Cloud on the World Stage: How Tagboard Aids FOX Sports’ Workflow at the FIFA World Cup

Fox Sports' Executive Director of Cross-Platform Production Jonathan Berger offers a peek at the work done in Qatar

As the Round of 16 at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup rolls on in Australia and New Zealand, the team at FOX Sports is producing hundreds of hours of live content for social and digital platforms, on top of it’s comprehensive linear broadcast coverage.

It’s been a very busy eight months or so for the Fox Soccer crew as they are also coming off a fast-paced Men’s World Cup at the end of 2022. Fox Sports produced 60 hours of live content at that World Cup in Qatar. The results: their most-watched digital content series ever with 88.4 million viewers, two Webby awards, and multiple Emmy nominations.

As with the Women’s World Cup, FOX Sports is powering its entire operation with crews separated by thousands of miles from their home facility in Los Angeles. In the following presentation, Jonathan Berger, Executive Director of Cross-Platform Production at FOX Sports shares how his team utilized cloud-based production workflows to power its wealth of live content from the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Tagboard’s CEO Nathan Peterson also joins the discussion to share how their team and solutions gave FOX the keys to a successful cloud tech stack.

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This presentation was hosted at the 2023 SVG Sports Cloud Production Forum in New York City on May 10, 2023.

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