Pitch Perfect Innovation Contest

Arnaud Albella

VP Sales & Marketing, WYPLAY

Streaming is growing in importance in the world of sport, with more and more OTT distribution and direct-to-consumer experiences. This is for sure bringing challenges to the sports OTT broadcasters, with ever-increasing costs of streaming and quality issues especially during the peaks of audience.
Wyplay Frog2Frog solution changes the game by leveraging your audience network to distribute the contents. Our AI-powered technology drastically reduces the traffic on the network CDN by up to 80% with a very simple integration into your app/website. This allows massive savings on the streaming costs, together with the best quality during the audience peaks.

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Paola MARINONE

CEO, BUZZMYVIDEOS

With YouTube increasingly being watched on TV devices, rights holders can, and should, turn the world's largest discovery engine into a profitable revenue engine.

With 20 years of combined expertise as insiders at YouTube and on our own platform, we've developed solutions that empower rights holders to amplify their revenue through Sponsorship Amplification, Archive Maximisation and Creator Archive Distribution.

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Volodymyr BOIKO

Founder & CEO, EPIC CLIPS

Sports fans want highlights immediately, and they expect them to be good. For broadcasters, meeting both expectations can mean more staff, more tools and higher costs.
This pitch shows how a different production model combines professional editorial judgement with AI speed.
We’ll share how it has helped our clients achieve up to 300% more views than AI-only highlights, and how broadcasters can publish better stories while keeping turnaround times short and costs competitive.

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Vlastimil VENCLIK

CEO & Co-founder, VALKAAI

Most live sport is still produced as one commentary feed for everyone, or not covered at all.
ValkaAI Commentator changes that. It turns live event data into commentary in real time, combining event understanding, narrative, expressive voice and an optional digital presenter.
From the same match, rights holders and media platforms can create distinct experiences for different languages, markets, formats and levels of expertise without rebuilding the production for each one.
In this pitch, Vlastimil Venclík will show how one data feed can unlock more coverage, more relevant fan experiences and new ways to distribute sports content at scale.

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Roland SARS

CEO, MEDIA DISTILLERY

Fans no longer just watch the match. They want the key moment instantly, the action they missed, and everything about their favourite match, league or team. Media Distillery's Sports Engagement Suite uses AI video intelligence to deliver all of it, automatically and in real time: from live highlights and smart clipping to shoulder content and personalised, social-ready clips. Trusted by leading broadcasters, TV operators and streaming platforms, and proven during the World Cup, we cover every facet of fan engagement. One partner to turn every second of live sport into reach, engagement and revenue.

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Phil Ventre

Chief Strategy Officer, PIXOTOPE TECHNOLOGIES AS

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