Live Events
The ultimate solution for your live content
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Key features
Reach a global audience with fully managed workflows for live streaming
Schedule live events with external or cloud-based encoding
Manage event configurations from a single dashboard
Configure and edit each stream on a ‘per channel basis’
Define blackouts by time or program
Geo-locate your content, playback via two-digit ISO country codes
Easy to manage
Enrich your content offering with an out-of-the-box solution to manage the end-to-end delivery of your live content.
Scalability
Deliver at scale, regardless of whether you are looking to create a single live stream or channels with 24/7 distribution of content.
Content syndication
Syndicate your live content to any affiliate platform partners, and social media channels with enhanced opportunities for monetisation.
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Architecture
Benefit from a fully managed, cloud-based streaming workflow. Redundancy, auto-failover and multi-DRM are included as a standard. Optionally support low-latency live streaming, CDN switching and server-side ad-replacement.
Global scale
With our cloud-based infrastructure, we ensure an equally great quality of stream no matter where in the world your fans might be. We automatically scale your service for your audience size, meaning you never pay for more bandwidth than you need.
Authentication
Simplestream’s optional Authentication solution lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. The solution scales on demand to hundreds of thousands of users and supports sign-in with all major social identity providers.
Payments
Simplestream’s optional Payments solutions support a full range of billing options including one-time purchases and subscriptions.
- Multi-currency support
- Discount codes
- Integrated with 30+ payment gateways
- In-app purchases
App Platform
Your live events are fully integrated with Simplestream's proprietary App Platform, allowing you to launch your offering quickly and in a cost-effective way – enabling a seamless, multi-device experience.
24/7 support
Every live operation requires seamless attention to detail. Our support teams can assist your organisation throughout the entire length of your event. On-venue or from anywhere in the world, at any time. Our fully managed 24/7 support will ensure successful delivery.
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Since we joined forces with Simplestream, the content management systems have allowed us to better commercialise an archive of over 100,000 videos, and distribute live streams at over 1,000 race-meetings a year. They proactively help us improve the services we can offer – both B2B and B2C – with speedy and efficient support when required.
Will Hayler
Head of Digital Content
Racing TV
This new GAAGO-Simplestream integration brings a quality multi-platform experience to GAAGO's direct-to-consumer and white label B2B customers. Viewers expect content to be available across a choice of devices, and expanding our app offering to TV screens is a crucial part of the next phase of GAAGO's development.
Peter McKenna
Director
GAAGO
Reliability is the key deliverable when it comes to streaming live sport as fans expect a seamless, uninterrupted experience from sign-up right through to the final whistle. The Simplestream platform has provided an ideal foundation for URC TV to continue to innovate and deliver a top-quality product to our fans.
Tom Lister
Chief Marketing Officer
URC TV
We are very excited to be working with Simplestream, who we chose as partners after a long global search. Our mission at TVSN to deliver a first-class experiential shopping experience for our customers 'Anywhere Anytime', has truly come to life with TVSN Now.
Judy Deuchar
Chief Executive Officer
TVSN
PBS America on Freeview Play is our first streaming catch up service in the UK and Simplestream have been impressive in terms of their expertise and collaboration in working with us and our other tech partners.
Richard Kingsbury
General Manager
PBS America
Simplestream launched the POP Player across a number of different platforms quickly and smoothly. Narrative Entertainment have continued to have a strong relationship in order to deliver a number of exciting and innovative feature developments.
Chloe Barnard
Head of Digital
POP
We are delighted to be collaborating with Simplestream to develop the next stage of our full digital-lifecycle distribution platform. In doing so, we continue to build out a platform that increases engagement, providing best-in-class access to the widest range of premium theatre production.
Stuart Barr
General Manager
Digital Theatre
Simplestream have enabled us to provide a custom live and on demand solution for our audience overseas with over 40 channels. Our particular requirements are niche and Simplestream have supported the development of our product roadmap with enthusiasm and professionalism.
Jenny Andrews
Head of Product
bfbs TV
It was critical for Channel 4 to be able to offer our live streams to OTT viewers in an accessible environment. Simplestream’s platform was easy to integrate with our services, it satisfied our requirement of flexibility to work with third parties and high levels of stability throughout the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Channel 4
Channel 4
We undertook a rigorous procurement process which validated the technical robustness and flexibility of the Simplestream solution. A very pleasant additional benefit was the ‘can-do’ and positive attitude displayed unfailingly by the Simplestream teams towards what was certainly not the least challenging set of tasks.