#1 most frequent
United States of America
85.7%6 installations of 7
What is StreamShark Live Streaming Platform?
StreamShark is a live streaming solution that provides options for large enterprises as well as individuals or businesses with small to medium requirements.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Screenshot of Live Stream Pricing and Key Plan Inclusions
Who Buys & Uses StreamShark Live Streaming Platform
#2 most frequent
Ireland
14.3%1 installation of 7
Ideal streaming/ hybrid events platform
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have over 70,000 customers around the world and needed a solution that allowed us to launch our new platform in a consumable way. I had been researching different virtual events and streaming platforms and kept coming up against the same problems. They either couldn't be branded, the signup flow added friction and would have caused drop off, or quality of the stream was poor. It was also important that I was able to get data and analytics from the stream. This meant that embedded YT live was out of the question because embedded YT don't always count the views. StreamShark Live Streaming Platform allowed for a solve for all of these problems. The team were incredibly helpful throughout the whole process. The platform itself is very user friendly and any questions I had were solved straight away. The video engineers even stayed up to 2 am AEDT to make sure our AMER stream went off without a hitch. This will be the platform I recommend to my event networks
Pros
- Live Support
- Stream Quality
- Ease of useability
Cons
- Being able to add SRT files to pre-recorded vids intended for livestream
Most Important Features
- Live streaming pre-recorded content
- Build as you go function (eg you can set up the livestream and add content later/ change it
- Good support from the StreamShark Live Streaming Platform team
Return on Investment
- Using StreamShark Live Streaming Platform we had a 92% engagement rate on our stream
Alternatives Considered
Zoom Events, StreamYard, vFairs, ON24, Google Meet and YouTube Live
Other Software Used
Zoom Events
StreamShark rocks!
Pros
- StreamShark is a reliable livestream destination.
- StreamShark has top quality security.
- StreamShark is a team that listens to their clients needs.
Cons
- Accessibility in the form of in house closed captions
- Added customization to the front end experience
- Additional in house analytics
Return on Investment
- StreamShark is a more cost effective solution than IBM CloudVideo
- Training on StreamShark will save cost over outsourcing live-streaming production houses
- StreamShark makes working from a digital environment easier
StreamShark Review
Pros
- Localized media ingestion, encode, redistribution.
Cons
- Multiple homepages for channels e.g. one for public and one for internal.
Return on Investment
- Facilitates engaging communication with staff and external parties.
Two Streams, One Team
Pros
- Easy to use interface.
- Fast buffering and load times.
- Mobile responsiveness.
Cons
- Channel support (see YouTube channels).
- More Webinar options, i.e. polls and attendance.
- Better reporting (see Zoom, i.e. advanced attendance logs, attention tracking).
Return on Investment
- Bigger opportunity to communicate with everyone in the business en mass.
- A more professional look when communicating with stakeholders.
- Stability.
Alternatives Considered
Zoom and Vimeo
Other Software Used
Zoom, Vimeo
Teamwork makes the stream work!
Pros
- StreamShark has an excellent live support model, which gives us real-time support on live stream productions. Another feature we like is the Okta SSO integration. This makes it simple to manage access to the videos and streams.
- Our account manager, James Broberg, is an absolute pleasure to work with. He clearly has our goals in mind when he suggests the new features in our bi-weekly meeting.
- Additionally, the StreamShark support team, namely, Yudong, Robert, and Aakanksha drive our requests to completion in a timely manner.
- The look and feel of the GUI is user-friendly.
Cons
- It would be great to encode using Variable Bit Rate. This would allow for potential network savings by optimizing unused bits while still allowing to deliver higher quality video.
- We’d like to see user-level access and not just admin-level access. This would be a limited-access role, but would still allow users to upload videos, understand insights, and manage streaming content.
Return on Investment
- This service has positively impacted the organization by allowing larger audiences to receive information and act on said information in a more timely manner. This equates to more productivity around the organization, as initiatives and objectives can be efficiently shared with remote attendees in all of our different office locations.
