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Brightcove Beacon is a platform which enables you to create and configure a single media streaming experience which is then used across multiple platforms and devices. The documents in this domain are for Brightcove Beacon Studio, the newest version of Beacon. For documentation on the earlier version of Beacon see the documentation set for Beacon Classic.
Getting Started
This section provides guides to help you get started with Brightcove Beacon.
Managing Media
Learn how to manage the videos, series and seasons in your account.
Managing Pages
Learn how to create and manage pages.
Managing Channels
Documents to help you create and manage Beacon and Cloud Playout channels.
Managing Players
Learn how to manage the players in your account.
Monetizing Content
Documents to help you implement monetizing your content.
Beacon Web Store
The Beacon Web Store is a service that enables Beacon licensees to implement subscriptions in Bring Your Own (BYO) web stores.
Reviewing Analytics
Learn how to use video analytics to check the performance and engagement of your videos.
Protecting Content
Learn how to protect your video content from unauthorized viewing.
App Publishing and Behavior
This section provides guidance on submitting your apps to the app stores and behaviors of your OTT apps.
Publishing Videos & Players
Learn different ways of publishing your videos and players.
Registered Users
Quickly view account details, subscription plans and viewing history for the registered users in your account.
Social Sharing
Learn how to share videos out to social media accounts.
Live Streaming
The Live module is used to broadcast live events to both desktop and mobile devices. After entering your event information into the Live module, you will be provided with a set of encoder settings that you plug into your on-site encoder. All transcoding is done in the cloud so you don't need a hardware-based transcoder.
Styling & Appearance
Documents to help you change the appearance of your Brightcove Beacon apps.
Interactivity
Brightcove Interactivity allows you to add many kinds of interactivity to players, including call to action, chapters, click-to-buy, branching, and polls.
Marketing Automation
Learn how to connect Video Cloud with popular marketing automation platforms to track viewer engagement.
Administering Accounts
Learn how to create users and manage account settings.
General Information
General Information about Brightcove Beacon.
Beacon Plugins
This section contains topics on Beacon plugins.
Release Notes
Learn different the changes and new features added to Beacon Studio.
Support
Learn how to get help from Brightcove Support