Mary - Sales Manager of Entertainment Photo and Video Agency

I am the Sales Manager for a leading entertainment photo and video agency, and I supply video to the top entertainment television programs and entertainment websites. I had a major issue delivering video to my top clients within a reasonable time frame. Selling the video was the easy part, but when it came to delivery, we really struggled ...

After receiving the video from the videographers in the field, I would watch the video, determine which of my clients might be interested in the video, call each client to describe the video, and then negotiate a price for the video. That process in and of itself was laborious and time consuming, and not at all scalable.

However, I really felt the pain when it came to delivering the video to my clients. After I made the sale, I had to download the video to my local computer, transcode the video to my clients' preferred video formats, and then manually FTP the video to each client who bought the video. As you can imagine, it literally took hours of my time each day to sell and deliver just one video.

Mainstream had already been delivering our photos to all of our clients worldwide using their MediasFTP system, but I didn't realize they could also solve my issues with video. We began using a combination of Mainstream's MediasBrowser and MediasFTP products to distribute our video to our worldwide customer base.

Now, using Mainstream's systems, our videographers upload content directly to the platform, and I receive immediate notification when a new video is available. All of my clients have access to the video on the MediasBrowser web platform where they can see each video within minutes of our videographers uploading the video from the field. Additionally, Mainstream automatically transcodes our source video files into multiple formats - the formats our clients need - for immediate download.