Accenture Enables Mediaset Premium to Deliver Champions League Football Matches Over the Internet to More Than One Million Vi...
April 28 2016 - 6:57AM
Business Wire
Unique monthly visitors doubled since
cloud-based service launched last July
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has collaborated with Italy’s largest
commercial TV broadcaster, Mediaset, to deliver UEFA Champions
League football matches – using a new, online “over-the-top”
Internet video service – to more than one million consumers.
Mediaset Premium Play soccer service has drawn more than 600,000
unique monthly visitors to Mediaset Premium’s multi-device service
– doubling the number of visitors since the service was made
available last July.
Mediaset Premium’s Play service combines the intelligence and
power of the Accenture Video Solution (AVS) platform, already used
by more than 60 million people on thousands of device models, with
the scalability and rich feature set of the Amazon Web Services
(AWS) cloud.
Leveraging capabilities made available through the recently
formed Accenture AWS Business Group, the Accenture Video Solution
dynamically provides the infrastructure capacity needed to stream
matches based on the users requesting the service. This feature
enables Mediaset Premium to avoid the expense of acquiring
additional hardware as the number of subscribers increases, using
only the resources needed at any point in time.
The Accenture Video Solution provides a large catalogue of
pre-built features needed to quickly develop and deliver the
service. The cloud-based platform features analytics that generate
real-time insights about viewer behaviors that help Mediaset
Premium attract more viewers by providing more personalized
services.
“Mediaset Premium reaching one million subscribers with this new
service in only three months, leveraging the cloud, is a major
achievement in the video broadcast industry,” said Franco Ricci,
Mediaset Premium’s chief executive officer. “This is directly
attributable to the intelligent, seamless, and streamlined way that
Accenture used its Accenture Video Solution with its Digital
Delivery Factory – a set of tools and methodologies that integrate
products, architecture, and technologies into one operation – for
continuous digital content delivery. Accenture provided the right
mix of proximity, agility, and cost to support our business goals.
These latest successes build on the long-standing and successful
collaborations between Mediaset and Accenture.”
Mediaset Premium Play is available for consumers in Italy on
more than 300 different device models such as smartphones, tablet
PCs, set-top boxes, connected TVs, and game consoles.
“Combining the Accenture Video Solution with the flexible AWS
cloud platform, Mediaset Premium can deliver competitive,
high-quality programming over the top to a large number of viewers
as a service,” said Francesco Venturini, global managing director
for Accenture’s Media and Entertainment and Digital Video
businesses. “The subscriber growth and shortened time-to-market are
impressive benchmarks for the European broadcast market, and
continue the successes Accenture and Mediaset have been achieving
for the past several years.”
According to Accenture research and analysis, the video platform
market is growing at 19 percent per year. The market was estimated
to be $3.2 billion in 2015 and will grow to $5.4 billion in 2018.
Over the next five years, the broadcast market is projected to grow
at 6.3 percent per year and amount to $579 billion by that same
year.
The Accenture Video Solution delivers video content to IPTV and
over-the-top TV set-top boxes, PCs, smartphones, tablets, connected
TVs and gaming consoles. An AVS video and infographic can be
accessed by clicking here: AVS Video and Infographic.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately
373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries,
Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and
lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Accenture is a leader in helping organizations move to the cloud
to take advantage of a new era of service delivery and flexibility,
where applications, infrastructure and business processes are
brought together and delivered As-a-Service. Accenture’s Cloud
First agenda offers comprehensive, industry-focused cloud services
including strategy, implementation, migration and managed services,
and assets including the Accenture Cloud Platform that can drive
broader transformational programs for clients. Accenture has worked
on more than 20,000 cloud computing projects for clients, including
three-quarters of the Fortune Global 100, and has more than 21,000
professionals trained in cloud computing.
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