Development of a Highly Scalable SecondScreen Engagement Platform for Live Sports Events

The client seeks to invigorate their live sports broadcasts by providing an interactive second-screen experience that encourages viewer participation, such as predictions, real-time discussions, and polls, to increase audience retention and satisfaction, while managing high concurrent user traffic during high-profile events.

A major broadcast or streaming company aiming to enhance viewer engagement during live sports events through interactive multiscreen experiences.

• Create a cross-platform interactive application for smartphones to engage viewers during live sports broadcasts.
• Enable viewers to make real-time predictions and receive rewards for accuracy to boost participation.
• Implement administrative tools for event and user management, including processing and validating bets or predictions.
• Ensure seamless synchronization between live TV broadcasts and in-app content to maintain engagement without distraction.
• Support high concurrency, managing hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users with reliable performance.

• Audio watermarking and synchronization between TV streams and in-app feeds.
• Powerful control panel for event organizers to accept, process, and manage predictions and bets.
• Event and user management modules to organize predictions, track user activity, and distribute rewards.
• Real-time communication infrastructure capable of handling hundreds of thousands of concurrent requests.
• Load balancing and database clustering to ensure high system availability and performance during peak traffic.
• Introduction of new interactive features such as chat rooms, live polls, and real-time score updates to further engage viewers.

• Live TV broadcast streams for synchronization
• Analytics tools for real-time data tracking
• Third-party prize or reward systems
• User authentication and identity management services

• Support for up to 500,000 simultaneous prediction bets without system downtime
• Real-time data processing with minimal latency
• High availability and fault tolerance through clustering and load balancing
• Data security and user privacy compliance during high traffic
• Scalable infrastructure adaptable to different event sizes

The implementation of this interactive engagement platform is expected to significantly elevate viewer participation and satisfaction during live sports events. It aims to handle high concurrency with up to 500,000 simultaneous predictions, increase overall audience engagement metrics, foster a more immersive viewing experience, and generate new opportunities for sponsorship and advertising revenues through enhanced interactivity.