Case Study: STV achieves election-ready digital performance with SOASTA CloudTest

STV Votes for SOASTA to Ready Digital Media Platforms for Election

STV, Scotland’s leading digital broadcaster, needed to prepare its online platforms for the 2015 UK General Election debates after the 2014 referendum showed traffic could spike to 450,000 stream requests, with 75% arriving in the first minute. The company had only weeks to test its digital player and registration systems for sudden, unpredictable surges in demand.

SOASTA used its CloudTest load testing solution to run 10,000- and 100,000-concurrent-user tests, quickly identifying and fixing issues while validating login, registration, live streaming, and election-site traffic. The results helped STV deliver strong election-night performance, and STV standardized on SOASTA’s CloudTest platform for ongoing testing of projects like STV Player, improving confidence in platform growth and online revenue.

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John Catnach

Service Delivery Manager