About All Dance Portugal
All Dance International is the biggest dance organization in the world. With a presence in five continents, they are the creators and organizers of the official Dance Championship.
For this years’ All Dance Championship in Portugal that was held for a period of 7 days in April, 2024, the organisers opted for a new alternative to livestream the event.
Challenges
The main obstacle of live events like All dance Portugal is maintaining stability and quality during the live event. Even big online platforms like YouTube and Twitch often struggle when handling massive online events.
When something noteworthy happens during a live broadcast, viewers expect to be able to re-watch this moments, in sport terms, an "Instant replay”. With smaller production teams, achieving this function can be very complicated.
Once the livestream is over, it’s also important to offer a way for people who payed for the virtual ticket to be able to see the content asynchronously, or if someone wasn't able to attend the livestream watch it later at their own pace. It can be challenging to put the infrastructure in place to capture and rebroadcast live events, not to mention costly.
Another issue that live online events face is restricting the content behind some sort of paywall. Mimicking traditional pay per view shows on television, many live events such as All Dance Portugal are available to be viewed only those who have purchased a digital ticket of some sort. This type of events often face issues with illegal re-streaming or re-distribution of some sort.
Solution
Thanks to api.video's worldwide CDN, livestreams playback seamlessly, no matter the size of the audience. And when facing difficult network capabilities, with api.video you have ability to choose between SRT over RTMP, ensuring a steady and uninterrupted broadcast.
api.video has implemented a 30 minute DVR functionality right into our live-streaming pipeline. Taking the pressure of events like All dance Portugal and allows viewers to be able to rewind live events, and the broadcaster to be rerun important moment of action.
When the livestream is concluded, thanks to api.video's encoding technology, we start processing your stream before its even finished, that way views can enjoy the recording, as soon as the DVR timer expires.
To ensure livestream's are only viewed by those who purchased All Dance Portugal's tickets, api.video offers the private livestream feature. When you set a livestream to private, the link has a one use token connected to it. This token can be used exactly once (in a single web session). This means that the link cannot be shared, and any subsequent access of the url will throw an error.
Impact
The organizers of All Dance Portugal sold hundreds of tickets per day and gathered a worldwide viewership through their live stream. It was a huge success, with the longest stream lasting 13+ hours and garnering massive response from a virtual audience.
Conclusion
All Dance Portugal was able to be carried out without a hitch, with multiple livestreams from different angles occurring simultaneously on all the days of the competition thanks to all of api.videos's livestream features and content delivery network