Hyperlink your newsroom to the Web

Active Content Manager links directly with newsroom computer systems, video editing applications, and other systems to enable and simplify management and publishing of video, audio, graphics, and text to web, wireless, ITV, and other IP-based distribution points. Get news content to your Web site quickly and cost-effectively-at the same time that it's produced for the newscast-without adding resources, and using standard Web authoring tools.

In addition to seamless integration with the Avid Broadcast workflow, Active Content Manager collects content from multiple sources, including promotions, advertising, and weather, into a consistent and compelling online presence.

Key Benefits

Facility-wide management
Unprecedented news publishing ease and management

Easy to use
Simple, Web-based user interface designed specifically for news

Fits your production environment
Implement as a complete content management solution, or use the separately available ACM NewsPoller module to publish video, graphics, and scripts from Avid editors to your existing CMS

As-aired content
Easily post as-aired newscasts and segments automatically to the web in correct resolutions

Story ranking
Create placement and page position rules for top stories or breaking news; rank by hits, views, or votes, create schedules for expiration 

Dynamic, event-driven content
Define rules for how, when and what content audiences will be served or access depending upon their profiles, interactions, such as targeting weather content to zip codes

Comprehensive Story Management
Flexible assignment of news story components to fields including Headline, Abstract, Body, Categories, Related Assets, Links, Sources, Authors, Approval

Category Management
Create, modify, rank, delete, and manage categories (and the stories applied to them) such as Breaking News, Top Stories, Weather, Sports, Features, and so on

Spell-check
Auto spell-check of all text entry fields 

Instant Multi-version Preview
Apply any template to a story before it's made public to determine which template supports its topic and elements most appropriately

Template Management
Render Stories, along with their Categories, Assets, Links, Sources, Authors, design and layout into a single, selectable, publishable Web page designed in any common Web authoring program

Asset Management
Search, modify, create and delete any assets including images and video assets linked to a story

User Management
Define User roles and access privileges; create, modify, assign, and delete users per project

Total Integration

Maximize your Web presence by focusing on what you do best. Active Content Manager provides the tools and framework for journalists and editors to publish directly to the web, eliminating the need to stitch together disparate applications, interfaces and platforms. And, it does it with open, industry standards-based interfaces to ensure maximum returns while minimizing vendor lock-in.  For instance, Active Content Manager works in conjunction with most newsroom computer systems and video editors.

Link News Workflow with Your Content Management System

Now, the ACM NewsPoller module is available separately to provide the newsroom-to-web workflow benefits of Active Content Manager for those who wish to use an existing web content management database.  XML scripting language simplify linkage between the ACM NewsPoller module and other content management systems and simplifies user modifications.

Note: Product specifications are subject to change without notice.