Case Study: WDR Mediagroup achieves 80% more video uploads and expands to 15 VOD platforms with Aspera

Powering Complex Digital Media Workflows

WDR mediagroup (WDRmg), the commercial arm of West German Broadcasting, provides media services including digitization, archiving, marketing and distribution. Facing complex, high-volume workflows with diverse file formats and very large and legacy archive files, WDRmg needed a secure, scalable way to manage processing and delivery for streaming and VOD platforms.

WDRmg deployed Aspera Orchestrator along with Aspera faspex and Aspera Console, integrating high-speed transfers, automated transcoding and IBM AREMA archiving for end-to-end workflow control. The automation and predictable file processing let WDRmg upload about 80% more video and expand distribution to 15 leading VOD platforms while ensuring reliability, security and scalability.

WDR Mediagroup

Markus Kreisel

Managing Director, WDRmg digital