Innovating the life cycle of media

Ascent Media provides fully integrated digital media services for every stage in the life cycle of your media. From long before a director yells "Cut!" to the moment the final edited content is viewed on screen, a million different things have to happen — through the stages of creative post production, content management, distribution and, finally, content monetization. Ascent does all of these things.

And while many of our clients use us for specific individual media services along the digital supply chain, our specialty is rooted in our unique ability to take our clients' media through every stage of the process — from point of capture, to point of view. It's a seamless global workflow that ties together our tightly knit, global community of the industry’s best talent from Creative and Technology, making it possible for us to consistently provide world-class efficiencies and a level of talent never before assembled.

We call our fully integrated process M⁴, (Make, Manage, Move, Monetize) and it incorporates everything from editorial and visual effects to content management and repurposing, network origination and playout, file distribution, monetization of assets and literally everything in between.

Explore M⁴ and learn what others quickly discovered.

• What do you need? Roll over the images…
• View the M⁴ Process We had a breakthrough idea. M⁴ brought it to life.
• View the M⁴ Process We wanted to simplify preparing media content for our channel. M⁴ made it effortless.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed groundbreaking VFX. What we needed was M⁴.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed to digitize our media library. M⁴ made it possible.
• View the M⁴ Process We were looking for security. M⁴ gave it to us.
• View the M⁴ Process We wanted to reach billions of viewers worldwide. M⁴ helped us do just that.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed our content sent to 6 countries, in 12 formats — the next day. M⁴ was our answer.
• View the M⁴ Process We wanted our virtual content to produce real results. M⁴ had what we were looking for.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed to squeeze more money from our content. M⁴ got us results.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed to pull it all in-house — in record time. M⁴ made it happen.
• View the M⁴ Process We needed our media facilities to go HD — yesterday. M⁴ got it done.

How can we help you?

M1: Make

Ascent Media's world-leading talent and technology deliver creative digital media solutions to the features, television and commercial industries.

M2: Manage

Our fully integrated workflow solutions allow studios, broadcasters, networks, cable operators and advertising agencies to efficiently locate, validate, manipulate and deliver their content.

M3: Move

As one of the world's largest independent content distributors, we can deliver your media content anywhere - quickly, securely and reliably. From key locations around the world, we offer a unique set of scalable, flexible solutions to clients who need a partner with a global footprint.

M4: Monetize

We can repurpose and publish across every platform globally to help turn your media assets into capital and connect you to earning potential you never knew you had.

SI and Consulting

Our SI team incorporates best-of-breed technologies into the custom media facilities we construct for global broadcast, telco and IPTV businesses. Our Consulting practice excels at providing a wide range of consulting disciplines for electronic media content owners and providers

case study

Abu Dhabi

Ascent Media designed and built the complete infrastructure to convert legacy material into digital media files.