On your platform, you can décide to give your users access to the Stripe portal, allowing them to manage their payment method and see their billing history. This is quite convenient if they have an expired credit card and want to change it. If you activate it, your users will be able to access this […]

On your OKAST platform, by default the sign up page displays the following fields: First name Lasy name Email address A strong password You can decide to add custom fields during registration if you wish to request specific information from your viewers, such as an address, a country, a preferred language, a gender, an age, […]

When you launch a live stream, you have the possibility to display an interactive chat module where your users will be able to interact: comment, ask questions, send emojis etc… This feature is only available for customers with the Live Streaming RTMP option (available from Start plans). Note: your users will only be able to […]

On your platform, you can offer value-added features to your users, such as allowing them to create their own content(s) list(s). You have actually 2 options: 1/ My List: this option is available to all OKAST customers and allows users to add content to a single list (My List).  For more information, you can consult […]

It is possible to authorize a “play next content” feature on your platform. This way, your viewers will watch automatically the next content without needing to do anything! This is how the next content is “chosen” by our system: If the content is in a playlist, then the following content in the playlist is played […]

The new European directive on online payments introduces the notion of strong customer authentication (SCA) when you process with an online transaction (more info on our blog article on strong authentication for VOD services). When you start an online payment, there will now be a two-factor authentication system, which will differ according to the banking […]

On your OKAST platform, when encoding your video content, we automatically generate thumbnails (images) from your content throughout the process:     Your viewers can now get an overview of the video content with a simple mouse over within the progress bar of the video player:     Quite convenient when your viewers want to […]

Creating a platform with OKAST allows you to benefit from the expertise of our Research and Development team for your video streaming platform. For example, we have developed the algorithmic content recommendation to give your viewers an awesome experience and increase the overall retention.     How the algorithmic video recommendation works? When a viewer […]

Creating your video platform with OKAST offers many benefits and value-added features to your users. Among these, an advanced search bar is available. With this feature you make it easier for your users to find the content they are looking for.     How the search bar works? We have developed a search algorithm that […]

OKAST offers the picture-in-picture function allowing your audience to navigate on your video platform while playing the video. How does it work?  When you watch a full screen video, you now see a small arrow at the top left of your screen: Clicking on it will reduce the video and give access to the reduced […]