Washington Post’s Arc Publishing Platform Uses AWS to Transform the Broadcast Landscape

波特兰,或(2018年12月13日)

 

 

成立于1877年, The Washington Post is a world-renowned news publisher and recipient of multiple Pulitzer prizes. Known for its commitment to political journalism and international coverage with 24 correspondents in 18 bureaus around the world, The Washington Post’s mission is to serve as the first place readers turn for breaking news and investigative journalism. The publisher also differentiates itself as a technological innovator in the publishing industry, including its embrace of the newest digital technologies to drive journalistic excellence and improve the overall experience of its subscribers.

 

The Post's Arc Publishing platform was developed as an internal suite of tools, initially to bridge the gap between the historical print publishing mission and the new demands created by digital and mobility trends. Showcasing what it takes to be competitive in the news business today, Arc的内容与打印页面并行交付, 网络, 移动应用程序和广泛的社交媒体平台. 随着时间的推移, the portfolio of tools in Arc has expanded to include management of copy, 照片, 和分析, 以及视频通过金鱼视频管理系统.

 

从2014年开始, third parties began using the Arc Publishing platform and it is now used by the Los Angeles Times, 加拿大环球邮报, 新西兰先驱报, and smaller publishers such as Alaska Dispatch 新闻 and Oregon’s Willamette Week. These news organizations use Arc to ensure that subscribers get a responsive, reliable experience when they visit a site on a desktop or mobile device while maintaining their own distinct look and feel. In total, the platform routinely supports 95 million visitors with 1 billion monthly page views.

 

Arc Publishing is now reaching beyond the world of newspapers by licensing its technology to broadcaster Raycom Media, which has relaunched more than 40 of the company’s television and radio stations on the Arc platform. Arc现在允许Raycom带来新闻, 信息, and entertainment content in real time to millions of viewers on their preferred devices. Raycom是美国最大的媒体公司之一.S.在美国的44个市场和20个州设有电台.

 

“The Arc platform enables fast and seamless integration not only for news publishers but also for large digital brands worldwide, and we’re excited to extend this to a major national broadcaster like Raycom Media,斯科特·吉莱斯皮说, 《百家乐软件app最新版下载》首席技术官. Arc的视频直播和点播功能, 结合其优越的多站点支持, give Raycom a powerful platform suite with which to achieve their digital publishing goals.”

 

从早期开始, The Post chose to move away from the monolithic approach used by its prior content management system. 通过使用AWS, the Arc Publishing platform takes full advantage of a microservices-based architecture with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enabling rapid, 自动部署新特性和更新. 利用自定义开发平台, 也在AWS上构建, Arc Publishing每天完成50多个部署 帮助媒体公司不断提升观众体验. AWS has also helped The Washington Post expand Arc into a multi-tenant architecture, 规模迅速, and take full advantage of new innovations such as AWS Elemental Media Services.

 

The Arc Platform’s Goldfish Video Management System heavily leverages the suite of AWS Elemental Media Services and gives system users complete freedom to pick and choose how they want to present both live and recorded video assets in a single, 集成的工作流. AWS元素媒体, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, and AWS Elemental MediaStore enable Arc to support video version management, 字幕, and coordination of different video streams across multiple devices.

 

One of Arc’s key differentiators is its seamless integration of live stream sources and digital publishing functionality which help provide automated workflows for live video distribution. 圆弧使裁剪简单有效, 裁剪, and publishing of live video stream segments even while the stream is running. 对于实时内容, Arc使用内部部署的AWS Elemental Live编码器, 哪个作为AWS云的视频源. All Goldfish assets are then published and delivered globally through the Amazon CloudFront content delivery network (CDN).

 

平台的灵活性, 包括广泛使用AWS元素媒体服务, has enabled Arc’s team to create turn-key solutions that can scale up and onboard clients overnight. In addition to powering all of Raycom’s sites in less than six months, Arc launched iOS and Android apps for the same 40 stations in the same time frame.

 

By offloading the creation of publishing tools and the hosting of sites, media companies can concentrate on journalism and videography rather than the technical requirements of getting content in front of readers and viewers. Arc的价值主张是 让我们为您运行内容管理系统(CMS. 你要专注于差异化，”Gillespie补充道.