WEB · STREAMING SITE BUILDER

Create Your Own
Streaming Website
Without Coding

Your catalog as a branded streaming site in any browser, built from the same CMS that publishes your TV and mobile apps. Nothing to install, and the subscription a viewer bought on television opens here too.

Plans from $79/month with a 7-day free trial. Studio covers one platform, 250 GB of storage and 1,500 watch hours a month. Selling subscriptions on the site adds Centralized Subscriber Management, at $299/month and included on Enterprise.

✓ No install, just a link ✓ Same catalog as your apps ✓ Sign in with a code, no passwords ✓ 7-day free trial
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HOW IT WORKS

How to Create a Streaming Website

Five steps from your video library to a site your viewers can open in any browser. You bring the content and the brand; OTTEngine does the building.

1

Prepare your catalog and brand

You provide

Videos you have the rights to distribute, your logo and colours, and a name for the site.

OTTEngine handles

Importing your library, transcoding it to HLS and building your rows, categories and series pages.

2

Point your domain at it

You provide

The domain or subdomain you want your viewers to visit.

OTTEngine handles

Setting the site up on that domain and serving it with your branding.

3

Decide how you earn

You provide

Free, subscription, per-title purchases, ads, or a mix.

OTTEngine handles

Wiring the paywall, checkout and entitlement through Centralized Subscriber Management when you sell, so a purchase works on your site and in your apps.

4

Check it on real devices

You provide

A look at the site on a laptop and a phone.

OTTEngine handles

Testing playback, search, sign-in and the paywall before you announce it.

5

Publish and keep it current

You provide

Your go-ahead, and new titles whenever you have them.

OTTEngine handles

Keeping the site running and in step with your catalog, so a change in the CMS reaches the site and the apps together.

What you need before you start

  • Content you have the rights to distribute
  • Your logo and brand colours
  • A name for the site
  • A domain or subdomain to run it on
  • How you want to earn: free, subscription, purchases or ads

Adding TV apps later? The same catalog publishes to Roku, Fire TV and the other seven platforms without a second CMS.

PRICING

How Much Does a Streaming Website Cost?

OTTEngine plans start at $79 a month in US dollars. Studio covers one platform, and the web can be that platform. If you sell subscriptions or single titles on the site, add Centralized Subscriber Management, which carries sign-in, entitlements and checkout.

Studio planIncludedIf you need more
Platforms1, such as the web$79/month per extra platform
24/7 FAST or linear channels1$79/month per extra channel
Storage250 GB$0.050 per extra GB
Watch time1,500 hours a month$0.060 per extra hour
Subscriber management (CSM)Needed to sell on the site$299/month, included on Enterprise
Other add-onsOptionalFrom $99/month, such as caption translation or recommendations
Setup fee and contractNone; cancel anytime-

Prices in USD. Compare all plans or estimate your cost.

Can I create a streaming website for free?

Hosting, streaming and playback cost money, so a real streaming site is not free to run. You can try OTTEngine free for 7 days before your plan starts. A card is required to start the trial, you won't be charged until it ends, and you can cancel anytime during it.

Website, or website and apps?

Both come from one catalog. Studio can cover your website on its own, and you can add TV and mobile apps later for $79 a month each without moving your content anywhere.

OTT ENGINE · STREAMING SITE BUILDER

A streaming website that stays in step with your apps

A branded streaming site usually means a web developer, a player integration, a payments integration and a maintenance bill. OTTEngine generates the site from the same signed settings feed your TV apps read, so your menus, rows, artwork, colours and ad tags come from the CMS you already use. There is nothing to deploy and nothing to keep in sync by hand.

  • Browse, search and series pages built from your catalog
  • HLS playback with resume, and a queue that plays on through a row
  • Ads from your own VAST or VMAP tags, resolved server-side
  • Passwordless sign-in with a six-digit email code
  • Paywall for subscriptions and single-title purchases, through the CSM add-on when you sell
  • Activation page for your TV apps
  • Parental controls
  • Your own domain and your own branding
KEY FEATURES

Built for browsers. Tied to your apps.

