Red Bee Media and Dotscreen Power RTBF’s revamped AUVIO Platform

The Belgian public broadcaster leverages Red Bee Media and Dotscreen’s joint solution to deliver high-quality live streaming and OTT services withan enhanced user interface

Red Bee Media, a leading global media services provider, has signed a multi-year agreement with Radio-télévision Belge de la Communauté Française (RTBF) to power its recently re-launched Auvio platform through Red Bee Media’s managed OTT services with live TV and radio, Audio on Demand (AOD), and Video on Demand (VOD) capabilities. As a part of the project, Red Bee Media partners with Dotscreen, a specialized European multiscreen User Interface and app design and development agency, which improves Auvio’s user experience with a streamlined UI.

RTBF is the public broadcaster for the French-speaking community in Belgium, delivering its content through 32 radio stations and 21 different TV channels, filmed radio stations or event channels on its streaming service Auvio, reaching four million viewers through most major devices and operating systems. In addition, Auvio offers up to 180 live events daily, and its growing library includes 270 000 audio and video assets.

RTFB was looking to revamp their streaming platform with a new user interface, simplified navigation, and additional video and audio features. To deliver these cutting-edge capabilities while ensuring seamless integration with its existing technology infrastructure, RTBF needed a partner to provide a fully managed solution with end-to-end responsibility for delivery, storage, and management.

Harnessing a range of OTT capabilities via the Red Bee Pulse service, RTBF delivers live and on-demand content to Auvio users on a wide variety of online platforms and applications, including web browsers, iOS mobile, Android mobile, Tizen, and soon Android TV, LG smart TVs, Sony Playstation and Apple TV. Using Red Bee Media’s Software Development Kit (SDK), Dotscreen refreshed all Auvio user interfaces across end-user devices. Together they covered major sports events in 2022, such as Tour de France, World Athletics Championships, Formula 1, World Rally Championship, and more recently, the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Audience levels for the FIFA World Cup reached 8 million streamstarts, with peaks approaching 90 000 simultaneous viewers.