Ipc Selects Dailymotion For Live Streaming

24 Aug 2016 | tshego

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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has selected Dailymotion to live stream its coverage from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

15 HD Dailymotion channels will show 13 live sports, highlights of all 22 sports and Opening and Closing Ceremonies on paralympic.org with around 680 hours of coverage that will be live streamed on the channels.

Dailymotion is the second largest video sharing website, with three billion video views per month and a network of media publishers including news sites, which use the player on websites.

The live stream, which will have English commentary, will be available in around 240 territories on Paralympics.org and around 190 territories on Dailymotion.com/Paralympics.

Craig Spence, IPC, director of media and communications said: “We’re really excited that during Rio 2016 we will be live streaming 72 hours of sport each day across 15 channels. It will mean that fans from around the world can either watch the Games on TV or on Paralympic.org. We’re really excited to be working with Dailymotion for the first time, to use their publisher network and bring the Paralympic Games to new audiences.

“Strategically Dailymotion is a really good choice for the IPC. Half of their user base is located in Asia – the location of the next three Paralympic Games.

“Although the IPC has strong broadcast partners in South Korea, Japan and China, we hope that using Dailymotion’s publisher network during Rio 2016 will help the IPC to build on that for the Games to come”

Maxime Saada, CEO, Dailymotion added: “It’s our particular goal to distribute content that captivates and engages our existing community of over 400 million global visitors. Our global audience will enjoy the Rio 2016 Paralympics and the Dailymotion player, and our accessibility features will satisfy the public who will discover Dailymotion through this great event”

As well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics, track cycling, football 5-a-side, football 7-a-side, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis will be live streamed. All other sports will feature in the daily highlights which will be streamed at 16:00 and 23:00 BRT each day, as well as two news shows, shown at 03:00 and 10:00 each day.