Seven tips for choosing a digital rights management vendor

To provide for the considerable needs of copyright holders and enforcing content licensing agreements, a number of DRM vendors have sprung up. Like any key partnership choice, a major decision facing content providers and OTT streaming operators is which digital rights management vendors can deliver the best DRM solution for their specific needs.

Compatibility issues across various formats and codecs can cause nightmares for digital content providers. For any effective DRM system, there has to be interoperability and easy functionality between content formats across iOS, Mac OS, Android and Windows, allowing for seamless dynamic content conversion.

If a digital rights management vendor solution can’t provide that kind of accessibility to different kinds of content consumers will rapidly be turned off the platform itself, creating a major business risk for the pay-TV operator.

One of the greatest successes of our digital rights management platform has been its open-standards non-proprietary nature, which means that major device and content producers are more open to adopting it as a ‘neutral’ DRM system.