Third party publishing

Owned by Benedict Häfeli
Last updated: Mar 03, 2022
2 min read

Third party publishers are marketing companies that have an interest in using your feed in relevant articles or adds. In exchange, your feed will gain more visibility and attract more viewers. Depending on the purpose of your feed this may be highly desirable, or very much not.

By agreeing to share your feed with a publisher, you give them the ability to query certain data about your feed and the associated camera to use the feed in regionally or thematically relevant articles and adds. Sharing your feed also means accepting the publishers general terms and conditions, so be sure to read them.

What data of my camera can a publisher see exactly?

Sharing your feed means sharing certain data about not only the feed itself, but also the camera it is associated with. Specifically, a publisher will have access to the following information:

  • The URL to the feed. Either through the alias if you have configured an alias for the feed, or through the feed token directly if you did not configure an alias.

  • The portal ID of the camera the feed belongs to.

  • The geocoordinates the camera is located at.

  • The Title field of your camera configuration.

  • The Location field of your camera configuration

  • The operational status of the camera (operating, paused, under maintenance etc). Publishers need to know this in order to decide whether your camera is currently fit for publishing. However, how exactly they will act on this information is up to their implementation, and we cannot guarantee that a specific behavior will be followed for a specific status.

  • The name of the image table the feed belongs to.

  • The title of the feed itself.

  • The type of the feed (panorama, image, timelapase etc).

  • If the “latest image is public” option of the feed is enabled, they will be able to download the latest full-resolution image of the feed.

  • They will always be able to download a low-resolution scaled down version of the latest image in the feed.

What images of a camera can a publisher be see exactly?

In general, a publisher will only have direct access to the latest image in the feed. In most cases this will be the latest image in the image table the feed points to, but in case of delayed feeds, the delay of the feed is respected. If the “latest image is public” option in the feed is disabled, the publisher will not have direct access to any full-resolution images, merely to a scaled down version of the latest image in the feed.

In case of a history or archive feed, there is no direct access provided to every image in the feed. However, there are implied access rights that mean that the images could potentially be extracted from the feed, as is the case for any user accessing those feeds.

Will a publisher store images from my feed?

This depends entirely on the terms and conditions of the specific publisher. In case of concerns you should contact the publisher directly.