Need to create a polished streaming hub for an upcoming event or a secure portal for client review—without dev resources? With Zype Portals, you can create fully branded, access-controlled video microsites in minutes. No need to wait on weeks of custom development or juggle competing priorities with marketing and web teams. If you’re using Zype as your video management platform, you can now quickly share and track engagement of your video through Zype Portals, powered by Zype’s enterprise-grade video infrastructure.
Why launch a video streaming microsite?
Nowadays, every business is dipping their toes into the video space. Whether video is core to your primary business model, or you just use video as a promotional tool to promote other core products, having a way to manage and distribute your video is an essential part of any company’s media strategy. Organizations across a variety of industries can find use for Zype Portals. Here are some examples:
- Media & Entertainment - Create pop-up OTT sites to support film festivals, seasonal sports, or limited-run series; FAST channel destinations.
- Enterprises & Brands - Establish employee training hubs, sales enablement libraries, executive town-hall replays.
- Education & Non-Profits - Make accessible course catalogs, alumni lecture archives, fundraising livestream hubs.
- Agencies & Studios - Give broad access to finished media products through client review rooms with watermarking and secure log-ins.
What Are Zype Portals?
Zype Portals are turn-key, cloud-hosted web-based branded microsites that can be built to quickly share Zype-hosted video with internal or external audiences.
Zype Portals are easily configurable and are powered by Zype Streaming Platform services like the API, zobjects, and more. Zype Portals can be created in minutes from the video content and data you house in Zype’s CMS and CRM. If you have multiple instances or brands running on Zype, you can even create a new portal for each brand. These microsites can be easily customized with different branding, colors, engagement features, authentication access permissions, download permissions and more with streaming and content performance all tracked by Zype’s analytics. Think of a Portal as a lightweight yet enterprise-grade “mini-OTT” site you can deploy for a specific audience, brand, or initiative—without ever touching code or spinning up a standalone CMS.
With Zype Portals, you can quickly and securely share your Zype-managed video in a polished web-based streaming environment, with the ability to produce multiple front-ends that can each look and feel unique for different streaming audiences, no coding experience required.
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Using Zype Portals with your DAM
For users of a DAM or MAM platform, Zype Portals can provide an easy way to expand the reach of your managed media content through a branded playback environment. For example, Zype has a native integration with iconik, Backlight’s Media Asset Management platform. Iconik customers can take advantage of a seamless hand-off from iconik asset management into a Zype Portal for distribution, eliminating manual transfers. Iconik collections can be easily shared through a Zype Portal interface, with built-in engagement tools (ratings, comments), downloads for offline viewing, search functionality and more.
With Zype Portals, media teams can provide access to finished assets managed in iconik to internal or external audiences through branded, secure mobile-optimized web environments, customized to meet the needs of different audiences and extending the impact and visibility of their finished media assets.
Features & Capabilities of Zype Portals
Powered using different Zype services and solutions, Zype Portals are an external application to your Zype instance through which you can create simple viewing experiences yet preserve core functionality governed by the Zype Platform, such as the ability to create branded streaming experiences, track video engagement, control authentication and access, and uncover data-driven insights. Key capabilities of Zype Portals include:
Speed to Creation & Distribution
- Create a standalone site in minutes, no dev work needed
- Out-of-the-box responsive web design
- Optimized for mobile viewing
- Scalable infrastructure to support viewing
- Indexable by search engines
Flexible Design and Branding
- Live, VOD, or playout streams supported
- Single page or multiple page portals
- Easily swap brand colors and images for unique themes
- Create unique builds for different brands, access levels, use cases, or locations
- Enable custom domains
Built-In Viewer Engagement features
- Favorites
- Ratings
- Comments
- Search
- Downloads
Example: Ratings in Zype Portals
Robust Authentication and Secure Administration
- Leverage password-only, username/password, or un-gated access
- Enhance secure login with SSO/OAuth
- Different Admin Experiences
- Create and associate users from Zype CRM
- Create multiple portals from a single Admin Dashboard for easy management
- Apply Geo/IP restrictions
- Direct integration with DRM providers
Data-Driven Insights
- Unified content and streaming analytics with Zype Analytics 3
- User Analytics and engagement data
How to Get Started with Zype Portals
Zype customers can get started creating Zype Portals by reaching out to their Account Manager today. Once Zype Portals have been enabled on your account, you can begin to build your portal template and define the content (playlists, channels, or live feeds). If you need to iterate later, simply adjust settings in the Portal dashboard and changes will propagate instantly, without downtime.
Not yet a Zype user? If you’re interested in learning more about Zype Portals, reach out to us to set up a demo and see how Zype can help you improve your video management, monetization and digital distribution at scale with our cloud-native API-driven software.