CASE STUDY
LIVID:
Taking the Future of
Sales Online
How LIVID grew leads for its customers by 156% and website conversion by
300% using Wowza’s video solution to revolutionize the sales experience.
Customers experienced an
average conversion increase of
300%
Customers’ sales
leads grew by
156%
Customer Satisfaction
Index improved from
3.9 to 4.6
LIVID believes the future of high-value product sales is “phygital” —
combining digital and physical components to bring sales floors and showrooms online.
To make virtual sales presentations as realistic as possible, LIVID leverages Wowza Streaming Engine
to power one-to-one and one-to-many live streaming sessions for online retailers.
CHALLENGES
• Needed the ability to help sales
representatives converse with their
customers remotely, but with more
dynamic and realistic interactions than
typical video conferencing
• Required a flexible video solution capable
of ingesting streams from multiple
kinds of cameras simultaneously while
delivering streams to thousands of
viewers on different devices
• Hoped to save time developing a
video solution from scratch or piecing
together multiple components while still
leveraging every functionality the brand
needed
SOLUTIONS
Wowza
Streaming
Engine
a customizable media
server software for
deploying video on
premises, behind a
firewall, or entirely
offline.
OUTCOMES
• Successfully created a unique
sales tool that has now grown
into an entirely new sales
ecosystem
• Experienced a 300% increase
in website conversion thanks
to more interactive and
personalized live streams
• Can now offer improved
stream quality, playback
experiences, and loadbearing capabilities to
organizations implementing
online showroom sales
solutions
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Since leveraging LIVID’s solution and
Wowza Streaming Engine — which, together,
create a new video-enhanced sales tool and
ecosystem — LIVID’s high-profile customers’
average conversion rate increased by as
much as 300% and improved its Customer
Satisfaction Index from a 3.9 to 4.6.
Taking Showrooms Online
As ubiquitous as e-commerce has become, buying goods without
talking to an expert isn’t suitable for every kind of product. Human
interaction with a salesperson can make or break a deal, as well as the
ability to personally examine a product before committing to a purchase.
This is especially true when it comes to high-value products like
vehicles. However, when COVID left sales rooms empty in 2020,
LIVID saw an opportunity to invent to something just as valuable:
virtual showrooms powered by next-generation video technology
that emulate in-person sales experiences as much as possible, with an
added element of convenience.
Building a State-of-the-Art Sales
Ecosystem With Video
One of LIVID’s most critical goals was to create a platform that
made the sales process easier for its customers. As such, the brand
sought to create a solution that would make it easy for its customers
to broadcast flexible live streams without them needing to install
complicated software or dive too deep into the technical details
themselves. Such configurations include being able to mix any live or
prerecorded audio and video sources, apply overlays (such as names,
titles, and product information), record remotely on the server at the
push of a button, and further enhance their offering in the future.
The technical team behind LIVID had experience with Wowza as
far back as 2009, so when they decided to take this new direction,
they knew Wowza Streaming Engine was the perfect foundation for
its restructured service offering. Sorin Vasilescu, LIVID’s technical
director, notes that though the brand is particularly biased toward
custom development and considered building its own solution from
scratch or combining open-source components, LIVID decided doing
so would be too costly and arduous — especially for a startup product.
Instead, Wowza Streaming Engine empowered LIVID to hit the
ground running. The brand was able to create its solution with
all the functionality it needed without sacrificing time-to-market.
“What began as one-to-many video streams
where a car dealer presented a model or model
range to hundreds of viewers quickly grew into an
entirely new sales ecosystem,” Vasilescu says.
“Today, the majority of our conversations are
one-to-one that individual customers initiate
while browsing our website. Live presentations
are passed on to other locations or business units
on the fly and become sales conversations. The
whole platform is a veritable video-enhanced
sales tool.”
The unique levels of control and compatibility LIVID can grant its
customers is a significant part of the brand’s success. Customers can
then take advantage of this control to create dynamic and visually
compelling playback experiences that influence purchasing decisions.
LIVID’s technical team elaborates:
“We developed tens of Wowza Streaming Engine
modules that deal with everything we need, from
authentication and authorization, monitoring,
command and control functions, on-demand
recording, to more advanced features like altering
the contents of the streams or even altering parts
of the picture.”
LIVID’s team also notes that Wowza Streaming Engine’s transcoding
capabilities enabled it to bridge the gap between protocols like Web
Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS),
which would otherwise be incompatible. This comprehensive support
for different workflows makes LIVID’s streams more accessible to its
customers’ customers. With the ability to ingest and deliver streams to
and from all kinds of cameras, mobile phones, and browsers, buyers
interested in purchasing vehicles can do so using whichever devices
they choose.
scaling presentations to thousands of viewers at a time. Luckily,
Wowza Streaming Engine’s WebRTC capabilities reduce latency to
under a second while still allowing the brand to scale its audience
when necessary.
Consumers turn to LIVID when they want to purchase high-value
products without needing to visit a physical sales floor. Sales
representatives can use live streams to guide them through vehicle
features, answer questions, queue prerecorded demonstrations,
monitor stream health, personalize experiences, and show off other
product aspects with advanced augmented reality that makes the
process of buying an expensive product reassuring despite distance.
LIVID’s technical team says,
“Wowza Streaming Engine’s capacity to accept
Java plugins and expose its internals for
customization makes it a prime candidate for
building a flexible and novel solution. There are
few things you can think of in terms of streaming
and stream manipulation that Wowza Streaming
Engine cannot accommodate.”
Sorin Vasilescu also mentions,
Some of LIVID’s customers had attempted to use other streaming
solutions that lacked quality and sufficient load-bearing capabilities,
but Wowza Streaming Engine’s flexibility and ease-of-use gives LIVID a
leg up over its competitors.
“Beyond Wowza Streaming Engine’s features
themselves, we cannot stress enough how much
the documentation, code samples, and support
mechanisms have allowed us to be rapid and
effective with developing the functionalities for
our product. We would recommend Wowza
thanks to its flexible offering, building-block
approach, developer friendliness, and community
of like-minded people.”
LIVID beats other sales solutions in terms of speed and scale. They
needed the ability to facilitate both one-to-one conversations (which
are more akin to meeting with a sales representative in-person) and
With Wowza Streaming Engine under the hood and its own state-ofthe-art sales technology, LIVID empowers its customers to make the
deals they strive for.
Developing Innovative B2B Solutions to
Empower B2C Deals
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