Link to main page- Cloud DRM (Digital Rights Management)Protect your content from illegal downloads
- CAP (Concurrent Access Protection)Limit the concurrent devices or sessions
- Forensic WatermarkingCatch pirates red-handed with a watermark invisible to your viewers
- C2PAProve the authenticity of your content and protect viewers’ trust
- Cloud DRM (Digital Rights Management)Protect your content from illegal downloads
- CAP (Concurrent Access Protection)Limit the concurrent devices or sessions
- Forensic WatermarkingCatch pirates red-handed with a watermark invisible to your viewers
- C2PAProve the authenticity of your content and protect viewers’ trust
- Cloud DRM (Digital Rights Management)Protect your content from illegal downloads
- CAP (Concurrent Access Protection)Limit the concurrent devices or sessions
- Forensic WatermarkingCatch pirates red-handed with a watermark invisible to your viewers
- C2PAProve the authenticity of your content and protect viewers’ trust
A/B Forensic Watermarking for Live Video
Trace live stream leaks back to their source with invisible, session-level watermarks – and stop pirates in the act.
Built for broadcasters and rights holders who can't afford a leak
A championship match has just kicked off. Somewhere in a distribution chain, a copy of your feed has already leaked out, and it quickly gathers thousands of viewers on an illegal streaming site. By the final whistle, it's over – the game, the restream, and the chance to protect your revenue.
A/B Forensic Watermarking is built for the organizations who need to stop the pirates within that short window of time. Every viewing session carries an invisible, unique signature. When a stream leaks, that signature helps pinpoint its exact source – and block the pirate's access to the stream for good.
How it works
Watermark embedding
As the stream is encoded and packaged, our pre-processor creates two parallel streams with two different watermarks embedded onto the video.
Segment mixing
A CDN Edge function assigns a sequence of the A and B stream segments to each user based on their session token, giving every viewing session a unique fingerprint.
Recording the sample
Once you detect a restreaming pirate – manually or through monitoring services – you record a short sample of the illegal stream and upload it for analysis.
Analysis & blocking
Our system runs the analysis and delivers a detailed report including the exact ID of the pirating user – and automatically blocks their access to your content.
Every pirated stream leaves a trace
Integrate & forget
With our server-side watermarking, you don’t need to implement it separately on every end-user app and platform. A simple, one-time backend integration is all it takes.
AI-powered detection
Our advanced detection engine uses Artificial Intelligence to effectively pinpoint the exact user ID and ensure that the pirates are blocked within minutes – even as you run multiple detections at the same time.
Made to last
Our watermark is embedded during the video processing stage – which makes it persistent and durable, even if the stream is intercepted or the player app is compromised.
Scalable by design
Every viewing session gets its own watermarked segments pattern, even at your highest concurrent viewership. Our cloud-native architecture on AWS scales with your peak moments.
Invisible to the naked eye
Content security is crucial – but you also don’t want to drive your audience away with needless noise on the screen. Luckily, our watermark is imperceptible to the human eye and won’t affect your audience’s watching experience.
Original Content
Watermarked Content
Forensic Watermarking FAQ
No, you don’t – the service is system-agnostic and compatible with almost every setup.
If you are already using Cloud Video Kit, it’s as easy as flipping a switch. But even with a custom streaming workflow, it’s not very complex – the watermarks are created by embedding two near-transparent images onto the video, which takes a straightforward, one-time backend integration, and the A/B segments mixing is handled through CDN edge processing (a feature that every major CDN provider offers). Our team of experienced engineers is available to support you throughout the whole process.
Yes, we do – through our trusted partner network. The monitoring covers social media, open web, IPTVs, applications like Telegram, and more. If you are looking for monitoring services to complement the watermarking solutions, we are happy to talk about details.
You pay only for your actual usage – we don’t require any upfront fees, and billing is based on the number or viewing sessions and the detections you run.
DRM and watermarking are complimentary technologies that protect your content in a different way. If you stream high-value content, such as premium live sports events, and want to protect your revenue, you should definitely consider both. The good news is – if you already use our Cloud DRM solution, watermarking integration becomes straightforward, as both of these services can use the same session tokens and can be managed through the Cloud Video Kit console.
Find out where your content is leaking
Talk to our team about protecting your next live broadcast — we'll walk through how A/B Forensic Watermarking fits your existing encoding and DRM setup.
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