WASHINGTON—Arc Publishing is taking a more digital approach and will now have the name to reflect that, as the Washington Post-backed service has rebranded to Arc XP.

Arc XP will look to provide a modern digital experience platform (DXP) that provides end-to-end technology for media and entertainment organizations and other businesses.

“Arc's expertise is rooted in its success helping some of the world's largest media organizations solve their toughest content and user experience challenges. With that foundation, we've expanded and scaled the platform to support the full range of digital needs for businesses in a variety of sectors, and the Arc XP brand reinforces that mission,” said Scot Gillespie, CTO and GM of Arc XP.

Arc XP plans to announce new products and new partnerships in the coming weeks.

Launching six years ago, Arc created a subscriptions platform that now serves more than 50 million registered and paying users across the globe; this includes a turnkey theming solution that helps customers get to market in under 30 days. Arc also has a live streaming video app.

“Arc has built incredible momentum as the go-to solution for leading publishers, broadcasters and brands in the U.S. and around the world and, with that success, our aspirations for the business have grown," said Shailesh Prakash, CIO at The Washington Post. "It's clear Arc stands apart as a digital experience platform, offering a cloud-native, modern solution that empowers businesses to realize their digital ambitions. With that in mind, we will continue to invest in the platform's long-term success.”

For more information, visit www.arcxp.com.  

WASHINGTON—Arc Publishing, the digital platform for content publishing from the Washington Post, is increasing its reach in the broadcast industry with the announcement that is has licensed its technology to Gray Television, Cox Media Group and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Arc now helps with digital experiences and content creation for more than 200 broadcast stations in the U.S. and Europe.

The trio of broadcasters will use Arc’s full suite of editorial tools, including its advanced video capabilities. This includes a collaboration with Amazon Web Services that provides AWS Media Services for video asset management and the ability to set up live video channels or clip and edit live and on-demand video in real time for immediate distribution.

Other features that are a part of Arc designed specifically for broadcasters are adding graphics to live video, autoclipping content for use in different stories and dynamically inserting ads into digital video streams. Multinational broadcasters can offer digital rights management and the ability to target content to publish in specific time zones. For newsrooms, Arc also has Broadcast, a live video app for streaming high-quality live video to multiple sites and social platforms simultaneously.

Arc will now be available for Gray Television’s stations and digital properties in 93 TV markets, Cox’s 71 stations and digital properties across 16 markets and Oregon Public Broadcasting’s radio and TV stations across the Pacific Northwest.

WASHINGTON—Arc Publishing, the Washington Post-owned video content management system, has signed its second broadcaster to utilize its services, Graham Media Group. This follows Raycom Media going with Arc Publishing in December 2018.

According to Washington Post CTO Scot Gillespie, Arc Publishing gives broadcasters technology to distribute videos in real time across different digital platforms to help reach the broadest possible audience.

Graham Media will use Arc’s video platform technology to manage broadcast content for digital distribution for its affiliates in Houston, Detroit, Roanoke, Va., San Antonio, Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla. Journalists will be able to cut and publish live video to the web, mobile, social media and other channels, as well as publish breaking news video during a live broadcast.

The Arc Publishing platform is built on Amazon Web Services, including AWS Elemental Media Services to prepare, process and deliver broadcast and OTT video from the AWS Cloud.

WASHINGTON—Raycom Media has licensed The Washington Post’s Arc Publishing platform to enhance digital publishing at 42 of its TV and radio stations.

The Arc platform offers new video tools that seamlessly integrate live broadcast streams with the broadcasters’ digital publishing stack. In this way, it automates workflows to make live broadcast video available for online publishing.

“Working with the Arc team, we were able to bring industry-leading digital publishing solutions to each of our local broadcast markets in record time,” said Joe Fiveash, executive vice president, Digital Media and Strategy at Raycom Media.

“Our viewers are increasingly engaging with our content both on the web and mobile apps, and the new video tools Arc offers allow us to better optimize the workflows between our broadcast systems and our digital properties to better serve those audiences.”

Arc’s video management system gives Raycom Media stations the ability to clip, crop and publish live video streams–even while they are still in progress—and distribute them via the web, mobile and social media, said The Washington Post. This is particularly useful in breaking news situations, allowing Raycom to publish live streams to its digital platforms during a broadcast.

The Arc platform is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and leverages AWS Elemental Media Services to make prep, processing and delivery of broadcast and over-the-top video from AWS Cloud fast and easy, it said. The Washington Post is owned by Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos. 

More information is available on the Arc Publishing website.