Case Study - UGC / Short-form video

Dlicom video case study: UGC short-video on FastPix

Dlicom needed resumable uploads, auto-moderation, and per-creator analytics for a UGC short-video app. They run the full pipeline on FastPix.

Full UGC stack
Full UGC pipeline live without staffing a video team.
Safe feed
Auto-moderation catches unsafe content before it appears in the feed.
Creator insights
Per-creator analytics surface directly in the creator dashboard.
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Challenge

Company

Dlicom

Dlicom runs a UGC short-video app: creators upload clips from their phones, and audiences watch them in a feed. The full video pipeline, from upload to moderation, playback and creator analytics, runs on FastPix.

Industry

Social media · UGC / Short-form video

Use case

Creator-led UGC short-video app with a mobile feed

Key FastPix products used

Resumable Upload SDK, In-Video AI (NSFW moderation), Video Data, FastPix Player

Dlicom UGC pipeline: creator upload, moderated feed and creator analytics

What needed to ship

UGC video is three problems at once: getting a clip off a creator’s phone reliably, keeping unsafe content out of the feed, and showing each creator how their clips perform. Dlicom needed all three to work inside its own app, without building a video team to run them.

  1. 1.Mobile uploads: UGC uploads come from mobile networks; failures kill upload completion rates.
  2. 2.Moderation: Auto-moderation had to fire on encode, not after publish, to keep the feed clean.
  3. 3.Creator analytics: Per-creator analytics needed to flow into the creator dashboard, not a separate tool.

Each of the three is real video infrastructure: chunked uploads that survive a dropped connection, moderation wired into the encoding step rather than bolted on after publish, and playback analytics that carry a creator identity. Rather than assemble those from separate vendors, Dlicom put the whole flow on FastPix.

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Solution and Result

FastPix Video Data filtered by creator inside Dlicom

What they built on FastPix

  1. 1.Resumable upload SDK: Chunked + resumable upload across Web + iOS + Android; survives network drops.
  2. 2.NSFW moderation on encode: In-Video AI flags unsafe content during the encoding step, before the asset becomes playable.
  3. 3.Video Data with creator dimensions: creator_id as a custom dimension; analytics roll up to the creator dashboard.
  4. 4.FastPix Player: Mobile-first player with feed-style autoplay and per-clip scrub.

Integration pattern: resumable mobile UGC upload

Uploads leave the creator’s phone in 4 MB chunks sized for cellular networks. When a connection drops, the SDK retries from the last chunk instead of starting over, and progress is reported back to the app as it goes, so a creator on a weak signal still finishes the upload. More patterns live in /developers and the language-specific SDK guides.

“FastPix gave us the full UGC stack. Resumable upload SDKs across web and mobile, moderation on encode, and analytics for every playback. We did not have to build any of it,” says the Engineering Lead at Dlicom.

What changed

The full UGC pipeline is live without Dlicom staffing a video team. Auto-moderation catches unsafe content before it appears in the feed, and per-creator analytics surface directly in the creator dashboard rather than in a separate tool.

Full UGC stack live without staffing a video team

Safe feed: unsafe content caught before it appears

Creator insights surface directly in the creator dashboard

Resumable uploads across Web, iOS and Android that survive network drops

Moderation on encode, before an asset becomes playable

Feed-style player with autoplay and per-clip scrub