Ustream Signs Sun & Oracle for Paid Webcasts
With many companies cutting costs everywhere they can, Ustream has managed to infiltrate the corporate webcast market pretty quickly. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup let us know it has signed Oracle, Duke, Sun, UC Berkeley and Sling as customers for its paid white-label live video service, called Watershed, which launched only a month ago.
Ustream said Sun is already using Watershed for earnings calls and internal webcasts and Oracle plans to is considering live broadcasting from all its some 8,000 worldwide events this year. Meanwhile, university professors are able to stream live and chat with students with just a laptop and webcam.
Ustream had initially launched Watershed as a cheap pay-as-you-go service and is now adding a monthly plan option for customers who have reliable demand. It’s a pretty huge savings. Now, 500 viewer hours per month cost $49, whereas before they were $1 per hour. There are further savings if you commit to more hours.
The company is also adding mobile broadcasting capabilities, which it released to consumer users a few weeks ago. While many broadcasters might be interested in white-label mobile broadcasting, at this point the Ustream/Watershed service is limited to high-end Nokia handsets. Competitors in the consumer space like Qik have moved onto other platforms, such as BlackBerry and Windows Mobile.
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Liz….don’t believe everything Ustream tells you. Might want to do some fact checking.
Sounds like a disgruntled employee trying to spread things
i was on a list of sites that ustream’s publicity company would send stories out to. i did some fact checking and many were false. the possible microsoft/google acquisition was false, for example.
also mentions of investors in story quotes, and “investors” also make comments on blog entries about them. companies that are well funded don’t talk about “getting calls from investors”.
they’re fishing.
check facts before printing any releases that you’re sent.