The NBC Olympics Highlights and Results app is the exclusive home for NBC Olympics’ award-winning coverage, including short-form highlights.

The App is the ultimate second-screen experience for NBC’s nightly primetime Olympic broadcast.  Users can immerse themselves in the Winter Olympics viewing experience with trivia, polls, slideshows, videos and athlete bios all synced with what is being presented on NBC.

Highlights:

Responsible for all aspects of iOS implementation

Integrate with white-label parent app, developed by Deltatre (Italy)

Integrate with a wide variety of 3rd party SDKs

Daily calls with stakeholders (NBC), Deltatre, 3rd party vendors

Debugging with Wireshark and Charles Proxy

Geofence management via VPN

Extremely tight timelines and milestones throughout

All milestones hit - delivered ahead of schedule

Video management via thePlatform MPX, Freewheel (Comcast)

Video streaming via Adobe Primetime Video Player SDK

Sochi 2014:

Analytics captured using comScore Streamsense, Nielsen SDK, Omniture ADMS

Banner ads via Google AdMob

Project management - Github, Basecamp, Screenhero

During peak usage, users were making in excess of 5,000 requests per second (300,000 per minute)

Primetime Companion: server communication via REST API

UX interactions via long polling