MEDIA · INDIA

Media & Entertainment Software Development Company in India

Birtik Tech builds media and entertainment software for Indian publishers, broadcasters, OTT platforms, podcast networks, and creator-economy startups. From streaming platforms and editorial CMS to audience analytics and subscription paywalls, we ship media products that scale to millions of viewers without falling over on launch night.

COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS WE BUILD TO
DPDP ActGDPRCOPPA (kids content)Digital safety + IT Rules 2021
MEDIA · CHALLENGES

What we hear from media teams

The recurring problems we have heard across discovery calls with media clients - and where good software actually moves the needle.

Streaming infrastructure at Indian scale

Indian audiences land in short, concurrent spikes - match openings, episode drops, breaking news. The streaming pipeline has to absorb that without buffering.

Content moderation and safety

User-generated comments, creator uploads, and live chat invite abuse, spam, and harmful content. Moderation has to be designed in, not patched on after launch.

Editorial workflows that fit newsroom speed

Editors live in fast cycles - draft, review, embargo, publish, retract. CMS that fights that cadence becomes a bottleneck the day after launch.

Monetisation across subscriptions and ads

Most media businesses run hybrid revenue - subs, dynamic ads, sponsorships, branded content. The system has to handle all four without separate stacks.

WHAT WE BUILD

Media software we ship every quarter

Production builds we have shipped - each tuned to the operating model of an Indian media business.

OTT & streaming platforms

Video-on-demand, live streaming, and DVR-style time-shift platforms with adaptive bitrate, DRM, and CDN-optimised playback for India's mobile-first audience.

News & editorial CMS

Custom newsroom CMS with embargo workflows, multi-author publishing, breaking-news templates, structured-data SEO, and AI-assisted summarisation for fast-cycle editorial teams.

Podcast & audio platforms

Podcast hosting, distribution, dynamic ad insertion, listener analytics, and creator monetisation tools for podcast networks and creator-economy platforms.

Audience analytics & paywalls

Subscription paywalls, metered-access models, audience-segment analytics, and personalisation engines for publishers shifting from ad-only to subscription revenue.

STACK

A modern, fit-for-purpose technology stack

React + Next.jsNode.js / GraphQLPostgreSQL + ElasticsearchAWS MediaConvert / Mux / CloudFrontAlgolia / Stripe / Razorpay
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The questions media founders and operators ask before getting started.

A focused podcast or news-portal MVP starts at ₹8–16 lakh. Full OTT and streaming platforms with adaptive bitrate, DRM, and subscription billing run ₹25–60 lakh depending on content library scope and CDN choice. Enterprise-grade streaming with millions of concurrent viewers scales from there. We share a written, milestone-based estimate after a 30-minute discovery call.
Yes. We have shipped OTT platforms with HLS / DASH adaptive bitrate, Widevine and FairPlay DRM, CloudFront / Akamai / Mux CDN delivery, server-side ad insertion (SSAI), and DVR-style time-shift playback. Streaming is tuned for India's mobile-first reality - 4G-friendly bitrate ladders, regional CDN PoPs, and offline-download support where licensing allows.
Yes. We build custom editorial CMS systems with embargo workflows, multi-author publishing, byline and contributor management, breaking-news templates, AMP and SEO-friendly URL structures, and AI-assisted summarisation. We also ship headless WordPress + Next.js setups when editors want WordPress's familiarity and the frontend wants Core Web Vitals scores plugin-heavy WordPress cannot reach.
We integrate AI moderation (OpenAI Moderation, AWS Rekognition, Hive, Perspective) with human-in-the-loop review queues, configurable severity thresholds, shadow-banning, IP / device fingerprinting, and reporting workflows aligned with India's IT Rules 2021 grievance-officer requirements. Safety patterns are designed from day one because retrofitting them after a viral abuse incident is the wrong order.
Yes. We have shipped metered paywalls (X free articles per month), hard paywalls, freemium tiers, and dynamic paywall personalisation tied to audience-segment analytics. Backend integrates with Stripe, Razorpay, Apple / Google in-app purchases, and Cashfree for Indian-aware billing. Audience analytics typically runs on Segment / Mixpanel / Amplitude with custom event schemas.
Every media build ships with NewsArticle, VideoObject, and Podcast structured data; semantic HTML; canonical and AMP URLs where they help; sitemap fragments for news; and content written so Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Gemini, and Perplexity can extract authoritative answers directly. Editorial SEO is built into the CMS workflow, not added by a third-party plugin after publish.
A focused podcast or news-portal MVP ships in 12–18 weeks. Full OTT platforms with adaptive bitrate, DRM, search, and subscription billing run 5–9 months. Enterprise streaming with multi-region CDN, server-side ad insertion, and millions of concurrent viewers takes longer because scale and live-event reliability are first-class design constraints.

Build media software that scales on launch night

Share your content model, audience plan, and monetisation mix. We will reply with a written discovery plan within one business day.

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