Best Practices

Home-based authentication (HBA) is a TV Everywhere feature aimed at reducing sign-in friction by removing the need for users to manually enter credentials while they are in their homes. This document from the OATC Usability Working Group, a subcommittee consisting of both content providers and distributors, outlines the guidelines for creating the best HBA user […]

The purpose of this document is to outline the OATC-endorsed Usability Recommendations for the TV Everywhere authentication experience. This document represents an initial set of recommendations based on Usability Testing that was conducted by the OATC in April 2014. This set of OATC TVE Usability Guidelines are aligned with CTAM’s TVE Usability Recommendations and extend

The OATC Home-based Authentication (HBA) Recommended Practice document examines the various use cases involved in HBA implementations. The document enumerates the trivial to complex scenarios facing distributors, while stopping short of specific solution details. The goal of the document is to aid distributors in clearly identifying their situation and providing recommendations on multiple paths forward.

The OATC Authentication Conversion Funnel for Content Programmer’s Apps and Sites Recommended Practice document serves to define a set of metrics and funnel steps for the authentication process as it pertains to a Content Programmer’s TV-Everywhere sites and apps. Subsequent goals include adding representative data to each of the steps to better understand where the

The OATC Error Messaging for TV Everywhere Authentication and Authorization Recommended Practice document serves to define baseline error messaging for TV Everywhere authentication and authorization with the end goal of presenting clear and consistent error messaging to users with the larger objective to improving overall user experience. The initial draft of this document focuses solely

The Social Login for MVPDs Recommendation Practice provides baseline recommendations on how MVPDs can leverage Social Networks such a Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo to improve the TV Everywhere user experience.

The OATC Metadata Feed Recommended Practice document serves as a recommendation for content providers (“Providers”) and content distributors (“Distributors”) who have a need to exchange data to describe their content and detail how it can be used and further distributed. Adherence to these practices allows implementation of a single data package and could eliminate the