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Brightcove

Overview

What is Brightcove?

Brightcove Video is a video hosting and publishing solution. The company also provides a cloud media processing product called Zencoder.

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Recent Reviews

Video me

9 out of 10
April 18, 2014
WJLA uses Video Cloud for all video embed by sales, news and promotion. We use this across the whole organization. We do not typically see …
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BrightCove a Solid Choice

8 out of 10
April 16, 2014
Brightcove was being used by a previous company that I worked for, Outside Television, syndicate of the Outside lifestyle magazine. We …
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BrightCove - Overall a Great VCMS!

7 out of 10
April 16, 2014
The read APIs are being used to grab video assets for media processing and meta-data tagging. It's used by our Data Engineering department …
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Brightcove for non-techies

9 out of 10
April 16, 2014
We Brightcove Video Cloud within our Marketing/Communications department to highlight our organization's events and industry panels. It …
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I highly recommend this product

10 out of 10
April 15, 2014
Brightcove is used by multiple departments in my company for both external and internal videos. External videos are posted to our company …
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Pricing

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What is Brightcove?

Brightcove Video is a video hosting and publishing solution. The company also provides a cloud media processing product called Zencoder.

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is Brightcove?

Brightcove offers streaming technology solutions to build a greater connection between companies and their audiences, no matter where they are or on which devices they consume content. In more than 80 countries, Brightcove’s video platform helps businesses to sell to customers, media leaders to stream and monetize content, and organizations to communicate with team members.


For Media:
Brightcove helps monetize content, expand reach and deepen engagement.

For Enterprise:
Brightcove helps attract new audiences sell more products, deepen employee engagement and grow a brand with their digital marketing solution for a video-first content strategy.


Brightcove includes:

Marketing Studio: Brightcove Marketing Studio enables marketers to get more out of streaming, boasting a user interface for users from inexperienced to advanced, who can incorporate video into whichever channel they’re responsible for. Its workflows encourage more video use across marketing teams, and helps to scale across channels and platforms withintegrations that extend video, as well as centralizing and managing content to keep it organized, searchable, and accessible.

Media Studio: To grow an audience by publishing promotional videos to key social networks and content descriptions to universal search engines. Curate programs and series for discovery through metadata management. Leverages multilingual capabilities and captioning options for greater accessibility. Helps to expand into new global regions, including the Chinese market with China Delivery. Can be used to engage audiences with sophisticated viewer experiences, with Gallery. Offers visibility into when an audience is engaging and how content is performing with Essential Insights.

Communications Studio: Used to bridge the gap between remote and onsite workforces with internal comms video across channels and devices — web pages, social media, newsletters, and emails, live and on demand. Engages employees wherever they are so that they’re more likely to stay with a company.

Audience Insights: When it’s harmonized, visualized, and plugged into marketing systems, video data can: Strengthen audience acquisition, turn trials into long-term customers, build engagement, improve content licensing and production decisions, and reduce churn. Ultimately, these benefits can lead to an increase in audience lifetime value.



Brightcove Screenshots

Screenshot of Go beyond tracking plays and impressions and fuel your programs with video engagement data that signals who is getting the most value from your content.Screenshot of Deliver interactive video on-demand and live experiences - chat, polls, click to purchase, sentiment, quizzes, branching journeys, and more - that increase engagement, provide more data on your audiences, and turn viewers from passive observers to active participants.Screenshot of Deliver live and on-demand video experiences that are easy to create and manage from a single platform. Orchestrate rich, beautiful experiences that promote your brand and your content and keep audiences engaged with interactive elements.Screenshot of Start to think of your video content as your greatest asset for connecting with every audience on any device, whether it's web, mobile, or connected TVs. Reach all your audiences, including customers, prospects, partners, teams, anyone and everyone!Screenshot of Understand audience engagement to inform content strategies and audience preferences to ensure you’re delivering the best streaming video experiences possible.

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Brightcove Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional)

Frequently Asked Questions

Brightcove Video is a video hosting and publishing solution. The company also provides a cloud media processing product called Zencoder.

Kaltura, Wistia, and Vimeo are common alternatives for Brightcove.

The most common users of Brightcove are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users commonly recommend three things when using Brightcove:

  1. Consider Brightcove as a robust contender: Users believe that Brightcove is a strong and competitive video cloud solution that deserves serious consideration.

  2. Use Brightcove for solopreneurs and small business owners: Users recommend Brightcove for individuals running their own businesses, especially those who may not have technical expertise.

  3. Set up playlists and tags beforehand: To streamline the user experience, it is suggested to create playlists and tags before inviting multiple users to the platform. This allows for an organized and efficient workflow.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Chloe Sayers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 04, 2014

Spotlight on Brightcove

Ashley Buley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Colby Iannazzo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Grant Benatar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Scott Gale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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