Nimble Advertizer SSAI: server-side ads insertion for live streaming and VOD

Nimble Advertizer

Monetize Live Streaming and Video-on-Demand with Server-Side Ads Insertion for Nimble Streamer

Nimble Advertizer is a server-side ads insertion (SSAI) framework which allows dynamically insert personalized ads into live streaming and VOD content. HLS, RTMP, SLDP and Icecast live outputs are currently supported, as well as MPEG-TS and fMP4 VOD HLS.

Dynamic ads insertion

Pre-roll ads per each connection
Flexible timing for mid-roll ads
Per-stream ads insertion
Per-user and per-session ads
SCTE-35 markers ads insertion
Customizable business logic

Formats

Input for live streams: RTMP, RTSP, SRT, Icecast and SHOUTcast, HLS and MPEG2TS
Input format for VOD: MP4 files
Input codecs: H.264, AAC, MP3;
with Live Transcoder you may also use wide variety of codecs as input
Ads input codecs: H.264, AAC, MP3
Output live protocols: HLS, RTMP, SLDP and Icecast
Output VOD protocols: HLS with MPEG-TS and fMP4 containers

The workflow is easy to adopt within any business logic

Nimble Streamer media server processes incoming streams to get content
Nimble Advertizer calls your handler web application or simple JSON config to get business logic description
Advertizer gets files with advertisements to process them via Nimble Streamer according to your logic defined via handler
Nimble inserts the ads into original media and packages it into output protocols
End user connects to Nimble and gets the stream containing original content mixed with advertisements
Playback is running smooth regardless of ads insertion over time
Session-specific ads insertion can be applicable via separate per-session handler if needed

You can track ads performance over time using either ads insertion logging or per-session handler.

Watch live demo

Demo page shows live streams with ads insertion, with full details on Advertizer setup.

Read full technical spec

Full technical spec shows how exactly you can use all those features.

Nimble Advertizer is part of Nimble Streamer Addenda premium package

Get Addenda package license for each Nimble Streamer server instance where you want to enable SSAI.
Feel free to sign up, subscribe for WMSPanel account and subscribe for Addenda package license to proceed with Nimble Advertizer usage.