Clubber TV adopts MainStreaming for sports delivery

Clubber TV Transforms Irish Sports Streaming with MainStreaming’s Innovative Media Delivery Solutions

IRELAND — MainStreaming, an Intelligent Media Delivery Company, proudly announces its collaboration with Clubber TV, Ireland’s leading sports streaming platform, to bring the best of sports to fans both at home and around the world, ensuring a seamless and engaging broadcasting viewing experience.

Clubber TV is an Irish sports streaming platform specializing in the broadcast of Gaelic games, is on a mission to deliver high-quality, cost-effective live broadcasts across any sport and region. By empowering content creators to showcase sports events that might otherwise go unseen, Clubber TV opens new possibilities for live sports coverage. The platform provides a seamless, high-definition viewing experience on websites and mobile apps alike. In addition to live streaming, Clubber TV offers an extensive video-on-demand (VOD) library, enabling users to relive their favorite matches anytime, from anywhere.

To ensure optimal viewing experiences across a wide range of devices and connections, Clubber TV utilizes Mainstreaming’s transcoding system, which allows for the conversion of live and on-demand content into five different renditions, from 1080p to 360p, thus supporting adaptive streaming at multiple bitrates.

MainStreaming has configured 31 simultaneous live streams for Clubber TV, always ensuring a stable and high-performance connection. The streams are then distributed in HLS and DASH formats, providing smooth playback on both websites and smart TV applications. Also, the platform can record live events and produce VOD content, offering a complete experience for Gaelic games fans.

Laurence Doyle, COO of Clubber TV, commented on the partnership: “This deal is significant for us. By joining forces with an industry leader like MainStreaming, we’re incorporating cutting-edge, proprietary video delivery technology, specifically optimized for large-scale, broadcast-quality streaming. This not only elevates the user experience with superior viewing quality but also revolutionizes the standards of sports streaming. It enables us to expand our reach, engage more fans, and deliver an unprecedented volume of content.”

MainStreaming provides a complete infrastructure for managing and distributing our content. Their solution includes the Media Manager for centralized management of our live streams and VOD content, direct API integration with our existing workflow, and an advanced transcoding system that ensures the best possible streaming quality on any device.

MainStreaming successfully migrated around 700 pieces of content from their previous provider, Microsoft Azure, to MainStreaming without any interruptions for their users. They now can manage multiple live events simultaneously without buffering issues or quality drops. They recently started the collaboration with MainStreaming, but Clubber TV immediately noticed great professionalism and impeccable technical support. The ability to have dedicated servers for the ingestion of their streams and continuous support service, even on weekends, are the strengths of this partnership.

“We congratulate Clubber TV for making history in the Irish market last month, successfully delivering 64 live GAA games over one weekend from across the country. In the future, we plan to further expand their content offering, ensuring the protection to combat piracy with only authorized users accessing sports broadcasts. This goal is essential to safeguarding the rights of their partners and ensuring the long-term sustainability of their service. We are ready to empower them with our latest Anti-Piracy and CMCD+ solutions,” said Antonio G. Corrado, CEO of MainStreaming.

To top off the service provided, MainStreaming guarantees dedicated technical support over the weekend, ensuring that every broadcasted sporting event runs smoothly without interruptions.