Brightcove vs. IBM Video Streaming

Brightcove

42 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Video Streaming

207 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Brightcove	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Brightcove Video is a video hosting and publishing solution. The company also provides a cloud media processing product called Zencoder.	N/A
IBM Video Streaming	Score9.3 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	IBM Video Streaming solutions are used to stream virtual events, executive town halls, video marketing product launches, and 24-hour streaming channels. 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…	$137 per month 100 viewer hours

Pricing

Brightcove

IBM Video Streaming

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Silver: $137
per month 100 viewer hours
Gold: $688
per month 2,000 viewer hours
Platinum: $1380
per month 5,000 viewer hours

Pricing Offerings
Brightcove	IBM Video Streaming
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

No setup fee

Optional

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Video Streaming edition is available for purchase via credit card online (or via IBM salesperson if needs exceed those outlined in the online plans). Enterprise Video Streaming edition must be purchased from an IBM salesperson.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Brightcove	IBM Video Streaming
Considered Both Products	Brightcove No answer on this topic	IBM Luke Campbell Chief Operating Officer in Corporate at Epicentre.tv (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Video Streaming We have looked at a range of platforms - Livestream, Oolya, Brightcove, NeuLion, YouTube, Facebook etc., and all platforms have their pros and cons. The points raised earlier are the key changes that need to be made form our perspective to improve the platform. Offering direct … Incentivized Helpful? Nidia Marin Global Marketing & E-Commerce in Marketing at LATAM Airlines (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Video Streaming The ability to scale the platform, as well as its ability to interface with other IBM systems, was the reason they decided to use it. Integral to the concept of an advanced analytics suite was the comparative advantage it had over other competitors and analysis tools crucial … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Janak Media Productions Engineer in Information Technology at Airbnb (Internet, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM Video Streaming The main reasons I would recommend Ustream over other competitors are: SSO integration, how accessible/responsive support is, the ease of use for the viewer, the consumption/seat model is easy to understand, server side encoding to multiple bitrates/qualities, ability to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Video Streaming When this project was evaluating streaming providers in 2013, Livestream was the closest to uStream in feature set. However, we found the packages that uStream provided were financially better considering the volume of customers who were going to stream our content. We also … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Brightcove	IBM Video Streaming
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (16 ratings)	9.6 (127 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (13 ratings)	8.9 (8 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.9 (62 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	4.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (60 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.6 (3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	7.6 (3 ratings)