FastPix for news publishers
Video API for short-form news apps
FastPix Video API has everything you need to run a short-form news app. Fast field uploads, a vertical feed, live coverage that clips itself, and the data behind every story.
Per-minute pricing, no per-title fee. $25 in signup credits, no credit card.
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Why FastPix
Complete video infrastructure for news publishers
One API, whole stack
Upload, encoding, live, playback, AI and data all come from the same API key.
Uploads that resume
Chunked resumable uploads keep a large file moving on a weak connection instead of starting again.
Built for scale
Multi-CDN delivery scales with the audience, so a spike runs on the same setup as a quiet hour.
Analytics built in
Every session reports watch time and playback quality, with no separate analytics product to buy.
Developer reference
Every endpoint a newsroom actually uses
Everything on this page maps to a documented call, grouped the way a story travels from the field to the feed.
Upload from the field
Live coverage
Feed and playback
Archive and language
Access and AI
Customer story
We were proud of our tech stack. But we had too many vendors. One for video, another for AI, another for playout. It created extra work for the tech team and for management.
Indira Devi Gollapudi
Technical Head, Aadhan Media
Upload from the field
Fast mobile video upload from a reporter at the scene
FastPix moves a phone recording off a reporter's handset while they are still at the scene. It goes up in parallel chunks, resumes after a dropped signal, and reports progress throughout.
Small chunks tuned for cellular, so a reporter on 4G at a protest does not restart the upload. Guide
Resumable SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter and web, so the app your reporters carry already has it. Guide
Webhooks at each stage, so the newsroom sees progress instead of a spinner and a guess. Guide
Audio levelled on the way through, so a windy street piece matches a studio read. Guide
URL pull for wire and agency material, which is how most non-field footage actually arrives. Guide
Archive and publishing
Video CMS and publishing controls for a newsroom
FastPix holds every story as an asset carrying your own fields, from story ID and language to region and publisher. Your CMS publishes and unpublishes by flipping access on the playback ID.
Ten custom fields per asset: story ID, language, region, publisher and desk. Guide
The language versions of one story sit in a playlist, ordered and reorderable through the API. Guide
Publish by creating with public access, and unpublish by flipping the playback ID to private. Guide
Update metadata on a published story without touching the video or the URL. Guide
Vertical feed
Vertical video feed with swipe and instant next story
The FastPix player ships a real 9:16 feed, not a landscape player turned sideways. It prefetches the next story while the current one plays, so a swipe lands on a frame.
Native 9:16 playback on web, iOS and Android, driven by one playback ID per story. Guide
The next story prefetches while the current one plays, which is what makes a swipe feel instant. Guide
Autoplay muted with tap to unmute, the behaviour a news feed needs on a phone. Guide
A poster frame per story, so a card is never black while the feed is still loading. Guide
Preload set per placement, so the feed fetches what it needs and nothing further down. Guide
Content protection
Hotlink protection, signed playback and watermarking
FastPix signs every playback URL with a short-lived token your service mints. Restrict playback to the domains you list, and watermark the file so a copy carries your mark wherever it goes.
Signed playback URLs, a JWT on a 2048-bit RSA key pair, short-lived and minted by your own service. Guide
Domain and browser restriction, the hotlink lever, bundled rather than sold as a security add-on. Guide
Visible watermark as image or text, placed by pixel or percentage with opacity control. Guide
Rotate the signing key and every outstanding token dies at once, the fastest takedown lever you have. Guide
Measurement
Story, viewer and playback analytics for news video
FastPix Video Data reports what every story did after it published. Views and completion per cut, where readers leave, and whether playback quality was the reason they went.
Story-level data
How a story performed across everyone, which is the desk decision behind what gets covered next.
Completion per cut, not per story, because two versions of one package perform differently. Guide
Where readers leave, which in news is usually one specific sentence.
Top performing stories, so the next bulletin is planned on evidence rather than instinct.
Viewer engagement
What one reader did in a session, which is the number that predicts whether they come back.
Session watch time, and how many stories they got through before stopping. Guide
Repeat views of the same story, usually the clip worth cutting again.
Ten custom dimensions, so language, region and desk become filters rather than guesses.
Playback quality
Whether the app got in the way, kept separate from whether the story was worth watching.
Startup time and rebuffering, because a stall on a ninety second story is most of it. Guide
Playback failures by device, so a broken build surfaces before the store reviews do.
Network and region breakdowns, which separate a weak story from a weak connection.
56 dimensions on every session, first 100,000 session plays a month included, and every view available through the API for your own warehouse. Video Data also feeds the Breaking News Agent, so which cuts performed tunes how the next story gets scored and composed.
Breaking News Agent
AI media monitoring and automated publishing for newsrooms
The Breaking News Agent watches 200+ sources and tells your desk what is rising before the window closes. It drafts in your voice, cuts a version per platform, and ships in 90 seconds.
200+ sources across broadcast, video, wires and social, deduped and clustered by topic in real time.
Every story scored on fit, locality, sentiment and priority, delivered as confidence-scored JSON you can override.
Drafted in your voice by a model tuned on your back catalogue, across 10+ languages.
Routine stories publish automatically, and anything sensitive routes to an editor with the draft already done.
Source to published in about 90 seconds, or roughly 12 seconds for a live broadcast cut.
