The latest Iconik release brings enterprise content protection, scalable gateway infrastructure, and direct publishing from inside Iconik. Here's what's new.
In this release:
- DRM and Forensic Watermarking — two-layer protection for pre-release cuts, licensed content, and anything where the wrong person sharing a frame creates a real problem (Pro/Enterprise)
- ISG Pro — clustered, high-availability gateway for operations that can't afford ingest downtime (Pro/Enterprise)
- Publish Panel — send approved assets to social, CMS, and OTT destinations without leaving Iconik
- Reorder assets in Playlist player view — put review sequences in the order you need
Here's what's new:
Publish Panel — from approved to live without leaving Iconik
The Publish Panel connects your asset library directly to content distribution. From inside Iconik, select your destination, thumbnail, and metadata from a single panel — Wildmoka handles publishing in the background. You can push assets to social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and more), CMS, OTT destinations, and more in one click. Published templates let you predefine destinations and pull metadata from existing Iconik views, so repeat publishing workflows happen faster. Branding overlays — logos, pre-rolls, post-rolls, dynamic bugs — apply at publish time, so the version in Iconik stays pristine. The Relations tab keeps a full history of every publish event on the asset. The manual handoff that usually follows approval — downloading, re-uploading, retyping metadata elsewhere — goes away.
Publishing is powered by Wildmoka. A Wildmoka tenant is included with the Publish Panel. Pro and Enterprise accounts only. Contact your CSM to get started.
DRM and Forensic Watermarking — two layers of protection for content you share
When you share sensitive content for review, DRM and Forensic Watermarking provide two distinct layers of control: one that prevents unauthorized access and one that establishes accountability if something goes wrong anyway.
With DRM enabled, content shared from Iconik plays only inside the secure Iconik player — recipients can watch, but they can't download the file, and screen capture is blocked. Access can be revoked remotely at any time.
Forensic Watermarking goes a step further: an invisible, frame-level identifier unique to each recipient is embedded into every shared proxy. It survives compression, re-encoding, format conversion, and off-screen capture, so if content leaks, you know exactly where it came from.
For studios, broadcasters, and rights-holders sharing pre-release or premium material, having both layers available means you can extend access without extending risk.
DRM and Forensic watermarking are enabled via Iconik’s Enterprise Security package. Pro and Enterprise accounts only. Contact your CSM to get started.
Please note: iOS support is not yet available — coming in a future release.
ISG Pro — scale your ingest without replacing your infrastructure
ISG Pro is the clustered deployment of the Iconik Storage Gateway, built for operations where continuous ingest is non-negotiable. It does everything ISG already does well — scanning, checksumming, proxy generation, sync — distributed across multiple nodes running in parallel against the same storage. If a node goes offline, the cluster keeps processing. Maintenance windows run without stopping ingest. When throughput needs to grow, you add a node rather than replacing hardware. For live operations, broadcasters, and anyone running overnight ingest on a deadline, that continuity is built in.
Pro and Enterprise accounts only. Contact your CSM to get started.
Reorder assets in Playlist player view
You can now drag assets into any order in the Playlist player view. When the available sorting options don't match the sequence you need for a specific review, this gives you direct control, without reorganizing the underlying collection. Useful for director's cuts, episode edits, pitch reels, or any session where the order of viewing matters.
See the full list of changes, fixes, and updates via the Changelog →