The Second Feed
How broadcast-grade event DSPs add a live drone angle without touching their main rig.
Large-event broadcast work is a tightly choreographed system. There is a director, a switcher, a broadcast truck, SDI cable runs, RF receivers, a tally system, and a crew that has been doing this together for years. If you are a DSP working Red Bull activations, F1 support, Formula E, stadium concerts, or corporate summits, your main workflow is not broken. It does not need replacing. Suggesting otherwise is how you lose the client.
What is missing is the second feed. Not the one that goes to the world feed or the broadcaster. The one that goes to everyone else who needs to see the drone shot without being in the truck.
Everyone who is not in the truck
The production team in the gallery needs it to cue. The sponsor stakeholders watching from a hotel or a head office need it to know their branding is on camera. The event operations lead on the ground needs overhead awareness for crowd flow and perimeter. The client sitting in Zurich who paid for the event needs to see it happen without flying in. Under the current setup, one or two of these people get served by whatever the truck can spare, and the rest get WhatsApp clips an hour later.
Where Skyhost fits
Skyhost fits this slot cleanly because it is built for it. One pilot in the air. One Starlink or 5G uplink in the backpack. One browser link that goes out to the stakeholders who need eyes on the ground. The main broadcast workflow never touches it. The cinema drone footage still goes into the switcher. The Skyhost feed runs in parallel for the people who are not part of the broadcast chain but are part of the event.
Additive, not disruptive
The reason this sells to big DSPs is that it is additive, not disruptive. You are not asking the director to adopt a new tool. You are not rewiring the truck. You are handing the production lead a second deliverable that they can offer to the client in the proposal. Live remote stakeholder view. No extra truck time. No extra SDI runs. No RF frequency coordination. One pilot, one link, a Starlink hotspot, done.
A new line item on the quote
The pricing conversation changes with it. A second live stakeholder feed is a line item on the quote. It is something the client pays for on top of the main production package. It is also something that lands the next contract, because the sponsor who watched from Zurich last time now wants it on every activation they run after.
Quiet capabilities win
The DSPs who win this decade are the ones who can quietly add capabilities around their main rig without compromising it. The second feed is one of those capabilities. It is fast to set up, cheap to operate, and invisible to the workflow that already works.
Ready to offer your next client a second live feed? Get started with Skyhost today.