It combines the best of all three and allows for private labeling. Niche vid also does a really great job in allowing our customer to monetize their video content by video, by month or by annual subscription. The other competitors really don't hold a candle to Niche in its …
Verified User
Employee
Chose Niche Private Media Channel (discontinued)
The access controls of who can view, when one can view, how many times one can view, and from where they can view and also the security, and protecting from download [are better]. The review and approval workflow, editing the videos, blue-pen are all not available in Vimeo Pro.
Verified User
Manager
Chose Niche Private Media Channel (discontinued)
Optimum upload bandwidth, no distraction from other channels, video streaming available, user management, private channel. Each previous characteristic paved the way to select Private Media Channel.
I looked at Wistia. I did not like that there was no way to call them. They answered all my questions via email and several times didn't even answer the question that I asked in the email. I had to write 3 times to try and get an answer 1 question. There was not a payment …
Wistia and Vimeo simply provide hosting services, not a "channel" where my users can privately consume my content and interact with it as an extension of my website. In essense, I would have to extend my website to provide this functionality and simply place my videos hosted …
Private Media Channel has better security measures and customization where as Vimeo only has a password functionality. However, Vimeo is well branded, modern, relatable and most importantly, easy to use.
Lectora, Vidcaster, PlaybackNow, Digital Chalk, & Customer Hub. Most of these sites are oriented around education or video, but were limited in the flexibility they offered, tools available, and (though not decisive, due to previous mentioned weaknesses) not price competitive.
These providers asked for very expensive enterprise plans to provide the privacy level that we needed. Also, the single sign on capabilities that we have yet to implement were a factor in the decision making process.