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Live Video Management, From Feed to Partners in Minutes

Ingest live video feeds, archive and create clip Collections for your partners and teams in minutes with Live Connect. Manage and distribute your live video securely in one workflow, without the cost or complexity of traditional infrastructure.

Capture, clip and distribute live content from one platform.

Live is where audiences engage, partners activate, and revenue is won or lost. Reuters Imagen gives you one platform to ingest, clip and distribute live content alongside your archive, so every moment moves faster, reaches the right partners, and works harder for your business.

Live Connect Capabilities

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Live Connect is a live video management service that ingests live video via SRT, records growing files, enables near live logging and clipping, and securely distributes content to your partners so that you can share video to your partners in near-real time.

  • Live ingest for faster content activation
    Record, manage and access content so teams can start clipping, logging and distributing content while events are still underway.

  • Near-live clipping for faster turnaround
    Create highlights, clips and collections quickly during live events to support broadcasters, social teams and commercial partners.

  • Secure access for broadcasters and partners
    Support broadcasters, federations, rights holders and production partners from one governed platform.

  • Multi-camera workflows for richer storytelling
    Give content teams more options for highlights, social content and downstream distribution without adding operational complexity.

  • Automated distribution for global content delivery
    Reduce manual handling while ensuring content reaches the right destination quickly and consistently.

  • Live-to-archive workflows for long-term value
    Create searchable, reusable media assets that support future production, licensing and monetisation opportunities.

Why Live Connect?

  • Cost-Effective: Enhance your live coverage with Live Connect and SRT, as an alternative, addition or backup to satellite and dedicated fibre workflows
  • Monetise More: Near live ingest, Smart Clipping and collections for you & your partners to maximise every moment, whilst the event is still happening
  • Cloud-based Scalability: Add feeds, partners, or events instantly. All with secure role based access controls and without the need for additional infrastructure, in our easy-to-use event scheduling and monitoring interfaces
  • Integrated Platform: One Imagen platform for live feeds, scheduling, clips, collections, and archives. Unified for simplicity and speed of activation
  • Flexible Service Tiers: Live monitoring service options from full self-service to white-glove managed operations for monitoring your live feeds
  • Sustainable Solution: Lower carbon footprint than traditional infrastructure to positively contribute to your ESG goals
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Live Connect Service Tiers

  • Self Service: Take full control of your live workflows with your own in-house expertise, reducing reliance on external support for faster, more cost-efficient event delivery. Includes event scheduling interface and live ingest monitoring dashboard for real-time visibility.
  • Managed Service: Lower operations risk with expert oversight for critical live event scheduling and configuration of the Live Ingest set up in the Imagen user interface, enabling reliable delivery with less internal resource burden.
  • Managed Service Plus (subject to scoping): Need an elevated and bespoke service? Contact our sales and pre-sales team to discuss your bespoke requirements through our hyper-care and Managed Service Plus tier. 

Trusted for Live content at scale

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  • 2,000+ hours of live content ingested during the Esports World Cup

  • 600+ partners served globally

  • 8 billion impressions generated

  • 750 million viewers globally
  • 400 million hours watched

"All around the world, every club, every player, all our takers had instant access to [our] live content, which really took this whole thing to a new level."

Christian Peer, Media & Strategy Advisor, Esports World Cup Foundation

Frequently Asked Questions

Teams can access growing files while events are still underway, enabling near-live clipping, logging and distribution while events are still being captured.

Live Connect supports industry-standard protocols including SRT and RTMP, allowing organisations to ingest live content securely and reliably across a wide range of production environments.

Yes. Access can be managed through granular permissions, allowing you to control which broadcasters, partners, rights holders and internal teams can view, clip, download or distribute content.

Not necessarily. Many organisations use Live Connect alongside existing satellite workflows. It can act as a cost-effective complement, backup or alternative for distributing live content to partners and rights holders.

Yes. Multiple live feeds can be captured, monitored and archived simultaneously, giving production teams more flexibility when creating highlights, social content and partner deliverables.

By connecting live ingest, clipping, archive and distribution in a single workflow, Live Connect helps organisations create more content, deliver it faster to partners and turn live moments into reusable assets that can continue generating value long after an event has ended.

Faster to
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Colleagues and partners alike can access and use one platform to manage live and archive content. 

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Operational
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Schedule events, monitor stream health, and use granular access controls to keep the rights holders on the right feeds. 

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Secure and
Reliable

SRT transport provides secure and reliable, low latency distribution across unpredictable networks. 

FEATURES

ingest, clip and archive every asset in near real time

  • Multi-camera ingest: Capture multiple feeds as separate media objects for preview and archive. 
  • Live to file recording: Grow-in-place playback, frame-accurate trimming, and "make record from clip." 
  • Near-live clipping & logging: Mark moments during the feed to publish, archive and distribute immediately. 
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PLAN, MONITOR AND PROTECT EVERY FEED WITH CONFIDENCE

  • Event scheduling: Plan entire seasons with dates, start times, and unique SRT/RTMP keys. 
  • Stream monitoring: Track SRT status, packet loss/recovery, and latency with alerts for interruptions. 
  • Access controls: Entitlements by team, partner, or territory together with audit trails for compliance.  
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FROM CAPTURE TO COLLECTIONS, DELIVERY THAT SCALES

  • Automate the distribution of live content and clips via configured Imagen workflows. 
  • Automate distribution and downstream workflows with content data feeds and flexible access control lists. 
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Live video ingest, archive, clipping & collections for partners & rights holders

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