All eyes on Alberta's emerging video broadcasting industry

Calgary's Worldplay, a fast emerging leader in online video broadcasting

CALGARY, April 13, 2016 /CNW/ - Worldplay, an online video platform provider in Calgary, AB, is capitalizing on the rapidly growing number of organizations and businesses who are watching, producing, and broadcasting online video content. After launching its online video platform in 2014, Worldplay has attracted a wide range of clients looking to manage, monetize and distribute their video content over top of the Internet.

Of the company's most recent successes, Worldplay has been the online video streaming and platform provider for the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta and the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition, Worldplay partnered with Squash Canada and Squash Alberta to live stream the Canadian Doubles Squash Championship in Calgary, AB. Collectively these three events streamed over 68,000 hours of live and VOD video with a viewership from 25 countries.

"The streaming quality and services provided by Worldplay for the 2016 National Doubles Squash Championships was of the absolute highest standard," said Michael Letourneau, Tournament Co-Chairman 2016 National Doubles Squash Championships. "It's incredible the demand we are seeing for our video platform technology," said Brett McConkey, SVP of Solutioning & Innovation at Worldplay. "We're talking with organizations everyday who have adopted a video culture, and require the need to control, manage and monetize the entire online video experience."

Worldplay's online video platform is increasingly being sought after from an array of organizations, particularly in the corporate, entertainment, and sports sectors. Worldplay is a Calgary, Alberta based video broadcasting solutions company who in the last two years has created numerous jobs and developed world-class video technologies that have been used to reach audiences.

About Worldplay (Canada) Inc.: Worldplay (Canada) Inc. is an online video broadcasting solutions company based in Calgary, AB. Our mission is to help our clients realize their digital potential, and create powerful online communication platforms that can be used for the management, promotion, creation and monetization of online video.

SOURCE Worldplay (Canada) Inc.

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Brett McConkey, Worldplay (Canada) Inc., Phone: [phone], #100 - 6131 6th Street SE, Calgary, AB, T2H 1L9, www.worldplaynetworks.com