Key Takeaways
- HoopsTV aims to progressively cover more than 400,000 community basketball games each year across 1,000 Australian venues
- The platform rolls out to participating local Associations in November under an exclusive Basketball Australia and Pixellot partnership
- Footage will live behind restricted, authenticated accounts, with parents managing access for dependent players and an opt-out for filming
- Pixellot brings scale to the deal: nearly 40,000 cameras deployed worldwide and more than five million games produced
A Single National Platform for Community Game Footage
Basketball Australia has signed an exclusive partnership with sports technology provider Pixellot to launch HoopsTV, a national youth basketball video platform expected to go live with participating local Associations in November. According to the announcement, game footage captured at participating venues will progressively integrate into the platform, with a goal of covering more than 400,000 games annually across 1,000 venues.
The platform will serve as a central destination for game footage, replays, highlights, and personalized basketball content for community players and families.
Video is not new to Australian basketball. Basketball Australia noted that recording already happens widely through venue cameras, mobile phones, and locally managed systems. The problem is fragmentation: those arrangements vary considerably from venue to venue and operate without a single national framework. HoopsTV is designed to replace that patchwork with consistent access, oversight, and privacy controls.
Basketball Australia CEO Matt Scriven said the partnership is about “building a more connected and digitally enabled future for our game,” adding that video’s value extends beyond watching games back into player and coach development, officiating, integrity, and disciplinary processes.
How Will HoopsTV Handle Participant Privacy?
For operators serving minors, the privacy architecture is the most instructive part of this deal. Per Basketball Australia, community game footage will not be publicly available. Access runs through restricted, authenticated accounts: players and coaches involved in a fixture can view relevant footage, while parents and guardians manage access for dependent participants through the Account Holder linked to their registration.
Participants also get separate privacy choices around identification and filming, including the ability to opt out of being filmed entirely. The platform will not use facial recognition to identify participants, according to the announcement.
Basketball Australia said it is developing nationally consistent privacy information so players and families understand when recording may occur, who can access footage, and what choices they have. For a sport moving hundreds of thousands of youth games onto a single platform, that documentation becomes the trust layer the whole system depends on.
Pixellot’s Scale Behind the Deal
Pixellot enters the partnership with substantial infrastructure. The company has deployed close to 40,000 cameras globally and produced more than five million games, per the announcement. Its technology is FIBA-approved for basketball and already cleared for use in Australia’s NBL1 competitions.
Pixellot AU Chief Commercial Officer Dean Anglin framed the project around access at the grassroots level, saying the application will give community players opportunities to watch and learn from their games “in a way that has traditionally been easier to provide at higher levels of the sport.”
The rollout will not be a single switch flip. Basketball Australia, Pixellot, State and Territory Associations, and participating local Associations will implement the national video capture approach progressively as venue and local readiness is confirmed.
From 1,000 Venues to One National Login
The commercial logic here is consolidation. Australian community basketball already generates enormous volumes of video; it just lives in silos that nobody governs centrally. By pulling capture, access, and privacy under one national framework, Basketball Australia converts scattered footage into a managed asset, and Pixellot locks in an exclusive position across one of the country’s largest participation sports.
The near-term test arrives quickly. HoopsTV launches to participating local Associations in November, and the pace at which venues confirm readiness will determine how fast the platform closes the gap between its 400,000-game ambition and what actually streams.
Source: Basketball Australia, October 12, 2026, https://www.australia.basketball/news/4590732/basketball-australia-and-pixellot-partner-to-launch-hoopstv-nationwide
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