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IBM Video Streaming solutions are used to stream virtual events, executive town halls, video marketing product launches, and OTT streaming. According to IBM, the solution is built for privacy, reliability and scale, to optimize video quality, and powered by IBM…
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- Video link sharing (93)10.0100%
- Live streaming (95)9.090%
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- Mobile compatibility (87)9.090%
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What is IBM Video Streaming?
IBM Video Streaming solutions are used to stream virtual events, executive town halls, video marketing product launches, and OTT streaming. According to IBM, the solution is built for privacy, reliability and scale, to optimize video quality, and powered by IBM Watson AI for video search and automated closed captioning.
IBM Enterprise Video Streaming can power security-rich video communications ranging from employee town halls, to trainings and department meetings, to digital events – boosting engagement from virtually anywhere. This cloud-based solution includes AI-driven deep search and the ability to track usage down to the individual user level with metrics as detailed as when content was accessed, device information, geographic location of the viewer and completion percentage.
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IBM Video Streaming Features
Video Marketing Features
- Supported: Lead generation
- Supported: Video personalization
- Supported: Audience for distribution
- Supported: eCommerce
- Supported: Support for advertisements
- Supported: Video SEO
Video Security Features
- Supported: Video access controls
- Supported: User management
- Supported: SSO support
- Supported: Password protection
- Supported: Video link sharing
- Supported: Embed restrictions
- Supported: Internal video
- Supported: External video
Video Player Features
- Supported: Player customization
- Supported: Embedded videos
- Supported: Video quality / Bandwidth controls
- Supported: Mobile compatibility
Video Analytics Features
- Supported: Streaming quality reports
- Supported: Per viewer tracking
- Supported: Per video tracking
- Supported: Video analytics dashboard
Video Hosting, Management & Storage Features
- Supported: On-Demand video
- Supported: Live streaming
- Supported: Impact of streaming on network
- Supported: Video upload & format support
- Supported: Video library / File management
- Supported: Video portal
- Supported: Video downloads
- Supported: Video editing
- Supported: High definition support
- Supported: Closed captioning / Transcription
Video Engagement Features
- Supported: Audience polling
- Supported: Audience Q&A / Live chat
- Supported: Video comments
Additional Features
- Supported: Scalability
- Supported: Enterprise Security
- Supported: Quality of Service
- Supported: Integrated Content Management
- Supported: Multi-CDN Delivery via SD-CDN
- Supported: Cloud-based Transcoding
- Supported: Social Sharing with Facebook and Twitter Integration
- Supported: Integrated Chat
- Supported: Live Analytics Dashboard
- Supported: Auto-Recording
- Supported: Custom Branding
- Supported: Lead Capture
- Supported: Live Playlists
- Supported: Support for Professional Encoding/Production Gear
- Supported: Enterprise Support Plans
- Supported: Managed Event and Production Services
- Supported: Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN)
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IBM Video Streaming Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
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Reviewers rate Video personalization and Video link sharing highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of IBM Video Streaming are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
IBM Video Streaming Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 15% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 35% |
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October 09, 2019
A reliable streaming service that we've only praise for.
We livestream a range of events, from our graduation ceremony to live Q & As. Essentially livestreaming gives us wider access to our stakeholders, be it colleagues, families of our students, prospective students or current students themselves.
- Storage of footage is excellent, clear and easily managed.
- Syncing to our streaming system is easy.
- Reliability is always good.
- The preview functionality of saved footage can be very laggy.
October 04, 2019
Great Company - Great Support - Innovative - Pricing Model could be Better for True Disruption!
We live stream our women's wrestling matches to audiences that pay for it.
- Customer Service
- Platform is easy to understand
- Lower price
October 04, 2019
Pretty good product.
We stream our weekly services.
- Stores media
- Transfers to Youtube
- Download capability
- Support
- Too Expensive
- Downloads take too long.
