Work less and do more

Hierarchical catalogue

• Manage editorial entities and their metadata: brands/shows, series/seasons, collections, titles (episodes, features and clips), assets/versions, contributors and credits, trailers in packages and more.
• Intuitive hierarchy with field inheritance and override.
• Support for external ID schemes such as EIDR.
• Manage technical entities and their metadata: segments/cue points, images, renditions, audio tracks and subtitles.
• Import and export content using Excel files.
• Powerful search: find content by name, external ID, content type, licensor, tags or metadata.
• Easily reparent series and episodes: move series/seasons and episodes between brands/shows.
• Support for trailers in packages.
• Link promo and trailer clips to their promoted content.
• Easily view and manage all of your promotional content.
• Support for alphanumeric season and episode numbers.

Image management

• Easy image upload: drag and drop images in bulk from your computer.
• Link images to editorial entities and to specific platforms.
• Adjust images with the built-in editor: rotate, flip or crop them to the pixel.
• Flexible internationalisation (i18n) support: enter content titles or contributor names in different languages: "Star Wars" and "La guerra de las galaxias". Users can then set their preferred language themselves.

Keep track of changes

• Activity Log: keep track of every change in the catalogue.

Easy user on- and offboarding

• Set access rights and privileges (admin, owner, user) for every team member and send out invitations in bulk. Users can choose their own usernames, display names and passwords.
• Track active users and the status of your invitations and deactivate users by a single click.
• Group users into teams: the number of teams are unlimited and the same user can be a member of more than one team. Easily rename or remove teams.
• Integrate with external identity providers (e.g., Okta) for Single Sign-On (SSO) with the SAML protocol.

Powerful HTTP API

• Create, read, update and delete any entity in BeBanjo via a secure, authenticated, RESTful web service HTTP API.
• Extensive API documentation available at developers.bebanjo.com/.
• React to change: fetch an event feed with all the changes of any resource. Or publish Amazon SQS messages into your message-based architecture.

Linear

• Create and configure multiple channels: define name, external ID, day start time, time zone, day part (daytime, peak, late peak hours)
• Drag and drop interface: resize, move, copy paste, delete entries with keyboard shortcuts
• Filter the plan (calendar) by day, week, month, season view; weekend, weekday view
• Add schedule entries through Excel import, by picking them from the BeBanjo Catalogue or through creating them from scratch: adding a name, date, frequency (once, every day, weekly, monthly), duration (start/end date of exploitation window), category, relevant notes (with the possibility to mark as a problem)
• Visual calendar with different views: 60-, 30-, 15-, 5-minute blocks; weekdays or only weekends; filter by notes and problems
• Dynamically resize content blocks in the plan
• Record problems with notes for every entry and filter the plan by problems
• Generate pdf printouts or collaborate directly in the Linear tool with team members
• Easily create repeats by selecting, copying and pasting content blocks
• Options: create different plan scenarios to experiment with your content without changing the “master” plan
• Save content blocks (sequence of entries) in the Scratch Pad for future use

Umbrella licencing deals

• Add content to licencing deals using Excel Avails files.
• Search licencing deals: filter by platforms, licensors, business models, devices, territories and more.
• Configure custom metadata at deal level: e.g.: licensor's contact details

