Zope4Media Broadcast

Zope Corporation offers Zope4Media (Z4M) - the most advanced, affordable content publishing solution for television and radio companies. Z4M is available as a turnkey, hosted-solution. Z4M is the "must have" part of every broadcaster's Internet arsenal.

The Z4M platform is the most powerful, cost-effective content and Web-site management solution on the market. It is specifically designed by industry savvy engineers to meet the unique requirements of local TV and radio broadcast companies and groups of media properties.

Z4M delivers an entirely browser-based production environment that allows business oriented content producers to easily maintain state-of-the-art Web sites. A sophisticated search engine is one of the many unique features of Z4M.

Syndication-Centric Content Production Model

Z4M's syndication-centric content production model allows sites to fully leverage production resources by:

• empowering producers to simultaneously publish to multiple sites, and
• create syndication networks with other stations to share content.

Subscription-based site-views allow producers to easily set up entire query-driven sites with no production effort.

Site Hosting

Z4M sites are deployed and hosted in Tier-1 AT&Tdata centers on a fault-tolerant, continuous-uptime architecture designed to ensure Web properties are always fresh, available and capture maximum market share.

Unique Features

• Site management tools allow producers to manage numerous sites within a single production environment
• Rich content types (i.e., news stories, images, talent bios, audio clips) can be created quickly by non-technical staff
• Built-in content types i.e., feedback forms, forums and polls, allow interaction with users
• Fast search engine supports full text and fielded searhing on an extensible set of content properties
• Powerful site templating provides total control over site presentation
• Third part advertisement integration
• Extensible platform can grow with sites, supporting add-on and custom applications

Benefits

• Need only a PC, Web browser and Internet connection to access a professional Web production environment
• Leverage current staff instead of hiring separate Web production staff
• Maintain multiple properties; leverage content using same content tools and production talent
• Deploy feature-rich Web sites with scalability, reliability and support at an unrivaled price

Scalability

The Z4M platform scales from a single station to multiple related properties while remaining cost-effective, robust and secure. The Z4M deployment infrastructure is built for high-availability, fast downloads and consistent handling of high traffic loads for clusters of all sizes:

• Dynamic distribution and load balancing
• Redundant storage with failover capabilities using ZEO and ZRS
• Sophisticated caching architecture for high performance and fast page loads for users
• Multiple site management within same production environment

Success Stories

Viacom Local Networks (VLN) partnered with Zope Corporation to deploy a scalable Web solution to allow a small production support staff to manage and produce content for a large number of broadcast media Web sites. These sites include market-leading high-traffic television and radio news properties e.g., www.1010wins.com in New York City, www.wcco.com in Minneapolis, www.kcal.com in Los Angeles, www.upn53.com in Columbus along with thirty-five other broadcasters.

Zope Corporation's Z4M platform allowed VLN to deliver a scalable, comprehensive Web-site management and production environment to their growing number of local media affiliates. The Z4M system provides superior Web-based tools for content producers, and advanced syndication tools that enable powerful content sharing and repurposing.

Pricing and Availability

Zope4Media is now available on a Managed Hosting basis only.

For additional information, or to schedule an online demonstration, please contact sales@zope.com or call 1-540-361-1710.

The Zope4Media platform has allowed GateHouse to focus on training journalists at weekly papers to publish daily content on the web, while not distracting them with the technology. As we bring our daily papers online using Zope4Media, sites already on the platform will benefit from the new features required by the larger sites. Our smallest newspaper will have the same tools to help grow their online audience and revenue as our largest newspaper. This technology is powerful and very flexible and Zope is clearly a leader in this field.
- Bill Blevins, Vice President of Internet Operations, Gatehouse Media