Sportsrocket Turbine Powers AFL Streaming

This weekend, with the launch of its 2017 season, the Arena Football League will join a growing number of professional sports organizations to use Sportsrocket to live stream its games and provide fans real time highlights.

Sportsrocket Turbine the way sports rights-holders distribute and monetize video and Turbine will make games, live look-ins and real time highlights available to fans nearly everywhere they consume video. The system is the first live syndication technology to enable simultaneous distribution to every major social platform within a native player.

Sportsrocket Turbine was successfully deployed last weekend (March 31-April 2), making its debut during the Formula Drift Streets of Long Beach event in Long Beach, Calif. Live stream views from this event compared to prior year increased over 600%, from 140,000 streams to nearly one million.

Turbine was a tremendous success during its first engagement last weekend, says Brian Bedol, Sportsrocket founder and CEO. It's a powerful syndication tool created to address the challenge of reaching fans where they already consume content, rather than asking them to travel to a new destination. Sportsrocket changes the playing field, offering forward-thinking rights-holders like the AFL the ability to distribute easily, broadly, and profitably.

Everyone here is thrilled to be working with Sportsrocket as the 2017 AFL season gets underway on Friday, adds AFL Commissioner Scott Butera. We examined the marketplace thoroughly and are confident that Sportsrocket's innovative live-streaming solution is the best platform to help us grow our exciting sport's fan base. Most importantly, they have a deep understanding of sports media, and we get the benefit of that experience.

Sportsrocket provides a complete end-to-end sports media solution for leagues, teams and rights-holders, alleviating the need for the big capital investment and dedicated staffing previously required. Turbine doesn't require a long-term contract, and is integrated with Sportsrocket's media operating system, which offers game and highlights management, multi-platform video-on-demand syndication, OTT distribution, subscriber and advertising monetization. Turbine also enables live look-ins on social media if the game is streaming elsewhere, such as OTT or behind a pay wall.

LINK:	http://www.sportsvideo.org/2017/04/06/sportsrocket-turbine-powers-afl-...
	See more stories from svg

Most recent headlines