Escrow for the Media Sector

The media industry runs on content, rights, and distribution platforms. Streaming, VOD, CMS, DAM, and adtech must be always available. A failure or vendor outage directly affects your audience reach, ad revenue, and reputation. Escrow ensures you can keep producing, publishing, and distributing—without lock-in.

1) Technology as the engine of reach

OTT platforms, playback services, editorial tools, playout automation, and CDN integrations form a chain. With Software/SaaS/Data Escrow, you secure access to source code, configurations, transcode profiles, encoder presets, metadata schemas, scheduling logic, and rights-management workflows. You stay in control—even when a vendor fails.

2) Continuity, SLAs, and revenue

Missed broadcast slots or downtime mean penalties and lost ad impressions. With escrow, you can keep operations running: you obtain the technical means to resolve issues or take over operations. This reduces the risk of peak-time failures during live events or prime time.

Use cases:

• VOD platform provider goes offline; you start in “degraded mode” with in-house engineers.
• CMS vendor ceases operations; publishing continues via fallback scripts.
• Adtech integrator loses data; you safeguard key mappings and reporting via Data Escrow.

3) IP, rights & content workflows

Workflows are often bespoke: rights windows, geo-blocking, subtitles, audio ladders, EPG. Escrow securely stores source, pipeline scripts, workflow documentation, and mapping tables. The creator retains IP; you keep operational assurances. This accelerates recovery and makes migrations manageable.

4) Compliance and platform responsibility

Escrow supports ISO 27001 controls and helps meet governance requirements around platform reliability and data minimization (GDPR). For publishers and broadcasters, it’s a solid part of continuity evidence towards advertisers, regulators, and partners.

5) What we secure exactly

• CMS/OTT code, plugin frameworks, transcode workflows, ingest rules
• Rights and licensing models, DRM configuration (without keys)
• Metadata schemas, EPG feeds, high-level recommendation logic
• Monitoring dashboards and runbooks for playout/publishing

6) Verification & testing

We test builds, workflows, and—where useful—sample pipelines. Reports provide insight into repeatability and dependencies, so you know what’s needed to restart on-prem or with another provider.

Learn more
Calculate your escrow costs on our website or schedule a free intake with our Customer Success Team.