Notes from the truck
What we learned on actual jobs. Written by the people who were there, which is why there are numbers in it and why some of it is about things going wrong.
Production · · 6 min
The venue said they had fibre. That tells you nothing.
Why a venue speed test does not predict whether your livestream holds, the four questions that actually separate venues, and what to do when the answer is bad.
By Anthony Valentine
Corporate · · 7 min
What a corporate livestream actually costs, and what it returns
A straight breakdown of what drives the price of a corporate event livestream, what the cheap version costs you later, and how to work out whether it pays.
By Anthony Valentine
Corporate · · 9 min
The six things that break a corporate livestream
Bandwidth, audio, the venue's promises, remote presenters, redundancy, and the run of show. What actually goes wrong on event day and how to plan around it.
By Anthony Valentine
Platform · · 6 min
Why we built our own ticketing instead of renting one
Running a paid livestream through three vendors costs more than the production. Here is the math that pushed us to build the platform, and when renting is still the right call.
By Anthony Valentine