Streaming church services: an inside look at streaming with USTREAM
September 16, 2019

Streaming church services: an inside look at streaming with USTREAM

Joe Farmer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Streaming Manager (Ustream Pro Broadcast)

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Watson Media's Video Streaming

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.
USTREAM has not helped us build our viewing audience and the majority of our viewers now view our services on Facebook which is not done through USTREAM.
NO, we do not use this feature nor did we know about it.
We have viewed the metric system on USTREAM, however, we do not utilize it in our church.
The closed captioning system has never worked and we receive error emails about this feature to date.
USTREAM could be suited for any organization desiring to stream video in a simple way!

IBM Video Streaming Feature Ratings

Video personalization
7
Video SEO
4
Video access controls
7
User management
8
Video link sharing
9
Internal video
10
External video
8
Player customization
6
Embedded videos
5
Video quality / Bandwidth controls
3
Mobile compatibility
1
Streaming quality reports
6
Per viewer tracking
6
Per video tracking
6
Video analytics dashboard
5
On-Demand video
5
Live streaming
7
Impact of streaming on network
4
Video upload & format support
2
Video library / File management
4
Video portal
3
Audience polling
3
Video comments
1