Whitepaper
Case study: performance testing for broadcasting and streaming
The business case is simple: when viewers leave during a live event, they don't come back.
In broadcasting, performance problems rarely stay technical for long. A CDN miss at kickoff becomes a failed launch. A buffering ratio above 2% becomes churn. A poorly tested ad insertion pipeline becomes a missed revenue quarter.
This whitepaper shows how broadcasting and streaming organizations build performance testing into the delivery process — where performance risk concentrates across live events, subscriber platforms, ad infrastructure, and legacy modernization — and how Gatling Enterprise Edition helps teams turn load testing into continuous performance intelligence.
In this whitepaper, you'll learn how to:
- Treat viewer reliability as a growth, retention, and revenue issue — not a technical metric
- Identify the four delivery moments where performance risk concentrates in broadcasting
- Simulate live event spikes before game day exposes weak points
- Validate OTT platform reliability under premiere-night traffic conditions
- Test ad insertion infrastructure under simultaneous break load
- Reduce legacy broadcast modernization risk before cutover windows close
- Turn test results into launch/hold decisions with clear SLOs
- Scale performance testing across teams with Gatling Enterprise Edition
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