Edit or deactivate licence strategies

Once you've created a licence strategy, you can edit the strategy title, pricing or usage details. For channel-based licence strategies, you can add channels or remove them from the gratis licence as needed. If you no longer use a licence strategy, you can deactivate it.

Each edit is saved and visible in Studio Content Manager as a 'revision'.

Edit a licence strategy

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Licence management .
3. To edit a platform strategy, stay on the Platform strategies tab. To edit a channel-based strategy, click the Channel-based strategies tab.
   • To filter the list by strategy title, click the filter bar   Strategy title. Enter a strategy title, then click APPLY.
4. Click the title of the licence strategy that you want to edit.
5. Update the title, pricing or additional details.
6. Click SAVE.

Add or remove channels from a channel-based strategy

If you've created a channel-based licence strategy that offers certain channels a gratis licence, you can add or remove channels from the licence strategy.

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Licence management .
3. Click the Channel-based strategies tab.
4. Click the licence strategy that you want to add channels to or remove channels from.
   • To add channels, click ADD CHANNELS. Paste the channel IDs and click ADD.
   • To remove channels, select the channels and click REMOVE CHANNELS from the top banner. If you remove a channel by mistake, you can select the channel and click UNDO REMOVE from the top banner.
5. Click SAVE.
6. To complete the update, click CONFIRM.

Deactivate a licence strategy

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager.
2. From the left menu, select Licence management .
3. To deactivate a platform licence strategy, stay on the Platform strategies tab. To deactivate a channel-based licence strategy, click the Channel-based strategies tab
   • To filter the list by strategy title, click the filter bar   Strategy title. Enter a strategy title, then click APPLY.
4. Select the licence strategy that you want to deactivate.
5. Click DEACTIVATE LICENCE STRATEGY.

View revision history

Edits that you make to your licence strategies are saved and visible as 'revisions' in Studio Content Manager. To view a record of the revisions made to a licence strategy, select Adjusted pricing or History. You can click each revision row to view more details about the channels that were added or removed when each revision was made.

Click the drop-down arrow from the History tab to see the details of the updated licence strategy: 

• Revisions: See the details of the change, whether it was an update to the existing licence strategy or the selection of a new one
• Title | Price: See the title and pricing level of a licence strategy
• Start date and end date: Indicate when a given licence strategy was assigned to an asset and when it was changed or deactivated. The end date is not the same as the licence duration
• Acquisitions: Indicate the number of licences purchased in the shop front
• Usages: Indicate how many times the licensed content was actually used in a video
• Status: Current status of the licence strategy, can indicate 'current terms' or 'previous terms'

In the Adjusted pricing tab, you will see more details such as user info or the timestamp of when a change was made. If a strategy was impacted by a publisher pricing adjustment, the revised strategy will contain the publisher's name in its title.