October 04, 2019
Honesty
At first IBMs video streaming service was used for live streaming meetings. Recently, when a well known video hosting website announced that they were eliminating business accounts from their platform, we needed a solution for our promotional materials. We then created a second IBM Video Streaming channel. This channel is for promotional materials that are embedded into the company website. The versatility and flexibility of the IBM video streaming platform works well for our large and smaller projects.
- The video quality for the end user is great.
- Very little lag
- Simple to use
- The editing tools need more flexibility. If something is corrupt in the center, we have to download, use other software and hope the compression will work when uploaded back to ustream.
September 30, 2019
Easy to use and reliable video streaming
Each week we livestream our Sunday service to viewers who are unable to attend in person, including a number who don't even live in our area.
- The streaming service is relatively easy to set up and is reliable.
- For those occasional weeks when we lose our internet connection, I appreciate the ability to upload our locally saved version of the video so our regular watchers can still access a video via the IBM site.
- In past years we've had occasional interruptions in our livestream (that weren't directly attributable to our local internet connection), but the reliability has improved over the last year or so.
- Some weeks I need to download the livestream video for our local archive. This process takes much longer than I would expect (multiple hours before the video is available for download).
- While this product offers many features for editing and promoting our videos, we do not use those services and will likely research less expensive options for our limited needs.
September 26, 2019
Review of IBM Video Streaming
Its being used by all departments. It provides great search-ability functions that are highly utilized. It is an excellent tool to provide all staff and the public access to council meeting livestreams and minutes that has an excellent timestamp feature that saves a lot of staff time when reviewing previous council decisions.
- Time stamp feature - saves time during review
- Split screen view - great feature that shows the minutes or the agenda in a split screen view with the livestream video
- Easy to schedule live stream events - one click on the agenda build page schedules an event in YouTube
- It would be great to have the ability to pause the livestream event and then resume again. Currently you can only start/stop the event on YouTube.
- The 'show video' tab for entering time stamps on the minutes page would be more user-friendly if the video window was larger. Currently it either a very small window that is un-scaleable, or full screen mode.
- A default option to always have the 'show timestamps' button clicked for every set of minutes, so the user doesn't have to remember to click that option every time minutes are done.
September 26, 2019
Our small organizion benefits from the features of IBM Watson Media
We utilize IBM Watson Media's Video Streaming to distribute the live and archived streams from our weekend services to our website. This format is being used across the entire organization and we have found that it is a reliable resource in communicating with parishioners and other interested parties who could not attend the live event.
- Quality video
- Easy to use interface
- Simple to incorporate into our website and other modes of communication
- Few connectivity issues but occasionally there is that glitch.
September 26, 2019
Landlocked Church Uses Streaming To Reach Others
We have used Ustream for our weekly streaming broadcasts of worship services. It provides a platform for us to use this technology to increase our worship attendance and also provides access for those who are home-bound or traveling. Since our physical location will not allow us to increase in size, we had to introduce streaming in order to not stifle our congregation's growth.
- It is reliable.
- Customer support is readily available.
- The quality of our broadcasts are favorable by our viewers.
- It fits our needs and we have not found any limitations to the platform
- More flexible billing options would be great.
September 26, 2019
School Broadcast
We stream our morning announcements to 480 students and 60 staff members.
- Stable connection.
- Simple management controls.
- Great customer service.
- Easy editing.
- Ability to postpone subscription over summer break and not lose data.
September 16, 2019
Streaming church services: an inside look at streaming with USTREAM
Our Church, Grace Fellowship Church, currently uses USTREAM to stream service to our website.
- USTREAM is ideal for providing HD video streaming capabilities to multiple-platforms to include personal websites.
- Their system or GUI is easy to use and allows the flexibility and customization for any organization big or small.
- The system allows you to edit video in real-time by utilizing their trimming feature which will allow an organization to create new video and post/publish it with ease.
- USTREAM struggles in rendering the video for download purposes in real-time. The average render time based on our experience is 24 hrs.
- USTREAM would be beneficially if it could add features to stream to multi-platforms with ease, for example, like, ReStream.
