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The European Commission's audiovisual portal is the central media distribution platform for all EU institutional content — broadcasting European Council meetings, daily press briefings, parliamentary sessions, and official events to the world. With 34 to 36 million views per year, it is the Commission's largest website. But the technology behind it was nearly 10 years old: an AngularJS application that was not mobile-friendly, painfully slow to navigate, and completely lacking real-time capabilities.
Over a 6-year ongoing mission, our consultant rebuilt the entire platform — migrating from AngularJS to Angular 19 (with Angular 21 migration underway) using the DIGIT's EUI framework. We delivered three major products:
1. The Audiovisual Portal — a complete rebuild featuring hover-play video previews, real-time programming grids, advanced filtering, responsive design, automatic playlists, and content suggestions. The number of clicks to access information was reduced by 50%.
2. Octopus — an internal planning tool for managing broadcast scheduling across the EBS and EBS+ channels.
3. European Corporate Player — a unified video and audio player used by all EU institutions and embedded via iframe in major media outlets including Le Soir and RTL.
The portal now serves 36 million views annually with a modern, real-time architecture. User satisfaction surveys across thousands of respondents — journalists, EU officials, and general users — showed the new portal rated significantly better on every metric. Mobile compatibility went from zero to full responsive design. The platform continues to be the backbone of EU institutional media distribution.