RED.SPORT Network is a streaming media provider based in Switzerland that was founded by Ringier Sports AG in 2021. In August 2022, the OTT platform RED+ was launched, starting with the third-highest Swiss soccer league. For the 2024/25 season, RED.Sport.Network will cover over 30 leagues in Switzerland, Austria and Germany in the sports of football, ice hockey and handball.

RED+ focuses specifically on tier 2 and youth sports leagues and offers automated sports streaming with high-quality graphics, live scores and the collection of sports performance data with its production technology.

RED+ relies on fully automated production and distribution of all games based on an AI-driven camera system and its own OTT platform.

Through additional distribution via strong social media channels and cooperations with major internal media houses, RED+ revolutionizes the monetization, digitalization and professionalization of the covered leagues.

QTV provides bespoke production and content solutions for a fast-changing broadcast and digital landscape, combining international experience with local knowledge to address four key aims for rights holders: extending reach, enhancing reputation, increasing commercial revenue, and rewarding fans.

QTV has a wealth of experience in providing facilities and production for BBC, TNT Sport, Sky Sports, Premier Sports and other broadcasters.

In addition, QTV delivers high quality, innovative productions for over a dozen international federations, including World Archery, World Curling & UCI, as well as designing digital content strategies to maximise the reach of their content and events, improving audience engagement, sponsorship activation, and
participation.

The company is an ethical employer that places values at the core of its business. It is a signatory of the UK Real Living Wage, Scottish Business Pledge, and is an Investor in Young People.

Bedrock is a media-tech venture, formed as a joint venture JV between M6 and RTL Group (part of Bertelsmann). The company is the trusted strategic partner of leading entertainment companies in Europe, operating their full streaming services and delivering state-of-the-art experience to their audiences.
With 15+ years of streaming expertise and 400 skilled professionals in 10 countries, Bedrock has become the premier strategic streaming platform in Europe.

Ease Live AS, an Evertz powered company, is the leading interactive graphics platform, powering sports leagues, broadcasters and content creators around the world. Ease Live is a SaaS service for creating, building and distributing digital overlays to millions of end users on connected devices in real time. The platform enables the industry to deliver audience engagement and interactive graphics, all frame accurately synchronized with the live broadcast moments – in sum; the ultimate viewing experience for the next generation viewer.

MainStreaming’s an ecosystem of visionaries developing an iMDP Intelligent Media Delivery Platform ® running on our novel purpose-built Edge Video Delivery Network. MainStreaming disrupts classic CDNs, running media applications from centralised Cloud to the Edge, closer to end users.

We set out to solve the toughest live sports challenges, addressing the streaming needs of broadcasters migrating to online streaming and OTT providers and delivering world-class live sport streaming at scale experiences with sustained video bitrate, ultra-low rebuffering rates and faster video startup.

We’re building the future of IPTV at the edge of the internet, connecting millions of concurrent sports fans on one platform, delivering high QoE during important live sports events. We address ultra-low latency and high-definition video delivery, integrating optimization capabilities, video streaming workflows, real-time monitoring analytics, anti-piracy measures and CMCD+.

Trusted by leading players like DAZN, Sky, and RAI. Our business models include usage-based pricing and customized solutions.

Vizrt is the leader in real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators.

With a 25-year history of inventing new simplified workflows for storytelling whether it is in the news, sports, broadcast, education, entertainment, live events, digital media, advertising, or anywhere else video lives, Vizrt has helped define and reshape the way video is created and shared with the world.

Dedicated to delivering ground-breaking solutions for customers across graphics, cloud, remote and live production, live streaming, sports productions, virtual reality and virtual studios, and
infrastructure – Vizrt enables more stories, better told.

MTRSPT1 is a revolutionary motorsports television network, delivering premium motorsports content globally. A pioneer in sports-themed FAST channels, MTRSPT1 offers unparalleled distribution flexibility with unlimited live event broadcast capability. It is the only live sports-focused FAST channel maximizing discoverability through Free-To-Air broadcast distribution, representing a groundbreaking integration of FAST channel-into-broadcast carriage with 100% media rights and worldwide territorial clearance.

