How to Manage Geo Restriction for Your Channel & Content

Product: Playout

Introduction

You can enable or disable geo-restrictions in Muvi Playout to control access to your channels and content (video/audio). When a channel or content is restricted to a specific country, state, or city, users in those regions will not be able to access it.

Muvi allows you to apply geo-restrictions at different levels, country, state, and city, based on your requirements. You can also create multiple geo-block categories to restrict access for specific regions across your channels or content.

Enable Geo Restriction

First, you need to enable the ‘Geo Restriction’ feature for your channel/content.

To enable ‘Geo Restriction’, click on the "Security” menu in the Dashboard.
Under "Security", click on the "Geo Block" tab.
Enable "Geo Restrictions".
Under "Geo Restriction Level", select Geo Restriction levels, i.e., “Country”, “State”, “City”.
If you select “Country Level” blocking, you can choose different countries to block (e.g., India, Japan, China, etc.).
By selecting the “State Level” blocking option, you can geo-block different states in a specific Country (e.g., within India, you can block Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Odisha, etc.).
If you select “City Level” Geo-block, you can block some specific cities inside a state (e.g., inside Maharashtra, you can block Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Thane, etc.).
After selecting your options, click on “Save” to save the settings.

Creating Geo-Block Categories

You can create multiple Geo-Block categories by adding multiple countries in separate categories. For example, you can add all the Asian countries like India, Japan, China, Singapore, etc., in a category, add all the European countries like England, France, Germany in another category, and so on. You can then apply a Geo-Block category to a specific video/audio content/channel and block that content/channel for a group of countries. You can also select different levels, like country level, state level, and city level, to create the Geo-block categories.

To create a Geo-Block category, click on the "Security” menu in the Dashboard.
Under "Security", click on the "Geo Block" tab.
Select “Create Geo Block Categories”.
Click on “Add New Geo-Block Category”.
Type the “Category Name” (e.g., Block for India, Block for Australia, Block for Europe, etc.).
Search for the country in the search bar that you want to Geo-Block, or scroll down and find the country from the list, and select the country.
You can select multiple countries for the category.
You can even select State(s) or City(s) under a specific country.
Click on “Save”. Repeat to create multiple categories.
You can also “Edit” or “Delete” the Geo-Block categories.

How to Geo-Block a Channel

After creating the Geo-Block categories, you can block any specific video/audio channel(s) for a specific Country/State/City. You can add Geo-Block while creating a new channel, or you can add it to an existing channel in the “Content Library”.

To block a content, navigate to “Content Management” -->” Content Library”.
Click on the "Edit Icon" below the channel you want to Geo-Block.
In the "Content Edit Page", click on the "Security" tab.
Select the “Geo-Block Category” from the drop-down.
You can select multiple categories for the channel.
Click on“Save”.
Once the channel is Geo-Blocked, it will not be visible to end-users in the country(s) added to the Geo-Block category.
To remove the Geo-Block for the channel, uncheck the Geo-Block Category(s) and click on "Save”.

Note: The above method is for the existing channel in the Content Library. You can also enable this option from the beginning while creating a new channel.

How to Geo-Block Content

After creating the Geo-Block categories, you can block any specific video/audio content(s) for a specific Country/State/City. You can add Geo-Block while creating a new video/audio content or you can add it to an existing content in the “Content Library”.

To block a content, navigate to “Content Management” -->” Content Library”.
Click on the "Edit Icon" below the content you want to Geo-Block.
In the "Content Edit Page", click on the "Security" tab.
Select the “Geo-Block Category” from the drop-down.
You can select multiple categories for the content.
Click on“Save”.
Once the content is Geo-Blocked, it will not be visible to end-users in the country(ies) added to the Geo-Block category.
To remove the Geo-Block for the content, uncheck the Geo-Block Category(s) and click on "Save”.

Note: The above method is for the existing content in the Content Library. You can also enable this option from the beginning while creating a new content.

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