OT: Anybody use Brightcove?

Dan Sherman wrote on 1/21/2010, 11:42 AM

What's the advantage over Vimeo and is the $99.00 a month better value that the $59.00 a year the Vimeo folks charge?

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ChipGallo wrote on 1/21/2010, 12:39 PM

It's hard to compare a $60/year service with a $1,200/year service without knowing what you are trying to do. If Vimeo meets your requirements, go for it.

[I am not a wiseacre so here is the long answer. Right now I use the "free" Vimeo personally and am trying to decide whether to spend the trivial $60 for "Plus" Vimeo for my ice skating videos which are done more or less as a hobby. At work we are reviewing a variety of video hosting vendors for our corporate content. They ALL cost a lot more than Vimeo but usually have a Service Desk we can call, are backed by a Content Delivery Network such as Akamai or Limelight Networks and have a video content management system and allow multiple people to upload and manage the content. Some of them plug into sophisticated web analytic programs, support multiple templates and players, etc. If your customers are paying money for you to host their videos, some of this is important to you, I would think.]

Dan Sherman wrote on 1/22/2010, 9:10 AM

Thanks.
Not into hosting.
Use Vimeo for client sign off, that sort of thing.
Meets our needs.

ChipGallo wrote on 1/22/2010, 1:20 PM

Thinking about your questions got me off the fence and I signed up for Vimeo Plus today. They have been very good to me over the years and I like to support the good vendors.

Dach wrote on 1/23/2010, 6:42 AM

This is the first time that I have heard of Brightcove, so in my quick review it sounds impressive, while looking perhaps a bit expensive. My crew and I have decided to develop our own in house player with FlowPlayer, an open source player that will sit on our own servers. Its true that we are spending a bit more up front to develop and implement, but compared to the montlhly fee our process will pay for itself.

Chad

mtntvguy wrote on 1/23/2010, 7:33 AM

How do you use Vimeo for client sign-off? Vimeo's policy clearly states no commercial content is allowed.

bsuratt wrote on 1/23/2010, 1:48 PM

mtntvguy..

If you create your own content, upload to Vimeo Plus acct, embed it on your website without allowing it to be viewed on the Vimeo public site then you are not considered "commercial". In the application mentioned above you would likely place this content behind a unique password so that each client could view only that which is addressed to them.

You, therefore, are not placing a "commercial content" on Vimeo's public site.

mtntvguy wrote on 1/23/2010, 2:03 PM

Very cool. Thanks.