LiveU 2020 'State of Live’ Report Confirms Rise in Live IP Broadcasting for Contribution and Distribution
The latest LiveU data shows a 100 percent increase in LiveU Matrix usage for domestic US and international content sharing
伦敦(12月15日)
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted the way live news, 体育, and a variety of other markets have gathered, 管理, 传播直播内容. LiveU, the leader in live streaming and 远程生产 solutions, is today presenting the company’s annual ‘State of Live’ report showing the trends over the past year based on data generated from its global customer base.
Most notable has been the significant increase in content sharing over IP, for US and international viewership. The consolidation of newsgathering efforts and the reduction of on-site staff at live events have increased the reliance on IP-based content contribution and distribution across the globe – from network-to-station, 叫号电话的, and production crews to 体育 teams, 联盟, 和协会.
主要发现包括:
• 100 percent growth in the use of its LiveU Matrix IP cloud-based management and distribution platform worldwide. The average number of sessions by users has doubled with global media organizations relying on Matrix to pool live content, which has allowed for expanded live coverage for newscasts.
• Major milestone this past summer with more than 1,000多名顾客带走了30多名,000 live feeds per month for distribution to local, national and global news broadcasts.
• Increase in international content sharing with international broadcasters particularly interested in the US election, LiveU Matrix proved itself a powerful, easy-to-use content sharing platform for extending viewership of unique content. LiveU客户, 比如CBS新闻频道, have been leveraging LiveU Matrix to share up-to-the-minute election updates with its global affiliates. The news organizations also sold graphics packages, 它提供了快速更新, accurate editorial vote count maps and other updates.
“Our IP-based technology is inherently suited for 远程生产s. With the ongoing pandemic and subsequent health, 后勤方面的, 还有预算问题, our cellular-based portable units have enabled live broadcasts to carry on from home and other locations. 同时, the move to IP-based workflows has required producers to think differently about the way they create and share live content,塞缪尔·沃瑟曼说, LiveU的首席执行官兼联合创始人.
他补充说, “在大流行期间, our customers were able to rise above the challenges and deliver content that informed, 订婚了, 娱乐观众. As the market hopefully stabilizes with the availability of vaccines, we see the return of live 体育 and the use of live streaming, 远程生产, and IP contribution and distribution growing even more. We look forward to new opportunities and growth in 2021 with major events such as the US Presidential Inauguration and the Summer Games in Tokyo.”
The Year of LiveU Matrix
LiveU Matrix now has nearly 10 US state governors providing daily and weekly press conferences, and at the height of the pandemic this spring over 40 local pools for content sharing.
Matrix was fundamental for the 24/7 news cycle in covering high-profile events such as the protests and riots in the US and the SpaceX Crew Dragon, 拥有超过15个,000 feeds delivered over 8 days this summer.
最近, LiveU Matrix proved to be mission-critical on Election Night in the United States with nearly 700 customers consuming 3,700个实时饲料分发. The platform delivered more than 12,000 hours of video over the course of election day alone, 然后是另一个8,000 plus feeds over the remainder of election week, 不间断地.