Xend™ Casting
What is Xend™ Casting?
Xend™ Casting is a Vidiator-hosted application-to-person (A2P) managed messaging service that delivers premium MMS content to consumers' cell phones using the unique Vidiator 3D avatar rendering and distribution technology. Xend Casting provides a wide variety of compelling "infotainment" messages in a broadcast format ranging from entertaining message-of-the-day content (horoscopes, jokes, tips, etc.) to news/weather/sports updates to persuasive advertising and branding campaigns to corporate communications. Scheduled and alert-based messages are easily created and distributed.
Benefits
Xend Casting is an exciting new source of broadcast multimedia content:
- Increases premium MMS traffic.
- Generates new revenue.
- Enhances brand affinity.
- Improves customer satisfaction.
- Enjoy exceptionally high response rates to promotional campaigns.
- Lowers production and delivery costs of mobile content.
- Wide range of professional artistic services available to create compelling exclusive content.
Simple To Use:
Xend Casting offers consumers an easy-to-use subscription-based service to receive a wide variety of content on their mobile phones:
- Browse to a Vidiator hosted, white-labeled WAP- or Web-based mobile storefront and select Xend Casting.
- Choose the type of MMS content to receive.
- Specify the time of day to receive the messages (customizable by time zone).
- The Vidiator production system takes care of content rendering, message delivery and account settlement.
Features
- Robust gallery of professionally-produced avatars, both custom and licensed.
- Custom background features for personalization of messages.
- Voice audio and/or text-to-speech content ingestion and integration.
- Audio overlay types including AMR, WAV, QCELP, ADPCM, and AAC.
- Text-to-speech synthesis with multiple language support.
- Lifelike vocal animation.
- Real-time compile of selected avatar attributes.
- Immediate preview and editing capability.
- Web-based and WAP-based service portal for white-label offering.
- Content output encoding supporting 3GPP, 3GPP2, MPEG4, and Windows-compatible ASF formats.
- Content distribution via MMS, WAP, and SMTP.
- Subscriber service authentication.
- Billing system interface.
- Transaction logging.
- SNMP alarms.
- Remote content management.