Servecast | New Media Sportscasting
Founded in 1998, Servecast is Europe's leading specialist supplier of a complete New Media Sportscasting solutions. Through focusing on the requirements of the sports rights owner Servecast has developed a complete service offering including; commercial consultancy, streaming services (via our Global Data Network), Digital Rights Management, Customer Relationship Management, billing services, syndication services, and custom development.
 
 

Thought Leadership

Servecast has formulated its business intelligence and leadership in this area in a series of insightful and expert White Papers.

Servecast white papers will inform you about some of the main trends and issues affecting New Media Sportscasting, the best practice and business models for building a successful broadband subscription service, how to effectively promote to the end user and the implications for online advertising, sponsorship & merchandising.

Below is a selection of Servecast White Papers that provide a deeper understanding of the developments in New Media Sportscasting and the implications for sports marketing and broadcasting rights. They will enable the reader to derive a deeper understanding of emerging best practices, both technical and commercial for delivering Sports content over IP enabled networks such as broadband Internet and 3G networks.

New White Papers

Growing a Strong Subscriber Base - Strategies for Subscriber Recruitment and Subscriber Retention
This paper considers the best practices and the critical success factors for establishing a successful New-Media Sportscasting service. It addresses the following:

Technical services, support, business applications and marketing requirements that will ensure a successful broadband subscription service.
The elements that constitute a new-media webcasting service, from establishment of the service to maintaining and developing a strong and profitable business.
The capability Servecast has developed to support these requirements through its unrivalled experience as the partner of choice for the most commercially successful sportscasting businesses in Europe.

New Media Sportscasting and The emerging role of 3G and mobile data services
Servecast has vast experience delivering sports content over mobile devices and this
Paper will discuss the following:

The opportunities for mobile content distribution.
How content should be produced for different mobile platforms.
How mobile data revenue can be generated from New Media Sportscasting.

Media Studio™ - A Technical Overview
This white paper gives a technical insight into the workings of the Media Studio platform. It describes the technical features, benefits and bandwidth issues. This white paper is intended to help its reader understand the technical capabilities of Media Studio: its role in the network environment and its ability to optimize streaming media.

Upcoming White Papers

Why New Media Sportscasting
This paper gives an introduction to the fundamentals of New Media Sportscasting. It examines the following:

How New Media Sportscasting complements or competes with traditional TV broadcasting and what the implications are for rights management and protection.
The commercial models for New-Media Sportscasting, exploring the best models for revenue generation from online content including free-to-air, subscription and pay per view and the role that advertising, sponsorship and betting can play.
The relationship between Online Gambling and New Media Sportscasting, the key drivers of Internet gambling and how best to integrate broadband sports content with online betting.
The future trends, business, consumer, and technology driving New-Media Sportscasting strategies.

The relationship between Online Gambling and New Media Sportscasting
This paper will explore the following:

The key drivers of Internet gambling.
How to integrate broadband sports content with online betting.
Revenue generation from affiliate betting links.