MTRSPT1 is the only destination for motorsports enthusiasts, broadcasts 300+ live races annually with more than 2,000 hours of diverse motorsports content, including 2-wheel, 4-wheel, on-track, off-road, in water, on ice, and up in the air. The network features motorsports reality shows, documentaries, and lifestyle programming, featuring 60+ different racing series, with 50% being new content. MTRSPT1 FAST is accessible on platforms like Amazon Prime Video, LG Channels, Freevee, FireTV Channels, VIDAA Channels, TCL Live+, Samsung TV Plus, and Xiaomi MiTV+, and Over-The-Air local broadcast station distribution in 55 US markets.

The NFL is comprised of 32 American franchises that compete each year to win the Super Bowl, the most famous annual event in sports. With fans around the world, the NFL developed a model for the successful modern sports league, including extensive revenue sharing, competitive excellence, strong franchises across the board, and national distribution.

With League headquarters based in New York City, the NFL has expanded nationwide with NFL Media based in Inglewood, CA, and NFL Films based in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Satellite offices also operate in Atlanta, Washington DC, and Chicago

DAZN, the home of European football, women’s football, boxing and MMA, and the NFL (excl. USA), is creating the world’s biggest sports entertainment platform.

A leading sports streaming service in Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, the US and UK, its wide range of content covers top-flight football from the world’s most popular competitions. DAZN is the global home of women’s football, broadcasting the UEFA Women’s Champions League alongside top-tier domestic league and cup competitions. DAZN’s portfolio also features the biggest sports and leagues from around the world – Formula 1, NFL, NBA, MotoGP, PGA and the best in boxing and MMA.

DAZN is building the ultimate sports entertainment service, where fans from across the globe can watch, read, bet, play, share, socialise, buy tickets and merchandise, all in one place, with one account, one wallet and on one app.

The PGA TOUR channel offers golf fans the best moments from past and present, 24/7 for free across 12 FAST platforms (i.e. Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Pluto, LG Channels, Freevee, Tubi, Xumo, DAZN etc.) with reach in the US and ex-US in over 20 markets. The PGA TOUR content team thoughtfully curates the channel programming to include relevant content that supports the live tournament happening each week. First launching on Xumo and Pluto in 2019, the PGA TOUR channel was the first major sports league to have a FAST channel. Adding 10 additional distribution platforms over the course of 2023, the PGA TOUR has led the movement of growing sports’s presence on FAST platforms, creating a comprehensive and better content offering for consumers across the globe. The PGA TOUR channel is one of the most widely distributed sports channels in terms of the amount of platforms where it is available. The PGA TOUR channel has evolved over the years to provide fans content all week-long with over 15 hours of content such as competition replays, 1-hr tournament broadcast cutdowns, highlights, network specials, player profiles, and features, refreshed each week.

Videocites is the world leader in AI-based video tracking and analytics.

Videocites’ mission is to provide every entity in the world with complete transparency of their content’s true reach and impact on social media, equipping them with the insights they need to accelerate audience and revenue growth in ways previously unimaginable.

With up to 80% of uploads, engagements, and views living outside one’s owned channels, Videocites’ AI technology is the only solution in the market that provides complete social media content tracking across owned, affiliate, and organic user generated channels. By illuminating content everywhere it exists in the social media ecosystem, Videocites enables clients to increase their media value, engage new audiences, optimize marketing, and eliminate social piracy.

For nearly a decade, Videocites has set the benchmark for innovative solutions driving growth on social media for the world’s leading brands in the sports and entertainment industries.

Interactvty brings to the market the first and only OTT 2.0 technology.

The rest of the potential suppliers are between three and five years away from being able to offer a similar commercial technology as the one Interactvty has now. However, it must be taken into account that Interactvty is an R&D company that generates permanent technological disruptions, so when other companies come to have Interactvty’s current technology, it will still be several years ahead of them.

