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Dubbed the “Netflix of Sports”, Kayo Sports offers Australians a multi-sport streaming service.
Launched in 2018 and with over 1 million Australian Customers, Kayo Sports offers 50 + live and on-demand sports from around the world. With a revolutionary frontend user experience, combined with Vimond’s robust and flexible backend technology, Kayo Sports is Australia’s unrivalled sports streaming service.
Kayo Sports offers customers the biggest range of top sports from around the world, including Formula 1, MotoGP, NBA, NFL, Soccer, Golf and Tennis, along with the best from Australia, including Cricket, AFL, NRL, Supercars, NBL, Netball and more.
All the live sports and on-demand programming can be watched on multiple platforms, including iOS and Android mobile devices, web browsers, Chromecast, Roku, Apple TVs, as well as gaming consoles and connected TVs
Kayo Sports looked to Vimond Media Solutions to provide core modules for content management and curation to deliver live and on-demand sports to Australian consumers.
Vimond powers Kayo Sports’ Content Management, Content Delivery, monetisation and personalisation features for the Service, supporting instant scalability whilst reducing operational costs.
Using Vimond VIA, the Kayo Sports team can manage, organise and enrich their video content with metadata and publish it to the service at the right time.
VIA video CMS: Vimond’s user-friendly interface, available via a web browser, provides graphical access to all core products and optional add-ons. Using the VIA management and curation modules, the team organise content into structured hierarchies. The team can easily organise content in carousels, menus and featured lists, and the user-friendly interface and advanced search options ensure that lists are quick to create and straightforward to manage. The category tree can be deep or shallow (many versus few Subcategories), wide or narrow (many versus few top-level Categories).
VIA Monetise manages subscription products and content package access.
The editorial team can also bookmark their favourite views to make regular adjustments even easier.
Content Discovery
Content Discovery APIs fetch the right data when a user is looking for new content or when promoting newly added content in an end-user portal. When a user searches for a specific asset, like a football match, the discovery APIs match the search term to the most appropriate asset in the video CMS and present it to the end user.
Play Service
Vimond Play Service plays the correct video content when a user requests to play a video. The Play service also remembers end users' playback history and how much content each user has watched. This allows for resumed playback, such as “continue watching” and “resume from here”. It also determines what content a user can watch based on their subscription package. In addition, the play service checks geo-restrictions, which is important for a sports service where different content rights apply to specific assets. The play service ensures the end user receives the best available stream quality whenever they log in to watch sports content.
Sub-profile Service
Enables multiple profiles within the account. It tracks how many profiles can be created within an account. The settings can be edited within the Vimond VIA profile. Profile management ensures viewers aren´t sharing their subscriptions or letting too many people watch from their accounts.
With the implementation and use of the Vimond VIA Platform, the team behind Kayo Sports has launched a global, award-winning service dedicated to live and on-demand sports streaming, delivering a new way to enjoy sports from around the world.
BINGE offers an extensive library of ad-free on-demand content. It brings together the best Australian and international content through its dedicated entertainment streaming service, giving Australians a new way to indulge in their favourite shows and movies.
With an incredible collection from the world’s best creators, including WarnerMedia, NBCU, FX, BBC and Sony, BINGE features a vast catalogue of HBO hits.
Considered to be a next-generation streaming service, BINGE looks to go beyond providing the best content by creating an emotional connection with viewers based on unapologetic entertainment pleasure, a place the customer can escape to for that precious ‘me time’.
Vimond VIA powers BINGE’s Content Management, Content Delivery and Personalisation features for the Service.
The team that built the groundbreaking Kayo Sports has once again turned to Vimond to provide core content modules and end-user services to deliver their new entertainment service, BINGE, to the Australian market.
Using Vimond VIA, the BINGE team can manage, organise, enrich the content with metadata and publish it to the service at the right time.
The Vimond products and feature sets used by the BINGE service include:
Vimond VIA content management asset: Vimond’s user-friendly interface, available via a web browser, provides graphical interface access to all the Core products as well as the optional add-ons.
Via the interface, the team can manage:
VIA catalogue asset - lets the team organise content into a structured hierarchy that can be used both for content presentation on their front-end portals through content curation and for creating content packages with VIA Monetise. The category tree can be deep or shallow (many versus few Subcategories), wide or narrow (many versus few top-level Categories).
VIA Monetise manages access to product and content packages.
The curation module in VIA helps the editorial team promote featured content on the service. The team can easily organise content in carousels, menus, and featured lists, and the user-friendly interface and advanced search options make lists quick to create and straightforward to manage. The editorial team can also bookmark their favourite views to make regular adjustments even easier.
BINGE also uses the following end-user services available through Vimond VIA:
With the implementation and use of the Vimond Platform, the team has launched an incredible new entertainment streaming service that delivers a new way to enjoy the world’s best content.
"We knew from experience that the Vimond platform would enable us to launch an incredible new streaming service as we already had a proven track record in Kayo and WatchAFL. In addition, the Vimond team also contributed to the implementation through their deep understanding of what it takes to build a world-class entertainment experience, allowing our customers to watch premium Shows and Movies on demand"
– Cora Spear, Cora Spear, Director of Operations says
Flash is a first-of-its-kind news-only streaming service with more than 20 leading local and global news sources. Streamed live and on demand, Flash is the most convenient way for Australians to stay informed and connected across a range of opinions, perspectives, and views.
From CNN International, Sky News Australia, BBC World News, or Al Jazeera, Flash lets Australians control their newsfeed and watch the news they want, when they want it.
With Flash, customers can benefit from a range of innovations, including Personalisation, which lets users follow the opinions, topics, and news that matter to them, and FlashLists, which lets them create and save stories to watch later.
The team that also built the groundbreaking Kayo Sports and BINGE streaming services has again turned to Vimond to provide the Core Content Modules and End-user Services to deliver their new news service, Flash, to the Australian market. Vimond powers Flash’s Content Management, Content Delivery, and Personalisation features for the Service.
Using Vimond VIA, the Flash team can manage, organise, and enrich their video content with metadata and publish it to the service at the right time.
The Vimond products and feature sets used by the Flash team service include:
VIA Video Content management module: Vimond’s user-friendly interface, available via a web browser, provides graphical access to all Core products and optional add-ons.
In Vimond VIA, the Flash team can manage:
VIA catalogue module - Lets the team organise content into a structured hierarchy that can be used both for content presentation on their front-end portals through content curation and for creating content packages with VIA Monetise. The category tree can be deep or shallow (many versus few Subcategories), wide or narrow (many versus few top-level Categories).
VIA Monetise manages product and content package access.
The curation module in VImond VIA helps the Flash editorial team promote featured content on the service. The team can easily organise content in carousels, menus and featured lists, and the user-friendly interface and advanced search options ensure that lists are quick to create and straightforward to manage.
The editorial team can also bookmark their favourite views to make regular adjustments even easier.
Flash also uses the following end-user services available through Vimond VIA:
With the implementation and use of the Vimond VIA Platform, the team has launched a first-of-its-kind dedicated live and on-demand news streaming service, delivering a new way to stay informed about news from around the world.
"We are always excited to work with Vimond as a reliable and innovative partner.
They are key in providing us with the platforms to create some great customer experiences. From day one, we have felt a good cultural fit in their professional and knowledgeable approach.
– Cora Spear, Director of Streaming Operations, Foxtel Group.
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