Guides
Free ad-supported streaming has collected an unusual amount of jargon for an industry barely five years old. These are plain explanations of the parts that actually decide whether a channel launches on time and earns anything — written for people doing it, not for people selling it.
News FAST channel automation
Wire ingest to delivered package, and which parts a machine can actually be trusted with.
Read on ›Starting without a newsroom
You hold the rights and employ no journalists. What stands between that and a channel on air.
Read on ›MRSS & cue points
The metadata that decides whether your hours carry advertising or run empty.
Read on ›Getting onto LG Channels
Three contracts and one operational problem — and which one decides your launch date.
Read on ›What is a FAST channel?
Free ad-supported streaming TV, explained without the acronym soup.
Read on ›How to launch a FAST channel
Rights, deal, playout, schedule, delivery — in the order it really happens.
Read on ›Getting onto Samsung TV Plus
The biggest smart-TV platform, and what it asks of a channel partner.
Read on ›Launching on Roku
Two different doors into Roku, and why the choice is commercial, not technical.
Read on ›Getting onto Pluto TV
The platform that invented the model still programmes like a broadcaster.
Read on ›SCTE-35 ad markers
The in-band signal that decides where advertising can actually be inserted.
Read on ›EPG and XMLTV
The guide data that decides whether a viewer can find your channel at all.
Read on ›Local news on FAST
The fastest-growing segment on FAST, and the staffing gap underneath it.
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