Unicorn Media at VidCompare

Yesterday, Kris Drey over at VidCompare published an interview with our very own Sean Gilliam. For those unfamiliar, VidCompare is a free comparison site for businesses looking for an online video platform  solution.

VidCompare a great resource, and we’re happy to be a part of it.

VidCompare: What was the original premise behind starting Unicorn Media?

Sean: Unicorn Media was founded by the same team that started Limelight Networks, a leading content deliver network.  Managing CDN services for the largest media companies in the world gave us insight into another pain point for the same companies – the management and distribution of video content to any destination or device was an expensive, complicated and laborious endeavor.  Unicorn built an affordable, simple, yet powerful solution to solve that problem.  We developed a solution that we call “Media-as-a-Service to represent out ability to offload the complexities associated with media management.

VidCompare:  How do you differentiate yourselves from the crowded OVP space today?

Sean: Frankly, we don’t think of ourselves as a traditional OVP, as those companies are typically focused on supporting properties where video is not core to their business.  While we do have an end-to-end suite of services, our software was primarily built for massive scale, with the largest media companies in the world as our focus.  Our componentrized services work for all size media companies, but we often solve a problem most commonly experienced by larger companies, which is augmenting existing in-house solutions.  Each of our video workflow services can be integrated independently and include first of their kind syndication and analytics tools.

Head on over and check out the rest of Sean’s interview here.