The Power of Customization: How MediaRights Adapts to Your Workflow

In the media and entertainment industry, no two organizations are alike. Licensing models, product lines, territories and financial structures vary widely—even within the same company over time. Traditional rights management systems often impose rigid frameworks that force teams to conform to someone else’s logic.

MediaRights takes a different approach. Designed around a highly flexible, user-defined architecture, MediaRights allows you to customize virtually every aspect of the platform to reflect your real-world workflow. From the products you manage to the currencies you report in, you define how the system works for you—not the other way around.

Whether you’re distributing films globally, managing TV rights by region, or licensing merchandise, MediaRights adapts to your business logic with ease.

Product Types: Tailored to Your IP Strategy

MediaRights enables you to define an unlimited variety of product types based on the scope of your business. The platform doesn’t restrict you to predefined categories—instead, you can add, edit and organize product types as your catalog evolves.

Examples of Product Types:

Audiovisual Content:

• TV Series
• TV Mini-Series
• Theatrical Feature Film
• Short Film
• Special
• Interstitial
• Podcast
• Digital Series
• Webisode

Merchandising and Extensions:

• Digital Games and Apps
• Apparel
• Accessories and Footwear
• Food and Beverage
• Consumer Electronics
• Health and Beauty
• Publishing
• Stationery and Paper Goods
• Toys
• Home Furnishings
• Gifts and Novelties
• Live Events / Themed Entertainment
• Promotions

These are just examples—you can create as many product types as you need to reflect your business model, brand strategy and future expansion.

Media Types: Reflect Your Real Distribution Strategy

Different rights apply to different platforms, formats and use cases. With MediaRights, you can define the exact media rights relevant to your deals—without being locked into a preset list. As your business enters new platforms or develops new distribution models, your rights taxonomy can grow with you.

Examples of Media Types:

• Theatrical
• Non-Theatrical
• Free TV
• Pay TV
• Subscription VOD (SVOD)
• Transactional VOD (TVOD)
• Ad-Supported VOD (AVOD)
• Pay-Per-View (PPV)
• FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV)
• Electronic Sell-Through (EST)
• Catch-Up FVOD
• Catch-Up AVOD
• Internet
• Mobile
• Hotels
• Airlines
• Ships
• Festival
• Educational
• Merchandising
• Format (Scripted and Non-Scripted)
• Impact Promotion
• Impact Screening

This is a customizable list—add any media type that fits your current and future licensing needs.

Territories and Regions: Map the World as You Operate

Geographical licensing is rarely straightforward. MediaRights gives you complete freedom to define individual territories, regional groupings and even niche markets according to your operational needs.

Examples of Custom Definitions:

• Territories (e.g. Canada, Italy, France, Brazil)
• Regions (e.g. Caribbean, EMEA, LATAM, APAC)
• Territory groups (e.g. German-Speaking Europe, French-speaking Africa, CIS, Nordics)

Add, modify and group territories in ways that align with your distribution logic—there’s no limit to how specific or broad your definitions can be.

Channels and Distribution Platforms: Stay Aligned with Your Partners

Content today lives across hundreds of platforms. MediaRights allows you to maintain a comprehensive and evolving list of all the channels and platforms where your IP is distributed or promoted.

Examples of Channels:

• Regional broadcasters (e.g. ARTE, ZeeTV, NHK)
• Global streamers (e.g. Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video)
• FAST platforms (e.g. Pluto TV, Tubi, Roku Channel)
• Event-based exhibitors (e.g. Cannes, TIFF, SXSW)

Your organization can create a living database of every platform or partner it works with—adding new channels and modifying old ones as the landscape shifts.

Credits, Events and Awards: Structure Recognition and Metadata

Whether it’s internal reporting, external promotion or legal obligations, organizing credits and accolades properly is key. MediaRights lets you define any credit types, award categories or industry events relevant to your content.

Examples Include:

Credit Types:

• Executive Producer
• Creator
• Director
• Actor/Actress
• Line Producer

Events:

• Berlinale
• Emmys
• Oscars
• Golden Globes
• Webby Awards

Awards:

• Best Film
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Animation
• Best Screenplay
• Audience Choice Award

You’re not restricted by templates—customize your metadata to reflect your creative hierarchy and industry recognition.

Currencies and Live Exchange Rates: Financial Precision Across Markets

Financial tracking across multiple currencies is a core requirement for global media companies. MediaRights gives you full control over how you manage currencies in deals, reporting and forecasting—while also supporting real-time exchange rate updates.

Key Customization Features:

• Define home currency and currencies per deal (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, JPY)
• Integrate with live exchange rate APIs to auto-convert financial values
• Lock exchange rates to protect against fluctuations during sensitive deal windows
• Enable reporting in home currency or deal currencies to suit different stakeholders (e.g. finance vs. sales)

Add as many currencies as needed and configure exchange settings that match your internal finance policies.

Distribution Expenses: Bring Operational Clarity

Tracking distribution-related costs is essential for budgeting, reporting and deal evaluation. MediaRights allows you to define and monitor every type of expense relevant to your content and campaigns.

Examples of Distribution Expense Types:

• Localization (Dubbing, Subtitling)
• Legal Services (Clearance, Contract Review)
• Marketing and Promotions
• Digital Platform Onboarding Fees

You can create unlimited capped or uncapped expense categories and subcategories to reflect your actual cost structures and workflows

Assets Storage Locations and Material Types: Track Your Content Deliverables

Managing the assets tied to your IP—both digital and physical—is just as important as managing rights. MediaRights gives you full flexibility to define material types, formats and storage locations based on your operational setup.

Examples of Material Types:

• Master Files (HD, 4K, ProRes, etc.)
• Promo Trailers and Teasers
• Digital Cinema Package (DCP)
• Subtitles
• Closed Captions
• Artwork and Posters
• Social Media Assets
• Scripts and Bibles

Examples of Asset Storage Locations:

• Cloud Storage (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud)
• In-House Servers
• Third-Party Vaults
• Physical Archives
• Vendor Repositories

Customize as many types and locations as needed to reflect your production pipeline and archiving strategy.

Why Customization Matters: Real Business Benefits

🗹 Workflow Consistency – Align teams around a shared system that reflects your business, not someone else’s template
🗹 Scalability – As your operations grow, MediaRights grows with you—no retooling required
🗹 Speed and Accuracy – Custom lookups mean faster data entry, cleaner reports and fewer mistakes
🗹 Adaptability – Add or modify entries at any time to keep pace with new partnerships, platforms or product lines

A System That Grows With You

MediaRights isn’t just a tool—it’s a flexible framework designed to mirror how your business actually works. Every list you see in this article is just a starting point. You have the power to define your own product types, rights, currencies, territories, platforms and more.

Because the future of media operations doesn’t lie in standardization—it lies in customization.

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