IBC2023: Ateme to showcase solutions to transform video consumption, monetise content and go green

Ateme will return to IBC in September to showcase its end-to-end solutions – from contribution all the way to the CDN – including the world’s first solution for operating a cloud DVR in the public cloud.

The company will also demonstrate new ways of offering state-of-the-art quality of experience on any screen, monetising audiences and engaging sports fans in-venue and beyond, while respecting green streaming strategies.

“This is an exciting time for our industry,” said Rémi Beaudouin, chief strategy officer at Ateme. “Audience expectations are being shaped by new entertainment experiences such as gaming and social media. Meanwhile, new technologies are enabling innovative ways of consuming and monetising video content. We are thrilled to go to IBC this year and present the pioneering work we’ve done to help broadcasters and service providers leverage these changes.”

In the area of fan engagement, Ateme will showcase a complete workflow including automatic detection of the most important moments of sports content and enriched push notifications to smartphones. This will enable sports content rights holders with D2C services to enhance fan engagement, attract more viewers to their OTT apps, and increase monetisation by connecting next-generation video experiences with other verticals such as e-commerce.

Ateme will also demonstrate how sports teams and leagues can attract more fans to stadiums, increase digital engagement, and enable new platforms for monetisation. With a premium enhanced-reality solution using 5G multi-access edge computing, fans can enjoy an immersive look into the game from their smartphones and/or headsets with real-time access to stats and multi-angle live and replays.

The latest features and use cases of Ateme+, a cloud-agnostic SaaS offer, will also be in focus. This will include a new packager feature for OTT, supporting all use cases already live today: MCR in the cloud for sports, news, and live production; business continuity with effective disaster recovery; 24/7 contribution and distribution; and on-demand file transcoding.

Ateme will showcase the continuation of its optimisation efforts that have resulted in a 66% reduction in energy consumption over three years, all while simultaneously improving the user experience. The latest strategies include audience-aware streaming, elastic CDN, per-title encoding, and CMAF chunk sharing for OTT content.

Finally, Ateme will highlight its Cloud DVR solution, allowing service providers to streamline operations, optimise their hardware pool, and achieve greater scalability by leveraging the public cloud, without being capped by on-premises investments. Because it enables resources to be shared across services, it is also expected to reduce the carbon impact of video delivery.

Two demos showcasing Ateme’s VVC solutions and partnerships with Qualcomm and InterDigital will also be presented.