Media & Live Events
Breaking news. Live sports. Global broadcasts. The moments that matter most are the moments when everyone shows up at the same time. ProcessOne builds the push and messaging infrastructure that media companies rely on when the traffic spike is the product, not the problem.
2.5 million push notifications per minute. Real-time data to tens of millions of screens. Zero tolerance for failure.
In media, the first notification wins. The outlet that reaches your lock screen before the competition is the one that shapes the story. Speed at scale is not optional. It is the entire competitive advantage.
In 2012, the BBC needed push notifications for BBC News and BBC Sports, their flagship mobile apps running on tens of millions of devices. The backend had to handle the full installed base from day one, send as many pushes as the news demanded with no per-notification pricing, and beat every competitor to the lock screen. The target: at least 2.5 million notifications per minute.
ProcessOne built the entire system from scratch in three months: a scalable backend, management interface, editorial API, and sophisticated topic-based subscriptions so users could follow a specific football team, choose exactly which events to be notified about, and never receive a duplicate.
The system ran for years, delivering millions of pushes every single day to tens of millions of BBC News and BBC Sports users on iOS and Android.
BBC Radio needed real-time LiveText across its ten national stations, but the existing platform couldn't handle the load. ProcessOne built a high-performance messaging platform based on ejabberd, serving 4M+ unique users per year. As Alan Ogilvie, interactive platform producer at BBC Radio, put it: "We needed a platform that would be flexible, scalable and more efficient."
Major League Baseball needed real-time chat for Game Day, their live pitch-by-pitch app with 85M users, but a previous vendor had failed to scale. Joe Choti, CTO of MLB.com, recalls: "We were immediately impressed by ProcessOne's offering. ProcessOne was head and shoulders above everyone else." The ejabberd cluster scaled seamlessly to handle live game-day traffic without capacity limits.
Six months to build a social platform for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. No flexibility on the deadline. ProcessOne deployed a geo-cluster across four AWS regions to serve fans worldwide. Days after launch, Cristiano Ronaldo retweeted about the app, causing a 10x traffic spike. The platform handled it without a flinch. 100% uptime and not a single dropped message.
Real-time messaging infrastructure for one of the world's leading news agencies.
Push and messaging services for the international news network broadcasting in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Real-time communication infrastructure for one of the largest media conglomerates in the world.
The full ejabberd platform, free and open-source under GPLv2. Self-host anywhere: bare metal, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes. The same core that powered the BBC's push notifications and MLB's fan chat.
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Long-Term Support releases, SLA, priority security patches, and direct access to the ProcessOne engineering team. For media organizations where a missed notification is a missed story.
Starting at 16 000 €/year for a 2-node cluster
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Managed ejabberd on our infrastructure. Scale your push and messaging without managing servers. Full API access, custom domains, and dedicated support from the team that built the BBC's notification system.
Starting at 200 €/month
Start on Fluux →The BBC, MLB, and AFP already trust ProcessOne to deliver when millions tune in at once. Our team has been building real-time push and messaging infrastructure since 2002. Let's talk about what you need.
