JW Player (or JWP) is a video platform boasting 40,000 broadcasters, publishers, and other video-driven brands whose business relies on video as users. It provides these companies with a way to accelerate and scale their video strategy and is a video platform that can be used to stream video, engage audiences on any screen, and monetize content.
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Kaltura
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Kaltura, headquartered in New York, offers enterprise or large scale video storage, streaming, and distribution supporting a variety of purposes such as streaming, enterprise video portal, interactive video and virtual classroom, or podcasting.
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Pricing
JW Player
Kaltura
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
JW Player
Kaltura
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Community Pulse
JW Player
Kaltura
Features
JW Player
Kaltura
Video Marketing
Comparison of Video Marketing features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
8.6
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Kaltura
7.5
5 Ratings
1% below category average
Support for advertisements
9.12 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Video SEO
8.12 Ratings
7.33 Ratings
Lead generation
00 Ratings
5.72 Ratings
Video personalization
00 Ratings
10.04 Ratings
eCommerce
00 Ratings
5.72 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Video Security
Comparison of Video Security features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
7.8
3 Ratings
13% below category average
Kaltura
8.3
7 Ratings
7% below category average
Video access controls
9.01 Ratings
8.57 Ratings
User management
9.01 Ratings
8.07 Ratings
Video link sharing
7.03 Ratings
8.07 Ratings
External video
6.02 Ratings
8.37 Ratings
Internal video
00 Ratings
8.76 Ratings
Video Player
Comparison of Video Player features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
7.0
3 Ratings
19% below category average
Kaltura
7.8
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Player customization
2.03 Ratings
8.35 Ratings
Embedded videos
6.03 Ratings
8.36 Ratings
Video quality / Bandwidth controls
10.03 Ratings
8.76 Ratings
Mobile compatibility
10.03 Ratings
5.76 Ratings
Video Analytics
Comparison of Video Analytics features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
1.0
3 Ratings
155% below category average
Kaltura
6.4
5 Ratings
20% below category average
Per viewer tracking
1.01 Ratings
6.45 Ratings
Per video tracking
1.02 Ratings
6.45 Ratings
Video analytics dashboard
1.03 Ratings
6.75 Ratings
A/B testing
00 Ratings
6.02 Ratings
Streaming quality reports
00 Ratings
6.43 Ratings
Video Hosting, Management & Storage
Comparison of Video Hosting, Management & Storage features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
8.6
3 Ratings
1% below category average
Kaltura
8.1
7 Ratings
7% below category average
On-Demand video
6.03 Ratings
8.05 Ratings
Live streaming
10.01 Ratings
7.73 Ratings
Video upload & format support
10.03 Ratings
8.37 Ratings
Video library / File management
7.03 Ratings
8.07 Ratings
Video portal
10.01 Ratings
8.56 Ratings
Impact of streaming on network
00 Ratings
8.33 Ratings
Video Platform Integrations
Comparison of Video Platform Integrations features of Product A and Product B
JW Player
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Ratings
Kaltura
7.3
4 Ratings
15% above category average
Integration to Salesforce.com
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Integration to Marketo
00 Ratings
5.01 Ratings
Integration to Eloqua
00 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Integration to LMS
00 Ratings
10.03 Ratings
Video Engagement
Comparison of Video Engagement features of Product A and Product B
JW Player has flexible plans that won't cost you a lot of money. If you are a startup, JW offers a variety of plans that will suit your specific needs and grow with you as your company grows. You do not need to be a video expert to understand how to upload a video, which allows nearly anyone in the office to do it.
Kaltura is an excellent tool IF you have a large library of content. It can be pretty pricey so if you are early in launching an online program you may be better off waiting a few years until you've amassed a large enough catalog to warrant the investment in such a tool. The tool is best purchased by a University or company-wide vs having a single department try to find the budget for it. The unlimited plan pays for itself in most cases if you go this route. Secondly, you must be willing to invest time and resources into on-going training for your faculty and staff, especially for those who wish to create their own media and use the quizzing features.
Very easy to use interface for uploading videos or capturing a screen recording. There are very few clicks required to get the media up and running. The video conversion process that happens on the back-end is fast and provides videos in device agnostic formats.
Integrates well with other systems, such as our Moodle LMS. This extends the capabilities of the LMS and also allows us to keep video/multimedia content organized in a central location (the KMC).
Kaltura can be connected to various processes within your organization. For example, we have a system in place that allows a video lecture in a classroom to be uploaded to Kaltura in a very easy manner.
User/role management is very important as some people on campus have more privileges to publish content than do others. We have Kaltura connected to our Single Sign-On solution for authentication and we can assign roles to specific people within the Kaltura software.
Just made the decision to renew given demonstrated improvements being made to the platform to expand compatibility for its player use on devices such as Apple TV, as well as improvements made recently to its JW Platform Dashboard
The choice to renew our subscription does not belong to us, though we are able to provide input. We are aware of competitive products who have matured in the past three years, and we are aware now of alternatives to conventional plugin usage (LTI).
Reliability and compatibility on a majority of platforms. Would have received a 10 except recent versions of browsers such as Firefox are now defaulting against Flash components and thus prompting approval from users BEFORE loading which is a HUGE obstacle to an effective user experience thus creating concerns by end-users unnecessarily and risking that they will NOT accept the prompts, thus leaving unable to view video content hosted using the JW Player. Assurances by JW support suggest they will resolve this, so we'll see...
Support is reasonable. I from time to time have made suggestions on improvements that would be nice to see (like the ability to have a clickable link within the video - that is easy to create, without tons of coding) and it seems as though I never see it happen or get much response to "suggestions" to upgrade the software. The good news, other than a few things as I mentioned above, overall, I don't have many "technical issues" in the platform, which is a good thing. On occasion, I have seen some "issues" with the delivery of the video, but it has been pretty scarce. So it is dependable.
The first line support agents seldom are able to diagnose or troubleshoot any problems that we have. These agents simply open support tickets in their system which are escalated to a foreign level 2 support agent which creates at least a day delay between reporting a problem and getting initial feedback. Any back-and-forth questions add at least another day delay.
One of the primary features promoted by JW Platform is its SEO definition. However, there did not seem to be a way to integrate that data to our platform if selected thus only leaving the benefits of that data to be established on the individual video page hosted by JW Platform, which isn't useful in the end to the client value we are trying to deliver for our VideoproFile.net solution
JW had more player options, a better/more intuitive user interface, was altogether faster both in rendering the uploaded videos and in time to load on the web page. The integration with OpenX for pre-roll was faster and easier than with Brightcove, and lastly, they offered a great price for service.
Kaltura was the best option given the sheer volume of people we needed to support digitally. Others were better in their own regard, but due to limitations in number of attendees or sessions, Kaltura was the best option
Managing video content with the KMC has greatly reduced the amount of hours previously needed to manage.
User issues ie: uploading video, viewing video has been greatly reduced.
Increased user engagement with using video in LMS courses. We currently have 6,929 videos on our system. Last month , 2/1/14, 17,623 videos were viewed at least 75% of the way through.