České Radiokomunikace Provides Streaming Services for Livesport for More Than 10 Countries
CRA provides content processing and storage in the VoD (video on demand) mode to Livesport. Content is distributed via our own unique CDN network, which has robustness and capacity sufficient to cooperation of this extent. The service includes modern players for web browsers and mobile applications.
CRA provides content processing and storage in the VoD (video on demand) mode to Livesport. Content is distributed via our own unique CDN network, which has robustness and capacity sufficient to cooperation of this extent. The service includes modern players for web browsers and mobile applications.
“Results of various surveys today clearly show viewers’ inclination to watch highlights of events, as opposed to spending time by screens or displays throughout the entire event,” says Miloš Mastník, CEO of CRA. “At the same time, young people especially want to have the most interesting bits available at any time, and ideally on any type of device. In order to be able to meet these needs for our clients, we use our own CDN network, which has adequate capacity and is sufficiently robust for delivering content, withstanding even a significant onrush of users and immense data flows at any one time. This option is perfectly suited for Livesport’s plans, which pleases us,” adds Miloš Mastník.
For Livesport, launch of audio-visual content is an important part of its plans for attracting new users.
“Today, multimedia content is an integral part of all sports news coverage. Our main goal is to offer our users selected video content in the context of our results service, across all markets. For such a great range of users, efficiency and speed of video transmission is key, and in this regard, we have found a reliable and quality partner in České Radiokomunikace,” says Chief Digital Content Officer Alan Záruba.
“We aimed to launch full-format news coverage before the Qatar championship, which is the sports event of the year. We succeeded, thanks to České Radiokomunikace – not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, and other key countries,” he adds.
Livesport is a leading global provider of sporting information. As a purely Czech technology company, it has been developing websites and applications with sports content since 2006. Livesport’s flagship is the global network Flashscore (Livesport.cz is its Czech version) that brings fans quick news from more than 35 sports. More than 100 unique users from all over the world search the Flashscore network each month, for real-time results, news, statistics, and other sports content, in more than thirty world languages.
As part of OTT (over the top) services, CRA provides the CRA Media Cloud product that includes a full range of services, from content processing for distribution to the internet, to delivery to end customers’ devices. It uses its own video content processing infrastructure to do so, and its own CDN (content delivery network). Traffic monitoring of CRA’s own CDN network shows that viewer interest in watching video content on the internet keeps increasing. It has increased by over 100% in the last two years.