After bringing live video streaming to the mobile, Ustream is making another head way with the launch of Watershed. The service is dedicated to businesses and web services that need stream their own live broadcasts. Based on the cloud, the service is charged on the pay as you go model, meaning that the prices vary depending on how much a user watches. They begin with prices beginning from $1 an hour per viewer for a thousand to $0.25 for streams exceeding 50,000 view hours every month. Now no matter how comparable this is to other services, I advice CEO John Ham to pull down that price much lower.
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Ustream launches pay-as-you-go Watershed
David Johnson February 18th, 2009
Ustream.tv has just launched a new service for Web sites and businesses called Watershed. Targeting the market that seeks a branded player and more customization for live events, Watershed offers a ton of management options outside the scope of the usual ustream player experience. Techcrunch has a good write up with a comparison sheet on the pricing model, noting that cloud computing model could end up being very pricey for a lot of producers.
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1. Anonymous | February 18th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
As you said, not gonna work.
2. pyrillix | February 19th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Hmm actually I think its a great idea, as the owner of a relatively large company , I can see it saving me money. The service we use now to stream our video newsletter is expensive and costs the same no matter how many veiwers. In my case month to month I only have relatively few veiwers but several times a year it spikes heavy, (end of quarter reports, stockholders meeting, or important announcements. Rough guess based on my experience I figure to save 70 to 80 percent, think I will check it out..
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