Abacast Announces New Partnership with BuyDRM

Abacast extends its industry-leading streaming video solution with support for key business models via new partnership with BuyDRM. 

(May 29th, Camas, WA) Abacast, the industry leader in Hybrid CDN Services, announced a new partnership with BuyDRM (http://www.buydrm.com), the leader in rights management solutions.  The integrated solution will offer both live and on-demand video streaming through Abacast’s hybrid CDN along with user billing and authentication, support for pay-per-view, subscription, and ad-supported business models, and rich rights management services for free or protected video content. 

“Abacast’s flexible delivery options, including unicast and peer-assisted support, enable customers to deliver the highest quality content and increase audience engagement,” said Jim Kott, Abacast Co-President.  “BuyDRM’s integrated services now enable our customers to capitalize on additional monetization models with a full suite of robust monetization tools.”

BuyDRM’s KeyOS platform provides Abacast customers the ability to securely protect, manage, and deploy their digital media content across multiple devices including PCs, smart-phones, and media players. Via an intuitive push-button dashboard, Abacast customers now have the ability to encrypt Windows Media audio and video files, assign business models and usage policies and provide support for the entire media consumption lifecycle including marketing, monetization and monitoring of media.

 “We’re excited to work with Abacast because of their flexible content delivery options,” said Christopher Levy, BuyDRM CEO.  “Their focus on high definition (HD) video and longer audience engagement enable our business model support to really shine.” 

About Abacast, Inc
Abacast, Inc. (http://www.abacast.com ) is a commercial quality, Hybrid Content Distribution Network (CDN), offering the most options in the industry to distribute and monetize Internet distribution of rich media including live video and online radio, Video-on-Demand, and games and software. 

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