Adobe solutions for broadcast and media
As the future of interactive TV takes shape and the opportunities for your business continue to grow, Adobe helps you gain a competitive advantage. Here's how:
Deliver content to the widest audience possible
Adobe® Flash® technology is the de facto standard for web video — delivering with quality and consistency across operating systems to the largest web TV audience. In the U.S. alone, eight out of the top ten broadcasters rely on Flash to distribute their video content online. With the new Adobe Flash Player 10 runtime and the innovative Adobe Flash Media Server family of products, Adobe delivers the exceptional quality and creative control you require so that your content reaches the widest possible audience.
Integrate production and distribution processes
Adobe Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium software delivers a complete post-production toolkit for professionals, and it's being adopted by savvy, forward-looking broadcast and entertainment companies such as the BBC, Viacom, and Electronic Arts. Why? Because Production Premium enables post-production teams to deliver content for delivery virtually anywhere — on air, onscreen, online, or on device. Plus, innovative features like Speech Search — which turns spoken dialogue into timecode-accurate metadata — mean broadcasters can increase advertising revenues by delivering ads based on the content of a show or increase audiences by making content searchable.
Transform passive viewing into "lean-forward" interactive experiences
Encourage more viewer involvement by integrating your content into meaningful and engaging branded experiences. Add Flash overlays to video content. Deliver contextually appropriate advertisements that are relevant to viewers. Enhanced features like chat, bugs, and VoIP make an event interactive and social without requiring participants to download additional software.
Build new revenue models
Next-generation television opens new opportunities for distributing, tracking, and building businesses around media assets. Whether you're working on simple licensing deals for repurposed broadcast video content, ads that enable viewers to click objects within a video for product information, or new ways to match content and advertising, Adobe’s solutions mean the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
Explore the future of broadcast and media
With Adobe products leading the industry in offering editing efficiencies, tapeless workflows, and digital distribution, broadcasters worldwide are turning to Adobe for solutions that ease their transition to a world of ubiquitous media consumption on screens of every size and description. Adobe's phenomenal business growth — its video business is on track to grow by 300% in just three years — is being fueled by gains in market share and reflects a deep commitment to the industry. Pairing technological innovation with deep knowledge of the forces shaping the broadcast industry today, Adobe is an ideal partner to help you face today's challenges.
Adobe Flash Platform dominates online video worldwide
Approximately 75% of online videos worldwide are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, making Flash the #1 platform for video on the web.*
See comScore methodology report
Going mobile?
Handset manufacturers have shipped more than 800 million devices equipped with Adobe Flash Lite™ technology. Adobe expects this number to increase to 1 billion devices by 2010, further extending the reach of video delivered in Flash.
*Source: September 2009 data from independent research firm comScore
