M2A Connect helps Spark Sport gain operational insights and content delivery efficiency

Spark Sport is a premium live and on-demand sports streaming service in New Zealand.  Launched in 2019, the platform offers a wide range of live and on demand content such as New Zealand Cricket, English Premier League, England Cricket, NFL, MBA and more. The streaming provider also streams channels such as NBA TV, MUTV, LFCTV, EDGE TV & TAB Trackside, through which sports content is available to viewers around the clock.

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A changing playing field for sports broadcasters

Spectator sports are most engaging when audiences don’t know what’s going to happen next. For the sports broadcasting industry itself, the playing field in which they operate has undergone many exhilarating changes over the last few years. In many cases, these have been accelerated and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. As stadiums and venues that were once packed with excitement and atmosphere have been forced to close, we’ve witnessed the increasing significance of over-the-top (OTT) platforms becoming the digital delivery system for the enjoyment and adrenaline sports fans around the world have been missing.

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BLAST teams up with EVS for complete Esports production environment

Latest EVS VIA and Media Infrastructure solutions underpin BLAST’s new mobile esports production flypack BLAST the global esports media network delivering world class entertainment experiences, has selected EVS’ market-leading VIA and Media Infrastructure solutions as the backbone of its new esports production flypack. The mobile solution is designed so that BLAST can produce its own live gaming events in-house. With the Covid-19 lockdown impacting mass gatherings, the flexibility of the EVS live production workflow is enabling the esports giant to put on online-only events instead.

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Verizon Media: Protecting your OTT streaming service from cyberattacks

The global video streaming industry is a multi-billion-dollar market that’s enabled streaming services of every size to succeed. Yet, with great success comes new risks and responsibilities. The rapid growth of streaming services means that they are now not only home to high-value content but, in some cases, data from millions of customers. Cybercriminals now see streaming services as a treasure trove and are eager to mine premium content and users’ data including, customer payment details, email addresses, physical addresses, and names. Inevitably, the more successful a streaming service is, the more personal data it has, which makes it an increasingly attractive proposition to cybercriminals because they have a greater surface area to attack. Growing pains in these organizations can lead to an increase in cyberattacks that take advantage of the vulnerabilities specific to OTT platforms and technologies.

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In Conversation with TMD

We talk to Tony Taylor, Executive Chairman at TMD about a number of topics around the company including:
  • TMD’s MAM system Mediaflex and how it enables you to Acquire, Manage and Deliver content
  • Global Customer Case studies including YLE, Wildbrain, Discovery US, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, and DPS
  • The benefits of workflow orchestration and how important it is for a business to be able to implement automated workflows
  • TMD’s product Coeus, an intuitive cloud-based service for short and long term storage, management and protection of media content

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Virtual Playout in the Cloud

Today's rapidly changing broadcast marketplace necessitates faster channel launch and much more flexible content management, all while dealing with a massive increase in 8K, HD, and UHD data requirements and the ongoing need to reduce infrastructure and production costs. The white paper reflects specifically on these requirements by investigating the possibilities provided by an open broadcast content management and playout scheme, which, unlike all other broadcast technology, is completely deployed in the Cloud.

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In Conversation with NPAW

We are joined by Till Sudworth, CMO at NPAW to hear about who the are, where the name came from and how their products have evolved over time. Till also discusses their main target customer groups and what some of the biggest changes and challenges are in the industry and how NPAW can help.

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