Kicking off this year's Eurovision Song Contest with a live webcast from the first semi-final, Octoshape served more than 32,000 users with a high-quality live feed. And as a first this year, the entire show is instantly made available to users as an on-demand stream.

For several years, Octoshape has been the exclusive streaming provider for the Eurovision Song Contest events, reaching record-breaking online audience figures. The advanced quality-ensuring technology from Octoshape is a perfect match for the world wide popularity of the Eurovision Song Contest that spawns massive interest from fans in all parts of the world.

Not only did Octoshape and Eurovision Song Contest break last year's audience records already during the live webcast of the first semi-final. This year, the system has been pushed even further, and eurovision.tv - official website for the Eurovision Song Contest - will now offer all events as on-demand streams as soon as the events finish. This is excellent news for fans that live in far away time zones, missed the event, or just wants to catch a glimpse of the excitement one more time.

Immediately after the first semi final finished, late night on May 20th, the on-demand version was published on the eurovision.tv website. Within 12 hours more than 10,000 users had tuned in.

With yet another feature setting Octoshape apart from the competition, online audiences are getting accustomed to instant-on high-quality streaming solutions, be it for on-demand or live content. In other words; the next generation of streaming solutions has arrived, and the users are not looking back!