Sportian – Empowering the perfect goal

How Sportian enables fans to support their favorite teams in LALIGA and other leagues with secure, high-quality playback on any device

The Overview:

Sportian is the streaming technology provider for LALIGA and other leagues and platforms, enabling the streaming of sports and entertainment-focused content globally. Looking to support and stream across more devices securely and monetize content, they needed a solution that encompassed support for the broadest range of device types on the market with dedicated Player SDKs, was easily customizable and had a robust feature set with ad monetization capabilities, and was able to secure content globally with multi-DRM.

The main requests were:

Key Bitmovin Benefits:

How we Delivered:

Scaling and enabling the best quality of experience across any device

With support for the most devices on the market, Sportian was able to deploy Bitmovin’s Player quickly across web, iOS, Android, LG WebOS, and Samsung Tizen devices and grow their viewers by 27% on smart TVs. This enabled them to maintain a competitive edge for their sports OTT offering and scale easily, guaranteeing a greater quality of experience for millions of users.

Secure streaming globally with multi-DRM

Sportian integrated multi-DRM for seamless and secure content streaming across all devices globally.  Key solutions in the Active Streaming Protection framework equip rights holders with the essential tools to safeguard content and ensure stream security across all video formats and resolutions.

Increasing revenue through ad monetization

To monetize content, Sportian was able to implement ad monetization aspects into their workflow, empowering them to increase revenue by inserting ads within streams through out-of-the-box support for client-side ad insertion (CSAI) with the Bitmovin Player.

Enterprise-level video streaming expertise

Through every step of the process, Bitmovin and provided extensive insight into Sportian’s workflow with extensive documentation and access to video experts. This helped reduce the time Sportian’s development team took to deploy and launch their OTT services.

Who is Sportian:

Sportian is an end-to-end technology company that enables growth for the sports and entertainment industry through its digital ecosystem. Created by the joint venture between Globant and LALIGA, it is the only organization that combines cutting-edge technology development with the experience of a leading sports competition. They offer technology platforms, services, and consultancy that keep their clients one step ahead of the digital transformation of sport and entertainment, focused on three key areas: igniting fan engagement, empowering sports teams, and supercharging organizations. All Sportian solutions can be interconnected through its unique digital ecosystem, creating new efficiencies and insights while making the fan experience smoother and more engaging.

“When deciding if we should build our own player from an open source option or utilize a professional player on the market, the choice was clear once we saw the results from testing the Bitmovin Player, along with its feature set and the fact that it was pre-integrated with a leading solution for multi-DRM. This ensured we would be able to stream content securely and in the highest quality globally while saving our development team valuable resources and reducing the time to bring our streaming service to market on the highest number of devices.”  

— Manuel Monserrate, OTT Platform Product Director, Sportian