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GeoComply and DAZN to Pilot Groundbreaking Content Access Control System
Wednesday, March 6, 2024Company Profile | Careers | Follow Company
Global sports streaming leader to pioneer GeoComply's advanced geolocation solution to help stop the use of hijacked residential IPs, tackle account sharing abuse and optimize territorial rights management
Vancouver, BC, March 6, 2024--(T-Net)--GeoComply Solutions, a leading provider of cutting-edge anti-fraud and geolocation solutions, and DAZN Group, a leading global sports streaming and entertainment platform, today announced a pilot for DAZN to adopt GeoComply's advanced geolocation solution (GeoComply Core) to augment their Content Access Control systems.
DAZN launched GeoComply's VPN and proxy detection solution, GeoGuard, last year and now plans to work side-by-side with the GeoComply team to break new ground and introduce the industry's most powerful geolocation solution to the media and entertainment vertical.
Together, GeoComply and DAZN hope to establish the benchmark for international media and entertainment businesses to adopt anti-fraud geolocation technology that goes beyond IP-based solutions. This advanced, spoof-proof technology enhances the accuracy of online fraud and piracy prevention and addresses the industry-wide issue of hijacked residential IPs being used to gain unauthorized access to content.
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GeoComply Core is an industry standard for compliance-grade geolocation that helps protect over a billion online transactions per month to keep users safe online, according to the company.
GeoComply is trusted by many leading streaming services around the world including BBC, ITV, beIN Sports, and Amazon Prime Video, as well as gaming and financial services businesses operating in highly regulated markets.
The solution runs hundreds of location data, device integrity, and identity fraud checks on every geolocation transaction to detect suspicious activity and ensure content reaches the right audience, in the right location, at the right price.
More specifically, GeoComply Core delivers superior geolocation capabilities that provide:
Anna Sainsbury, CEO, GeoComply
GeoComply CEO Anna Sainsbury said: "GeoComply's tech was born from compliance needs in regulated industries, but has applications across multiple verticals, like media and entertainment. DAZN is leading the market when it comes to protecting content borders and adhering to sports league streaming requirements. It's become clear that the streaming industry needs more than IP based blocking to support international streaming business models, which is exactly why we're planning to work side-by-side with DAZN to deploy GeoComply Core as its solution for geolocation compliance."
Sandeep Tiku, CTO, DAZN (Credit: PR Newswire)
DAZN CTO Sandeep Tiku said: "The global sports streaming market is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace making it even more critical for us to put safeguards in place that will protect our contractual relationships with the sports leagues and ensure that we're preventing the misuse of our platform by fraudsters. Working closely with GeoComply through 2023 we have been impressed by the advanced geolocation and fraud detection capabilities they have built which far exceeds anything we have seen elsewhere in the market. We believe in the technology and look forward to deploying it across our platform."
To learn more about GeoComply Core and how the technology is helping media and entertainment businesses, please visit: www.geocomply.com
About GeoComply
GeoComply provides fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions that detect location fraud and help verify a user's true digital identity. Trusted by leading brands and regulators for the past 10 years, the company's geolocation solutions are installed on over 400 million devices and analyze over a billion transactions every month.
Our award-winning products are based on the technologies developed for the highly regulated and complex US online gaming and sports betting market. Beyond iGaming, GeoComply provides geolocation fraud detection solutions for streaming video broadcasters and the online banking, payments and cryptocurrency industries, building an impressive list of customers, including Akamai, Amazon Prime Video, BBC, BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Sightline.
About DAZN
DAZN Group is one of the fastest growing sports media companies in the world. Headquartered in the UK and with employees in over 25 countries, our businesses touch every aspect of the way fans engage with sports; from production, through to content distribution and commercialisation.
DAZN Group is home to DAZN, the leading global sport destination, as well as the popular sport portal, DAZN News. DAZN is leading the charge to give sports fans around the world access to sport anytime, anywhere.
DAZN guarantees affordable access on most connected devices including smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks, smartphones, tablets, PCs and game consoles. DAZN is now live in more than 200 countries and territories after first launching in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan in 2016. Visit the DAZN website for more information.
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