Overview
DaCast provides a top notch online video platform that streamlines the sharing of quality media content. The company delivers high-standard streaming solutions at competitive prices. Over 120,000 enterprises and professional broadcasters leverage DaCast to provide their on-demand and live video content. In 2019, the company acquired vzaar, a video hosting platform, to strengthen its leadership in the OTT sector.
DaCast offers a Streaming as a Service video system that delivers professional and affordable online streaming services to its users. The platform leverages the cloud via EdgeCast and Akamai CDNs to remove the hassle from video streaming, allowing broadcasters and content owners to do their best work and fully control their online video content. This video platform presents a suite of functionalities via cloud computing that include paywall integration, on demand video, and high definition live broadcasting.
Benefits
Leading Online Streaming Platform
DaCast provides a professional service for hosting and live streaming of on-demand video content. The company was founded in 2008 and has expanded into a top online streaming platform. It boasts over 114,000 broadcasters around the globe, including OTT firms, governments, educational enterprises, and TV stations.
Efficient Content Distribution
DaCast disseminates content through Akamai which is a leading content delivery network, to deliver consistent quality, enhanced speed, and improved security on all devices. The platform’s adaptive video player provides support for multi-bitrate streaming and reduces buffering, offering an excellent viewing experience to users.
Robust API
You can customize the video player to maintain your company’s branding and include a watermark logo to safeguard your content. Further, you can integrate a native video player into your website through embeddable links, or share it in your Facebook and Twitter feeds. To facilitate custom integrations, DaCast presents API access to the content management system and video player. With a developer’s assistance, the API permits you to create a customized streaming service from the video platform.
Multiple Monetization Choices
DaCast proffers many monetization choices, including adding the pay-per-view or subscriptions scheme to your channel. You can set them up easily and accept EUR and USD for PayPal and credit card transactions. The vendor charges a steep 9.9% commission for all revenue and transaction charges for every purchase.
Flexible Pricing Packages
DaCast’s entry-level plan costs just $19/month and is perfect for newbies to streaming who have a limited number of viewers and for those who do not broadcast frequently. With the Starter plan, you can deliver a weekly HD broadcast service to 100 viewers with 30 minutes per viewer. However, if you wish to deliver daily broadcasts with the same elements, you can go for the Premium package which provides more bandwidth to help you expand your audience.
Product Features
- Video streaming
- Video looping
- Social sharing
- Privacy options
- Mobile screen support
- Closed captions
- Bulk uploading
- Brand overlay
- Analytics
Pricing
Starter Plan
- $19/mo (billed annually)
- Bandwidth – 100 GB
- Viewers/Hours* - 300
- Storage - 20GB
- Price per GB - $0.19
Premium Plan
- $125/mo (billed annually, save 25%)
- $165/mo (3 months commitment)
- Bandwidth - 2,000 GB
- Viewers/Hours* - 6,000
- Storage - 200 GB
- Price per GB - $0.0825
* based on 750 kbps
Custom Plan
- High volume plans
- Contact the vendor for pricing
Customer Support
- Phone Support
- Live Support
- Support Tickets