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A faster, better way to integrate live streaming into your sportsbook
by iGame Media

Published: June 2026
Author: Chris Watts

Live streaming is one of the most entertaining and immersive in-play sports content formats that you can offer sports bettors.

It brings players closer to the live action, elevating the in-play entertainment leading to more player participation, more enjoyment, greater in-play betting volumes and crucially longer session durations.

In 2026, there are many providers of live streaming content now available for licensed sportsbooks to offer bettors. The volume of live content and sports available means it’s theoretically possible for sportsbooks to offer watch and bet on hundreds of thousands of events each year.

The challenge for sportsbooks and b2b platform providers – is the fragmentation of where this live streaming content comes from and the integration cost that's involved.

Hundreds of thousands of events are split across suppliers. This means that integrating, mapping and successfully streaming this content means lots of integrations and lots of ongoing support time with every single content provider.

It could theoretically result in upwards of 20 bespoke integrations.

Sounds complicated?
It is.

Sound time consuming?
It is.

Sound expensive for your team manage each of the live content suppliers?
It is.

Integrating live streaming suppliers is however only half the problem facing sportsbooks and b2b platforms.

Another major technical problem is 'mapping'. It's how betting markets, front-end content and more talk to each other.

'Mapping’ is a term you’ll hear regularly in the sports betting industry.

It’s a symptom of the expansive range of sports content suppliers that fuel the global sports betting ecosystem and product experience.

As new sports, competitions and content suppliers have expanded – automatically mapping event IDs, market IDs and streaming IDs when they all come from different suppliers has become a growing technical challenge and headache.

With no universal mapping language, the reality of automated, high accuracy mapping has been difficult for sportsbooks to achieve. This gap is costly.

The cost is live streaming content failing to display, the wrong event being shown next to your markets, or worse the event page creation process failing entirely – often with limited or no visibility of where the failure has occurred.

Your team can manually step in to solve mapping problems – but this requires round-the-clock staffing, so your staffing costs rise. The end result is money paid for live streaming content is wasted that an automated mapping system can solve.

There’s a better way.

This article explains how two iGame Media technologies have supported a global b2b sportsbook provider.

How it solved resource problems that were slowing their product and engineering teams down and how the product experience they could offer was expanded, significantly.

OnePlatform and OneMap solve different (but connected) problems facing sportsbooks and b2b platforms globally.

They work best when combined, and this is exactly what this fast-growing platform provider experienced.

OnePlatform

Unifies more than twenty live streaming content providers into a single technical and support workflow. Integrate once and you can activate and offer content from any of these suppliers effortlessly inside your sportsbook.

iGame also handle all the live streaming vendor support and technical upgrades – taking away hundreds of hours of work every single month.

16 rights owner content logos that are available through a OnePlatform integration. Rights owners include: Stats Perform, Infront, RMG, SIS, BetInvest, Iris and many more.
A selection of the content suppliers pre-integrated into OnePlatform

OneMap

OneMap automatically matches live streaming IDs from the wide variety of suppliers iGame Media have integrated and precisely syncs it to event and market IDs which power automated event creation inside your sportsbook.

This automated mapping procedure ensures the right live stream event is automatically presented, irrespective of who is supplying it.

Since launching OneMap a few years ago - it's scaled considerably. In the first half of 2026, OneMap is achieving ~100% mapping accuracy for more than 130,000 events each month for sportsbooks and platform providers all around the world.

Without these two technologies – sportsbooks and platform providers are hampered and operate with limitations:

I Live streaming content choices are restricted because the burden of integrating a new supplier is too high, or resource can't be allocated.

I Support workloads and troubleshooting dedicated to resolving content delivery issues, increases.

I Persistent failure rates for event mapping mean live streaming content risks not being shown and monetised.

Both these iGame Media technologies have exploded in popularity with sportsbooks and platform providers – and are now in use by over 150+ regulated operators around the world.

It provides ambitious, growing sportsbooks and platform providers with freedom of choice and makes product location much easier.

While also removing technical development time spent on live streaming integration and management down to zero.

Win-win.

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OnePlatform and OneMap in action for Kindred / Unibet
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