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Transforming Fight Media Distribution with Aspera

Key Points

  • The promotion runs live combat events worldwide with a tiny, highly mobile staff that must set up on‑site production in hotels, conference centers, and venues.
  • Weekly they generate four to five post‑produced shows plus promotional videos, moving gigabytes of footage between their LA and Las Vegas offices and on‑site crews.
  • By adopting Aspera’s tapeless workflow they shifted from delivering 90% of content on tape to about 95% via Aspera in just 18 months, turning a small team into a high‑volume content factory.
  • The Aspera platform now underpins their digital asset management and distribution, serving over 200 push and pull clients and allowing rapid “single‑button” video delivery to many partners.
  • This fast, reliable delivery system is described as essential—without Aspera the company could not scale its content output or respond quickly enough to grow its brand.

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# Transforming Fight Media Distribution with Aspera **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIry2_DjIFc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIry2_DjIFc) **Duration:** 00:03:44 ## Summary - The promotion runs live combat events worldwide with a tiny, highly mobile staff that must set up on‑site production in hotels, conference centers, and venues. - Weekly they generate four to five post‑produced shows plus promotional videos, moving gigabytes of footage between their LA and Las Vegas offices and on‑site crews. - By adopting Aspera’s tapeless workflow they shifted from delivering 90% of content on tape to about 95% via Aspera in just 18 months, turning a small team into a high‑volume content factory. - The Aspera platform now underpins their digital asset management and distribution, serving over 200 push and pull clients and allowing rapid “single‑button” video delivery to many partners. - This fast, reliable delivery system is described as essential—without Aspera the company could not scale its content output or respond quickly enough to grow its brand. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIry2_DjIFc&t=0s) **Mobile Combat Promotion’s Tapeless Workflow** - A global live‑combat promoter uses a tiny, mobile team, on‑site trailer studios, and the Espera‑powered tapeless workflow with Acerra DAM to rapidly edit and distribute massive video content across multiple platforms. ## Full Transcript
0:00you 0:03and 0:05[Music] 0:08[Applause] 0:08[Music] 0:14we're a live combat sort of promotion we 0:18have multiple events all over the world 0:21we have a pretty small staff and it's 0:25very mobile staff we have to travel 0:27everywhere pretty much everything we do 0:28requires that we're in a venue in a 0:31hotel in a conference center we produce 0:36pay-per-view events and then everything 0:38kind of spiders out from that a lot of 0:40it the interest based media and content 0:42for the fans 0:43production-wise on any given week we 0:47could be creating four five post 0:51produced shows along with promo videos 0:54for upcoming fights acerra 0:58is the back end of our digital asset 1:00management system so even internally 1:02between our LA and Las Vegas offices so 1:04guys no video back and forth gigabytes 1:06of video back and forth all the time we 1:09drop a sixty foot office trailer and do 1:12a lot of our operations on-site because 1:15we have so much content that rolls into 1:17the broadcast we have a team on the 1:19ground that actually goes behind the 1:20scenes they're pulling content in we 1:22have people editing it and we're pushing 1:23it out in a matter of hours the way we 1:26move video around in relation to our 1:29live event is through a relatively new 1:32tapeless workflow over the last year we 1:37have completely changed our workflow to 1:40espera delivery one of the things that 1:43espera has allowed us to do is take a 1:46very small team of people and create a 1:48tremendous amount of content and 1:50distribute it over a wide variety of 1:53partners our editors are using that 1:55system but also our distribution folks 1:57are using that same system to pop video 1:59in and out all the time mostly outs we 2:01distribute massive quantities of video 2:03every day we used to deliver 90% of our 2:06content on tape just a year and a half 2:10ago now it's completely reversed we 2:13deliver about 95% of our content by 2:16espera we've been able to get a lot of 2:18our partners to come over to the digital 2:21realm as well once they saw the the 2:24benefit of it they were soon telling us 2:27never to 2:27safe anymore right now we currently have 2:30over 200 espero clients Matt's push 2:35clients pull clients most folks don't 2:37even know the despair is back there 2:39behind our asset management system or 2:41behind our web distribution system it's 2:44not something that we have to have our 2:45creative minds spend time on worrying 2:48about what kind of delivery affair is 2:50putting there in the background it's 2:52reliable it's easy you know it's a 2:55single button solution we could not live 2:58two days without aspera it would just it 3:01would kill us it would totally kill it 3:02it would totally hang come so a spare is 3:05vitally important to my workflow and my 3:07distribution team because I have a core 3:09very small core set of people just 3:12allowed to push out exponentially more 3:15content to different partners 3:17efficiently quickly and nimbly and be 3:20more responsive which i think is crucial 3:22to promoting our court and growing our 3:24brands there's no way we could have done 3:26this earlier in our life distribute this 3:30kind of material as broadly as we do we 3:34just couldn't have done it without the 3:35ability to deliver video as quickly as 3:37asparagus 3:38[Music]