From Sea to Screen: OceanX Dives into Efficient Media Workflows with Signiant

OceanX, a non-profit focused on ocean exploration, faced challenges managing and sharing its vast library of rare deep-sea footage. By adopting Signiant Media Shuttle, OceanX streamlined its workflows, enabling fast, reliable transfers to global partners and scientists. The solution eliminated delays, failed uploads, and costly hard drive shipments, enhancing efficiency and engagement.

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OceanX is a New York-based non-profit organization with a mission to explore the ocean and bring it back to the world. While OceanX is a science-first organization, capturing media and making content is also at the forefront of its storytelling strategy. The scientific team aboard its former vessel, M/V Alucia and current R/V OceanXplorer, has been featured on Blue Planet II, One Strange Rock, and National Geographic's limited series, OceanXplorer.

THE CHALLENGE

OceanX has a vast and ever-growing media library and has struggled with managing, archiving, and sharing that evergreen content worldwide. Since they capture rare and high-quality deep-sea oceanic footage, the content retains value long after its initial use. Large file sizes exacerbate OceanX's distribution with external media partners, as do dropped transfers and short turn-around times.

THE SOLUTION

Initially, OceanX relied on a partner's Signiant Media Shuttle account to transfer their camera original media for footage licensing. Impressed by the platform's reliability, they set up their own instance of Media Shuttle, making it their primary method for delivering large files to media and licensing partners and with scientists worldwide. The switch opened OceanX to new capabilities, including centralized control and visibility across its partner network.

THE RESULT

Signiant Media Shuttle has significantly improved OceanX's workflows by ensuring fast, reliable transfers of large media files with a large network of partners and scientists. The media team no longer faces challenges with timed-out transfers, failed uploads, or needing to physically ship hard drives, giving them peace of mind when working with global partners.

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