Case Study 06
Partner
EverPass
Category
Sports Streaming • Venue Tech
Devices
Scope
The starting point · What EverPass runs
EverPass licenses commercial rights to live sports — NFL Sunday Ticket, Peacock Sports Pass's Premier League coverage, the NHL and more— and distributes them into bars, restaurants and venues, so an operator can show the game to all their customers.
That distribution ran through hardware EverPass supplied to every venue. It worked, but it meant a venue needed a piece of EverPass's own equipment installed before it could show a single game.
The hardware barrier.
Every venue EverPass wanted to serve needed custom hardware first — a sale, a shipment, an install — before a single game played. That became a ceiling on how fast EverPass could reach new customers and limited their accessibility.
EverPass asked us to move the experience onto the streaming devices those venues already had plugged into their TVs — Fire TV, LG TV, Google TV. Making set up for game day, faster and more cost effective for businesses than ever.
What we built
01 · Fire TV
A web view for the guide, a native player for the video.
Fire TV pairs a web view with a native video player, allowing Amazon's platform requirements to be met while maintaining the EverPass experience. Guide and activation updates ship from EverPass's side with no app-store release, making improvements fast and simple; the player stays native to meet Amazon's own streaming requirements.
02 · Google TV
The same split, on Google's platform.
Google TV mirrors Fire TV's approach — a web view for the EPG and EverPass Engage, a native player underneath — for the same reason: Google's own video-playback requirements hold the player to native code.
03 · LG TV
A full web-view experience, matching LG's platform.
LG TV runs end to end as a web view, meeting LG's own platform requirements and keeping tighter sync with EverPass's own platform than a native build would allow.
01 · Reliability
The web view and the native player had to behave as one app, not two: Mux analytics on playback, backend support commands reachable from the EPG and the player, and feedback from the CTV remotes.
02 · Playback quality
HLS with DRM at 1080p, audio and video staying in sync, and real-time bandwidth adaptation that holds the picture together on a venue's connection without adding latency on top of it.
03 · Cross-platform consistency
Error screens, refresh timing, and manager settings had to function properly across all platforms and devices, so a venue running both never sees two different products.
04 · QA and documentation
QA covered Fire TV, Google TV and LG TV alike to ensure a high quality experience. Subsequently backed up by help-center articles and device-compatibility documentation so a venue's staff, and EverPass's own support team, know what to expect on each.
Since launch
Venues started downloading the Fire TV, Google TV and LG TV apps once they shipped, watching games on the streaming devices already plugged into their sets.
The feedback that came back was about the app itself — the streaming quality and the in-app experience people were actually using — which was the bar the native-to-web-view work and the three platform-specific builds were built to clear.
EverPass is a commercial sports-streaming platform. It licenses live sports feeds — NFL Sunday Ticket, Peacock Sports Pass's Premier League coverage, ESPN+ for Business college football, the NHL and more — and distributes them into bars, restaurants and venues, so an operator can show the game to all their customers with ease.
It runs on CTV devices, Fire TV, Google TV and LG TV, the streaming devices already plugged into most venues' televisions. As well as EverPass's own custom hardware. EverPass is built for fixed-screen devices only; it does not run on phones or tablets.
EverPass originally distributed its feeds through hardware it supplied to each venue, which meant every new venue needed a box installed before it could show a game. Moving onto streaming devices venues already own removed that step and expanded how many venues EverPass can reach.
Fire TV and Google TV builds that pair a web view — carrying the EPG and EverPass Engage — with a native video player, since Amazon's and Google's video-playback platforms require native playback. LG TV runs as a full web-view experience, matching LG's own platform requirements. Across all three, engineering went into native-to-web-view reliability, 1080p playback quality with no added latency, cross-platform consistency, and QA and documentation for every platform.
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