De Nationale Beleggerstest
Who is the greatest investment expert in the Netherlands? Who knows all the ins and outs of the international stockmarket, along with historical knowledge of economic events and who can produce the right answer quicker than any other contestant? The National Investment Test 2024 sought to find the best investor and organized a live broadcast contest.
In a 1,5 hour live streaming event, registered contestants had to answer 40 multiple choice questions as quickly as possible. The live event was organized by De Aandeelhouder and presented by Jelle Maasbach with an expert desk of Nico Inberg and Peter Siks, adding knowledge and humor to the event.
Challenge
Youtube is the channel of choice for the usual weekly broadcasts of De AandeelhouderTV. This live event was therefore broadcast via Youtube, but the quiz element required a custom environment. De Aandeelhouder produced the show while E-heroes took care of the online interactive element. We created a website where contestants could register in advance. Once the live show started, users navigated to a page with the live Youtube broadcast accompanied by a panel to the right that kept the realtime score and leaderboard. Below the videoscreen was a panel that showed the multiple choice answers in buttons. A slider showed the remaining time to answer the question. When the time was up, the right answer was highlighted and percentages appeared on the buttons in the answering panel.
The challenge was to keep all panels synched with the live streaming Youtube video while thousands of viewers were watching online at the same time.
Solution
To make sure that the first ever Beleggingstest live event would be successful, we had to make sure the technical part would work flawlessly. We therefore did several tests with live and virtual users, to see if the server could return the right values to tens of thousands of users simultaneously, while staying in sync with a live streaming event.
