There had been concerns over the technical quality of streams during the first matches
DAZN has replied to complaints over its opening weekend of Serie A coverage.
The OTT platform gained the rights to 266 Serie A games-per-season for the next three seasons earlier this year, in a major coup for non-linear broadcasters.
However, the opening weekend of its coverage was criticised for its technical quality, leading to the league asking for reassurances over DAZN’s broadcasts.
DAZN originally explained the problems during Inter Milan’s 4-0 win over Genoa on 21 August as being due to a traffic peak limited to a single content delivery network - which has since been resolved. It has now issued another statement on wider concerns about its coverage.
It read: “In recent months, new technologies have been implemented and important changes have been carried out, against which, already at the end of the first day, excellent results have been achieved such as the increase in the cumulative audience compared to previous years,’ the statement read.
“We continue to work, continuing in constant dialogue and collaboration with the authority and partners, fundamental in this project of unprecedented change, as well as in the development and enhancement of DAZN Edge, the proprietary cache for traffic management and in the further process optimisation with global CDN.
“As in every phase of change, and as has already happened in the past, the introduction of new technologies of this magnitude requires a physiological moment of adjustment, a phase necessary to allow further improvements, fully expressing the incredible potential of streaming to the advantage of football, sport and the whole country and DAZN’s commitment to this process is absolute and unconditional.”
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