Transmission
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| Trading name | Transmission |
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| Type | Streaming Service |
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| Founded | 1648 AN |
| Headquarters | Stonewall, Governorate of Wrighthaven in the Ciric Confederacy |
| Key people | Samantha Burne (CEO) |
Transmission, usually known as "Transmission", is a media streaming service owned and operated by the Andromeda Tech Corporation. The company originated in Mourn, in the Ciric Confederacy, but it is now headquartered in the confederate city of Stonewall, like many other companies. Founded in 1648 AN, the company's primary business is the distribution and sharing of various media types, such as videos, music, films, and Transcasts, which are digital episodic audio files. Transmission offers free service with advertisements from partnered companies, and allows its users to pay for a premium service called "Transmission X" that allows users to utilise the platform without ads, and with several other upgrades such as an enhanced cloud storage limit and an increase to the maximum streaming speed.
The Transmission music database encompasses over thirteen million tracks, drawing from partnered companies such as Vulton Studios, which is a media management company and record label registered in the Ciric Confederacy. The interface is configured to allow users to sort media by media type, creator, name, album, and genre. Transmission is only officially available on phones manufactured by Andromeda Mobile, but a number of independent confederate programmers have purchased foreign mobile phone systems and created tutorials on how to configure the phone to download the Transmission platform. Transmission is available to the global market, and offers translations in major languages including Common Tongue, Elw, Jingdaoese, Praeta, Martino, Alexandrian, Krasnocorian, Batavian, Pallisican, and Draconian.
Roughly seventy-five percent of Transmission's revenue is given to rights holders and record labels of the content streamed from the platform, which is then distributed to the creators based on their individual contracts; the specific amount given to content creators is determined based off of the number of that artist or creator's materials' streams from the platform, proportionate to the total media streamed from the platform. Due to early criticism of lower payment to content creators than is deserved, the platform allows content creators to make an album or piece of media only accessible to paid subscribers to the platform.
Transmission also provides a video-sharing service, allowing individuals to upload their own recorded videos to the platform for international viewing. These videos are free for users with or without accounts to view, and any user with an account, free or premium, is allowed to subscribe to accounts to get notifications when they release new media, but videos are played with advertisements if the user has not purchased a subscription to Transmission X. Furthermore, content creators are allowed to create video media solely for "Transmission Signal", which is a specific part of the Transmission platform dedicated to these videos. Transmission Signal is only viewable by users with a subscription to Transmission X. The Transmission company will also occasionally provide funding to a notable artist creating episodic or television-like program on Transmission Signal; these projects are often called "Signal Shows".
Transmission also offers a film streaming and rental service. Transmission users are given access to a large number of films from various partnered studios, and are allowed to pay a small fee to stream the film for a limited time, or pay a higher fee in order to buy the film and stream it at any time or download it onto their device. Transmission X users are given free access to choice films, and a lower price on many films that still require payment, and users of the higher-payment subscription of "Transmission X+" are allowed to stream all films at any time, but still must pay a small fee to download them. In 1662, Transmission added television shows to the streaming database, and now allows users to stream and download various television shows from the global market.
Finally, Transmission is known for offering a number of "Transcasts", a portmanteau of "Transmission" and "broadcast". Transcasts are episodic audio files, usually either opinionated shows providing information and commentary on various topics, though some have taken the route of telling a story through audio; most of these are audiobook transcriptions of popular literature that the rights to were bought by the Transmission platform. Transcasts have seen a marked uptick in their popularity on the platform since 1659, with 63% of 1000 citizens of the confederacy, where the company was confined to at the time, who were given a survey answering that they listen to transcasts "several times a week", and 18% answering that they listen to transcasts "every day".
Business Model
The primary money-making strategy employed by Transmission is its ad-free subscription service. The company runs ads on all levels and sectors of its platform, which affords a measure of money by itself, but the majority of its revenue comes from users who pay for premium service. Transmission offers its basic services, such as basic music and video streaming and film and transcast rental, for free with advertisements for third-parties, and offers multiple paid subscription levels to provide various services without individual payments. The levels are constructed so that payment for the highest level will be more cost-effective for users who use all of the platform's features regularly.
The Transmission streaming service is reportedly one of the best revenue options for both independent artists as well as artists operating under a record label. Transmission recorded over one billion streams in 1679, the year the company began offering international service, mostly from the nations of the Ciric Confederacy and Caradia. Transmission has stated that it does not use a fixed per-stream payment rate, but instead uses multiple factors from the content creator, such as home country and the artist's royalty rate if applicable to determine the rate of payment. As opposed to the purchasing of CDs and other physical or "one-off" payments for music, the streaming service offered by Transmission allows artists to have steady payment or "passive income".
Transmission encourages its userbase to pay for subscriptions, especially those who use the platform regularly. Since 1675, Transmission has implemented a "loyalty plan" for subscribers to Transmission X; users subscribed to Transmission X or any higher subscription level are offered a free film or transcast download for every three months that the individual is subscribed to Transmission.
Subscription Rates
As of 1680, Transmission offers the following subscription levels to its users:
| Type | Ad-Free | Streaming Quality | Download | Bluetooth | Transmission Signal | Free Film Streaming |
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| Transmission Free |  |
16kbit/s | |
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| Transmission X |  |
32kbit/s | |
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| Transmission X+ | |
48kbit/s | |
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| Transmission XS | |
Unlimited | |
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Transmission also offers a shared "Transmission Family" subscription; it is priced the same as the Transmission X+ subscription, but allows up to five users to share permissions equivalent to the Transmission X level.