Flexible rights dimensions

• Typical dimensions include: business models (AVOD/TVOD/SVOD/EST), territories, devices, etc. Record multiple sets of rights for the same content E.g.: "SVOD rights for US in 2019" and "TVOD rights for UK in 2020"
• Record rights at title or series level.
• Limit rights to certain episodes of a series: E.g.: for the pilot episode of a series.
• Define blackouts (negative rights): date windows when the content cannot be scheduled on specific platforms, territories, business models, etc.
• Define target platforms flexibly: either by selecting individual platforms or indirectly, through configurable rights dimensions: "applies to all SVOD platforms in the UK".
• Define licence windows with fixed start/end dates and/or relative to linear transmission times.
• Define catch-up rights (rights applying before or after a linear transmission happens). E.g.: online exclusive one day before linear transmission.
• Configure catch-up rights for specific linear channels.
• Support for costed runs and reruns in VOD rules, catch-up rights, and catch-up deals.
• Catch-up rights for specific transmission repeats. E.g.: "use the 3rd linear TX within this date range as reference".
• Record comments alongside rights.
• Define specific clearances for individual episodes. E.g.: seek clearance of music rights separately.
• Define exploitation limits: maximum and minimum number of days the content can be exploited within the overall rights window.
• Define parity restriction: whether the content should be scheduled with the same dates on all the platforms the rights apply to.
• Define utility limits: maximum number of episodes of a series that can be online at the same time.
• Define repeats restrictions: Whether episodes can be repeated before the whole series has been scheduled.
• Define rerun limits: maximum number of allowed reruns per title on the same platform.
• Define rights exploitation limits per schedule window.
• Schedule content without rights, before rights have been secured.
• Clearly identify entries in VOD schedules not complying with recorded rights.

Powerful search and filtering

• Filter VOD schedules by rights status: cleared, in conflict, clearance pending, no rights. E.g.: "Show me all Warner Bros titles with rights in conflict, scheduled for Spain in 2018".
• Rights availability reports: e.g.: "what content do I have rights for, to schedule on SVOD services in the UK in January 2018?"
• Rights exploitation reports: e.g.: "how much of the available rights of specific content have I exploited?"
• Manage segments/cue points in assets/versions. Segments are defined specifying start–end timecodes in the 00:00:00.000 format.

Catch-up rules

• Define VOD catch-up rules for each piece of content and rules will automatically create VOD schedule entries relative to linear transmissions. E.g.: "Schedule each episode of this series 3 days after the 1st TX in March in prime time in my linear channel".
• Target multiple platforms with VOD rules.
• Flexible exhibition window definition: specify the exhibition window both with fixed dates or with dates relative to linear transmission.
• Scope transmissions to a specific one or use them all. E.g.: "the 3rd TX in all channels" or "all TXs in this specific channel".
• Scope specific transmission to a given time range: e.g.: "all transmission in the ABC channel from 1/1/2020 to 31/12/2020".
• Limit or exclude episodes from VOD rules.
• Use a rolling pattern in a VOD rule to ensure that only the most recent episodes are available in VOD.
• Automatically schedule one or more seasons of a show as soon as a new one goes on air on a linear channel.
• Override start/end dates of catch-up entries.
• Revert overridden dates in catch-up entries to get back to sync with the VOD rule again.

Catch-up rights

• Configure rights applying before or after a linear transmission happens. E.g.: online exclusive one day before linear transmission.
• Define catch-up rights for specific linear channels.
• Support costed runs and reruns in VOD rules, catch-up rights, and catch-up deals. This will give you more options and flexibility to exploit your linear content on-demand.
• Subsequent season catch-up trigger. E.g.: "I'm airing the current season of a show and I want my customers to binge the prior season too."
• Catch-up rights for specific transmission repeats. E.g.: "use the 3rd linear TX within this date range as reference".

End to end metadata management

• Flexible metadata schema: configure custom metadata fields for brands/shows, series/seasons, collections, titles, schedule entries, assets/versions, renditions, subtitles and audio tracks.
• Support for external ID schemes such as EIDR. BeBanjo is an EIDR Contributor.
• Organise metadata fields in groups: e.g.:, group fields by language or by business unit.
• Different metadata types: short text, long text, duration, datetime, enumeration, attachment, boolean and multiple.
• Support for metadata in multiple languages including non-latin characters and right-to-left writing.
• Import/export metadata using an Excel file.
• Publish your VOD schedules metadata to external systems: publisher supports dozens of output formats, both industry standards (e.g., CableLabs, TV Anytime, EMA Avails) or bespoke.
• Create custom metadata validation rules. E.g.: "The genre must be present and the synopsis cannot be longer than 255 characters".
• Configure metadata validation against platform specifications.
• Streamline your metadata input work by defining default metadata values.

