Cost effective streaming of sport events
September 06, 2019
Cost effective streaming of sport events
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Streaming Manager (Ustream Pro Broadcast)
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Watson Media's Video Streaming
Our sports association organizes a mountain running race supported by many sponsors. The day of the race we set up a live stream of the race with connections to different crucial points of the racetrack connected with long-range wireless devices and all media is collected in a streaming manager software that mixes images with ads that encode and stream the content to IBM servers.
- Easy to integrate with many streaming software.
- Powerful statistics.
- Good control of embedded content and it makes it easy to avoid other sites embedding your content without your permission.
- I don't feel comfortable with the pricing model.
The ability to have a scalable solution to stream live video of our race is a crucial point for the quality of the service we provide our supporting sponsors with. Having a high peak of concurrent views while containing the global cost of a streaming service allows us to guarantee a great visibility to sponsors to an affordable price for a sports association that has no profit from the event.
When your sporting event's feasibility depends on external sponsors' financial support it's really crucial to provide them with effective feedback about event viewers with detailed statistics. Having such a good metrics console helped us in building an eye-catching report suitable for current and future sponsor engagement.