ACTIVE LIVESTREAM PRODUCTION

Featured Past Event – Game Con Canada 2024

Game Con Canada 2024 Livestream Produced by CKE.live – Over 30,000 Attendees

Who We’ve Worked With

Services

Livestreaming

Anyone can go live, but it takes experience and know-how to do it right. It’s everything from meticulously learning about the event that’s being covered, understanding which platforms would be best to reach the target demographic, planning for every detail and possible issue, understanding and having the equipment to cover the event properly, to having staff who have been in the livestreaming industry years before everyone else was forced to do it during COVID.

Hosting

Without a host, a livestream is just passive viewing that’s no different than traditional television. The livestream experience is about engagement and an experienced host can help keep the audience engaged by leveraging livestream specific tools like live chat, on-stream polls, and more. The live audience often wants to fully experience the event but is unable to, so the host helps them experience it vicariously. The host can ask an exhibitor a question on behalf of someone halfway around the globe.

Technical Producing

You have an event you want to put on, you shouldn’t have to worry about if your stage production, livestream production, and any other production teams will mesh. We can take care of all the technical producing between all different teams to ensure that your event runs smoothly without you having to learn a completely new skill-set while trying to also organize all other aspects of your event.

Consulting

Want to stream your own events, podcasts, or even just your own individual content like gameplay or IRL coverage but don’t know where to start? We can create a production strategy that’s tailored to your needs and budget that covers equipment, software, staffing, event planning and provide you with documents like standardized checklists and forms to help you succeed!

Sponsor Negotiations

Maybe you haven’t considered livestreaming your event because you can’t find a way to justify the cost, or maybe you just can’t find enough room in your budget. We not only work with you to find ways to monetize the livestream itself and use it to push event ticket sales, but we work with you on strategies to secure sponsors to help fund the livestream production. From tried-and-true sponsor activations like ad rolls and logo placement to event specific activations, we want to help you get the funding you need to have an amazing production!

Engagement Strategies

It takes experience to properly utilize livestreaming tools to drive livestream engagement. Livestreams aren’t just about a static camera pointed at something, they’re about bringing the virtual audience to your venue. With a nearly a decade of pushing the limits of livestream interaction and engagement, our staff has found unique ways to engage the live audience at events. From simple scavenger hunts that combine the virtual and in-person event to chat controlled cameras to fully automated livestream escape rooms with custom robotics and animatronics, we push the boundaries of livestream engagement.

Audience Building

If you already have an established event and online following, you may be able to go live and instantly have massive viewership numbers. But, if you’ve never or rarely had your event livestreamed you may have a lower-than-expected turnout to the livestream. We can work with you to not only provide a top-of-the-line livestream during your event, but also special livestreams between events to help build your audience. This not only helps engagement during the event, it helps build a platform for you and your team to regularly push fresh content to and a place to stay engaged with the community year-round.

FAQ

How much will livestreaming my event cost me?

There is not a one-size fits all solution to livestreaming events. It can vary based on many factors including type of event, target audience, size of event, number of cameras, complexity of event, how many days of coverage, and so much more. That’s why we provide personalized quotes after talking to you about your event, your vision, and your needs. But…you didn’t come here for a wishy-washy answer, so for a small 1-2 day event that only needs one staff member and 1 or 2 cameras and no coordination with any other production teams, you’d probably want to budget around $3,000 CAD – $5,000 CAD + travel and accommodations. Large multi-day events with a dozen cameras and a full crew while coordinating with multiple other production teams can run in the range of $50,000 CAD

Are there any cost saving measures to help reduce the cost?

Simply put, decreasing the complexity is the only real way to reduce cost. That may mean that there is less equipment like cameras utilized which in turn reduces the number of staff required. At CKE.live, we WILL NOT compromise on quality to to reduce cost. If we cannot meet your budget by simply reducing our scope, we can work with you to help secure livestream sponsors for your event

How does “Sponsor Negotiations” work?

We help you formulate a strategy to attract sponsors to fund the livestream. There is no guarantee that sponsors will cover your specific event, but we can help you get the best shot at it. We use our industry contacts to reach out to brands that may be interested in participating in your event plus formulate plans to approach your existing exhibitors and vendors. From there, we prepare a list of activations that we believe have the greatest chance of attracting sponsors. This often includes generic activations such as logo placement and ad rolls, but can even lead to negotiations like where booth space is offered at no cost to the sponsor in exchange for funding the livestream or doing vendor/exhibitor interviews, meaning we can help minimize how much you are out of pocket.

How much of the cost can we expect a sponsor to cover?

Just like asking how much livestreaming an event will cost, there are many variables such as if sponsors have another event around the same time, if they’ve already allocated their event budget, how established your event is, how much of your demographic overlaps with theirs, and so much more. That being said, nobody likes hearing “that depends”, so for example if you have an established gaming event and we start sponsor outreach early enough, it’s not unreasonable to expect that sponsors could cover 50% or more of the livestream production costs.

How has CKE.live been doing livestream production for nearly a decade? Isn’t livestreaming a fairly new thing?

Although livestreaming events really took off out of necessity during the COVID pandemic, we’ve been at it since well before that. CKE.live as a brand technically has only been doing livestream production for just over a year, but the Founder and Main Producer “CrashKoeck” has been in the livestream industry since 2015 and over those years has built a name and reputation within both the Content Creator and Professional Livestream industries as an innovator and as someone who provides amazing production value. His experiences in both the Creator and Professional spaces has enabled him to merge them for the absolute best livestreaming experiences possible.

Do you only cover gaming events?

Nope! Gaming events have been our main type of event simply because that’s how we entered the market, but we cover all types of events including (but not limited to) municipal and community events, parades, graduation ceremonies, weddings, corporate events, political events, sporting events, and more. If you have an event that you’d like to present to more than who can attend in person, we can work with you on a strategy to accomplish it!

So CKE.live has creative personnel, but what experience do they actually have in managing large crews and events?

Aside from livestreaming, the Founder and Main Producer “CrashKoeck” has been a construction project manager for over 15 years, successfully completing large projects worth over $100,000,000 with crews of hundreds working under him as well as specialized and complex projects like completely renovating a large hospital laboratory during the height of COVID while keeping it fully operational. He applies his advanced problem solving and planning skills to every event to ensure that it goes off without a hitch.

Is that a unicorn in the CKE.live logo??

Yes. Yes it is. Because unicorns are awesome.