# Series Management for OTT Platforms | Seasons and Episodes | Vodlix

**Source:** https://vodlix.com/features/series-management  
**Summary:** Manage shows as a real hierarchy. Add seasons, upload a whole run of episodes at once, and publish on your own schedule across web, mobile and TV apps.  
**Publisher:** Vodlix

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Manage and organize series content with our intuitive dashboard. Add seasons, upload episodes and keep a whole show in order.

- **Feature Plan:** 2

- core-platform
- back-end

## A Series Is Not Just a Longer Film

Shows are the reason people stay subscribed, and they are also the hardest thing to keep tidy. Vodlix treats a series as a real hierarchy of show, season and episode, so a catalogue of thirty titles does not become three hundred loose files.

### Where Catalogues Get Untidy

A film is one record. A series is a show, several seasons, and anything up to a hundred episodes that all need to sit in the right order, carry the right numbering and arrive as a set. Platforms that treat episodes as ordinary videos end up with a catalogue where season two episode ten sorts next to season one episode one, and viewers give up rather than hunt. Vodlix keeps the structure explicit, so the thing you uploaded is a show with seasons rather than a folder of files that happen to share a name.

#### Show, season, episode

The hierarchy is real rather than implied by a naming convention, so episodes belong to a season and seasons belong to a show. Adding a new season is one action, not a rebuild.

#### A season at a time

Pick the show, pick the season, then drop the whole run in together. Files are processed as a batch rather than one form per episode, which is the difference between an afternoon and a week.

#### Each episode still its own record

Every episode keeps its own title, synopsis, artwork and runtime, so a viewer browsing a season sees real descriptions rather than a numbered list.

### Uploading a Whole Season

The flow is three steps and refuses to let you skip the important one. Choose the show, choose or create the season, then drop the episode files in. Everything lands in the right place because the destination was decided before a single file moved.

Uploads accept **MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV and WebM**, run in parallel with progress shown per file, and each one can be edited as it arrives rather than after the fact. From there the same [processing pipeline](/features/video-uploading-transcoding) that handles films takes over, so episodes are encoded and given artwork without anybody configuring them individually.

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### Releasing on Your Schedule

How a show is released matters as much as how it is uploaded. Seasons and episodes are published independently of each other, so a full box set can go out at once, a weekly show can hold episodes back until their date, and a season can be prepared quietly in advance and released the moment a rights window opens.

Because the structure is explicit, the storefront can do something useful with it. A season picker sits on the title page across your [TV apps](/features/tv-apps) and [mobile apps](/features/mobile-apps), the [player](/features/customizable-video-player) offers the next episode as one finishes, and [watch history](/features/watch-history) remembers which episode a viewer reached rather than only which show.

**Q: How are series organised?**

As a real hierarchy. A show contains seasons, and a season contains episodes, each with its own title, synopsis, artwork and runtime. Episodes are not loose videos that happen to share a name.

**Q: Can we upload a whole season at once?**

Yes. You choose the show and the season first, then drop the entire run of files in together. They upload in parallel with progress shown per file, so a full season is one job rather than one form per episode.

**Q: Which video formats can episodes be uploaded in?**

MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV and WebM. Whichever you use, the file goes through the same encoding pipeline as the rest of your catalogue, so viewers receive adaptive streams regardless of the master format.

**Q: Can we add a new season to an existing show?**

Yes, and it is a single action from the upload flow rather than a separate setup. New seasons attach to the existing show, so returning viewers find them where they expect.

**Q: Do we have to release a whole season at once?**

No. Seasons and episodes publish independently, so you can drop a full box set, hold episodes for a weekly release, or prepare a season in advance and release it when a rights window opens.

**Q: What do viewers get from this structure?**

A season picker on the title page, episodes listed with their own stills and synopses, the next episode offered as one finishes, and a resume point that remembers the exact episode rather than only the show.