AEG Digital Media Clients

19 Entertainment

AEG Digital Media coordinates and manages all aspects of 19’s digital distribution strategy, including technical management of streaming, video and post production workflow for 19’s groundbreaking new show “If I Can Dream.” The Web-based reality series follows five Hollywood hopefuls trying to get their break in the entertainment business, and features 24/7 live streaming. “If I Can Dream” features over 50 live cameras streaming the lives of the five cast members and follows their journeys to potential stardom.  AEG Digital Media is tasked with bringing a complicated real-time technical challenge to viewers seamlessly and flawlessly.

“If I Can Dream” features heavy social media integration, with an audition process on MySpace and On Demand distribution via Hulu.

Trailer for “If I Can Dream”

Visit If I Can Dream here

American Express

AEG Digital Media provides digital services and live streaming capability to American Express for worldwide live events.

Read more about AEG Digital Media’s work with American Express here.

Cirque du Soleil

AEG Digital Media provided webcast management and other digital services for Poetic Social Mission, a worldwide activism project that put Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque de Soleil, in space.  Mr. Laliberté spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to raise humanity’s awareness of water-related issues. The initiative benefitted ONE DROP and drew attention to the importance of access to clean water on Earth.

AEG Digital Media powered webcasts from fourteen different locations – with seven live segments culminating in a live feed from the ISS.  AEG Digital Media provided the following services for this groundbreaking project:

• Overall technical project management
• Strategic technical consulting
• Custom live video player
• Signal Acquisition
• Live encoding in SD and HD
• Live and on demand CDN services
• CDN reporting and stats
• Live multi-language captioning (7 languages)

FarmAid

AEG Digital Media provided webcast management services for both the live and On Demand streaming versions of Farm Aid 2009. The event is now the longest running benefit concert in U.S. History, and the management team at AEG Digital Media has been working with the organization for over five years.

For the 2009 event AEG Digital Media managed the Farm Aid feed and downlink, encoded the video, and streamed it across multiple CDNs. AEG Digital Media also provided a custom live player, and edited/encoded the show into On Demand segments that are available to members on the Farm Aid site.

Golden Boy Promotions

AEG Digital Media works closely with 6 time champion and boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions to enable all of their digital broadcast services and productions.  Most notably AEGDM powers the broadcast and webcast productions of “Fight Night Club” – which is Golden Boy Promotions’ and AEG’s critically acclaimed live monthly boxing series, that presents boxing in a night club atmosphere, with a DJ, music, great food and a VIP room, as well as a unique setup where the ring is on Club Nokia’s stage with standing room for fans in front of the ring, as well as great seating in the balcony.  After the boxing action ends, fans are invited to stay to hear great music played by LA’s hottest DJ’s, dance and mingle with the fighters as the venue converts back into a night club.  AEGDM produces the TV broadcast for Fox Sports Net and live streaming on Yahoo! Sports.

Grammy Awards

AEG Digital Media provided complete technical production for, and managed the webcasting of, the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards which featured a historic digital media distribution strategy that was partially credited with driving a record increase in viewership of the CBS broadcast.   Ushering in a new era of digital distribution for the music industry’s marquee event, The Recording Academy offered fans worldwide an unprecedented opportunity to experience and participate in exclusive, 24-hour live coverage of All Things GRAMMY from Jan. 29-31 at GRAMMY.com via the AEG Digital Media digital broadcast platform.

AEG Digital Media provided access to its industry-leading engineering facilities featuring an extensive HD encoding farm, broadcast quality control room, professional editing suites and digital distribution platform. AEG Digital Media’s expert production staff, with an unmatched history in enabling the internet’s most viewed live events,  provided ongoing technical production consulting, facilities and expertise throughout all aspects of this industry-changing event.

The Recording Academy/AEG Digital Media collaboration provided millions of fans in over 150 countries behind-the-scenes access to events like the MusiCares® Person of the Year event honoring Neil Young, the official Pre-GRAMMY Gala and Salute to Industry Icons, the Special Merit Awards ceremony, the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast and the official GRAMMY Celebration After-Party.

IGN

IGN is a leading online media & services company that is – in its own words – “obsessed with gaming, entertainment and everything guys enjoy.”  The company owns and operates IGN.com, GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes and AskMen.com. In addition, IGN has channels covering movies, music, gear and technology, sports, comic books, television and more.  AEG Digital Media designed, built and implemented an all-new video player for IGN.

In addition to interacting with the player on the site, IGN users can also embed the player by using the code provided in the menu and post-play screens.

LA Philharmonic

AEG Digital Media streamed “¡Bienvenido Gustavo!,” a live concert event at the Hollywood Bowl, on October 3rd, 2009.  This unprecedented classical music experience celebrated the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel, the new Music Director of the L.A. Phil, to his new home in Los Angeles.

Mr. Dudamel led the Philharmonic through Beethoven’s Symphony N. 9, among other classic works.  AEG Digital Media was honored to help bring this groundbreaking cultural event to the world.

MTV Networks

AEG Digital Media manages all of the technical production elements of MTV’s live events:

• MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)
• MTV Latin VMAs
• The MTV Movie Awards
• Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
• Spike Video Game Awards

MySpace

AEG Digital Media enabled live,  HD streaming of  the widely viewed  Michael Jackson Tribute on MySpace and managed the resulting looped feed of the event.

For 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2010 AEG Digital Media manged the live feeds that were made available from The Recording Academy and distributed to MySPace.

You can read more about the company’s work on Michael Jackson tribute projects here.

Nokia

AEG Digital Media helped Nokia launch its Twist phone with a live concert event featuring Cobra Starship and Boys Like Girls.

Read more about AEG Digital Media’s work with Nokia here.

Penguin Publishing

AEG Digital Media enabled live streaming of author events originating from Borders locations around the country for Penguin Group (USA), the U.S. affiliate of one of the largest English-language trade book publishers in the world.

Users could ask questions of their favorite Penguin Group authors live, as though they were attending an in-person reading.

AEG Digital Media provided production, streaming and archiving digital services for the reading events, as well as a live video player.

People’s Choice Awards

Procter & Gamble’s marquee entertainment property showcases the biggest names in television, film and music – and is the leading award show that represents a direct reflection of the people’s voice.

AEG Digital Media provides all of the technical production for the PCA’s extensive live and On Demand online content offering.

TED Conference

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), devoted to what it calls “ideas worth spreading,” has rapidly become the “it” conference of our times, drawing top luminaries from business, technology and digital media. TED registrations fully sell out months before the actual conference begins.

The event’s lectures, or TED Talks, are subject to a strict time limit of 18 minutes – regardless of a speaker’s eminence – and feature leaders and experts from all industries and verticals.

AEG Digital Media enables the online live streaming of this historic, iconoclastic conference.

YouTube

AEG Digital Media provided complete live webcast management and technical production services to YouTube for Alicia Keys’ historic World AIDS Day performance on December 1, 2009. This event, which was streamed live worldwide, was the third live webcast in YouTube’s history.

“Alicia Keys Live! One night. One voice. One life at a time” was presented by American Express from the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

You can read a full case study on the event here.

The AEG Digital Media team also powered the historic YouTube live webcast – a celebration of the site’s vast user communities;  featuring everyone from bedroom vloggers to world-famous rock stars, musicians, comedians, athletes, artists and more. Part concert, part variety show and part party, the event brought to life many of the amazing videos and talent that YouTube viewers have already made popular on the site.