In Depth: Case Study
Powering a Tier-1 Cloud Provider’s AI with 300K+ Hours of Sports Data
Overview
In early 2025, Troveo delivered 300,000+ hours of richly annotated, licensable sports footage in under 90 days…
…One of the industry’s largest sports-focused AI datasets. This collaboration solidified our partner’s leadership in applied AI, showcasing Troveo’s industrial-scale ingestion, metadata depth, and global licensor network.
Building An AI Model
The Challenge
Scale
Hundreds of thousands of hours, processed and cleared for AI
Diversity
Multiple sports, camera angles, geographies, eras, formats
Compliance
Model-safe rights, precise metadata, AI-ready licenses
Rapid Kickoff
Scoped 140+ sports, 100+ licensors, 25+ countries, license terms locked down.
Transparent Structuring
Scene-level rights metadata, secure ingest workflows, phased delivery.
Speedy Delivery
300K+ hours enriched with category tags, scene annotations, codec checks—98% first-pass acceptance.
Ongoing Expansion
Weekly content updates, clip replacements, metadata extensions for RL and retrieval systems.
Delivered 300,000+ hours of fully annotated sports footage in under 90 days.
Achieved a 98% first-pass QA acceptance rate, cutting validation overhead.
Spanned 140+ sports across 25+ countries, ensuring unmatched diversity.
Established a repeatable, scalable pipeline for ongoing content expansion.
