Streaming, Media & TV

The video / streaming media / OTT industries are our first love. Our founders have spent over 30 years between them in the industry working for some of the largest operators, broadcasters, studios and vendors globally. We combine a really strong foundation in the recent history of the industry and involvement in some of the most transformational projects with a hunger to stay on the cutting edge and help our customers deliver the most interesting projects around today.

With 100 industry-specialised Engineers, we have an unmatched network of specialised consultants ready to make a difference to your projects whether that’s on Smart TV, mobile, STB or console apps, on cloud / back-end systems such as CMS or MAMs, configuring the video pipe or integrating new platforms or components such as DAI / payment gateways / DRM / Players etc. We’ve managed to help customers with some incredibly niche requests over the years, so give us a go!

How our teams
can help

Cloud or back-end software development / QA
Customer project customisation & delivery
DevOps
Front-end OTT app design / build / test / publish / support from new
Live / Content Operations or Platform Support teams, including 24/7 models
OTT app customisation and/or optimisation
Porting OTT apps to additional devices
QA automation, UI-driven and/or API-driven
System architecture & integration

Companies We Work With

How Can We Help You?

Team augmentation

On demand people & small teams to help deliver software & projects. We provide experienced people from our teams in India (working CET if wanted), Portugal, UK, South Africa, Brazil, US or Eastern Europe. All our people are experienced & knowledgeable industry experts, are stringently technically vetted and have great English comms.

Managed teams

Teams to take over all or part of a project or roadmap, who can provide technical leadership if wanted, blending your and our ways of working to maximise results. Often medium-term or long-term engagements. All our people are experienced & knowledgeable industry experts, are stringently technically vetted and have great English comms.

Strategic resourcing

Strategic recruitment support find the best off-shore or nearshore talent to onboard into your teams, either immediately or on a try-before-you-buy basis, often when you have ambitious goals to scale an internal office or delivery centre quickly.

SUCCESS STORIES

APPS + CMS CUSTOMISATION

Team size peak 40+

For OTT platform provider

Team augmentation model

Multi-year large team providing Front-End & Back-End OTT development, QA & DevOps across India & South Africa for a leading OTT platform supplier. Team expertise includes iOS, Android, Smart TVs, web, Roku, React Native, .NET, Java, AWS & more. This has enabled improved flexibility and profitability for our customer.

CLOUD-NATIVE SOFTWARE DEV + DEVOPS

Team size 4

For Tier 1 Operator

Fixed price software model

Apache Airflow + AWS cloud-native metadata & content workflow management tool with infrastructure as code, created by team in India for a Tier 1 telco with ongoing DevOps support. We were able to develop this at a price point far below what our customer had been quoted by incumbent providers.

OUTSOURCED FRONT-END APPS

Team size peak 25

For OTT platform provider

Managed teams model

Long-term engagement to take over all app feature development & bug fixing for a Tier 1 operator on our customer’s behalf. Our team successfully delivered an aggressive roadmap which included complex elements such as swapping out the Player & DRM provider, and new payment gateways. Provided Dev & QA expertise across iOS, Android, Smart TVs & web.

PROGRAMME DELIVERY MANAGEMENT

Team size 2

For international broadcaster

Consulting model

Provided dedicated Project Manager and Business Analyst resources to oversee a strategic investment in DAI, with which the broadcaster had limited previous experience. Expert resources defined and delivered a roadmap (including liaising with internal and 3rd party technology teams) which delivered the additional monetization channels required.

NICHE EXPERTISE TEAM AUGMENTATION

Team size 1

For virtual studio company

Time & Materials model

Quickly identified + placed a contractor on a long-term DBA assignment in India for a role seen as non-core, but which was required to retain one of the customer’s Tier 1 broadcaster accounts. We replaced an on-shore provider, hugely improving account profitability.

OPERATOR PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

Team size 3

For Tier 1 Operator

Team augmentation model

Leading the E2E technical architecture definition for a Tier 1 operator’s multi-country next gen TV platform, including liaising with 3rd party component vendors to create a unified roadmap. Provided additional expert guidance on migrating components to AWS, RDK-V & Android TV CPE architecture & metadata workflows as well as platform integration.

Why Ovyo?

Domain Expertise

Proper video geeks. Focused on the video industry since inception, with a strong history of delivering managed services and projects, and building apps and other software for operators, broadcasters, studios, and platform vendors.

Ease + Flexibility

You’ll be awarding us your “easiest partner to do business with” trophy every year! We do what we say we’ll do. We are happy to contract in a model that suits you (T&M / fixed price / managed service) and are happy to “white label”.

Speed + Agility

Scale teams as fast as you want thanks to our large investment in Customer Success and Talent teams across India, Europe & South Africa. We also focus on speedy commercial proposals and onboarding teams fast: we regularly outperform customer expectations here!

Excellence

Actually delivering you the business outcomes you need! Right from the start, we listen & structure projects the right way. Creative & collaborative problem-solving approach, with the expertise + comms skills to follow through.