Built API first
Video API and SDKs for a newsroom CMS
Every step above is one documented call on the FastPix API. SDKs cover seven server languages and five client platforms, and a webhook fires whenever a step finishes.
SERVER SDKS
CLIENT SDKS
Read the API referenceMulti-platform distribution
One long event, cut into the moments each platform wants
FastPix cuts one long event into the clips each platform wants. Mark the moments by timecode or let the Clipping Agent score them, and every cut comes off the same encode.
Score the moments on transcript, chapters and named entities, and your desk keeps or discards each one.
Nine destinations out, platform-native, from YouTube and Shorts to TikTok, Reels, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, your own app and any RTMP endpoint.
Aspect ratio per destination and length by cut, 30 seconds, 90 seconds or three minutes, all off the same encode.
Captions in 10+ languages, with moment scoring from the Clipping Agent in early access.
MOMENTS SCORED, HIGHER IS BETTER
Scored on transcript, chapters and named entities. Your desk keeps or discards each one before it fans out to nine destinations.
Cloud Playout
Run a 24/7 linear news channel from your archive
Cloud Playout schedules the archive you already have as a linear channel. It cuts to a live input when a story breaks, fills the gaps, and pushes to every destination at once.
A rundown rather than a looping playlist, built the way a bulletin is planned. Guide
Cut to a live input mid-schedule when something breaks, then back to the rundown. Guide
Ad breaks marked with SCTE-35 at known times, for your ad server to fill. Guide
Simulcast the channel to YouTube and any RTMP endpoint, in sync, with no second encoder. Guide
A 24/7 loop channel for a single strand, built once and left running. Guide
Benchmarked against five video APIs
Upload and startup, measured against five video APIs
Two numbers a newsroom feels. How long a large file takes to get up, and how long a reader waits before the first frame. Same file, same region, same network, open harness.
Chunked upload sends the file in parallel parts and picks up again after a dropped connection, which is exactly where a reporter on cellular loses time.
A reader swipes through a dozen stories in a session, so the wait happens a dozen times. Gumlet posted 1.12s on a few runs only, so it is not treated as comparable.
Where we lose: api.video publishes a short clip 4.6 seconds sooner, at 23.6s against 28.2s. Per-title encoding also produced 35% smaller files at matched quality.
How it comes together
What it takes to run video in a digital newsroom
Five steps between a reporter pressing record and a story playing in the feed.
Get it off the phone
Chunked resumable upload from the handset, resuming after a dropped signal on the way back.
GuideTag it to the story
Write story ID, language, region and desk into custom fields as the asset is created.
GuideCaption and localise
Captions generate during processing, and you attach a subtitle or audio track per market.
GuidePut it in the feed
The player prefetches the next story while the current one plays, so a swipe lands on a frame.
GuideRead what it did
Completion, drop-off and playback quality per story, filtered by the fields you set.
GuideKeep reading
Go deeper on video for newsrooms
Build guides, live clipping and multi-platform publishing, for teams shipping news video.
Guide for using AI video workflows
Where AI fits between a source signal and a published story.
BlogHow video and video APIs are changing
What the AI era changes for a publisher building on video.
BlogHow Aadhan automates newsroom publishing
A vertical news platform processing 200+ stories a day.
StoryBreaking News Agent
Monitoring 200+ sources, scoring, drafting and publishing.
AgentAI video clipping
Composing the per-platform cuts a newsroom publishes.
AgentUpload and startup, measured
The open harness behind the numbers on this page.
BenchmarkBring a real story and a stopwatch
Send us a package the way your field team actually sends it. In 30 minutes we will publish it, cut the vertical version and kill it, timed against your own window.
Prefer to try it yourself? Start free with $25 in credits
Common questions
News video questions, answered.
How fast is a clip actually publishable?
A playback ID comes back immediately and the video is servable while remaining renditions finish. Full encode of a 10-minute 1080p source is 35 to 90 seconds. A webhook tells your CMS when the full ladder is ready.Can someone hotlink our video on their own site?
Not if you restrict it. Playback can be limited to a domain allowlist, and signed URLs carry a short-lived JWT that expires by default in five minutes. A visible watermark is the third layer, so a screen-recorded copy still carries your mark. There is no forensic or per-session watermarking.
Can a reporter upload from their phone on a bad connection?
Yes. Resumable upload SDKs ship for iOS, Android and web, so an upload that drops on 3G resumes from where it stopped rather than restarting the file. The playback ID comes back on acceptance, before encoding finishes.
How many platforms can one story go to?
Nine destinations, each with its own aspect ratio, length, captions and brand graphics, generated from one story rather than re-edited per platform. Captions and cuts cover 10+ languages.
Pricing
Rate card
Per minute, with the player and analytics already in it. No charge per story, per title or per seat. See full pricing.
ENCODING
Pay per minute encoded
$0.0267/min 1080p Pro
Per-title ABR encoding across H.264.
STREAMING
Pay per minute streamed
$0.00067/min 1080p Pro
Multi-CDN delivery from 300+ POPs.
STORAGE
Pay per minute stored
$0.00268/min 1080p Pro
Assets stored and CDN caching, lifecycle handled.
Support
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Quickstart guides, SDK examples and playback logs in your dashboard, for the integrations most teams hit first.
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