September 16, 2019
Ustream is great for metrics, but you will pay the price $$
We have been using Ustream for about 5 years now to broadcast our temple's live stream. They had all the features we were looking for including: embedding current and past streams on our website, chat feature, analytics, and much more. Ustream allowed us to reach out congregants in ways that we never dreamed of. We especially liked the ability for iPhone and iPad users to watch the stream using the Ustream app or on our website.
- Stream encoding
- Analytics reporting
- Embed codes
- Not a free service
- They could update their UI/UX to be more modern.
- They could allow for Facebook Live.
September 14, 2019
Easy Streaming Service
We provide event services for large conferences who desire streaming of the presentations. It's an easy way for us to offer this service without having to invest in the equipment to provide the same.
- It's easy to use (for the most part).
- The ability to provide the client with detailed analytics is invaluable to the service we provide.
- Some of the instructions are a little convoluted and there are too many steps required in order to do certain things (such as adding a holding image for the stream)
September 14, 2019
Affordable video streaming service that integrates well with OBS. Works well for company live streams
I have used this service to livestream Town Hall events to our remote offices and work from home employees. We have used other meeting applications and they do not provide the video quality that IBM's streaming service does. We tried multiple other products we already own for video calls, etc, and found that we needed an actual streaming service to produce something with better quality.
- Adjustable bandwidth quality for video. Various meeting applications we tried have low video resolution
- Works perfectly with OBS
- Has easy to understand billing
- We would like to see a lower cost option for folks like us that only need it once in a while. The monthly option isn't too high, though
September 06, 2019
Cost effective streaming of sport events
Our sports association organizes a mountain running race supported by many sponsors. The day of the race we set up a live stream of the race with connections to different crucial points of the racetrack connected with long-range wireless devices and all media is collected in a streaming manager software that mixes images with ads that encode and stream the content to IBM servers.
- Easy to integrate with many streaming software.
- Powerful statistics.
- Good control of embedded content and it makes it easy to avoid other sites embedding your content without your permission.
- I don't feel comfortable with the pricing model.
September 04, 2019
IBM Watson for broadcasting
We use video streaming to broadcast and record our sermons for our weekly Sunday worship services across our entire organization including campuses in California and Michigan. We also utilize the service to broadcast and record our training sessions for future classes and for those who are unable to attend during the live stream. The service allows us a simple way to broadcast, organize, and record our content in a way that is easily accessible by our congregation members.
- The streaming quality is outstanding and we have never had any issues with buffering due to a slow server. Our problems usually lie with our local internet provider.
- I appreciate the quick and easily accessible customer service. We had a couple of occasions where we needed help and I was able to access a customer service representative quickly.
- We also like the different channels available within our service. This allows us to customize our streams based on our target audience.
- We would like to see the ability to slipstream the broadcast thus allowing a viewer to join a live stream after the start time and still start in the beginning. Similar to a DVR system for home, this would be great for timing since we stream to multiple locations who may not be ready at the exact start time of the broadcast.
August 31, 2019
Great for Masterclasses with Music
I am a self-employed business owner who regularly uses a live stream platform for masterclasses and events. I required a non-VOIP platform as I add a good deal of music. My offerings with crystal singing bowls and vocals as part of the work I do were distorted on other platforms and I've been very happy with Ustream.
- Clear picture and sound
- Option for live chat
- Replay of published videos
- I find there is a lag in the broadcast so that as I ask my viewers questions, their answers come 30 seconds to 2 minutes delayed. I realize part of this could be internet connection speed, but I have a good service that is fast for all other functions.
August 31, 2019
CCC's great experience with IBM MVSR
It is used to live stream our Sunday services and events where some family member can't make the service. The services are then available for on-demand viewing.
- Very few issues with connectivity to the servers. I think in the 10 years we have used it, we only had one case where the service was down. Can't say that for our sister church that uses Facebook. Seems to be one event per quarter with them.
- The ability to trim the video down to remove extra content from the live broadcast. Would be nice if we could trim out elements in the middle.
- Nice analytics.
- Wide range of methods to get the servers.