Powerful filtering

• Filter VOD schedules by metadata status. E.g.: "Show me all the entries in the iTunes schedule that have valid metadata".
• Filter VOD schedules by metadata validation errors. E.g.: "Show me all the entries in the iTunes schedule that are invalid because the genre is missing".
• Filter VOD schedules by any metadata value. E.g.: "Show me all the entries in the Netflix schedule where the series' genre is thriller".
• Filter VOD schedules by the publication status. Never published, in progress, not in sync, failed, failed but previously published or published.
• Detailed publication history including the timestamp, payload, log and outcome (success/failure) of each publication/notification.

• Powerful insights: dig deeper into your data and produce custom-tailored reports with freshly updated data from BeBanjo, Sequence and Metadata. E.g.: "How many hours of original content will I publish next month, platform by platform?" or "what are the CableLabs Asset IDs for all late deliveries last week?".
• Easy reporting: integrates natively with all major reporting and business intelligence tools, such as Tableau, Qlik or Google Data Studio.
• Solid foundation for massive amounts of data based on BigQuery, Google's "fully managed, petabyte scale, low cost enterprise data warehouse for analytics". Export 100,000s of records in seconds.
• Extensive documentation available at bebanjo.com/help

Workflows

• Create jobs with a list of tasks and assets.
• Add/remove tasks and assets from existing jobs.
• Workflow templates: create jobs based on templates with predefined lists of tasks and assets.
• Assign job tasks to individual users.
• Mark tasks as completed/uncompleted.
• Mark assets as received or not.
• Claim pending/missing assets.
• Save basic job data: title, licensor and tags.
• Define a due date and end date for each job.
• Create multiple jobs in bulk manually or through Excel import.
• Send notifications by email to claim pending/missing assets, request replacements for unusable assets or send notifications when assets are ready.
• Time-track each task for billing purposes.
• Attach notes to jobs.
• Attach a problems report to jobs and mark them as outstanding or resolved.
• Activity log: keep track of all changes in a job (who did what and when).
• Powerful search: filter by status (pending, going on air, going off air, online), title, with problems, licensor, assignment, asset name, task name, tags.
• Edit multiple assets in bulk: mark as received, mark as not received, delete and notify.
• Edit multiple tasks in bulk: mark as completed, mark as not completed, assign to user, delete or add a task to multiple jobs.
• Edit multiple jobs in bulk: rename, change dates, change provider, change tags and delete.
• Edit problems in bulk, add problems to multiple jobs.
• Operate with notes in bulk.
• Organise jobs in separated work areas.
• Mark jobs as reviewed.
• Create, rename, remove and change the position of tags.
• Dashboard: overview of the work (“due today”, “due in 7 days”, and “due in 30 days”, “with pending tasks”, “waiting for assets”, “with problems” and “ready”). Additionally, see the list of tasks assigned to the current user on the dashboard.
• Automatic email notification to users when a task is assigned to them.
• Access to a full historical record of deleted jobs.
• Create announcements for all users to see the next time they log in.
• Weekly summary newsletter: opt-in to receive weekly updates on the work done every week.

Reporting

• Generate Excel/CSV exports of completed tasks with filtering by name, the presence of duration, completion and due date, assignee, and tags.
• Manage the status of task invoices: open and closed.
• Group completed tasks in invoices and generate Excel and CSV exports of the tasks of each invoice.

User management

• Easily invite multiple users at once by sending an invitation via email, and specify the user’s privileges and access rights.
• Browse active/invited users in the current account.
• Deactivate an existing user from the current account.
• Integrate with external identity providers (e.g., Okta) for Single Sign-On (SSO) with the SAML protocol.
• Users can set their own name, login and password.
• Group users in teams.
• Unlimited teams can be created, they are identified by a name and the same user can be a member of multiple teams. Ability to rename or remove teams. User access can be restricted to specific work areas.

API

• Powerful HTTP API.
• Create, read, update and delete any entity in BeBanjo's data model via a secure, authenticated, RESTful web service HTTP API.
• Extensive documentation available at developers.bebanjo.com