Towards a New Business Model for Streaming Platforms Using Blockchain Technology

IF 2.8 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Future Internet Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI:10.3390/fi16060207

Rendrikson Soares, André Araújo

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Abstract

Streaming platforms have revolutionized the digital entertainment industry, but challenges and research opportunities remain to be addressed. One current concern is the lack of transparency in the business model of video streaming platforms, which makes it difficult for content creators to access viewing metrics and receive payments without the intermediary of third parties. Additionally, there is no way to trace payment transactions. This article presents a computational architecture based on blockchain technology to enable transparency in audience management and payments in video streaming platforms. Smart contracts will define the business rules of the streaming services, while middleware will integrate the metadata of the streaming platforms with the proposed computational solution. The proposed solution has been validated through data transactions on different blockchain networks and interviews with content creators from video streaming platforms. The results confirm the viability of the proposed solution in enhancing transparency and auditability in the realm of audience control services and payments on video streaming platforms.

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利用区块链技术打造流媒体平台新商业模式

流媒体平台已经彻底改变了数字娱乐产业，但挑战和研究机遇仍有待解决。目前一个令人担忧的问题是视频流媒体平台的商业模式缺乏透明度，这使得内容创作者很难在没有第三方中介的情况下获取观看指标和收取报酬。此外，支付交易也无法追踪。本文介绍了一种基于区块链技术的计算架构，以实现视频流媒体平台观众管理和支付的透明化。智能合约将定义流媒体服务的业务规则，而中间件将把流媒体平台的元数据与所提出的计算解决方案整合在一起。通过不同区块链网络上的数据交易以及与视频流媒体平台内容创作者的访谈，对提出的解决方案进行了验证。结果证实了拟议解决方案在提高视频流媒体平台观众控制服务和支付领域的透明度和可审计性方面的可行性。

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来源期刊

Future Internet Computer Science-Computer Networks and Communications

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

5.90%

发文量

303

审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Future Internet is a scholarly open access journal which provides an advanced forum for science and research concerned with evolution of Internet technologies and related smart systems for “Net-Living” development. The general reference subject is therefore the evolution towards the future internet ecosystem, which is feeding a continuous, intensive, artificial transformation of the lived environment, for a widespread and significant improvement of well-being in all spheres of human life (private, public, professional). Included topics are: • advanced communications network infrastructures • evolution of internet basic services • internet of things • netted peripheral sensors • industrial internet • centralized and distributed data centers • embedded computing • cloud computing • software defined network functions and network virtualization • cloud-let and fog-computing • big data, open data and analytical tools • cyber-physical systems • network and distributed operating systems • web services • semantic structures and related software tools • artificial and augmented intelligence • augmented reality • system interoperability and flexible service composition • smart mission-critical system architectures • smart terminals and applications • pro-sumer tools for application design and development • cyber security compliance • privacy compliance • reliability compliance • dependability compliance • accountability compliance • trust compliance • technical quality of basic services.