Taking the next step in event streaming and webinars

A story of how we helped Bright to update their online video platform, streamline theirworkflow and offer better end-user experiences

Bright teams have staged some of the most challenging and groundbreaking events in the Nordic countries

Bright works on corporate and cultural events, live music tours and festivals, theatre, television and film, sports and other major public events, permanent installations at museums, theatres, concert halls, club venues, hotels, and retail stores.

With over 400 employees in three countries, Bright is the leading Nordic provider of event, entertainment and experience services. Bright’s competent, knowledgeable and passionate staff combines decades of experience with new ideas to create exceptional experiences.

Icareus Webinar käyttäjiä

Summary

Bright is the leading Nordic provider of event, entertainment and experience services that needed a modern and robust webcasting and webinar tool to scale up their business.

This is the story how we delivered our Icareus Suite Webinar tool and tailored it to meet Bright’s workflow, added several new features for them and clipped hours from their event productions. We did all this together with our partner Maxicaster.

The product

Partners

“Icareus Suite Event and Webinar solution provides an easy-to-use and reliable solution for Live webcasting and webinar events on all terminals.”

Ari Hiekkataipale, Bright Group
Mr Ari Hiekkataipale
Technical Specialist / Digital Video, Bright Group

The Challenge

Bright had been using a leading online video platform, but its technical limitations and old fashioned user experience started to hinder Bright’s business vision. The search for a new platform started, and Bright wanted to find a modern, flexible and robust online video platform that could be tailored to their exact needs.

Finding the right product takes time

Bright wanted to be thorough in their selection process and wanted to test various platforms before committing to any. They collected information across the board in their local organisations, identified the candidates, and initiated trial periods of 3-6 months.

The well-balanced partnership to deliver excellence

Icareus and Maxicaster have worked together on various online video projects over the years, and were contacted by Bright to present a robust webcasting and webinar solution with flexible storage, transcoding and CDN solution. After initial discussion, it was evident that a common goal could be reached, and partnership started.

“Maxicaster partnered with Icareus to deliver high quality webcasting platform for Bright Finland. Icareus Suite Webinar is used jointly with our OVP platform built for Bright to transmit live video and Power Point presentations from their Webcasting events. Maxicaster is bundling the offering for Bright with scalable CDN capacity, adaptive streaming and storage.”

Tommi Blom
CEO, Maxicaster
Bright customer screens

The Solution

For Bright, Icareus Suite Webinar was integrated with Maxicaster’s delivery platform to achieve a flexible streaming system that enabled Bright to configure their live streaming parameters per event.

Icareus Suite allows Bright to manage webcasting, recordings, subscribers, devices, services, user experience, advertising and monetization.

Icareus Suite Webinar solution, based on Icareus Suite cloud, is an easy-to-use, customizable, and probably the most versatile solution on the market, supporting both webinar and webcasting use cases.

With Icareus Suite Webinar, it’s easy to arrange live events on one or multiple different channels simultaneously, simulcast to one’s own Responsive Web UI, Facebook and YouTube Live. It supports both automatic or manual event recording, synchronization of presentation/slides and monetization of events with various business models.

Event recordings can be trimmed online, highlighted and published on video portals with other event videos and naturally, if wanted, all the on-demand content can be monetized again.

The Convenient and customizable responsive web interface offers a high quality user experience.

The results

After a rigorous testing phase Icareus, Maxicaster, and Bright started workshopping and co-creation to configure Icareus Suite to meet Bright’s exact workflows and corporate customer requirements. The pre-production phase took 6 months to accomplish, and the final product went to production in early 2018. It now matches Bright’s production workflow, and offers them an intuitive yet flexible administrative user interface and tools to meet the various customisation needs faced from corporate customers.
Bright uses the solution as their only webinar tool to stream corporate events, product releases and financial reports of top customers such as Nokia, Mercedes Benz and Metso.

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