Live events
The ultimate solution for your live content
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.
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 codesIntegrated 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.
Download the case study to learn how Simplestream helped Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship expand their audience reach internationally, with multi-device OTT services.
How Simplestream powered the Tokyo 2020 edition of the Paralympic Games on Channel 4, with out-of-the-box OTT services on a fully accessible, responsive website. Access the full case study.
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 Paralyimpic 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.