BCE revolutionizes Media Solutions with its Customer-Centric Media-as-a-Service Offer

The Media-as-a-Service approach revolutionizes the traditional model by offering customers a comprehensive range of media solutions, products, and services through a centralized platform. This one-stop shop approach ensures that customers have easy access to BCE’s entire portfolio, enabling them to customize and select the specific solutions that perfectly align with their unique project requirements.

BCE’s Media-as-a-Service represents a paradigm shift in the industry, empowering customers to have complete control over their media operations. It allows them to effortlessly modify their workflows, experiment with new technologies, and adapt to emerging trends without the need for significant investments or complex infrastructures.

During the IBC tradeshow, BCE showcased two cutting-edge remote production and gamification solutions, Holovox and Fan engagement among others in content management, distribution, and exchange.

Holovox is a remote voice-over solution that enables the seamless addition of one- or multi-language voice-over streams to live shows.

Holovox also facilitates live translation and sign language insertion, enhancing accessibility and inclusivity for diverse audiences. Additionally, BCE’s Network Operations Centre (NOC) team is available 24/7 to ensure the continuity and security of live events, providing comprehensive support throughout the broadcast.

Fan engagement is a real-time fan engagement and gamification solution.

Seamlessly integrated with Holovox, Fan engagement allows sportscasters to trigger interactive games within the live event, creating a unique and entertaining fan experience.

“Over the course of a year, an impressive 1,126 performances were conducted with Holovox, encompassing a staggering total of 3,886 hours across 42 different sports. These events spanned a wide range of sports, including ice hockey, football, volleyball, swimming, triathlon, biathlon, field hockey, basketball, handball, rugby, badminton, and tennis. This diverse integration showcases the incredible endurance and efficiency of the Holovox solution.” Explains Nicolas Serres, Head of Architecture at BCE.

The platform facilitates monetization through transactions and sponsorship, generating innovative ad inventory. Fans can compete with friends, participate in challenges, and win prizes, all while staying engaged with the live sports action. Fan engagement surpasses language, platform, and region, ensuring widespread audience targeting and prolonged viewer engagement.

By combining these two powerful solutions, BCE streamlines and optimizes voice-over production, enabling sportscasters to seamlessly switch between events while significantly reducing costs.

Simultaneously, the integration of live gamification through Fan engagement guarantees viewer engagement and creates new monetization opportunities.

“Engagement is vital in video content. Active viewer involvement fosters loyalty and a sense of belonging. Interactive features enable participation and interaction among viewers. Fans can play with friends, competing for prizes and enjoying themselves. It’s not just about visuals; it’s about creating an inclusive and interactive environment.” Adds Stéphane Gérard, Engineering & Integration Director at BCE.

By entrusting the complexity of their projects to BCE, clients gain the advantage of aligning their project objectives and targets with the extensive expertise and capabilities provided by BCE.

Through this collaborative approach, clients benefit from an efficient process that accelerates the deployment and utilization of new platforms, empowering them to focus on essential elements that fuel their success, such as content creation, workflow simplification, and audience engagement.

This customer-centric approach ensures the maximization of productivity and effectiveness as BCE takes care of the intricacies of the operations and infrastructure.

BCE’s Media-as-a-Service solutions are designed to continuously evolve and cater to the changing market demands.

These solutions are adaptable to the specific roadmap of its customers, allowing them to seamlessly upgrade to the most suitable services and solutions.

With BCE as a trusted partner, customers can navigate the evolving media landscape with confidence and embrace the limitless possibilities that the future holds.