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.

Brightcove is well suited for large enterprises that are concerned with video security. Works well for all types of departments from marketing to internal communications. It also provides several plugins which makes it easy to integrate with a technology stack. Brightcove licensing is not ideal for large enterprises that are trying to keep costs down. It is not the best platform for sales enablement when compared to the competition.

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.

Brightcove is well suited for large marketing departments with a heavy emphasis on video content, creation, storage, and editing. It's not great for content distribution and if you're looking for a centralized location for all creative assets (images, copy, .PDFs) Brightcove won't cut it. You'll need a larger content management solution for that.

The trend now is to use full screen background videos, I hope we could use video cloud to do that but not sure how. I also feel we should use videos where applicable but at the same time it should not be over used.

If you are looking for a video solution that will allow your organization to simultaneously stream live events while maintaining a large catalog of on-demand videos Brightcove is perfect. Normal learning curve aside, any web producer with video experience should have no issues working with Brightcove.

Brightcove Video Cloud works great for our blog; is very easy to use for our social media person, and allows for great archiving and retrieval.

How stylized do you want you player to be? How much customization do you need to implement? I think Brightcove is a great solution if you are looking for simplicity in your video delivery. For more complicated media solutions, they are working on getting there, they have so much potential. If they could remove the BEML coding reliance and bring the Player GUI into more of a WYSIWYG format, they would sky rocket.

It's definitely a company I will keep my eye on. They have a great start, they just need a bit of polishing.

For device agnostic videos, it was a great choice. In a specific situation, we wanted a video solution that would fit in any size of the browser window. But the flash videos were not resizable.

I definitely would recommend Brightcove depending upon the scenario in which they need to use it. For security purposes, definitely. Also if you want to be able to add branding and styling. It's also well suited for multi-platform video experiences. One concern would be integrating with a CMS. Brightcove is integrated with many CMS solutions but not all, so it may not be well suited for all in that respect. As far as resources required, it is helpful to have someone knowledegable in HTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and possibly a developer if you want to access the developer features.

The number one issue for my department was the server space and the staffing that it would have taken to host our own videos. Budgetary restrictions prohibited hiring additional staff for the sole purpose of maintaining a video server. The current staff did not have the expertise to produce the quality and ease of use that Brightcove provided right out of the box, which was a major factor in the purchase of Brighcove's services.

We use for all videos, so we arent typically having a selection process.

Larger screens. Can be pixelated sometimes

It is more well suited for a colleague who will be dealing with the uploading of video content and critiquing such content to get the most possible exposure.

I don't think this applies to our use-case, but I would like to say that the support staff is helpful if the documentation is confusing.

The support is great and has always answered my questions to a satisfactory level, usually within one business day.

It is great for closed access videos. Less useful if you just want to get your video out there and easily accessible. That said it is very easy to link videos automatically with YouTube.

It has a nice interface and is easy to use. I personally inherited the program rather than doing the research/making the decision to use the product and have been very happy with it so far.

Brightcove is approproate for situations where you want to share a video by emailing a link or embedding it in a webpage. It is not appropriate for situations where you need to send the native video file.

Long term stability and support from Brightcove has been good. We have had very few outages. Brightcove delivers very well globally. Rendering for multiple devices and internet speeds is all done by Brightcove, we just upload a high quality .mov. Subtitles are possible through a third party and that is inconvenient but works well. I do not get complaints about speed or video quality.