Interactvty’s OTT 2.0 technology enables the streaming content distribution market to cross sell all digital business models (e-commerce, new advertising models, pay per view or subscription, Big Data, lead generation, traffic redirection, affiliate networks, remarketing, traditional advertising, etc.) exponentially increasing revenues and engagement with users, all without intermediaries and with all the freedom allowed by their imagination through interactive, free and open OTT 2.0 platforms.

Layercake is a pioneer in digital, media and live. Layercake’s innovation ability has inspired the development of world-class and award-winning media management and orchestration products (Streamcake & Mediacake) that are facilitating a whole new world of streaming and commercial possibilities.

Layercake’s products and services enable customers to leverage their media rights effectively, responsibly and at scale, making complex operations like live streaming easy.

Layercake has designed, developed, delivered and operated world-first, business-critical solutions for clients across all sectors, including media and entertainment. The ability to deliver at scale, rapidly mobilising teams of subject matter experts from across the globe is game-changing and ensures Layercake achieves the best outcome for clients.

With a proven approach to operational consulting and implementation, Layercake enables clients to unlock new potential across production operations through cloud and digital solutions that integrate with your software, workflows and infrastructure.

HiWay Media is a digital boutique on a mission: «never stop innovating, yet keep it simple». We help content owners to build memorable experiences, unlocking the power of streaming and simplifying every step of the video life cycle: from production, through video transcoding, digital assets management, distribution and OTT development.
We believe in a true customer-centric approach that combines our technological expertise with customer obsession. Every sports audience has its own demands, hence we focus on creating fully customizable experiences to attract and engage fans more with a unique approach.
Our proprietary DXP and scalable encoding technology allows our partners to manage their digital ecosystem from one single point of control, maximizing the efficiencies while drastically cutting their running costs.
Founded in 2020, HiWay Media has 50+ employees and proudly lists industry leaders such as Italian Serie A, LaLiga, Ferrari, S.S. Lazio, FIBA, Sky, Infront amongst its clients.

Ceeblue specializes in live streaming and is based in the Netherlands. We provide transcoding for broadcasters and streaming companies, but are especially known for our end-to-end platform providing real-time transcoding + delivery (sub-500 ms).

Ceeblue supports multiple standard industry protocols and codecs and is the first and only provider of both WebRTC and HESP real-time protocols.

Ceeblue is a founding member of the CDN Alliance, a member of the SRT and HESP Alliances, and was recognized as one of Streaming Media Europe’s most recent Top 51 most cutting-edge, influential, and dynamic technology companies in the streaming ecosystem. We have been profiled in FEED Magazine and are now included in Tsahi Levent-Levi’s WebRTC Developer Tools Landscape Guide.

Ceeblue sits at the crossroads of video / streaming expertise and network engineering, allowing us to provide efficient, low-latency real-time video at scale.

Our API-first, protocol-agnostic strategy serves diverse customers with unique requirements.

At Spalk, we provide content localization and remote commentary production solutions for broadcasters, production companies and sports organizations around the world.

Our core product is our Virtual Commentary Studio which allows commentators to broadcast events from home using their laptop, home internet connection and microphone. We can then localize the graphics package before delivering that content, with perfectly synchronized audio and video, to wherever it needs to go – linear, OTT, social media or radio.

Furthermore we have a suite of managed services that we can make available to our clients including an in-house Broadcast Services Team that can manage your commentary productions and content distribution along with the world’s largest Talent Marketplace of freelance commentators.

The flagship enterprise solution by VideoVerse; Magnifi is changing the game in sports content and fan engagement. The company provides ground-breaking and innovative video analysis and editing technologies that are uniquely designed to offer solutions for the superlative transformation of videos into digital-ready content assets. Magnifi is a distinct cloud-agnostic solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to revolutionize how content is refined and consumed — helping enterprises and individuals create impact and tell immersive stories across all media genres at speed and at scale.

