How ClipMyHorse.TV made equestrian event distribution more repeatable
With more than 1,000 live events a year to cover, ClipMyHorse.TV uses Castr to manage recurring channels, event streams, commentary versions, and partner delivery through one consistent workflow.
A global streaming service shaped by a constantly changing event calendar
ClipMyHorse.TV delivers more than 1,000 live events a year, including all FEI competitions, alongside on-demand equestrian coverage for audiences around the world. Its programming spans dressage, show jumping, eventing, driving, vaulting, breeding, and training.
Its calendar combines recurring linear channels with coverage built around individual competitions. One event may require several arenas, another may need separate commentary versions, and a third may involve a different group of broadcast partners.
For the operations team, the challenge is not simply getting a stream online. It is keeping distribution organized while the requirements change from one event to the next.
Every competition changed the delivery plan
Recurring channels needed to stay available, even as the team prepared simultaneous arena feeds and other event-specific streams for new competitions. At the same time, commentary needs, audience segments, and partner requirements could call for different destinations in each production.
Recreating those configurations every time would add setup work and make consistency harder to maintain. ClipMyHorse.TV needed a stable foundation that could preserve what was reusable without limiting what each event required.
The goal was not to make every competition identical. It was to give a changing event calendar a dependable structure.
The priorities
- Keep recurring programming ready between events
- Prepare competition feeds without rebuilding the entire setup
- Deliver streams to owned and partner platforms
- Route feeds to custom RTMP and internal ingest endpoints
- Separate language and commentary versions by audience
- Manage international distribution from one place
A platform flexible enough for the event, and consistent enough for the team
A tool designed around one stream and a fixed list of destinations would not reflect the way ClipMyHorse.TV operates. The team needed to manage permanent channels, temporary event feeds, partner delivery, and audience-specific commentary without splitting the work across separate systems.
Castr matched that balance: reusable where the workflow repeats, flexible where a competition introduces something new.
A consistent foundation for events that never look exactly the same
ClipMyHorse.TV has used Castr since 2021 to bring its recurring and event-specific distribution into one environment.
The team can keep standing channels configured for ongoing programming, then add the feeds, commentary versions, and destinations required for an upcoming competition. That creates continuity between events without forcing every production into the same template.
In practice, Castr covers each part of that workflow, from a single incoming feed to a channel that runs all year:
Multistreaming from one feed to many destinations
Custom RTMP delivery to owned and partner endpoints
Standing channels for linear and recurring programming
Event-specific streams for individual competitions
Reusable stream and destination setups across events
Separate commentary and language feeds
Regional ingest for international productions
Centralized monitoring across active channels
Building repeatability into event setup
ClipMyHorse.TV did not want to rebuild familiar parts of the distribution plan for every competition. With Castr, the team can retain dedicated channels and destination settings for recurring programming, then prepare only what is unique to the next event.
That gives operators a recognizable starting point while leaving room for different arenas, schedules, and production requirements.
Giving each audience and partner the right feed
International equestrian audiences often need more than one version of the same event. Commentary may run in different languages, and partners may require delivery into their own infrastructure.
Castr keeps those versions within the same operational view, routing each stream either into ClipMyHorse.TV’s own ingest endpoints or out to the custom destination a given event or partner requires.
Keeping long-running and temporary streams in one view
Some ClipMyHorse.TV channels support ongoing programming. Others exist only for a particular competition or broadcast arrangement. Across a calendar of more than a thousand events, both kinds are often running at the same time.
Managing both in Castr gives the team a central view of what is active, what is scheduled, and where each feed is going. The result is a distribution process that can adapt without becoming fragmented.
More consistency behind a changing calendar
ClipMyHorse.TV can now approach each competition from a familiar operational foundation, even when the audiences, commentary, partners, and destinations change.
Each competition starts from a known configuration
Operators work from the same routine at every event
Audience and partner versions share one setup
One place to see what is live and what is scheduled
Fewer handoffs between ingest and final destination
The calendar can grow without fragmenting the workflow
The value is not a rigid template for every event. It is a consistent way to manage the complexity that varies from event to event.
The next event is an addition, not a rebuild
New partners, additional language feeds, and competitions still to be scheduled join what is already running, rather than starting a separate project.
That keeps the team’s attention on what makes each competition different, rather than on the routing that stays the same underneath.
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