Niche Private Media Channel (discontinued) vs. uStudio

I'm not sure what the average user is looking for, but I can imagine a number of scenarios for which the platform offers a very flexible hosting service for a variety of users, with plenty of bells and whistles, for a reasonable costs that can protect content while offering a good interface between the publisher and their viewers.

• Niche customer support is second to none. They are always there when we need help
• The high quality video streaming is accessable world wide without the need to download software. Which is very important in our industry.
• The ability to combine video with attachments and secure encryption sets Niche apart.

• To get time stamps right in viewership analytics, time stamps appear to be delayed by 6 hours (I am -6 hours from UTC)
• Improve comments section to reflect actual dates, it says "about a year ago" when it is November 2015 (last month).

Incentivized

We really like the service

Because 10 is the best.

Immediate response from a knowledgeable rep - not a tier 1 automaton reading a script. I can, and have, reached them at all hours by phone, by chat, or by email. Responses are under 24 hours and frequently less than 1. And stuff gets DONE! I see things I request in almost every monthly release.

It was direct and personal, aimed at solving the immediate task at hand while instructing me how the channel as a whole works in the process.

No, the support at Niche Video Media was very helpful during set up.

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

• Our impact is operational efficiency/employee efficiency. We don't need to upload a video in Dropbox and download and review for each person, and approve, follow-up on 100+ emails. This channel helps to keep all the internal communications review process in one place.
• Obviously, The channel help us with the security risk, we can't afford to let the video go out of the channel while it is in progress.