Case Study: MultiChoice achieves scalable multiscreen VOD and live-streaming delivery with AWS Elemental

MultiChoice Embraces Full Elemental Suite for Portfolio of Video Services

MultiChoice, a South African pay‑TV leader serving more than 10 million subscribers across Sub‑Saharan Africa, faced scalability and agility challenges as it expanded from traditional broadcast to mobile live streaming, VOD and a new time‑shift SVOD offering. The company needed to process rapidly growing volumes of content and launch new services quickly while maintaining reliable 24/7 customer experiences.

MultiChoice deployed the full Elemental software‑defined video suite — Elemental Live with Conductor for multi‑bitrate live streaming to Akamai, Elemental Server for VOD transcoding into MP4/Smooth Streaming with GB Labs storage, integrations with Clearleap and Irdeto for clip creation and DRM, and Elemental Delta for large‑scale asset ingestion for SVOD. The solution delivered scalable, reliable workflows that handled increased content and subscribers, enabled time‑shift and OTT delivery, and provided strong operational support.

MultiChoice

Jean-Pierre Rossouw

Head of Department, Video On Demand Operations