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Managing Esports Content at Every Stage

Mar 06, 2025 4mins

Overcoming file transfer challenges before, during and after the match

The esports industry has seen a significant surge over the past several years. With millions of fans worldwide, the demand for high-quality, real-time content has never been greater. To keep up, production teams need fast, secure, and reliable file transfer solutions that can handle large amounts of data at lightning speed. The Signiant Platform provides the technology that esports productions need to streamline content workflows, improve efficiency, and maximize reach.

Managing the Many Files Behind a Live Esports Event

Capturing fan attention amidst growing competition requires esports leagues, teams, and producers to create an unprecedented volume of compelling and varied content. Growth in content creation is fueled by using more cameras, higher resolution game graphics, and distribution across numerous platforms and rights holders, with media stored across both on-premises and cloud locations. Additionally, distributed esports production teams, social media engagement, player brand building, direct-to-consumer offerings, and archive requests further burden organizations.

Live esports production extends far beyond capturing the competition itself. Vast amounts of content are generated before, during, and after the match.

Before: Teams ingest terabytes of prerecorded content, including pre-event interviews, hype videos, and graphics, all essential for satisfying audience demands.
During: Distributed teams create and provide clips for in-venue displays, gameplay footage, highlights, and to fulfill media obligations for gaming sites and social platforms.
After: Content production and distribution continue post event, including archiving, sharing team game footage, post-match interviews, highlights, and content for players and influencers.

Live & Remote Collaboration

Speed is everything in esports — especially for low and mid-level events looking to engage fans and sponsors. Unfortunately, many productions experience delays in creating and distributing highlight reels, sharing content on social media, and fulfilling other immediate needs because footage often remains at the event site until it can be physically shipped or transferred back to headquarters.

Without a reliable way to move content as it’s being shot, footage from live esports events can take days to reach audiences, losing valuable momentum and missing critical opportunities to connect with viewers in real time. This delay not only impacts fan engagement but also limits the event’s ability to capitalize on sponsorships and other revenue opportunities tied to timely content delivery.

Traditional methods like shipping physical drives, FTP, and consumer-grade services like Dropbox or Google Drive often fall short when handling large file sizes and tight deadlines. The Signiant Platform eliminates these bottlenecks by enabling fast, automated, and secure file transfers for live esports production.

The Signiant Platform for Esports Production

The Signiant Platform provides a scalable, secure, and efficient solution tailored for media and esports production needs. Here are just a few ways it empowers esports productions to streamline their content operations and enhance efficiency.

Growing Files for Live Events: Transfer and use files while they’re still being created. Enable remote teams to edit in real-time, reducing on-site staff requirements, and cutting travel and other operational costs.
Immediate Content Access: Access and review content without downloading it. Ensure fast approvals and quick turnaround times. Clipping capabilities enable users to extract key moments without transferring full files, optimizing workflow efficiency.
Storage Independence: Signiant is dedicated to ensuring storage flexibility. Content always moves directly into and out of the customer’s chosen storage, whether it’s file or object-based, located on-premises, or in the cloud.

The Signiant Platform comprises a suite of simple yet powerful core products and services.

Media Shuttle offers fast, user-friendly, person-initiated file transfers for teams to send and receive large files securely.
Jet automates and accelerates large dataset transfers between systems with intelligent transport that eliminates latency.
Media Engine provides powerful search and preview capabilities, allowing users to locate, access, and use media assets quickly.

Easier Management of Esports Content

The evolution of esports production in the remote era underscores the need for speed, efficiency, and flexibility in managing and delivering content. With the industry’s rapid growth and increasing demands for real-time engagement, traditional file transfer methods simply cannot keep up. The Signiant Platform empowers esports production teams to meet the demands of live production. By enabling real-time collaboration, efficient workflows, and immediate access to media, Signiant helps esports organizations quickly deliver exceptional content experiences to captivate and engage audiences.