About Darris Hoskins

Since 1986, Darris has leveraged his knowledge, skills, expertise and innovation to the success of various media, music and technology companies in helping them define their digital media initiatives and services. He was the first multi-disciplined Producer/Engineer to develop the broadcast formatics, custom mix show programming and remix services to create the Hip Hop Radio Sector in the US. He has pioneered tapeless recording and engineering techniques with computer based workflows to produce major label remixes and commercials for the likes of Motown, WB, Priority and Ruthless records in the early 1990’s.

Over the past two decades Darris has provided innovative and award winning digital media distribution and content protection architectures, systems integration, engineering, project management, advice, and end to end service deployment for startups, the Defense Dept. and Fortune 10 clients.

He has performed at every level of the entertainment and digital media industries, and also provides insight into the sector for organizations coming from outside of the sector who wish to understand how they can better utilize streaming and distribution of audio, video and data for efficient revenue growth.

His clients and colleagues consider him one of the world’s formidable Digital Media Architects. Darris has acquired an unmatched wealth of knowledge, experience, tools, solutions and partnerships — making his services indispensable to the media and technology industries.

Services

It's well known that media companies have had to rapidly evolve to meet new consumer habits and competitive challenges issued by emerging technology. For these companies and more, Darris Hoskins has proven to be a driving force for negotiating successful innovation — he helps them quickly satisfy today's demands and accurately plan for important movements ahead.

Darris specializes in digital media consulting, monetization strategy, digital rights management (DRM), digital media product development, mobile applications, digital asset management and global content delivery networks. He develops distribution solutions driven by highly scalable processes that bring seamless integration of IPTV linear channels, video on demand, live streaming video, and personal media playback directly to DLNA enabled devices.