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Digital
Media

Media platforms are judged on how quickly content starts and how rarely it stutters. Everything else in the product matters less than that basic promise being kept.

We build streaming services, publishing platforms, and content management systems with delivery performance, rights management, and monetization designed as core infrastructure.

What we deliver

Media platforms are judged on how quickly content starts and how rarely it stutters. Everything else in the product matters less than that basic promise being…

Streaming & Delivery

Video and audio delivery engineered for fast starts and stable playback.

Content Management

Editorial tooling that respects how newsrooms and content teams actually work.

Monetization

Subscriptions, paywalls, ad integration, and sponsorship management — including metered and dynamic paywall logic tuned against conversion data.

Discovery & Personalization

Search, recommendation, and curation systems that surface relevant content without collapsing into a narrow feedback loop.

Media infrastructure we work with

Delivery performance is the product in media. These are the platforms and formats we build on.

Streaming

HLS DASH Mux Cloudflare Stream

Processing

FFmpeg MediaConvert Transcoding

Protection

Widevine FairPlay PlayReady

Delivery

Multi-CDN Edge caching Signed URLs

Media platforms we build

Everything below is in scope for a typical engagement — we scope precisely against your situation before quoting.

Delivery performance is monitored continuously post-launch, because media quality degrades quietly.

  • Video streaming services — VOD and live with adaptive delivery.
  • Podcast and audio platforms — hosting, distribution, and dynamic ad insertion.
  • Digital publishing — editorial CMS with multi-channel output.
  • Subscription and paywall systems — metered access with conversion optimization.
  • Creator monetization — memberships, tipping, and revenue sharing.
  • Content recommendation — personalization that broadens rather than narrows.
Fast-start Playback latency treated as a core metric
Multi-CDN Automatic failover for delivery resilience
DRM-ready Content protection where rights require it
SEO-strong Publishing built for discoverability

Frequently
Asked
Questions

Depends on scale. Mux and Cloudflare Stream for speed of delivery, or custom pipelines on AWS MediaConvert and CloudFront when volume justifies the control.

Yes — Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady for premium content. We'll be candid that DRM adds cost and complexity, so it's worth confirming rights actually require it.

RTMP or SRT ingest, transcoding to adaptive bitrate, and low-latency HLS delivery. Sub-second latency is achievable with WebRTC where interactivity demands it.

Server-side rendering, structured data markup, sensible URL architecture, and Core Web Vitals optimization. For publishers, organic discovery is usually the primary channel.

Yes, for both video and audio — server-side insertion so ads aren't blocked, with targeting and frequency capping.

Automated scanning for prohibited content on upload, combined with human review queues. For user-generated media at scale, both layers are necessary.

Why 11Seas

Attention is unforgiving

Media platforms compete against every other demand on someone's time. Fast, reliable delivery is the price of entry — everything else only matters once that's dependable.

Playback latency treated as a core metric
Automatic failover for delivery resilience
Content protection where rights require it
Publishing built for discoverability

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Monam Khalid
Monam Khalid Founder at 11Seas
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