Surpassing a Milestone: Half a Billion Impressions reached
Zattoo is a streaming powerhouse in 10 European countries, including its original commercial footprint of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, that’s committed to delivering a frequently awarded viewing experience. Zattoo was the first company to stream a World Cup match live online for free via the Internet, and since then continues to push the boundaries of TV-as-a-service and video streaming.
Zattoo teamed up with Bitmovin in 2015 and deployed the Bitmovin Player to guarantee flawless streaming for millions of monthly users, both on its own consumer TV platform and white-label TV-as-a-service run for over 30 operators in 10 countries. By partnering with Bitmovin, Zattoo guarantees all viewers the smoothest, highest-quality streams at the forefront of European streaming innovation.
The main requests were
- A robust player for Web
- Support for advanced features
- Support for Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Improve operational efficiency
Pain Points Bitmovin helped solve
- Transitioned from Flash to HTML5 Playback
- Retired the HDS format
How Bitmovin delivered
- An elevated viewing experience: The Bitmovin Player ensures Zattoo can deliver high-quality streams to viewers on web platforms at lower bitrates.
- Advanced features and functionality: The Bitmovin Player can support features such as subtitles, multi-audio, and DRM.
- Extensive documentation: Bitmovin provided extensive API documentation for Zattoo, ensuring that its development team could quickly get the Bitmovin Player up and running.
- World-class Support: Bitmovin provided Zattoo with comprehensive support during the integration process to ensure that the Bitmovin Player was seamlessly integrated into Zattoo’s existing video streaming workflows.
- Scaling to half a billion impressions: Since using the Bitmovin Player, impressions have skyrocketed from 10 million to 500,000 million.
About Zattoo
Zattoo is one of Europe’s leading TV-as-a-service platforms with over 30 TV platform customers and several million monthly active users in 10 countries.
Zattoo’s customers include Tier 1 operators like 1&1 in Germany, Eir in Ireland, Salt in Switzerland, Monaco Telecom, Epic Malta, and Epic Cyprus, for whom Zattoo offers fully hosted and managed IPTV, OTT, and TV-as-a-service offerings in a white label product with state-of-the-art features and applications for all relevant devices and covering all common ones: Android TV for operator set-top boxes as well as Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Smart TVs and mobile devices (iOS / Android / Windows 10).
Zattoo gained recognition for its achievements in 2020 with the awarding of the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the United States. Zattoo is also the first certified climate-neutral TV streaming provider actively driving for the climate-neutral television of the future.
“At Zattoo, we obsess over delivering the best possible viewing experience, from the shows we offer to the way they stream on your device. Bitmovin Player has been a game-changer for us. It’s packed with features that guarantee smooth, high-quality streams, and it scales effortlessly as our audience grows. We have now reached the hugely impressive milestone of half a billion impressions, and we look forward to hitting another milestone with the Bitmovin team.”
— Stefan Kaiser, Engineering Director of Video Technology at Zattoo