Contract work for Horse & Country, an equestrian streaming platform: live events, series and documentaries, sold by subscription to viewers around the world. This is the side the subscriber sees. The panel it is run from is H&C Streaming Manager.

Video it does not own

The portal does not host its own video and does not run its own paywall. The video is served from Kaltura and the subscriptions live in InPlayer, so the site is the place where those two meet the viewer.

That is the part worth getting right. What a visitor can watch has to be decided by the plan they are on, checked against InPlayer, and not by whether they found a page that forgot to ask. Catalogue, playback and entitlement are three different questions, and the portal has to answer all three on the same screen without making the viewer wait for them.

Live and on demand in the same catalogue

A live event and an episode of a series are not the same object: one has a start time and a window, the other is always there. They are browsed together, so the catalogue holds both and the difference shows up where it matters, in what the page offers you to do next.