Dacast

Reliable and easy to use

Kommentare: We use it extensively to stream weekly tutorials, as well as live feed conferences and events. Overall, our experience has been very positive and you can quickly talk to a real persona if you get stuck or something´s not working.

Vorteile:

Dacast is a solid streaming platform backed by an excellent support team which have helped me sort out configuration and integration into our e-learning platforms. I also like the fact that it´s highly customizable and integrates well into OBS studio and HTML pages, as well as Facebook. All in all, the quality/value for money ratio is well worth it.

Nachteile:

The latency is annoying (can be up to 15 secondes) and the upgrade payment to eliminate it is really too expensive.

Dacast meets our small business needs

Kommentare: Our clients aren't made of money, so we needed a streaming platform that would allow us to stream community/local events and not lose money on the deal. Customer service is good. The platform is not super polished compared to some competitors, but we've seen many improvements over the last 2 years.

Vorteile:

We needed a simple and affordable platform for live streaming events. While Dacast isn't perfect, the streams are reliable and that is very important to us. There is not much else to say, it meets our needs!

Nachteile:

Connection times to viewers to the streams have been long (30 seconds to minutes to connect) even with the most recent update to their platform. Reviewing data for how many viewers watched each event is clumsy, especially when we have back-to-back events on the same channel, but still want to see the data separated. Splash screens take a long time to load on the streaming pages. Backoffice tasks can be accidently missed because each section of settings requires you to press a save button at the bottom of the page. Subscription details aren't explain very well, for example if you purchase a certain package you get data but it's parcelled out over the year, not given to you all at once to use. This results in overage charges but fortunately you can enable protection to add data automatically when you run out so your streams never go down.

2 years of Dacast and I was pleased overall

Vorteile:

I liked the set up support that was given. If I needed someone they would be there to help me test at new sites.

Nachteile:

I didn’t like how hard it seemed to access the money that I earned.

A Little Rough Around the Edges, but Fantastic Value for Money

Kommentare: Dacast helps our team keep focus and lets us fully control our content, while keeping videos private and only accessible to our team. I've been quiet pleased with how seamlessly we were able to integrate it into our training materials in the place of YouTube.

Vorteile:

Dacast is a great platform for hosting and live streaming videos. You can control the style of the video player without any third party branding or recommended videos like YouTube has. It creates a lot more streamlined and focused viewing experience for employee training videos.

Nachteile:

The overall polish of Dacast could be improved. Changes to video info isn't always saved the first time. Uploads don't always finish uploading the first time. Processing to full HD quality can take a while too. The product works well overall, but it could use that extra bit of fine tuning.

Ideal for church live streaming

Kommentare: Dacast has been a valuable platform by which we can connect with our parishioners, both local and in remote locations.

Vorteile:

The Dacast platform provides great value for money. The move to the Limelight CDN platform has give much lower latency, and a generally improved connection experience for viewers. Works seamlessly with OBS and most hardware encoders.

Nachteile:

Some viewers have difficulty making a connection to a live stream, since connection to the video feed is not automatic once the streaming url is displayed. Analytics are not fully available on the basic plan, and sometimes do not show at all. Brand image does not always display in the same location of the streaming window, depending on the aspect ratio of the device used to view the stream. Multi bitrate streaming appears to be unavailable with the Limelight platform.