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Hello all

I have just been presented with an opportunity to start reselling some premium IPTV content.

A friend of mine (and some of his friends) run in the hospitality business and want to have reliable streams for sport events (horse racing, football etc).

I am thinking to setup an IPTV server where I just resell from other providers. I would subscribe to multiple IPTV providers, receive them to my server, and then restream to my customers and charge them a premium.

My value add would be that I can detect lag/buffering in the stream in advance and switch over to a stream that isn't interrupted, meaning the end user never sees a buffering/loading screen.

I think I can charge $150/200 dollar per month on this to multiple people.

I have no problem building out the server infrastructure in containerised form so I can easily relocate my exit nodes each month/6 weeks.

Curious what people think
 
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You won't be able to restream from other providers just with the use of API, you'll get blocked.

Restreams are more expensive. But if you find a reasonable provider, your margins will still be high.

You're looking at low-mid four figures minimum though to get going, more if you're covering worldwide. That's if you want to compete withe premium providers with excellent stability and low zap times etc.

Typically even from day 1 you'd want at least;

Main Server
- Load Balancer 1
- Load Balancer 2
VOD Server

I'd recommend dipping your toe as a reseller and ensure you can convert the market first before investing in your own setup. You can do this for as little as a few hundred bucks - including API for automation. Obviously you wouldn't have full control like your OP, but it would be a good way to test your abilities/successes before throwing significant money at a brand new setup via restream.

This way you can run at a profit from week one, instead of running at a loss for a while.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Respectfully, as someone who is currently using a IPTV service for $50 for 3 months, and HARDLY receive any issues, I would not pay that high. There's so much competition and charging that amount MONTHLY is not a good idea
 
XrumerGeek said:
You won't be able to restream from other providers just with the use of API, you'll get blocked.

Restreams are more expensive. But if you find a reasonable provider, your margins will still be high.

You're looking at low-mid four figures minimum though to get going, more if you're covering worldwide. That's if you want to compete withe premium providers with excellent stability and low zap times etc.

Typically even from day 1 you'd want at least;

Main Server
- Load Balancer 1
- Load Balancer 2
VOD Server

I'd recommend dipping your toe as a reseller and ensure you can convert the market first before investing in your own setup. You can do this for as little as a few hundred bucks - including API for automation. Obviously you wouldn't have full control like your OP, but it would be a good way to test your abilities/successes before throwing significant money at a brand new setup via restream.

This way you can run at a profit from week one, instead of running at a loss for a while.

Just my 2 cents.
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Right.. that sounds good. I was wondering how all the resellers work out? I thought you can just use some software to stream the stuff to your server and then create a new stream with the input from the previous server? How would you get detected then?

- Do you have any sources for restream resellers, pm me if you prefer?

- I think the legit reseller approach would work well starting out, thanks for the advice.

adammakonda said:
Respectfully, as someone who is currently using a IPTV service for $50 for 3 months, and HARDLY receive any issues, I would not pay that high. There's so much competition and charging that amount MONTHLY is not a good idea
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Fair enough.. but I have spoken to a bunch of people around here and they always have issues, not sure why.

The issue for my potential customs is that they run bars etc where people are coming to watch the match, and it's very bad when it starts buffering.. and is happening a lot to this guy. I am just wondering if I can solve that problem for him and charge a premium.

Also, most people here are pretty layman and don't know where to get IPTV unless they know somebody who sells or get's a referral - nobody knows how to find the sellers online.
 
password01 said:
Right.. that sounds good. I was wondering how all the resellers work out? I thought you can just use some software to stream the stuff to your server and then create a new stream with the input from the previous server? How would you get detected then?

- Do you have any sources for restream resellers, pm me if you prefer?

- I think the legit reseller approach would work well starting out, thanks for the advice.



Fair enough.. but I have spoken to a bunch of people around here and they always have issues, not sure why.

