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UEFA officially unveils live streaming platform 13 June 2019
UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) announces the launch of a new online streaming platform – UEFA.tv to showcase popular soccer games like German League matches. As per reports, the streaming service will allow audiences to access both live and on-demand soccer content at just a nominal subscription fee. The portal will mainly target young …
UEFA gets on the OTT craze with plan of new OTT service 18 September 2018
Administrative body for association football in Europe, UEFA is working on developing its over the top service to place content and competitions outside of its flagship Europa League club and Champions League competitions. Guy-Laurent Epstein, Marketing Director of Football’s European Governing Body quoted, “The OTT platform is not ready yet, but we are building our …
U.S sports streaming platform to be launched by Turner for broadcasting UEFA matches 21 August 2017
Turner obtains exclusive multi-platform rights to UEFA Champions League & UEFA Europa League with 2018-19 season and is going to launch a new sports domestic premium video streaming platform in 2018 with UEFA matches as it’s direct to consumer offering. Turner has also announced plans to launch new standalone premium sports streaming video service with …
Akamai notes streaming record of 7.3 Tbps during Euro 2016 championship 29 July 2016
The UEFA Euro 2016 championship game between Portugal and France pushed football’s popularity among the streaming crowd to record heights once again, with CDN provider Akamai recording peak traffic rate of 7.3 terabits per second, along with 3.3 million concurrent streams, during the match’s overtime period. The average video bitrate, Akamai noted in a breakdown of …
Euro 2016, Then Olympics, set to Break Live Streaming Records 27 May 2016
The IOC is banning social streaming from the games, without saying how it plans to punish fans who use Periscope or Facebook Live to share the games. However, Akamai, the CDN delivering live streams for multiple broadcasters from both the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament and the Rio Olympics, is predicting record breaking streaming activity! …
