NexGen delivers pay per view live streams of Ultimate Frisbee games

NexGen needs a solution that is cost-effective and can be accessed by a geographically diverse audience, a solution that can be used easily without a dedicated tech team to deliver live content for the first time and experiment with Pay Per View.

After researching streaming providers, NexGen selected Dacast to add live streaming to their website. This allowed NexGen to reach a global audience with the added benefit of streaming over Facebook. Dacast provided the most affordable, value-added service that didn’t require a tremendous amount of technical background.

It offered NexGen the ability to experiment and sell their content through Pay Per View and Subscriptions from a built-in paywall.

NexGen delivers Ultimate content live to global viewers, relying on the simplicity of the Dacast system and providing support to supplement their distribution model.

The company produces professional-grade streams using Dacast Streaming as a Service, the Elemental Live encoder to effectively save content for later and NewTek’s 3Play to create great-looking instant replays during live coverage.

Live Ultimate games have recorded as many as 15,000 simultaneous viewers and as many as 100,000 viewers total for championships. The games have surged the Facebook likes on team and league pages that have hosted the streaming content.

Kevin Minderhout says “With Dacast we can easily deliver our content to tens of thousands of people around the world. We stream worry-free and have never had a technical issue related to Dacast from a viewer”. 

NexGen is an online TV network focused on the sport of Ultimate Frisbee. They travel the country to showcase competitions against the top club teams in the world and teach youth the skills essential for creating the next generation of Ultimate.