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Cost per Viewing Hour

Do you know what one hour of viewing actually costs?

Measure the economics underneath your video service. Cost per Viewing Hour combines infrastructure, CDN, storage, processing, software and operations into one simple efficiency KPI.

Core formulaTotal Video Service CostTotal Viewing Hours
= Cost per Viewing Hour

Enter your monthly costs

Use actual monthly figures where possible. Leave non-applicable costs at zero.

Compute, servers, hosting, private cloud.
External CDN, local CDN, peering, bandwidth.
VOD, Catch-Up, archive, object/block storage.
Transcoding, packaging, DRM processing.
Platform, DRM, analytics and other licences.
Monitoring, DevOps, support and service operations.
Total hours actually watched across all users and devices.
Where to look next

Optimise the workload before buying more infrastructure.

A high CVH does not automatically mean one supplier is expensive. Leakage may sit in storage architecture, CDN topology, cloud usage, processing density, software fragmentation or operations.

PlatformAre multiscreen apps, CMS, analytics and subscription management working as one efficient platform?
CDNAre streams delivered from the right place?
Catch-UpIs storage and read performance optimised?
ProcessingIs cloud the right choice for every workload?
OperationsIs infrastructure continuously right-sized?
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