Brightcove Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a fund company that uses a lot of video media to promote our content and product information. That includes stock market updates, fund updates, new product launches, and much more. With videos it really helps to get the message across to the customer faster and more efficiently. Brightcove Video is being used as a video hosting and storage site. We mainly use it for embedding on our internal and external sites.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightcove is our enterprise video hosting platform. Brightcove is used across our entire organization, for both internal and external video hosting needs on our public-facing website and internal intranet. The organization prefers Brightcove because it allows more privacy and more control over how content is being distributed compared to other tools such as YouTube.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightcove was used across two departments (Marketing & Video creation). It solved the issue of having a common space for all professional videos to live and avoided possible security breaches from other video hosting sites such as YouTube or Vimeo. Because you could set custom permissions settings on Brightcove, we were able to ensure that the content was secure.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

When you have access to tools which give you perfect flexibility and customization, then you can do everything to create a perfect video. Brightcove Interactivity (Hapyak) provides these great tools for almost every industry. And everyone knows video is the best resource and with this you will have the most effective method to create a vision.

Likelihood to Recommend

Videos created by Brightcove video software can be uploaded everywhere, literally everywhere. It will make a huge difference from simple videos. You can use quizzes, surveys, pols, text and so on for your video. I am a digital instructor and that means in the training for my audience, I have to start my act with a perfect presentation. And for that purpose, Brightcove is the best to create awesome videos that keep attention and avoid distractions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightcove Video Cloud was used to primarily showcase our products and books. We also used videos for authors of books to talk briefly about the book they authored and used it on the eCommerce store. We also had online professional development and used it for educating educators on how to teach. Videos were used as relevant content on the page. Some parts of the website had the Brightcove Video Player customized as per the design of our site.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are implementing it as part of an overall redesign of our current public website, utilizing Brightcove as our new video library and video platform. The desire was to get away from YouTube videos.

Currently the Marketing department is using it across the various groups including internal communication and our blog. After the site is live we will introduce BrightCove across the organization and start building a more robust library.

What I was most impressed with was the ease of use for the average non-technical user and also the support from Brightcove.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization began using Brightcove as our company-wide video cloud solution because our servers were struggling with the bandwidth usage and taking the videos to a third party hosting solution seemed like a great way to off-load the videos. Brightcove was a good solution, as it came with a base set of players as well as provided multiple renditions based on available connection speeds of the clients.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightcove video cloud was used across all the departments in my organization which required a video hosting solution to host videos and customize the video player UI to suit their needs.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One department currently uses the Brightcove Video Cloud, IT. Our IT department handles all web site design, development and updates. One huge business issue that Brightcove resolves for us is security. We have a secure site that our customers use and use Brightcove on that site for security reasons. For instance, being able to turn off the "get code" feature if we don’t want videos being shared. Also, we have users on a variety of platforms and browsers. Being able to transcode to multiple streams is invaluable.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightcove Video Cloud is being used as a video hosting service for the companies television programs that can be found on the company website. It allows an inexpensive way to host and manage TV programs without having to provide our own video servers and the staff to manage them.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.