Case Study: City of Corona achieves exponential viewer growth and reliable live council streaming with Wowza Video ClearCaster

City of Corona - Customer Case Study

The City of Corona, a local government in California, wanted to stream town hall and council meetings to reach constituents on social media but was hampered by an ad‑hoc Wirecast workflow and a MacBook Pro doubling as an encoder. That setup caused high CPU load, latency, buffering, stripped closed captions (a legal requirement), and unreliable broadcasts, making it difficult to engage citizens effectively.

Switching to the Wowza ClearCaster appliance solved those problems: streams became simple to configure, stable, low‑latency, and preserved captions, letting staff hand off streaming tasks and cut prep time. The result was a clear boost in reach and engagement—peak live viewers rose (e.g., from 55 to 85), minutes viewed climbed into the thousands, and the city now plans to expand simulcasting to additional platforms, delivering measurable ROI in time saved and civic participation.

City of Corona

Kyle Edgeworth

Deputy Chief Information Officer