As a forerunner in sports video development, Magnifi has created radical machine learning algorithms and a holistic video technology ecosystem that delivers dynamic video content in engaging, cost-efficient, and easy-to-use formats. Magnifi, its AI-powered flagship product, provides real-time video highlight technology for sports, entertainment and news.

Disney+ Hotstar is India’s streaming platform that has changed the way Indians watch their entertainment – from their favourite TV shows and movies to sporting extravaganzas. With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers more than 1,40,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 19 languages and coverage of major global sporting events.

It is the pioneer in sports streaming in India and has been the online home of ICC cricket tournaments for the last 9 years. As a digital broadcaster of India’s most beloved and watched sport, especially the marquee cricket tournaments, it has been one of the drivers of India’s massive digital streaming audience of ~500Mn. It currently holds the records for the highest number of concurrent users & total digital audiences across all forms of cricket streaming globally.

This entry explains the process & results behind our biggest triumph, ICC Cricket world cup 2023

As the broadcast arm of the ATP Tour, ATP Media was formed in 2001 as Tennis Properties Limited; providing the centralised exploitation of media rights across the ATP Tour, host broadcast production for the Nitto ATP Finals, Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF, ATP Masters 1000s and world feed production for the ATP 500s and, more recently, international feed production for the ATP 250s.

ATP Media has unrivalled access and expertise in the full-service broadcast production of men’s professional tennis with an end-to-end solution for global broadcasters incorporating: rights sales, multi-platform production, a global fibre distribution network. ATP Media also owns and operates Tennis TV, a D2C OTT streaming service as well as Tennis TV’s community – and distribution network – on social media, in operation since 2006.

The Hundred is a revolutionary cricket competition launched by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to re-energise the sport and attract a new generation of fans. Featuring eight city-based teams, split equally between men’s and women’s squads, The Hundred offers a fresh, fast-paced format with each match comprising 100 balls per side. This innovative approach aims to simplify cricket while maintaining its strategic depth and excitement.

Matches are held in major cities across England and Wales, providing thrilling entertainment for both local and international audiences. The Hundred leverages cutting-edge technology, dynamic media partnerships, and vibrant branding to enhance fan engagement and accessibility. With a commitment to inclusivity and diversity, The Hundred not only showcases top-tier cricket talent but also emphasises community involvement and youth participation, redefining the future of cricket for the modern era.

SailGP was founded in 2018 with a mission to create the world’s most sustainable and purpose-driven sports and entertainment platform.
We combine adrenaline-fuelled elite racing with a commitment to innovation, accessibility and positive change. Intense competition on the water and our drive to improve the fan experience are inspiring products and initiatives that can benefit the wider industry.

That ethos is equally applied to our broadcast offering, which is engineered to excite and educate new fans, deepen the understanding of core sailing audiences, and support our broader commitment to forward-thinking event delivery.

From our media headquarters in London, our fully remote broadcast production team creates a thrilling and distinctive onscreen product across our own channels and those of our partners. This comprehensive operation also reduces the number of staff required on site at each event weekend – including race officials – to help minimise our environmental impact.

DAZN is the world’s leading sports entertainment streaming platform, dedicated to creating new and innovative ways to excite and engage fans through our best-in-class digital technology, distribution, production capabilities and marketing expertise. DAZN’s vision, one which is rapidly being realised, is to offer a sports ecosystem where fans can watch, play, share and buy all in one place.

DAZN is achieving this through our partnership approach. We work with iconic names across the sports rights world, and partner with the biggest distributers and brands in media. The reason is, DAZN delivers. The scale and reach of our platform and our distribution network offer unrivalled opportunities for growth.

Through partnerships we are realising a fundamental element of our vision; creating single destinations for sports properties that remove the fragmentation and friction for fans and rights holders

Eurovision Sport is a digital streaming platform to ensure that sports content is available and accessible to every audience. The platform streams events Live and on-demand in a free-to-watch model, complementary to coverage provided by the EBU Members. In collaboration with EBU Members, broadcasters and sports federation