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Turn your VOD library into a FAST channel. The catalogue is the channel.

A library of films, series or documentaries earns nothing between licensing windows. As a scheduled channel it airs every night, carries its own ad breaks, and reaches the smart TVs where linear viewing happens. Upload the masters, build or generate the grid, and the channel is on air from $254 per month, with the files, the count and the revenue staying yours.

Step by step

From catalogue to channel

The content already exists. What is missing is a schedule, a set of break markers and a stream, and each of those is a browser tab.

  1. Upload and tag the catalogue

    Masters go into the channel library through the browser. Series, season and episode, genre, rating and language ride on each file; that metadata feeds the programme guide and, later, the ad requests. On the FAST plan and up, AI content tagging fills it in from the picture and the dialogue.

  2. Build the grid, or have it drafted

    Weekly drag-and-drop scheduling with recurring blocks, loops and auto-fill from the library. Or set the rules, dayparts, genre mix, repeat spacing, series in order, and let AI scheduling generate weeks of grid you then edit like any other.

  3. Mark the breaks

    Ad breaks marked once on a file are inherited by every airing, with per-airing overrides where an episode needs them. Every break is signalled with SCTE-35 in the stream, so your own ad server, a sponsor, or a platform that fills its own inventory can all find it.

  4. Go on air, and go wider

    The channel plays in its own player, casts to the television, and publishes its guide as XMLTV, JSON and a web page. From there it can be packaged for each FAST platform from the distribution dashboard, multistreamed to YouTube and the rest, or all of these from the one grid.

Why run it yourself

What stays with the catalogue owner.

A channel someone else runs on your library is a partnership. A channel you run on your library is an asset.

The catalogue

Titles that earn between windows

A library waits to be licensed; a channel airs it every night. The film that had its on-demand window in 2022 gets Thursday at nine, the documentary series carries the daytime, and the deep catalogue takes the overnight.

The count

You serve the stream, so you hold the numbers

The manifest comes from your channel, the ads are stitched on your account, and the impressions are counted server-side at the edge with no player plugin. A distributor’s share is a line on a report you produce.

The money

One hundred percent of the ad revenue

Your demand, your sponsors and your direct campaigns fill the breaks. Serving costs a flat $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions, and nothing takes a percentage before the money reaches you.

The exit

The channel is yours to move

Masters, the grid, the guide feed and the cue configuration can be exported; the stream URL is on your account. No contract, cancel any time, and the library you uploaded leaves with you.

The details

How much library is enough, and what to check first

A linear channel consumes about 730 hours a month, and the arithmetic of a library is how often each title comes round. Sixty hours on a weekly rotation means roughly twelve airings a month per title; two hundred hours brings it to three or four; a thousand hours is a channel that barely repeats inside a quarter. All three are real channels. Television has run on series strips, themed blocks and overnight loops for as long as it has existed, and the AI scheduling on the FAST plan applies exactly those rules: repeat spacing, series in order, a genre mix per daypart. There is no content minimum here, and channels commonly start with a weekend of programming and grow the grid as the catalogue is cleared.

The rights clause that usually bites

Confirm the rights you hold cover linear, ad-supported streaming in the territories the channel will be watched in. Most catalogue deals do, and the title that fails is usually older: the music was cleared for one medium, one territory or one window. Settle it before upload and the rest of the library airs cleanly. Catch-up windows are a rights term too, so if the channel will offer replay, write that into the same review.

Where the channel goes

From the first hour it plays in its own player, casts to the living-room screen, and publishes a programme guide viewers and listings partners can read. The distribution dashboard then packages the same channel for each FAST platform in its own spec and tracks where every application stands, and multistreaming pushes the feed to YouTube and the rest. One grid, every destination. A channel with an audience already attached goes into the platform conversations noticeably better than a pitch deck does, which is the usual order: launch direct, prove it, then apply.

The economics, plainly

The plan is flat, from $254 per channel per month with unlimited delivery, so a month the channel finds its audience costs what a quiet one does. Server-side ad insertion is on every plan: your demand fills the breaks, you keep 100%, and serving is $1 per 1,000 impressions counted only when a real player fetched the ad. The alternative on offer across this market is a revenue share, nothing upfront and a percentage for the life of the deal, computed by whoever serves the stream. The provider guide sets out how to compare the two before you sign either.

EVERY CHANNEL INCLUDES
Questions

Library channels, answered.

How do I turn a VOD library into a FAST channel?

Upload the masters into the channel library, tag them by series, genre and rating, build a weekly grid in the browser or let AI scheduling draft one from the tags, mark the ad breaks, and start the channel. It streams around the clock with its own player, a published programme guide and server-side ad breaks, from $254 per channel per month with delivery included.

How many hours of content do I need?

A linear channel runs about 730 hours a month, so the question is how often each title comes round. Sixty hours on a weekly rotation airs each title roughly twelve times a month, which television has always done with series strips and overnight loops. Two hundred hours brings that down to about three or four. There is no minimum here; a channel with a weekend of programming can start and grow.

Do you build the channel, or do I?

You do, in a browser, and it takes an afternoon rather than a project. AI scheduling on the FAST plan and up generates weeks of grid from the library under your rules: dayparts, genre mix, repeat spacing, series in order. The result is an ordinary schedule you can edit. Nothing goes through a queue on our side.

Do I hand over my files or my rights?

No. The masters sit in your channel library and stay yours to download or delete; the rights stay wherever they were. We run the playout, the delivery and the ad insertion under your account, and the stream, the guide feed and the analytics are yours. Cancel and the channel stops; nothing is retained against you.

Can I keep licensing the same titles elsewhere?

That is between you and your licensees. A FAST channel is one more window on the same rights, and most catalogue owners run it alongside on-demand licensing. Check that the rights you hold cover linear, ad-supported streaming in the territories the channel will be watched in, and that the music in older titles cleared for broadcast, since that is the clause that most often did not.

Can the channel go on Samsung TV Plus, Roku or Pluto?

It can be packaged for each of them. The distribution dashboard, on the FAST plan and up, holds a delivery profile per platform (stream spec, guide schema, cue profile, artwork), tracks each application, and watches the feed once a platform is pulling it. The platforms decide on genre and library depth, and that conversation is yours or ours with you on managed distribution by invitation.

What does it cost?

A flat $254 per channel per month billed yearly, or $299 month to month, with playout, graphics, the guide and unlimited delivery included. Ad serving is $1 per 1,000 delivery-confirmed impressions, counted only when a real player fetched the ad, and you keep 100% of what the ads earn. No revenue share, no metered hours.

Can the channel mix in live events?

Yes. A live slot in the grid takes a contribution feed over RTMP, SRT or RIST, airs it inside the schedule, and returns to the library afterwards. If the feed drops, playout falls back to the schedule and recovers on its own.

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