Customer Case Study: Your Call Football
Real-Time Streaming and Fan Play Calling
Your Call Football-Phenix Partnership
Your Call Football (YCF) is a game technology startup that has built an innovative, fan-controlled, live play-calling football game. YCF’s patented technology provides fans with control of a live streamed game with near zero latency. YCF enlisted the help of Lagardere Sports to handle production, Barstool Sports for additional distribution and Cantina to create the mobile app. YCF’s system allows fans who download the YCF app to control the action on the field by voting on three coach-selected plays, and then watch as the majority voted play is executed live on the field by YCF professional players — former NFL, college and CFL players. Fans accumulate points based on their play-calling skills and compete with other fans for YCF cash prizes.
“YCF was fortunate enough to tap Phenix to stream our ‘Fan Play-Calling Games’ — allowing fans to stream high quality football while voting on offensive plays, in Real-Time. Phenix’s near zero latency stream is a perfect fit for YCF, so fans can call the plays and then watch the majority-voted play run on the field all in Real-Time”
said Julie Meringer, CEO & Founder of Your Call Football.
“To attain the level of interaction that fans expect — like calling plays in a football game — ‘live streaming’ has fallen short, until now. YCF has developed a unique platform that requires real-time streaming technology to succeed, and our technology gave the YCF fans the real-time engagement they deserved”
said Dr. Stefan Birrer, co-founder and CEO of Phenix.
Barstool Sports has a unique brand of sports talk that aligned perfectly with the target demographic of YCF. Big Cat and PFT from the popular show ‘Pardon My Take’ played alongside Barstool Gametime and added commentary on the action for over 50,000 fans that watched and played.
“We have been working with different technology and streaming providers, but have never seen the innovative technology Phenix delivered. The high quality, real-time streams were really impressive”
said Pete Overmyer, Head of Media Technology at Barstool Sports.
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About Your Call Football Inc.
Based in Newton, Mass., Your Call Inc. puts fans in control of live games, transforming spectator sports into interactive, social and competitive experiences, a concept originated by industry luminary George F. Colony in 2013. Privately held, the company’s leadership team is comprised of executives from the technology, digital and sports industries. Your Call Inc.’s proprietary, patented technology delivered a fan-controlled, live sports experience, Your Call Football, in the Spring of 2018. For more information, visit www.yourcallfootball.com.
About Phenix
Phenix provides global real-time IP video solutions. The company offers an end-to-end solution by capturing video and audio at the source, and handles encoding, ingest, transcoding, composition and content delivery to any device, including mobile, browsers, connected TVs, set-top boxes and consoles. Phenix delivers high-quality synchronous content to broadcast sized audiences while maintaining less than ½ second of end-to-end latency. To learn more about Phenix real-time streaming technology, visit phenixrts.com or contact us at info@phenixrts.com.
