Overview
Each publisher and web site has different objectives when it comes to deploying online videos. Whether you’re looking to create an interactive television experience, launch an engaging rich-media promotion or encourage community participation, Hands-On has a video solution to fit your specific needs.
Our open standard technology and strategy allows us to offer an affordable and flexible alternative to proprietary solutions in the market.
Our platform includes an easily customizable set of widgets that seamlessly integrate into video applications on web platforms of any kind. Publishers can deploy existing widgets and apps or take advantage of our open architecture in order to develop new ones. Whether you need a basic online video platform or one with a robust set of advanced features – Hands-On has a solution for you. Our open framework provides everything you need to design, develop, and deploy rapid and cost-effective video applications on any site.
Advertisers & Marketers
In today’s world, it’s hard to keep anyone’s attention online for more than a few seconds. With banner blindness a common phenomenon among users, companies are constantly looking for new ways to keep their audience interested and involved. Hands-On helps companies increase brand awareness, promote user interaction and loyalty, and transform websites from one-way informational tools to full interactive online experiences. With Hands-On it’s not just an ad, it’s full immersive branded entertainment.
With Hands-On, you’ll be able to:
- Create video marketing campaigns to reach your audience, instill your messaging and increase brand awareness
- Keep prospective customers informed with video testimonials, case studies, demos and webinars
- Engage your users by allowing them to express their creativity – mashing up preloaded material or importing their own
- Launch customized and branded video campaigns – players, remixer tools, mini-sites, etc.
- Enable easy syndication and distribution of your video content across the web
- Advertise using Hands-On’s integrated in-stream ads
- Manage content, generate reports and track usage via a comprehensive Management Console
- Enjoy full video management capabilities at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions on the market
Our solutions are affordable, flexible & easy to use, while offering the full functionality of video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing and more. With Hands-On, marketers on all levels can leverage the full potential of online video to promote their site, company or specific product to the max.
Media Companies
In the fast paced Media arena, there’s no better way to extend your audience and keep them constantly updated and engaged, than with online video and Internet TV. From niche magazines to large media networks, Hands-On’s online video services is the one of choice for anyone looking to grow their community of viewers – and keep them coming back for more.
Hands-On video services enable you to:
- Manage content, generate reports and track usage via a comprehensive Content Management System
- Syndicate content to and from your partners while controlling the look and feel of the players and widgets, and monetizing across the web
- Add powerful UGC tools and capabilities engage your audience with a high quality video experience; increase page views and time spent on your site
- Expand your media product to a whole new level with online video and Internet TV:
- Re-publish and monetize existing content to a broad web audience
- Broaden the scope of your published articles with online video supplements
- Provide round the clock updates through flexible and easy to publish video
- Provide full episodes and bonus materials to extend and preserve your audience
- Create a vibrant presence for your brand on the web with a tailored video platform to fit your needs
- Target an international audience with multi-lingual support and subtitles
- Build your community through video sharing, social tools and UGC campaigns
- Generate revenue from online video advertising using our integrated in-stream ads
Our solutions are affordable, flexible & easy to use, while offering the full functionality of video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing and more.
Corporate
Broadcast video gives corporations the ability to personally communicate with their customers, employees, stakeholders and press in exciting and compelling ways.
Reduce costs and increase productivity through video training sessions and online corporate communications. Control your corporate messaging with tailored broadcasts to press and customers. Build your brand identity and communicate your philosophy. Whatever your goals, Hands-On gives you the tools you need to offer a comprehensive video broadcasting solution with ease.
Our easy-to-use and powerful platform makes becoming a professional corporate TV broadcaster easy, with none of the traditional infrastructure or overhead costs.
Key Benefits:
- Preserve and extend your brand with highly customizable graphics and players.
- Easily integrate TV broadcasts into your operation with a simple online studio.
- Eliminate the infrastructure and human costs associated with traditional broadcasting operations.
- Use professional options to create a private channel with no ads for internal communications.
- Communicate deeply and more effectively with global stakeholders, partners, employees and press.
Organizations
Online video broadcasts are essential tools for government, education and non-profit organizations to engage the public meaningfully, cost effectively, and consistently.
Non-profits have realized the power that online broadcasts can deliver for pushing out important news, for mobilizing their members, for fundraising, and to increase awareness and understanding of their respective causes.
Educational institutions are embracing new media, and use the power of broadcast video internally to communicate with staff and students, and as a medium for programs in journalism, marketing, film, media, and more.
Government agencies are using online broadcasts to educate their constituents on policies, to warn them of public safety issues, and to open up public meetings and events to wider audiences. Internally, they are using online TV for training and recruiting.
Our easy-to-use and powerful platform makes high-quality broadcast TV easy, simple and affordable.
Key Benefits
- Easily and affordably integrate TV broadcasts into your organization with a simple online studio.
- Educate viewers about complex and important issues.
- Reach new audiences, and broaden awareness of your programs.
- Mobilize the public and your members around time-sensitive events.
- Train staff and volunteers in any part of the world.
Non-profits
For non-profit and other organizations, there’s no better way to get out a clear message and increase engagement than with online video. Organizations today have to extend their reach to a greater audience. Non-technical staff needs easy-to-manage solutions to create and maintain rich-media websites that can keep their audience interested and involved. Hands-On allows non-profits and organizations the world over —to keep the pace.
With Hands-On video platform you’ll be able to:
- Convey your message through engaging high quality video
- Easily publish new and existing materials: informational videos, training, presentations, announcements and other information
- Deploy a cutting-edge video platform at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions on the market
- Enable distance learning and facilitate staff training and education
- Broaden your audience and attract new members and volunteers
- Increase viral distribution of your videos
- Manage content, generate reports and track usage via a comprehensive Content Management System
Our solutions are affordable, flexible & easy to use, while offering the full functionality of video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing and more. With us, organizations on all levels can leverage the full potential of online video to create a more compelling, interactive and borderless user experience.
Education
The growing popularity of online video & rich media is rapidly revolutionizing education, training, and learning.
Hands-On’s Online Video services enables institutions to add video and rich-media capabilities to web sites, Learning Management Systems, internal digital repositories, libraries and online social networks quickly and easily. It also simplifies asset management and preservation of digital files.
Deploy a wide range of education video applications to serve all of your institution’s video needs:
- Video for teaching, learning, and enterprise training – engage students with high quality video, inside and outside the classroom. Publish courses, lectures, presentations and more.
- Video for distance education – enable online classes and courses.
- Video for social activities and students – clubs, fraternities and individual students can leverage Hands-On’s out-of-the-box video extensions for platforms such as WordPress, MediaWiki and Drupal.
- Video for collaboration and interaction – enable groups to interact with one another, including video upload, recording, commenting, reviewing, remixing and annotating.
- Rich media for libraries – jump into libraries 2.0 by making multimedia archive content accessible to the community. Integrate and extend existing library offerings with new tools.
- Video for marketing engagement – produce marketing campaigns to keep prospective students, alumni, contributors and others informed and involved. Create video tours, student testimonials, sports highlights, continuing education offerings, education video etc.
- Advanced video tools – online editors, video comments module, Video-PowerPoint tool for easy synchronization between slides and video and more.
- Video for conferences – conference-in-a-box application for managing, publishing and sharing conference video content.
- Emergency preparedness & flu packages – allow Hands-On to mitigate the risk of school closure by enabling distance learning.
- Fully-integrated with leading learning platforms and CMSs, including Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai, MindTouch, Drupal and more.
Whether you choose an on-prem or SaaS solution, Hands-On enables you to leverage the full potential of online video to create a more compelling, interactive and borderless educational experience.