The issue for my potential customs is that they run bars etc where people are coming to watch the match, and it's very bad when it starts buffering.. and is happening a lot to this guy. I am just wondering if I can solve that problem for him and charge a premium.

Also, most people here are pretty layman and don't know where to get IPTV unless they know somebody who sells or get's a referral - nobody knows how to find the sellers online.
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That's your biggest advantage, finding customers in person and not through social media.. If that's what you plan on doing then you won't have an issue charging a premium. But you still have to understand that what you are charging is almost close to what it costs to originally stream these sporting events per month so would still advice you lower your price to roughly $85
 
adammakonda said:
That's your biggest advantage, finding customers in person and not through social media.. If that's what you plan on doing then you won't have an issue charging a premium. But you still have to understand that what you are charging is almost close to what it costs to originally stream these sporting events per month so would still advice you lower your price to roughly $85
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Streaming those sporting events in a bar for is 800 per month, just for football. If you want all events it's nearly 4,000.
 
password01 said:
Streaming those sporting events in a bar for is 800 per month, just for football. If you want all events it's nearly 4,000.
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I guess pricing is different in the US? sports channels + regular tv channel bundle subscriptions here are like £100 ish per month (UK) so not sure how it's that high in the US? that's crazy...
 
adammakonda said:
I guess pricing is different in the US? sports channels + regular tv channel bundle subscriptions here are like £100 ish per month (UK) so not sure how it's that high in the US? that's crazy...
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I'm talking about the Republic of Ireland here. The licence for pubs is crazy money. Definitely like €25/30k per year.
 
IPTV is crowded with cheaper prices coming in every year. I don't want to be the guy bringing you the bad news but lower your prices especially if you are targeting the same general market that 99% of IPTV resellers do.
 
CoreCentral said:
IPTV is crowded with cheaper prices coming in every year. I don't want to be the guy bringing you the bad news but lower your prices especially if you are targeting the same general market that 99% of IPTV resellers do.
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You are right.
 
For end users, not commercial, we charge $40/3m, $60/6m and $80/12m per connection.

Multiroom is an extra +35% (2c), + 55% (3c) and +75% (4c) on top of the above.

Prices will lower slightly in summer during off-season in UK, but will touch $100/12m at the season restart.

Our conversions are excellent based on the above so perhaps use these as decent bases to begin split testing pricing models from.
 
XrumerGeek said:
For end users, not commercial, we charge $40/3m, $60/6m and $80/12m per connection.

Multiroom is an extra +35% (2c), + 55% (3c) and +75% (4c) on top of the above.

Prices will lower slightly in summer during off-season in UK, but will touch $100/12m at the season restart.

Our conversions are excellent based on the above so perhaps use these as decent bases to begin split testing pricing models from.
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Hi, how can i subscribe to this please?
 
Mitchel27 said:
Hi, how can i subscribe to this please?
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Why Would you subscribe ? Get a free Trial 1st . This is experience with online digital marketing . When it looks too good ? Meaning price , Again Free Trial generally will give you an idea of the quality of Uptime streaming. I see alot of comments on buffering issues . Folks or ladies and gents , its not always the provider the issue , seen alot of devices that ended up being the issue. This is a word of advice from an older generation of a retired Tech. Cheers , PS Still Like Dabbling in Python
 
I'm a distributor for a friend who sells ready-made products, and there are no problems domestically or internationally.
 
Commercial clients are a different game than normal end users imo. A guy at home will tolerate a reload or switch app, a bar owner with 30 people shouting at the TV won't. But I wouldn't build the whole restream setup first... sell 5-10 local clients on a managed package, give them proper device setup, 2 separate lines/providers as backup, and make the premium about support/uptime not just "IPTV". Also be careful promising no buffering ever, because sometimes it's their router, wifi, crappy firestick, ISP routing etc and they will still blame you. If you can show up fast and fix stuff, thats where the higher monthly price makes more sense.
 
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