Pluto TV Ad Defense: AWS Cloud solution adds $5M revenue per month

Pluto TV, a leading ad-supported streaming service, faced significant revenue loss from unauthorized ads on its platform. With the internal team focused on core development, the company needed urgent, specialized AWS expertise to tackle this challenge.

Leveraging Andela Talent Cloud, Pluto TV quickly onboarded an AWS engineer who architected and implemented a cloud solution to filter
and block these unauthorized ads. Utilizing a mix of AWS, Azure, shell scripts, and JavaScript, the solution ensured that only legitimate, revenue-generating ads were streamed.

This solution stopped revenue leakage quickly, adding $5 million in monthly revenue and reinforcing the resilience of its advertising platform.