Sports content provider beIN Asia Pacific has chosen Globecast, a global solutions provider for media and content management, to provide multifaceted media processing and delivery services to its Asia-Pacific division.
beIN Asia Pacific, headquartered in Singapore, is part of beIN Media Group, and operates in 11 countries across the Asia-Pacific region – Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Singapore.
beIN offers a line-up of live sporting events through its channel, beIN SPORTS and live streaming app, beIN SPORTS CONNECT. With 15 unique channel feeds, beIN offers fans extensive live sports coverage in Thai, Bahasa, Cantonese and English, and is available on major pay-TV platforms in the region.
Globecast will be providing a wide range of services, including cloud and on-premise playout, sports contribution services and content management. The company is also supplying satellite, fibre and IP streaming distribution and will host beIN’s over-the-top (OTT) platform for the region, as well as providing the ability to create and distribute pop-up channels as and when required.
Shakunt Malhotra, Managing Director of Globecast in Asia, said, “We are a global company with the technical resources and operations to provide a seamless end-to-end service, not least across the highly valuable and competitive sports market. We are highly connected internally and externally, allowing easy content contribution, fully managed media processing, playout and distribution.”
Sabil Salim, Vice President - Media Technology and Operations of beIN Asia Pacific, added, “As a major sports broadcaster with a wide array of live events, we had to ensure that we partner with a media services company that can meet our requirements and align with our goals.
“Globecast have demonstrated that they genuinely understand the demands of sports fanatics, which is at the heart of what we do.”