Hello,
We are looking at different ways to sell digital live stream content this season, and since TNEW's gated digital content feature has been moved to release in late August, I am wondering if any Tessitura users out there can share what they are doing now to sell gated content, particularly if you are using Tessitura/ TNEW for the sales path, and connecting to a third party stream from there somehow? What I am currently envisioning is selling on Tessitura/ TNEW, and then emailing a link to ticket buyers close to the time of a performance. Of course there are easy ways to break through the gate with this method, for example if we use VIMEO, where the password or direct link could be shared with non-buyers. While I'm not incredibly concerned about the dishonesty of our ticket holders forwarding their direct links along to other people, I'd love to know others' experiences and approaches have been with this. Or, maybe there is something simple that I am missing which would allow me to make the streaming more secure.
For Tessitura staff - We are looking to begin selling gated content before the TNEW release, but the actual performances may take place after the release, and so in addition to any third party workarounds that Tessitura users can provide, would we be able to take a performance sold before the release and convert it to a gated digital performance?
I have been searching the community forums and have not found a recent discussion on how people are selling gated content currently, and so if there is already one in progress that I missed, I'd love to be linked to it.
Thanks for your help, and I hope everyone is staying healthy out there!
Andrew
Hello - Initiating what I believe is a tangent on this conversation....
Because our first need for gated content is far more about reporting than earned income (hallelujah?), our initial forays into this will very likely only be about YouTube embeds. I just did a quick page set up so I can have an example to share with co-workers and immediately noticed that the YouTube iFrame embed code wrecks the responsiveness of the page. A quick Google gets me plenty of sympathetic posts about why it's silly this is still the case these days, but no quick fix.
Extremely relevant context: we use the Tessitura Quick Start Template, so the "edit your CSS" type solutions are not my ideal. I've worked around this before and have no problem doing so again if I have to, but shouldn't there be a less hack-y way forward than needing to write styles into the Source view of various content fields? Note that I'm also assuming this concern isn't unique to YouTube and that this is therefore something of interest to all of us monitoring this thread. Forgive me if this is a niche question that's irrelevant once there's cash involved and YouTube is out.
I'll return to Googling and working on how to adjust, but I'm wondering if anyone has already cracked it. Or perhaps there's a CSS option that can go quickly into the Quick Start Template?
Thanks for any tips.
Jamie
Hi Jamie! I know this is far from your dream scenario and still in somewhat “hack-y” territory, but I might be able to give you some CSS that would override the iframe display settings for all future YouTube embeds to make them responsive and maintain aspect ratio. So even though it’s kind of a hack, you could potentially set it and forget it. I’m working on this for pcs.org already.