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Attribute Ratings
- Azure CDN is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

8.4
Azure CDN
84%
6 Ratings

8.0
Brightcove Video
80%
16 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Azure CDN
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Brightcove Video
90%
13 Ratings
Usability

Azure CDN
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Brightcove Video
90%
1 Rating
Support Rating

8.0
Azure CDN
80%
2 Ratings

4.0
Brightcove Video
40%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure CDN
If you are looking for a secure, easy to manage, solution to store and distribute your content around the US and/or world, the Azure CDN may be the right solution. The only thing I would caution users on is that once your content is published and distributed it cannot be easily refreshed on the endpoints. Instead, you are at the mercy of the default time to live when the content was first uploaded.
Senior Software Developer
Seventy Seven EnergyOil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees
Brightcove Video
It works very nicely for our company site because it can easily and seamlessly embed into the site and email HTML pages. It also has picture in picture, sharing, closed captioning (CC) as basic functions. It will also show the time of the video. Because these are short-term-use videos or might get updated frequently and also are just targeting a specific audience, being able to hide or not able to show the number of views or date published (unlike YouTube) actually helps us.

Verified User
Manager in Sales
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Azure CDN
- New websites can be boosted up quickly
- Easily scalable according to our performance requirements
- Easy integration with other Azure services
- You only pay for what you need

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employeesBrightcove Video
- Ability to easily output a JSON response for requested video data. This makes it easy to work with Brightcove as partner.
- The read APIs are very flexible and can the output can be easily customized using cgi args. This provides great customization of the output and sorting and filtering mechanisms to find the videos you're looking for.
- The ability to add captions to videos is good, especially with the regulations requiring video captioning. DFXP support works great as long as the player is given the exact XML format it is looking for.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Azure CDN
- For the longest time they didn't have a robust SDK. They have one now, but it could be better.
- The different flavors of Azure CDN (Akamai, Verizon, etc) have different costs, but not well differentiated features. Might be confusing to new users.
- I'm not overly familiar with it, but AWS does have a programmability in their CDN offering (Lambda @ Edge) and Azure doesn't seem to have an equivalent (Azure Functions is region-specific).
Chief Architect
LiveTilesComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Brightcove Video
- The code for customizing the video player can be made easier, I think it still uses BEML code.
- Easily accessible ready made code will help users like me to implement a cool looking player.
- I would love to implement Brightcove video cloud on most of the projects that I work on and I see we could use it in so many different ways but pricing is not easily available on the website.
- Again if I could work with someone to price for small, medium and large businesses that would be great.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employeesPricing Details
Azure CDN
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Brightcove Video
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Azure CDN
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Brightcove Video
Brightcove Video 9.0
Based on 13 answers
It took quite some time to upload and organize our video library. The amount of time it would require to relocate all this information outweighs any negative aspect I personally have with the experience. They have been pretty good to work with and from speaking with my Brightcove rep, I know some of the issues I have listed are currently being addressed and tested for future releases.
Senior Digital Designer
Globus family of brandsLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 201-500 employees
Usability
Azure CDN
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Brightcove Video
Brightcove Video 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Very usable! I don't see any major flaws

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesSupport Rating
Azure CDN
Azure CDN 8.0
Based on 2 answers
Great support from the team whenever we're stuck. Very proactive in resolving issues and also making changes as per the requirements of the organization.
Production Specialist
The Dow Chemical CompanyChemicals, 10,001+ employees
Brightcove Video
Brightcove Video 4.0
Based on 4 answers
We are notified often of downtime, and I have not heard from a support rep for over a year. It really makes it hard to learn what new things are coming out and how we can take our video to the next level when there is no contact from the team on a regular cadence.
Sr Leader
CoreLogicFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Azure CDN
More user friendly and it’s so easy to learn, the prices may be close to each other, but the service is excellent.
Senior Professional Services Consultant Manager
AZEREX LLC.Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Brightcove Video
Marketing department favors it because EVERYONE uses YouTube. Overall, YouTube offers decent features and functionality. But Brightcove offers the ability to brand and style players, and control what our users see (and so much more) and YouTube does not. For instance, on YouTube, users are presented with other videos (which could contain competitor videos).

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Azure CDN
- Azure CDN reduced origin instance load by removing the need to constantly serve large numbers of static files, meaning applications can be deployed with smaller/fewer instances.
- Azure CDN reduces apparent load times to customers by serving cached files out of POPs in the local region of those clients, instead of requiring those clients to make multiple, lengthy requests through to the origin servers.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesBrightcove Video
- Again, there has been a huge cost savings which significantly improved our ROI
- There has also been less time spent on learning new technologies and training additional staff on maintaining a video server.
- Less time spent on the previous two points has allowed me to focus on other areas within the department that needed improvement.
Director of Digital Media
Tarrant County CollegeMedia Production, 11-50 employees