Case Study: Discovery Communications achieves fast cloud media delivery with Signiant

Discovery Communications delivers 600+ production partners to the cloud in hours with Signiant

Discovery Communications, a global media company, faced significant delays and inefficiencies in its supply chain due to a reliance on shipping physical data tapes from over 600 production partners. The process was error-prone, requiring manual metadata entry and resulting in days of delays and costly shipping round-trips for corrections. Discovery turned to Signiant to implement a high-speed cloud delivery solution.

By integrating Signiant's Web Transfer API into its existing Producer's Portal, Discovery enabled partners to upload large media files directly to the cloud. Signiant's solution provided fast, reliable transfers, real-time error correction, and automated status updates. This eliminated shipping delays, reduced a process that took days to just two and a half hours, and seamlessly integrated with Discovery's automated cloud workflows for immediate quality checks and transcoding.

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