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Live Sports Streaming Best Practices

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Live Sports Streaming Best Practices

Scheduled on 11/19/2020 10:00am

Webinar Recording

Description

Live sports streaming is online video’s current big battle ground. Everyone from rights holders to rights licensors, from broadcasters to sports leagues, are jumping on the bandwagon to push live sporting events OTT. But it’s not as easy as it might appear. Hyper-concerned with latency (the time difference between streaming and traditional broadcast), scalability, and reliability, live sports distributors, whether incumbent providers like NBC or new entrants like DAZN, are struggling to ensure their streaming experience meets viewer expectations. But beyond just delivery, live streaming sports also provides a myriad of new opportunities such as interactivity, multi-camera switching, and social integration that can change the viewing experience. In this webinar, we will discuss some of the technical challenges to streaming live sporting events as well as the best practices to ensure a high-quality product. The panel will also explore some of the technologies that might shape the future of sports streaming.

Topics Covered

This webinar covered the following topics:
  1. What are some of the major technical challenges with live sports streaming that still need to be addressed?
  2. Is latency really as big of an issue as everyone makes it out to be in live sports streaming? Is it a priority for most live streaming sports providers? If it is, how can it be mitigated?
  3. Setting chunk size is a big decision in live sports streaming. What are some of the best practices for different use cases?
  4. What is the security landscape right now for streaming live sports? What techniques are providers employing successfully to limit piracy?
  5. Does live sports streaming have a scaling problem? How can streaming providers ensure consistent, reliable, high-quality service when audiences suddenly become massive?
  6. What are some upcoming technologies, such as Blockchain, which might help further secure live sports streams?
  7. AR, VR, and XR provide amazing opportunities for live sports streaming interactivity. Are providers adopting it? What is the impact of providing this kind of streaming experience on operators?
  8. How much live sports is being streamed to mobile? Does device fragmentation complicate the streaming workflow?
  9. What is the top priority challenge for live streaming providers to solve over the next 12 months and why?

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