1. General overview

Sparkup is an interactive live streaming platform designed to confidently host and broadcast engaging corporate events, webinars, and meetings, while significantly reducing your energy consumption.

Key Features:

• Interface Personalization: Add your brand identity, including colors, logos, and backgrounds, to fully align with your visual guidelines.
• Live Streaming: High-definition streaming with ultra low latency (down to < 1s), adaptive bitrate and optimized bandwidth via P2P-based eCDN.
• Virtual studio : Produce your entire event directly in Sparkup without the need for a control room or third-party tools.
• Virtual Audience: Actively engage all the participants by displaying them on a large-scale customized video mosaic with intelligent automated moderation.
• Grab the mic: Instantly promote viewers to speakers at any time, automatically switching them from streaming to videoconference. Includes user microphone management from the control room for optimal sound flow management.
• Real-time Enhanced Interactions: Live chat, emojis reactions, Q&A, polls, quizzes with many options. Offers two interaction modes: passive (similar to classic video conferencing) or active, where interactivity appears directly as an overlay on the player.
• Security access: Unique magic-link authentication, SSO & SAML v2.0, and email whitelisting for added security.
• Moderation & Audience Management: Comprehensive tools for moderation, including banning participants.
• Recordings: Secure storage and easy access to videos after live sessions.
• Advanced Customization: Go beyond basic branding with features like personalized URLs, branded interface elements, custom emojis, and a virtual audience experience tailored to your event.
• Analytics: Capture all connections, interactions and engagement data.
• Full Web Platform: No app download required, works directly from any browser.
• Cross-Device Compatibility: Fully responsive and seamlessly compatible with any device or browser.
• Multi-Event Format: Supporting in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, Sparkup also offers an external encoder mode that allows you to move production outside of Sparkup by connecting Sparkup to any control room or video tools for more complex events.
• Seamless Integration: Easily connect Sparkup with third-party platforms to ensure a high-quality live experience and a smooth workflow.
• France-based solution: GDPR-compliant with all data securely hosted on servers located in France.
• Sustainability optimization: Innovations in mosaic view, interactivity, and streaming reduce energy consumption by an average of 65% for virtual and hybrid events (compared to standard interactive streaming) and achieve an 80% efficiency gain on network infrastructures, significantly lowering environmental impact.

2. Technical Aspects

Architecture

• Type: Monolithic service, deployed in the cloud.
• Deployment Model: SaaS.
• Supported Cloud Providers: AWS France, SCALEWAY, OVH.

Compatibility & Requirements

• Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android.
• Supported Browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari.
• Compatible Devices: PCs, Macs, Smartphones (iOS & Android), Tablets.
• Video Protocols: RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, WebRTS (HTTPS based protocol).

Integration Methods

• Iframe: Sparkup offers different integration modes to meet the needs of third-party applications: Sparkup integration documentation.
• REST API & SDK: For interfacing with third-party applications.

IT Requirements

• Documentation including a test link: IT requirements.

Security & Compliance

• Authentication: OAuth, SAML V2.0 SSO.
• Encryption: TLS 1.3+.
• Standards: GDPR, ISO 27001 (ongoing).
• Server location: Hosted in France, with international options available to meet global client needs.

Scalability & Performance

• Load Balancing: Manages audience spikes with auto-scaling.
• Ultra Low Latency: < 1 seconds with WebRTS.
• Maximum Viewers: 5000 participants per session, > 5000 with multiple sessions.

Live streaming

• Input protocols: RTMP, SRT, WebRTC.
• Output protocols: WebRTS (HTTPS based solution with a latency comparable to WebRTC).
• Quality: up to 4K.
• Latency: < 1s.
• Adaptive bitrate: video resolution is automatically adapted to the viewer’s connection to keep the highest resolution possible while keeping the latency to a minimum.
• Peer-to-peer eCDN: most of the viewers will download the video via peer-to-peer to optimize the  bandwidth.

Virtual audience

• Protocol: WebRTC
• Cloud-rendering: Sparkup collects all the activated camera and generate the video output server-side to greatly optimize the bandwidth and avoid sending all the camera video separately.
• Intelligent automated moderation: Sparkup automatically removes covered webcams & empty chairs.

Sparkup user roles:

• Participant: can only join an event to participate.
• Speaker: similar to a participant, but can be put on stage to speak live and has a few additional options (microphone, screen sharing, slide management, etc.).
• Admin: can also create and moderate an event.

3. Conclusion

This document provides an overview of the unique features and technical aspects of Sparkup. It helps assess its compatibility with existing infrastructure, IT rules and specific usage requirements.
For a more in-depth evaluation, we can activate a Sparkup access for testing and a POC can be set up to validate performance and suitability with the target environment.