The company ensures its client's video content is properly formatted, licensed and tracked when shown on different media outlets, such as streaming services.

[1] The company was founded in 1988 as Touchtone Video Network, Inc.[2] (later renamed TVN Entertainment Corporation), a distributor of pay-per-view movies via C-band satellite aimed primarily at rural households.

At the time of its launch in January 1991,[4] customers paid a one-time fee of $19.99 to "hook in" to TVN's programming via a special adapter that plugged in to a conventional C-band satellite receiver.

In the late 1990s, TVN saw a decline in its consumer pay-per-view products as upstarts Dish Network, PrimeStar and DirecTV began offering DBS television service.

Using forward path satellite delivery and return path via high speed connections, TVN was the first company to create a multicast solution allowing a single (movie, show) video file to be packaged (along with metadata, artwork and trailer) and transmitted in full CONUS to servers around the country, ushering in a new era of on demand services for Americans.

When sold to Avail Media in 2009, the business transformed its balance sheet from $140MM in debt to $26MM EBITDA, initiated the start of nationalized VOD and made "Metadata" cool.