Front Porch Signs Deal With thePlatform

Front Porch Digital has signed an agreement with white-label video-publishing company thePlatform™ to offer cloud-based video-publishing services to its customers throughout the global media and entertainment industry.
Front Porch will integrate thePlatform's mpx video-publishing system into the its LYNXSM cloud-based CSM system for managing media assets.
"Front Porch Digital is a global leader in mission-critical workflow solutions for digital file-based video operations of all kinds," said Chris Drake, vice president of business development at thePlatform.
"With mpx, Front Porch Digital can now offer its customers a complete, hosted multiscreen video-publishing solution in the cloud. We look forward to supporting the needs of the company's diverse customers around the world."
"Front Porch Digital's LYNX customers will be able to use mpx to upload, manage and distribute videos to their own websites, third-party sites, smartphones, tablets, and more," a statement from the company said.
"In addition, mpx provides LYNX users with a simple Web-based console for managing their video libraries, highly customisable video players with automated social networking tools, enterprise-grade reliability, and more — all accessible from the LYNX interface."
"More and more of our DIVArchive customers are embracing our LYNX cloud-based solution for storing and managing their assets with adaptable, on-demand scalability that reduces capital expenses and operational costs. Now, those customers can get the same benefits from a renowned video-publishing solution that's available directly through LYNX," said Andy Hurt, vice president, product management and marketing, Front Porch Digital. "ThePlatform makes video publishing easy and scalable for many of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world, and now the same mpx reliability and performance our customers get through our DIVApublish system is available in our cloud solution as well."
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