Case Study: TourGigs achieves reliable, scalable 4K concert streaming with Wowza Video

Wowza technology helps TourGigs be among the first to stream concerts in 4K

TourGigs captures, produces, and live-streams ultra-high‑definition concerts so fans can watch in real time or on demand. Facing spiky traffic, multi‑hour festival events, limited outbound venue bandwidth, and the need to travel light, TourGigs built an engineering arm (Gigcasters) to find a reliable streaming platform and selected Wowza Streaming Engine to meet their quality and reliability requirements.

By sending a single HD or 4K stream to cloud instances running Wowza, TourGigs minimizes on-site hardware and bandwidth while Wowza Transcoder and nDVR provide adaptive bitrate delivery, multi‑device playback, and instant archiving. The solution supports 20,000+ concurrent viewers, helped triple TourGigs’ show schedule and customer base in a year, enabled early 4K concert streams, and saved roughly $100,000 over 12 months through scalable, pay‑for‑use cloud deployment.

TourGigs

Casey Charvet

Director of research and development