- The ability to edit or trim out content in the middle of the recording. The Trim feature is great for removing content from the beginning and end, nothing for the middle. If we could have in/out markers to put on the timeline, that would direct the player to only play those segments between the in/out markers.
We started with Ustream many years ago. It worked great. We transitioned to IBM when they bought out Ustream. It worked OK for five months and then fell apart. We broadcast all our services at Victory Baptist Church over the web. People can watch from around the world.
- I can't say it does anything particularly well now, except pass the buck and make excuses as to why their stuff doesn't work.
- Videos are "jerky." Audio and video are out of synch.
- Videos uploaded to YouTube now do not have any audio. They blame this on us, but our created product has not changed.
- Videos that are downloaded are often unuseable because they are so far out of synch that it is distracting.
- Customer Service's standard response is, "We've contacted engineering." Engineering never answers.
We are using USTREAM as a ministry to deliver our church services and special programs to our congregation that are traveling and more importantly to our homebound members. Our members continually tell us what a valuable service and how meaningful this is to them. One of the most important features is the ability to have the services recorded and available on demand to time shift delivery to our congregation and potential members. We have one viewer in another state that is providing a financial donation to help support this ministry.
- Recording as we are streaming
- Provides recorded service for later viewing
- Ubiquitous presence for our live services as well as archived services
- Currently we are served well with the resources that are provided.
August 28, 2019
Live Broadcast Anywhere
We mainly used this to live stream the video for the quarterly manager's meetings. It addresses the issues for managers that cannot attend the onsite meeting and the ability to post the video for playback.
- Easy to use.
- Link to live stream.
- Secure.
- It works well only when you have a good high-speed internet connection.
August 27, 2019
Reach for better Streaming
We have been using IBM Watson to stream video for our monthly meetings, and it has been a great hand in recording passed meetings. The history and library can take you back for recorded meetings. I liked that it was cloud-based, and was able to access content anywhere we were, and also that it supports PC and Mac.
- The video quality is very good.
- It's good with broadcasting and streaming.
- The sound quality was good.
- The pricing was a little too high.
- Areas with low bandwidth had problems with sound.
- Support about the product is lacking.
August 24, 2019
Streaming for University Events
In the event world, we receive a lot of requests for streaming live events across campus. We use IBM Watson Media's Video Streaming to connect with audiences around the world. With our camera setup and a local streaming kit, we're able to bring our event to overflow rooms across campus, and stream online for anyone at home.
- Adaptability. We're able to configure our livestreams to the needs of our clients.
- Detail-oriented. There's a lot of options to look into, compared to the bare-bones packages that many of the competitors offer.
- Cost. Many other services offer similar services at no cost.
- Viewer hours. This is a confusing concept for our clients, and we don't like the idea of a limited number of viewer hours allotted each month.
- Tiered membership system. This should be simplified.
August 24, 2019
Getting our message to over 60,000 employees with ease.
We have various departments each over 10,000 employees that we host a live-streamed townhall for all to view.
- Love the fact that each individual can view the product at a different quality depending on their internet capacity.
- Ease of saving and posting to YouTube post-show.
- Metrics are great.
- Some parts are a bit too technical and over the head of an average person.
- Price can be a bit steep for some of the things we have.
August 24, 2019
Church Live Stream
It is primarily used by our AV Director and his volunteer team and me on the communications side. We use the video streaming to live stream our Sunday worship service to those who are unable to make it in person.
- Clear video stream
- Useful metrics
- Ability to edit videos in the archive
- Ability to auto-caption videos is a great new feature
- Love the Call to Action option, but it is distracting to have up the whole time; wish there was a way to choose when/how long it is up.
- Sometimes support questions take a long time to get answered/solved.
- We aren't notified of changes to the software which causes things like our website integration to get unexpectedly broken.
- Cost is pretty high.
August 16, 2019
Solid stream, solid service.
Streamed a highly-produced sales kick-off event to several sites and hundreds of employees. Event featured live speakers and video content.
- Quality of video
- Easy to access
- Solid streaming capability
- Pricepoint