE is a streaming provider that has been working with content creators for over a decade. With a robust CDN, we’re poised to handle the growth of your new show. We work with a variety of cooking professionals to ensure that their user base is always able to enjoy their content without the usual delays and hiccups that you may see with some free streaming providers.

Ensure Your Content is Accessible Across a Myriad of Devices

What type of devices will your fans use to access your content? In the past you only had to worry about reaching your fans through their televisions, but the entire market for live streaming has completely changed. With more people following along in their kitchens, you’ll need to make sure that they can view your content from their mobile device.

With TikiLIVE’s technology, your content will be easily viewable from smartphones, tablets, computers and even televisions. This way you’ll be sure that your users can access your content regardless of their viewing device.

Prepare a Script

Aside from the infrastructure of your show, you need to ensure that you are “ready” when you first hit the record button. Take time prior to your first show putting together a detailed script to stay on track during taping. You may think that you can improvise while taping, but this rarely turns out like you would hope.

Prepare Ingredients Ahead of Time

When you are cooking in your own kitchen you likely aren’t concerned with time constraints or how you look on camera. When filming a cooking show you need to be constantly thinking of all of these intricate details. Do all of your cutting, boiling and chopping prior to recording to cut down on editing time.

Have a Prepared Final Dish to Show Your Audience

Having a perfectly orchestrated final dish for the audience is a must with your own cooking show. Go ahead and prepare a final dish ahead of time to show off at the conclusion of your show.

Create a List of Ingredients Used in Your Recipe

How annoying is it when you are watching a cooking show but you can’t ever figure out the exact measurements for each ingredient in the recipe. Put together a list of all of the ingredients and measurements and either show it on camera or link to it on your website or social media account where you are promoting your cooking show.

When you sign up for a TikiLIVE account, you also have the option to create a free WordPress website with the help of our experts.

Practice, Practice, Practice

If it’s your first time behind the camera, you may not be quite ready to broadcast your show live just yet. Go through a few practice runs to ensure that you have all of the small details down to ensure a smooth broadcast. Once you’re comfortable with all of the details revolving around your new show you should be ready to broadcast live!

Broadcast Live with TikiLIVE

At TikiLIVE, we’ve helped a number of budding chefs get their big break with their very own cooking shows. If you still have questions about how to setup an account with TikiLIVE, feel free to contact us for answers. We look forward to working with you to create a cooking show that helps to represent the culinary genius that you’ve become!

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