Studios documentaries through your CSP
Already have a CSP? Next Step Studios licenses documentaries through it. You keep your provider.
See this routeDocumentaries for your routes. Made in Asia. One contract.
Next Step CSP makes documentaries in Asia, matched to the routes of airlines in Asia, under one contract. Our own studio makes them. Our team works from Bangkok, in hours that overlap with yours.
We make our own
Next Step Studios produces documentaries in house, including Thailand from Above and Wild Echoes, a four-film series in development. See them on the Studios page.
Bangkok, since 1988
Next Step has been based in Bangkok since 1988.
Programmes on board
Thainess programmes are on Thai Airways inflight entertainment.
Every kind of content, and documentaries as our strength
Next Step CSP is expert in curated content. We have long experience selecting content for television: Next Step has been in the television business since 2000, and we bring that experience to selecting content for airlines.
Most airlines need a CSP to supply many kinds of content: films, series, documentaries, music and podcasts. Next Step CSP can source the full range, including from all the major film and series distributors. If you want music or a music channel, we can add it for you through Next Step CSP.
Documentaries are where we differ from other CSPs. We built the Doxzilla streaming app ourselves, so we are expert at choosing documentaries that suit passengers. We also have a business unit that makes documentaries in this region, so we can curate documentaries by the destinations your airline flies to. If you would like a special documentary made for your airline, we can produce it too.
- Films, series, documentaries, music and podcasts under one contract
- Expert in curated content, drawing on long experience selecting for television
- Can be sourced from all the major film and series distributors
- Music or a music channel? We can add it through Next Step CSP
- Documentaries chosen for passengers, drawing on our experience building the Doxzilla app
- Documentaries curated by your destinations, and special documentaries made for your airline
Your routes set the brief
Tell us where you fly. We make documentaries about the places your passengers are travelling to. Picture a flight to Chiang Mai. Passengers watch a documentary about Chiang Mai before they land.
We are building launch sets for airlines that open a new route, ready on opening day. Every set will start from your route list and be made to your brief by Next Step Studios.
- Documentaries matched to your routes
- Launch sets for new routes, ready on opening day (we are building these)
- Made to your brief by Next Step Studios
- Delivered on your cycle
- Your route list
- Documentaries matched to your routes
- Delivered on your cycle
Plan
- A new route
- A launch set
- Ready on opening day
One contract for all your routes
You sign with Next Step alone. One contract covers every route you fly. We clear rights for the routes and territories you fly before delivery, format every title to your system's specification, and deliver on your cycle. Your content team receives programmes ready to load.
Before delivery we check each title against your content policy for culture, religion and taste in each market, and prepare a content note per title to your list.
Our team works from Bangkok, in hours that overlap with Asian airlines. Bangkok shares a time zone with Jakarta and Hanoi, and is one hour from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Our content starts in Thailand. We are growing it across ASEAN, and we plan to reach India and China.
- One contract, signed with Next Step
- Rights cleared before delivery
- Formatted to your system, delivered on your cycle
- A content note per title, to your policy list
Your passengers' languages, your calendar
Audio, subtitles and the language of the passenger screen are tailored to your airline, and agreed per route and per title. The Doxzilla catalogue has Thai and English audio today. Other languages are produced on request.
We plan to add Chinese, Hindi and languages of ASEAN, and we are planning new productions so that more languages can be added later.
For festivals we can start with Songkran and Lunar New Year. Deepavali, Ramadan and a full-year calendar are in development.
Lunar New Year, Songkran, Deepavali, Ramadan
Ways to work with Next Step
Next Step CSP
This page. Documentaries matched to your routes, under one contract.
See all the ways togetherDoxzilla Inflight
A streaming VOD service of documentaries, cartoons and easy comedy for routes up to 5 hours, provided into the inflight system you already use, or through Next Step Wireless IFE. One contract with Next Step.
See Doxzilla InflightNext Step Wireless IFE
Wireless inflight entertainment for passengers' own devices, with content from Next Step CSP. System only is available on request.
See Next Step Wireless IFE
Ready today, and what we are adding
Documentaries matched to your routes
Ready today. Made to your brief.
Songkran and Lunar New Year sets
Ready today. Made to your brief.
One contract, signed with Next Step
Ready today
Thai and English audio on the Doxzilla catalogue
Ready today
A content note per title
Ready today
Audio, subtitles and passenger-screen language tailored to your airline
On request, agreed per route and per title
Launch sets for new routes
Being prepared
Adding Chinese, Hindi and ASEAN languages
Being prepared
Adding Deepavali, Ramadan and a full-year calendar
In development
Growing content across ASEAN, then India and China
Being prepared
Questions airlines ask us
Who do we sign with, and who answers after we sign?
You sign one contract with Next Step. Next Step Studios makes the documentaries and Next Step delivers them on your cycle. You deal with Next Step alone.
Are rights cleared?
Yes, before delivery. For each title we confirm the territory and licence window with you before it goes on your schedule.
Can you work through our existing CSP?
Yes. Next Step Studios licenses documentaries through your existing CSP, so you keep your provider.
How do you handle our content policy?
We check each title against your policy for culture, religion and taste in each market, and prepare a content note per title to the list you give us.
What formats and languages do you deliver?
Files are formatted to your system's specification. Audio, subtitles and the language of the passenger screen are tailored to your airline, and agreed per route and per title. The Doxzilla catalogue has Thai and English audio today, and other languages are produced on request.
How is it priced?
Commercial terms are flexible and depend on your routes and the kind of contract. Talk to our team.
Does Next Step Wireless IFE need seatback screens or passenger devices?
It is designed for passengers' own devices, so no seatback screens are needed. If your aircraft has seatback screens, Next Step CSP documentaries can reach them through your inflight entertainment system.
Who approves a wireless system on our aircraft?
Your engineering and safety teams approve onboard use under your regulator's rules. We prepare the documents with you and work with your teams through the process. Details on installation are on the Next Step Wireless IFE page. BFBS is a media organisation and military charity that serves the UK Armed Forces and their families worldwide. Learn who BFBS is
Tell us which routes you fly
If you manage inflight content or buy programmes, tell us your routes and your passengers. We will come back with what we can make for them.