The following explains how publishers can add IRIS.TV data to their OTTera channels.
There are 5 steps to add IRIS.TV data to channels powered by OTTera:
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Providing video data to IRIS.TV via an OTTera content feed
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Adding IRIS.TV data to each video in the OTTera platform
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Passing IRIS.TV data into the OTTera SSAI
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Passing IRIS.TV data to ad servers partners
- Passing IRIS.TV data to SSP partners
Step 1: Pulling video data from OTTera:
IRIS.TV will receive the following from OTTera for any new publisher onboard:
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URL to the content feed
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Token to authorize the client feed. The token should be set to never expire.
Step 2: Passing IRIS.TV data back to OTTera:
OTTera has a central integration with the IRIS.TV Context API enabling all OTTera publishers to retrieve IRIS.TV data seamlessly, with no development work needed.
Once step 1 above is complete, IRIS.TV will provide a, IRIS.TV client_token to OTTera to authenticate the publishers account in the IRIS.TV platform. OTTera will use the Context API with the client_token to pull the IRIS_ID (ex: iris_2hd85jf93or95be) and encoded segments (ex: ic_123456) to the OTTera CMS for each video IRIS.TV has segmented.
Step 3: OTTera HLS passing IRIS.TV data to the SSAI:
Once the IRIS.TV data has been pulled into the OTTer platform, OTTera will ensure they are passed through the manifest at the time of playback to their SSAI.
Step 4: OTTera SSAI passing IRIS.TV data to the ad server:
Once the segments are in the SSAI they will be passed to the ad server via two custom macros that will be added to the ad tag by OTTera.
Step 5: Passing IRIS.TV data to the SSPs:
Once the IRIS.TV data has been passed to the ad server the publisher, distributor and OTTera will need to update their connection with each SSP per our normal process/steps for each SSP. See here for further documentation.