Niche Private Media Channel (discontinued)

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 comprehensive approach to media.

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.

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.

Niche Video Media has far superior support compared to the large live streaming hosts that are available.

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 interface that worked with their hosting. I would have had to go to another company.

Ruduzku: they appeared to have too much of their own branding on the course pages.

Other companies: took a percentage of video sales and appeared to do marketing or sent my customers to other competitors. I did not need anyone to do my marketing.

I read a ton of reviews for other companies. I picked Niche Video based on a single comment from a user who said they used it at their community college. That seemed to be a model that would work well for what I wanted to do. Then I approached them and had a demo and again I saw they actually answered their phones.

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.

I chose them for their fantastic customer service as well as their all-in-one solution for video hosting.

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.

From a price and service perspective they are by far the industry leader.