NEP Spain used Ventuz software to generate real-time graphics displayed on stage during the event ceremony.

The ESLAND Awards are the biggest annual awards for Spanish-speaking streamers and content creators. They were created by Spanish YouTuber and Streamer David Cánovas Martínez aka “TheGregf”, and the first edition took place in Barcelona (Spain) in January 2022. The winners of each category are chosen 50% by public vote and 50% by votes from top content creators in the Spanish-speaking community.

The second edition of the ESLAND awards took place on January 29th, 2023, at the Auditorio Nacional theater in Mexico City (Mexico). This second edition had a record-breaking audience of more than 1.8 million viewers on the live Twitch stream, becoming the 3rd most watched video stream on the platform history.NEP Broadcast Services Spain is part of the NEP group, a global group that provides technical and content creation services for the broadcast, live events and media industries worldwide.

NEP Spain incorporated Ventuz real-time graphics platform to their services portfolio in early 2022 and has provided Ventuz graphics to various broadcast and live events during this time.

For the 2023 edition of the ESLAND Awards, NEP Spain created more sophisticated on-air graphics than they did for the 2022 edition. This included traditional lower thirds and other standard graphics that were used for both the live TV broadcasting and streaming over the internet. But the biggest addition was new graphics showing the awards nominees full screen graphics during the presentation of each category. The graphics included live video feeds from cameras on the venue, combined with live video streams and even pictures of each nominee, but the challenge was to be able to swap those live in case of connection problems, especially with the remote video streams.

One of the main attractions and recurrent jokes during the gala was “El Artefacto”, an off-camera voice that had a constant conversation with the presenter. An actor placed in a room inside the theater was performing as “El Artefacto”, and the producers wanted to show him in an abstract way on the stage displays. NEP Spain designed some real-time particles reacting live to the actor´s voice and those waveform-like graphics were sent to the stage displays.

A second visual gag was a simulated blackout on stage. The idea was to use audience interaction to get the power back on and some VU meter graphics were displayed on the stage that reacted to the noise made by the audience and recharged the theater lights. This was only possible by using real-time graphics that reacted to the live audio input from the spectators in the theater.