One catalog, every screen

The site reads the same feed as your TV and mobile apps. Add a title or change artwork once, and it appears on the website and in the apps.

No install between you and a viewer

A link opens your channel. That works in a social post, a newsletter, a QR code on screen, or a search result.

Sign-in without passwords

Viewers enter their email address and a six-digit code. A subscription bought in a TV app opens the same content here, because it belongs to that address.

Ads without an ad SDK

Your VAST or VMAP tags are resolved on the server and played through the same video element as your content.

Where viewers activate your TV apps

The site hosts the activation page, so someone can enter the code from their television and sign in without typing an email on a remote.

Access you control

Parental controls and entitlement checks decide who can play what, whether they arrive from a browser or a television.

MONETIZATION

Three ways to earn on the web

SVOD

Subscription Video on Demand - viewers pay a recurring fee for your catalog. Checkout runs on your site through Centralized Subscriber Management, and the same subscription opens your TV apps.

AVOD

Ad-Supported Video on Demand - your content is free to viewers and you earn from pre-roll and mid-roll ads filled from your own VAST or VMAP tags.

TVOD

Transactional Video on Demand - viewers buy or rent single titles, which is a good fit for premieres, events and one-off releases.

WHY THE WEB

The platform every viewer already has

No install, no store review.

A browser is the one screen you do not have to be approved for. Your site can be live while your TV apps are still in certification, and it is where people land from a link.

Links are how people share.

A title on your site has an address you can put in a newsletter, a social post or an ad. That is not true of an app you have to install first.

Your TV apps need it anyway.

Sign-up, activation codes and account management are awkward on a remote. The website is where viewers do those things, then keep watching on the television.

FAQ

Streaming Website Builder - Common Questions

It is your own branded streaming site in the browser, built from the same catalog and settings as your TV and mobile apps. Viewers open a link, browse your rows, search, and watch. Nothing is installed.

No. The website reads the same feed as your apps, so the catalog, artwork, rows, colours and ad settings you manage in OTTEngine appear on the site and in the apps together.

Yes. A subscription belongs to the viewer's email address, so one bought in a TV app opens the same content on the website.

No. Viewers sign in with their email address and a six-digit code sent to it. There are no passwords to store or reset.

Yes. Your streaming website runs on your own domain or subdomain, with your branding.

Your own VAST or VMAP ad tags are resolved on the server and played through the same video element as your content, so no ad SDK is loaded in the viewer's browser.

Yes. The site is built for desktop and mobile browsers, so a phone, tablet or laptop plays the same catalog.

Yes. The web is one of the nine platforms OTTEngine publishes to, so Studio can cover your website alone, and larger plans add TV and mobile apps alongside it.

Plans start at $79 a month in USD for Studio, which covers one platform such as the web, with 250 GB of storage and 1,500 watch hours a month. If you sell subscriptions or single titles on the site, add Centralized Subscriber Management at $299 a month, which is included on Enterprise. Every plan comes with a 7-day free trial, no setup fees and no long-term contract.

Yes. The paywall supports subscriptions and per-title purchases, and viewers can also watch free, ad-supported content if that is how you publish it.

Only if you sell on the site. A free or ad-supported website does not need it. When you sell subscriptions or single titles, sign-in, entitlements and checkout run on Centralized Subscriber Management, which is $299 a month and included on Enterprise. It covers your first 1,000 subscribers and pay-per-view sales, then $0.40 each, capped at 10% of your plan price, and web checkout is part of it, so you keep what an app store would have taken.

ALSO AVAILABLE ON

OTTEngine supports every major platform

Enterprise includes all nine platforms - one dashboard, every screen.

GET STARTED

Your streaming website, live on your own domain.

OTTEngine builds the site, keeps it in step with your catalog, and puts the same content on TV and mobile when you are ready. Try it free for 7 days.