Blue Lucy has announced an extension of its collaboration with BBC Studios.
Under the new, multi-year contract, BBC Studios will utilise Blue Lucy’s BLAM media management platform, with the aim of enabling the automation of collection, repurposing and content delivery to its internal and external partners, including its FAST channels.
Originally deployed by BBC Studios on its AWS instance, BLAM use increased over the course of the initial contract with its team now using the solution to orchestrate both manual and automated tasks, said Blue Lucy.
Closed-loop integrations with Telestream’s Cloud Qualify, GrayMeta’s Iris Anywhere and Yella Umbrella’s Nebula and Stellar tools provide an automated quality control process which triggers manual QC when necessary, enhancing the ingest workflow.
Content is repurposed to remove bars and tone, create slates and add transitions with minimal user intervention, said the company. Blue Lucy and BBC studios have also collaborated on the development of an accessible content fulfilment system, allowing the technology operations teams to trigger BLAM Work Orders from outside the platform, orchestrating content searches, transcoding media and gathering supporting assets for delivery.
Adam Jakubowski, VP technical operations at BBC Studios, said, “Our use of BLAM has grown over the last three years as we discovered the platform’s capabilities and worked with Blue Lucy’s engineers to create bespoke workflow configurations. BLAM supports our teams’ agility and the demands of the business to manage, transform and monetise our content, assisting our global teams. New workflows have been rapidly iterated and integrated to meet our evolving needs by the Blue Lucy team.”
