Services · Mobile app development · Video streaming apps
Codeeo handles video streaming app development for USA organizations that put video in front of paying or registered audiences: media companies, independent creators, churches, fitness brands and education providers. We build the phone, web and TV apps, the video pipeline behind them and the subscription or advertising model that funds them, with federal video privacy, captioning and children's privacy rules designed in from the first sprint instead of patched on after launch.
Our team of 80+ people works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We have no American office; we work with clients in the United States remotely, and discovery, design reviews and release demos all run by video call.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What we build
A streaming product is several systems that have to behave like one. Viewers see a catalog and a play button. Behind that sits an encoding pipeline, packaging for HLS and DASH, license servers for each DRM family, a content delivery network, an entitlement service that decides who may watch what, and billing that must agree with Apple, Google, Roku and your own web checkout at the same moment.
For an audience spread across fifty states the weak points are predictable: playback that stalls on rural cellular signal, captions missing from a clip that first aired on cable, a marketing pixel that quietly passes viewing history to an ad platform, and a cancel button that does not satisfy state renewal statutes. We plan each layer against those failure points first, then add the features that bring people back each week.
Each title is encoded into a ladder of resolutions and bitrates, packaged once in CMAF and served as HLS to Apple devices and DASH elsewhere. The player moves between rungs as bandwidth changes, so a viewer on fiber in a metro area and one on a weak signal in a farm county both keep watching.
Fewer stalls and abandoned sessions on slow connections.
Licensed film, series and sports usually arrive with contracts that demand DRM. We integrate Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady behind one key service, add concurrent stream limits and device caps, apply forensic watermarking where a rights holder asks for it, and leave sermons or free previews unencrypted when protection would only add cost.
Protection that matches what each license actually requires.
National reach depends on edge coverage. We compare providers on their US footprint, egress pricing model, origin shielding and log access, and can split traffic between two networks by region or measured performance so one vendor outage does not sink a premiere night.
Delivery cost and reliability you can measure and adjust.
Weekend services, live classes, product launches and games need low latency HLS, or WebRTC where the audience interacts, plus a DVR window and countdown pages. Start times display in each viewer's own zone, from Eastern to Hawaii, and every stream records straight into the on demand library.
One broadcast becomes a permanent catalog title.
Long form viewing happens on the television. We ship apps for Apple TV, Android TV and Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, Samsung and LG sets, with remote friendly focus states, sign in by code on a second screen, and caption display that follows FCC rules for devices that play video.
One account and one library on every screen in the home.
Subscription tiers, rentals, pay per view, donations and ad supported plans can run side by side. We connect App Store and Google Play billing, a web checkout through a processor such as Stripe with Apple Pay and Google Pay, and server side ad insertion driven by VAST and VMAP tags.
Revenue models you can combine without rebuilding the app.
We support WebVTT, CEA-608 and 708 data and IMSC sidecar files, viewer controls for caption size and color, audio description tracks and screen reader labels. Programming that ran on American television with captions keeps them online, as the FCC internet protocol captioning rules require.
Captions present and legible on every platform you ship.
Watch history is regulated personal data in the US. We build a plain language consent for sharing it that stands apart from your terms of service, honor Global Privacy Control signals, keep advertising pixels off title level events without consent, and route child profiles through a COPPA compliant path.
Viewing records leave your systems only when the law allows.
Editors upload, schedule, tag and geo restrict titles from one console, with rights windows that switch content on and off by date. Reporting covers starts, completion, rebuffering, churn and revenue by plan, so commissioning decisions rest on what people actually finish.
Programming choices backed by real viewing behavior.
Household profiles with their own watch lists and maturity settings, search across titles, speakers and topics, continue watching rows synced between devices, and encrypted downloads that expire under the license terms. Recommendation rules start simple and editorially controlled, then grow as viewing data builds up.
Viewers find the next title without leaving the app.
Who this is for
National streaming buyers differ less by size than by what they are protecting. A distributor protects licensed catalog. A ministry protects reach and the trust of its members. A trainer protects a method people pay monthly for, and a school protects a credential. That decides how much DRM, billing and moderation the product needs, so discovery starts with the model and the rights, not with screen designs.
Many organizations sit across two profiles, such as a ministry that also sells courses, and the platform can carry both. Each of the four profiles below has led to a different first release.
Distributors, regional broadcasters and niche networks launching a direct service need studio grade DRM, rights windows by territory, ad insertion that respects existing sales contracts and a FAST or linear channel alongside on demand. We plan ingest from your current playout or archive, map metadata into the new catalog and keep broadcast captions intact when programming moves online. Reporting for licensors and talent participation is designed alongside the catalog.
Rights metadata is usually the longest task, so we start it early.
Independent filmmakers, educators and personalities with an audience on social platforms often want their own app so the subscriber list belongs to them. The first release is lean: a branded catalog, a paywall, live drops, community comments and email capture, with web purchase offered alongside the stores so more of each sale is kept. Tiered memberships, bundles with merchandise and limited early access windows are added once the core paywall proves people will pay.
Most creator launches begin on phone and web, then add TV.
Multi-campus churches need a reliable weekend live stream, a sermon archive searchable by series and scripture, giving inside the app, prayer requests and group sign ups. Livestream chat needs moderation tools, and some ministries offer Spanish or other language audio tracks so every campus hears the same message. Music licensing for streamed worship is checked during discovery, because a song license for the building does not always cover the stream.
Giving flows are kept separate from any paid content tier.
Trainers, studio chains, online academies and continuing education providers need structured programs, progress tracking, downloads for offline viewing and certificates. Schools serving minors bring COPPA and student privacy duties into scope, and public institutions face federal accessibility standards, so we confirm those obligations before features are fixed.
Wearable and LMS links are planned as integrations, not rebuilt.
How we work together
Most US clients start with a fixed scope first release covering phone, web and one or two TV platforms, then move to a monthly retainer for new devices, features and store updates. Larger publishers with a steady release schedule sometimes take a dedicated team that works inside their own tools and planning cycle. All three run remotely, with written scopes and recorded video reviews. A retainer suits services whose catalog, device list or pricing changes every quarter, because TV platforms and store policies update often and an app left alone soon falls behind. A dedicated team suits publishers planning several products at once, such as a flagship app, a kids app and a FAST channel sharing one back office.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Players, encoders, DRM and CDN vendors are picked for your catalog, your rights terms and the people who will maintain the platform, with native code where TV platforms demand it and shared code where they do not. Typical choices include Swift and Kotlin for phones, React for web, BrightScript for Roku and a cloud media service or open source packager for encoding, but nothing is fixed until your requirements are.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on platform count, catalog size and integrations.
A phone and web release with a modest catalog moves faster than a launch that adds five TV platforms, multi-DRM and an ad stack. Store and TV platform reviews add their own waiting time, and rights metadata often takes longer than code. We agree the release plan after discovery, write dates into the scope, and show working builds on real devices at every review so progress is visible.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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