As published on livekit.com, August 2024. Captured by usedby on Oct 8, 2026.
What happened
Playback uses LiveKit as its WebRTC infrastructure to stream live sports events with low latency and synchronized playback to large audiences. It also uses it for fan commentary stages, multistreaming to other platforms, and recording for VOD and clips.
Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of LiveKit and Playback, not ours.
We went from being in a position where we had to make really difficult decisions around over-provisioning and overspending to protect ourselves against usage spikes, to now being able to just have LiveKit worry about that scaling for us and have a predictable cost.
Not having to worry about our ability to scale has been massive. We just have LiveKit worry about that scaling for us and have a predictable cost.
We're the only platform that's fully real-time, and we're the only platform that's really built at this point for sports creators and fans.
Just not having to worry about our ability to scale has been massive
We went from being in a position where we had to make really difficult decisions around over-provisioning and overspending to protect ourselves against usage spikes, to now being able to just have LiveKit worry about that scaling for us and have a predictable cost.
The bandwidth based price structure has been really great, and that's something that's pretty different from what we had seen with other WebRTC services.
I found the LiveKit SDKs to be super developer-friendly and straightforward. Once you master the core concepts of the LiveKit stack, it all clicks and it's very easy to work with.
These are all things that had been on our roadmap, and we kind of just had to hook up the plumbing and we could get them out the door using LiveKit's features instead of building them from the ground up.
We broke the LiveKit migration into stages
Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Building companies is really hard, and there's going to be no end of challenges to find product-market fit and to grow and create value. If you can work with an existing solution that meets your requirements, it'll save you a lot of time and headaches and allow you to focus on the things that really differentiate your business.
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