Managing 4 TB of Video and Hundreds of Autonomous Partners — ONISEP

ONISEP: A Key Player in Career Guidance in France

ONISEP (Office National d’Information Sur les Enseignements et les Professions) guides millions of students, parents, and teachers in their educational and career choices every year. Through its digital platforms – including the ONISEP TV Web TV – the public organization produces and distributes a considerable volume of video content: professional testimonials, career presentations, practical guides, and educational resources.

With a video library of over 4 TB, hundreds of partners contributing to the catalog – each with their own dedicated space – and millions of views each month, ONISEP needed a video platform capable of managing this complexity at scale. It was in this context that ONISEP chose Videas as its video hosting and distribution solution.

The Challenge: Centralizing Thousands of Multi-Partner Videos

Before working with Videas, ONISEP faced several obstacles:

• A massive volume of content: over 4 TB of videos to host, index, and distribute in a structured manner.
• Hundreds of partners: companies, content producers, and institutional collaborators, each needing a dedicated space to submit and manage their videos, all without a centralized tool.
• Complex indexing: each video needed to be enriched with precise metadata (target school level, copyright, theme) to power a high-performance search engine.
• Strict compliance requirements: as a public organization, ONISEP had to comply with privacy standards, the French State Design System, and ensure distribution without cookies or advertising trackers.
• A massive audience: over one million monthly player visits, with international French-speaking coverage.

The existing system lacked automation and couldn’t effectively manage partner access or content validation.

The Videas Solution: A Custom Platform for the Public Sector

To meet ONISEP’s specific needs, Videas deployed a comprehensive solution built on four pillars.

1. Autonomous Partner Submissions

Videas integrated a submission form directly into the ONISEP website. Each of the hundreds of partners has their own dedicated space in the Videas media library, from which they can manage their videos independently: uploading, entering metadata (target school level, copyright, theme, description), and tracking submitted content.

This autonomous workflow eliminated manual back-and-forth and dramatically accelerated the process of integrating new content at scale.

2. Centralized Management and Editorial Validation

ONISEP’s administrative team has a centralized management interface in Videas to:

• Receive automatic notifications for each new video submission.
• Review and validate content before integration into the shared library (approved video collection).
• Manage partner accounts and their permissions.
• Configure domain restrictions to precisely control which sites are authorized to embed videos.
• Customize each video: thumbnails, subtitles, versions, and metadata.

3. Advanced Search and Accessibility

With over 4 TB of content, search capability is critical. Videas integrated a metadata search engine that allows ONISEP to filter and instantly retrieve videos by theme, target school level, partner, or keyword – metadata that Videas AI can also write from the transcript.

Videos are enriched through Videas’ built-in features:

• Automatic AI subtitling for accessibility.
• Full transcription of video content.
• Graphic and ergonomic adaptation compliant with the French State Design System, ensuring adherence to public standards.

4. Subtitling Brought Back In-House

Before Videas, ONISEP outsourced the subtitling of its videos to an external vendor. The process worked, but it added a step to every publication: export the file, send it over, wait for the return, reimport the subtitles, check the sync – and start again at the slightest change to the video.

Subtitling now happens where the videos already live. The team triggers it themselves, on the video they have just uploaded, and edits the text in the same place when needed. No more file travelling between two organizations, no more waiting, and no more subtitle version drifting out of sync because the video moved afterwards.

5. ONISEP TV: A Professional Public Web TV

The ONISEP TV platform, powered by Videas, offers a structured browsing experience organized by categories and themes. The video player automatically displays each video’s metadata, partner logo, and associated information.

This Web TV has become a reference tool for distributing career guidance content to the general public – students, families, teachers, and career counselors.

Results: Massive Audience and Streamlined Management

Since deploying Videas, ONISEP has seen significant results, measured in the Videas dashboard:

Performance and Audience:

• 1 million+ player visits each month.
• 100,000 unique monthly viewers.
• 3,000 hours of content watched per month.
• An audience spanning all French-speaking countries: mainland France, overseas territories, Switzerland, Belgium, and French-speaking Africa.

Operational Efficiency:

• Hundreds of autonomous partners, each with their own management space in Videas.
• Complete automation of the video submission and validation workflow.
• Instant search across a 4 TB video library through structured metadata.
• Centralized management of accounts, permissions, and domain restrictions.

Compliance and User Experience:

• Distribution without cookies or trackers, in full compliance with public sector standards.
• Customized, ad-free video player.
• Integrated playlists for organizing and sharing educational content.

Why Videas for the Public Sector?

The ONISEP case study demonstrates Videas’ ability to meet the specific requirements of public organizations and enterprise clients:

• French sovereign hosting with data stored in France.
• Native GDPR compliance: no cookies, no advertising trackers.
• Advanced customization: adaptation to the French State Design System, integration on existing sites.
• Multi-partner management: autonomous submissions, editorial validation, domain restrictions.
• AI subtitling and transcription for accessibility and inclusion.

Videas supports ONISEP in its career guidance mission by providing a reliable, compliant, and high-performance video infrastructure – serving millions of students and families every month.