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Real seasons, real episodes
Three shows with season tabs, per-season trailers, lock badges and Up Next. Each new episode starts as a Duplicate of the last, so the weekly drop takes two minutes.
SCENARIOILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO
A composite of the independent networks MediaCore2 is built for: three returning series, a decade of films, and an audience that used to live inside someone else’s app.
The product fact that carries it
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recommendations on every watch page
An illustrative scenario: a composite of how an organisation like this runs on MediaCore2, built only from what the product does. No customer is named and no result is quoted without written permission.
02/ 06WHO THEY ARE
A team of four — a showrunner, an editor, a producer and someone who runs social — with three returning series, a back catalogue of documentaries, and a following spread across social platforms. They have never employed a developer and don’t intend to start. Premieres are live events, and the audience expects them on the television.
What they stopped paying for
- A subscription video app rented by the month, with someone else’s name on the screen
- A separate ticketing link for every live premiere
- A merch shop on a second platform, with a second checkout
- An email tool used twice a season, by whoever remembered the login
- An agency quote for building TV apps
03/ 06WHAT THEY BUILT
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A plan ladder, not a price
A free registered tier that sees ads, a monthly plan with a free trial through Stripe, and an annual ad-free plan with clipping. Plans renew through Stripe or Square, and members cancel from their own account.
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A catalogue that keeps people watching
Twelve recommendations on every watch page — on the paywall screen too — plus My List across videos, shows, episodes and events, and resume from where each viewer left off.
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The living room, at last
Apps on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, LG, iOS and Android, with QR sign-in on the TV and a device limit per plan that pauses playback instead of locking anyone out.
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Highlights the fans make
Annual members cut up to 30 seconds from a recording into a real file with Clip, and turn a saved clip into a vertical Reel in one tap.
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Merch beside the show
Shirts and prints in the same store, with guest checkout and stock that flips to Out of stock at zero — reported as its own revenue line, never mixed with subscriptions.
04/ 06THE NIGHT IT MATTERED
- Thursday · 17:00
The watch party has had a countdown page since the trailer dropped. It’s hybrid: subscribers get in free, and everyone else can buy a ticket with a 24-hour window. PayPal sits beside Stripe at checkout for that one-time ticket.
- Thursday · 19:30
The producer writes one announcement, picks everyone as the audience, and ticks inbox, email and phone push. The recipient count is on screen before Send, and the email goes out in the network’s own brand.
- Thursday · 19:50
Everyone who saved the premiere got their fifteen-minute reminder. The pre-show goes out from vMix to the network’s own site and, through simulcast, to YouTube and Twitch — pulling the social audience toward the link.
- Thursday · 20:00
The producer switches the YouTube and Twitch destinations off mid-broadcast. The premiere carries on only where it’s sold. A viewer without a plan or a ticket reaches the player and is told exactly why, with a way in: subscribe, or buy the ticket.
- Thursday · 20:40
A new subscriber moves to the sofa. Their TV shows a code, their phone scans it, names the device, and they tap Approve. Nobody types a password with a remote.
- Thursday · 22:05
The watch party ends. The replay publishes itself with its artwork and description inherited, open to subscribers — the ticket covered the premiere, not the replay — and its watch page is already recommending twelve more titles. The producer is home before midnight.
05/ 06WHAT CHANGED
- Every screen — browser, phone and television — carries the network’s brand, not a vendor’s.
- One access engine decides every play, so a subscriber’s entitlement is the same on the TV as in the browser.
- Members cancel themselves and keep the period they paid for, without writing to anyone.
- Plans can be repriced or retired at any time, and existing subscribers keep exactly what they bought.
- Subscriptions, tickets and merchandise are reported in one place, each as its own line.
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
Walk through premiere night on a call — the plans, the paywall and the TV sign-in — with your own catalogue in mind.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.