Kazam is a pure student internet TV and video service based on Intercast Network’s VideoXpress platform. Currently Kazam is exclusively available to US students at selected Universities connected to the Internet2 backbone.
Kazam's programming lineup specifically caters to the student's interests.
Via Kazam student's get free access to premium cable content including hit shows from Showtime, Discovery, Sony Pictures, Sports Illustrated, Revision3.
Students subscribe to the channels of their choice and receive personalized video content on their PC, which is in line with their personal preferences. Video content is refreshed on a daily basis – it’s as simple as watching TV but now the TV knows what you want to see.
Students also benefit from an improved user experience which includes HD video, a convenient PVR-like viewing experience and overall improved viewing quality - no buffering, compressed video quality or virus infected files.
Universities benefit in two ways. They can proactively introduce legal and higher quality video services to discourage illegal file sharing among their student body while reducing network congestion on a network wide scale due to Intercast's underlying Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) delivery technology.
Kazam is the first commercial video application to take advantage of the inherent IP multicast capabilities of the next-generation Internet2 backbone. By leveraging IP multicast Kazam is able to efficiently deliver large amounts of bandwidth intense video files to a large number of students without straining campus networks. Campus IT departments can improve overall network efficiency and utilization at no additional cost.
Kazam Service Benefits
- Direct access to the highly desirable 18-24 demographic
- Makes use of the latest multicast distribution technologies
- Next-generation storage-based video delivery service
- Ad supported content delivery (in-stream, display and rich media ads)
- Dynamic and targeted ad serving from storage (for online and offline mode)
- Flexible business models including free ad-based, subscription, PPV and more
- Highly network efficient
For detailed information on Kazam please visit www.kazam.com
Universities interested to add Kazam as a free & legal video offering for their students, are invited to contact Kazam at university@kazam.com
Content providers who are interested to test the impact of new content delivery technologies in the most sought after market demographic are invited to contact Kazam at content@kazam.com
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Kazam in the News
13 Oct, 2008
Esurance, MPG Back Kazam's New Ad-Supported Video Service: Provide Pay TV Series Free To College Kids
In a first-of-its-kind test of Kazam's new ad-supported online video distribution system, students at some of America's leading universities will get to watch premium TV shows from Viacom's Showtime network for free....>> read more
13 Oct, 2008
Intercast Networks Expands Kazam Video Service to Universities Across the US Kazam beta version includes even more major media brands, a new ad based monetization model and an improved user interface...>> read more |
