Teleboy: Unlocking Smart TV Potential
The Overview:
Teleboy AG is a major telecommunications provider that streams content live over their network to subscribers. To reach more users, give an overall better experience across more devices and replace their previous Player vendor, they required a solution that could seamlessly integrate into their workflow and be a single-player source that can be deployed across a wide range of devices, such as Samsung Tizen.
The main requests were:
- Enable live streaming playback on major devices on the market
- Support for older and new Smart TV models
- Ad Monetization capabilities
- Customizable Player UI
- Integrate seamlessly with existing streaming workflow
Bitmovin’s Key Benefits:
- Live streaming playback on every major device on the market
- Support for older and new models of Smart TVs
- Robust feature set, including low latency, ABR, and monetization capabilities
- Thorough API documentation with support from video experts
How Bitmovin Delivered:
Seamless Live Streaming with Broad Device Support
By supporting the widest range of device support on the market, Btimovin’s Player made the transition from Teleboy’s previous provider smoother. This seamless integration empowered their development team to effortlessly deploy and manage the Player across various devices, ensuring viewers enjoyed a reliable and consistent streaming experience.
Empowering Viewer Growth through Smart TVs and a Robust Feature Set
By leveraging Bitmovin’s dedicated SDKs, particularly for Smart TVs, along with powerful features like ad monetization and a customizable player skin, Teleboy saw a 5% increase in viewership and can scale quickly to more devices in the future.
This comprehensive solution enabled Teleboy to expand its reach and enhance the viewing experience across multiple platforms, including Web and Samsung Tizen. As a result, Teleboy now has the ability to offer a freemium service and on-demand TV playback, resulting in heightened customer satisfaction.
Dedicated access to video experts
Harnessing the dedicated support through their direct Slack channel and extensive documentation, Teleboy tapped the expertise of Bitmovin’s Video workflow specialists, enabling its team to efficiently set up and optimize streaming services and ensure seamless content playback.
Who is Teleboy AG:
Telco offers Live TV services, Internet, Phone, etc. With around 500,000 unique clients per month, Teleboy is one of the online TV portals with the widest coverage in Switzerland. In addition to free live TV and a recording/playback function, Teleboy offers TV programs for the next two weeks and current editorial tips. With apps for various platforms, Teleboy is available both on the go and on the television at home. Additional functions such as 7-day replay or time shift are available with the premium offers.
“The Bitmovin Player’s Playback capabilities, dedicated SDKs, and robust feature set have been instrumental in helping us expand our viewer reach and deploy easily on more devices, such as Samsung Tizen Smart TVs. With seamless live streaming and comprehensive support, we can offer a better streaming experience across multiple platforms, delighting our customers and driving growth in our viewership.”
Renato Hotz, COO of Teleboy AG