A list of companies and services that provide live web video

Categories: IPTV, Industry Index, Live VideoPosted on May 16th, 2007

You may know me as one of the guys that was live streaming the Web 2.0 conference in 2007, this is a space that I’m watching grow quickly.

I like lists, it helps me to keep track, gauge and watch a market. I’ve done this for a few other industries such as Online Data Storage, Social Media Measurement, and White Label Social Networking products.

I’m starting to see more and more companies emerge that offer Online Video Web Streaming. The requirements? It should be accessible by the average consumer, no or low-cost, and transmits video through the web. It should be MORE than just a webcam software or home security, it should have features such as social networks, widgets, and archiving abilities.

A list of companies and services that provide live, streaming, web video:

StickAm
Express yourself live

Ustream
Live interactive video for everyone

kyte: TV
With kyte you start your own broadcast network!

Mogulus
Live Broadcast!

Veodia
The live TV studio in your browser

Operator 11
Grab your cam and join any show that’s netcasting

YouCams
Instant Social Networking

MyStreams
Lifecasting Now

HomeCamera
Home Monitoring made easy

Infinite Conferencing
Webcast Your Event… Get the Power and Reach of a Radio or Television Broadcast at a fraction of the cost!

BlogTV
Create, Share, and Watch Live Broadcasts

ComVu
“Broadcast video “live” from the palm of your hand”

Justin TV
“A place for live video. That means everything from event streaming to lifecasting.”

Yahoo Live
“Y! Live was dreamed up as a way to make it possible for anyone to create their own live video experience”

Other Resources
While searching for more video lists, I ran across this great list. He’s got some other companies listed for scheduled broadcasting and remixing, but I’m primarily focused on live streaming. I’ve got a few he doesn’t and he had a few I didn’t. I love how the web promotes sharing and collaborative learning.

Predictions
It’s May 2007, and there’s five on this list, I predict there will be at least 20 of these types of companies on the web by the end of year. I anticipate that Google or it’s YouTube acquisiotion will launch such a service by Thanksgiving of Christmas (when people want to talk to family remotely). It does seem like everytime Google swallows a company that it has little innovation for sometime, so we’ll have to see.

What’s the future of online video media? While video blogs are certainly getting more popular, streaming will too. I see social media moving from asynchronous to real-time. As our culture catches up to Asian countries usage of mobile, we’ll start recording and distributing more live video from cell phones.

Know of a company or service? Leave a comment
Help this list to grow, so leave a comment below.

Update: May 29th, I’m excited about Ustream and have now joined the board of advisors, details on this post.

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This is excellent Jeremiah thanks for the list. Tris and I have decided to call it the Social Mediasphere and will be discussing such topics at a new site http://www.blogonomics.net

Posted by Jim Turner on May 16th, 2007 at 8:23 am

Jim “Genuine”

Thanks for the shout out, Keep an eye on this list, it will continue to grow.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 16th, 2007 at 8:28 am

Companies and services that provide live web video…

More and more companies are emerging that offer Online Video Web Streaming. It should be MORE than just a webcam software or home security, it should have features such as social networks, widgets, and archiving abilities….

Posted by share.websitemagazine.com on May 16th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

Thanks for mentioning us, Jeremiah.

A quick clarification though: We’re not really in the live streaming space. Our focus is “how do we make home monitoring really easy for the average user? how do we go beyond the geekiness that currently surrounds this area (e.g. conventional systems require the user to understand NAT, DDNS, “punching holes in the home firewall”, and other such stuff that makes consumers’ eyes glaze over). Everything we do is based on this. Some of the elements of social networking are natural extensions to the needs of our target market, such as camera sharing (but only with authorized people, so that the grandparents can watch over the new baby in the family despite living on different continents, or the complete family can watch over the dog, or the pet hamster (you’d be surprised…!)).

We’re also working with camera manufacturers such as D-Link to embed our protocol into their cameras, HomeCamera-enabling their systems and making them easier to use.

In that sense, we think we’ve identified an underserved niche and are fairly unique. (Then again, we would, wouldn’t we? ).

Thanks again for writing about us. We welcome your readers at http://www.homecamera.com to take the 1-2 min tour and learn more about us.

Posted by Varun on May 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

You left out On2 Technologies. Today they streamed flash video from Streaming Media East.

They are the company that provides the codec fro Adobe’s flash player. They should be at the top of your list!

Thanks

Posted by Bob on May 16th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Here’s a good one I came accross. http://www.mystreams.tv

Posted by Diana on May 17th, 2007 at 6:00 am

All, Thanks for all the submissions

Varun, please see my email and let me know if your company should be on this list. In my mind, it is the same market and industry. I did not segment this list by lifecasting vs home security vs events –they ALL apply.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 17th, 2007 at 6:26 am

Bob

I checked out On2 Technologies website at http://www.on2.com/

Is this a technology that powers video live streaming or a site that let’s anyone start live streaming in 15 minutes or less?

Upon exploring the site, it sure looks like a great underpinning technology, but I’m not sure it fits the requirements of the list, correct me if I’m wrong.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 17th, 2007 at 6:28 am

Veodia http://urltea.com/luw
and people keep telling me that Kyte.tv does live streaming as well

Posted by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 22nd, 2007 at 11:17 am

great start!

check out http://www.mogulus.com/

a twitter friend told me about it yesterday.

very cool
live
lower thirds
logos
insertion of pre-recorded media

Posted by Baratunde Thurston on May 22nd, 2007 at 11:38 am

Marshall, I added Kyte, I’ve seen that before, thanks.

Baratunde, I added Mogulus thanks

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm

Btw, when I started this list there was only 5

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 22nd, 2007 at 12:13 pm

Hey Jeremiah - I wanted to submit one more to the list (that I’m a bit partial to): http://www.viddyou.com

It’s not live lifecasting, but sort of lifecasting-lite. Like Justin.tv’s archive viewer captures the highlights of the show, we take a similar approach in a social video blogging framework.

Posted by Aaron on May 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm

Aaron

Thanks so much for the submission, is Viddyou, LIVE web broadcasting? I don’t see any direct indicators on the site that describes that it does this. Let me know.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply Viddyou is LIVE web broadcasting …

I came over from the link you posted in TC on the Justin.tv article and somehow I misread and thought you were listing sites in the lifecasting arena.

Re-reading this entry I am not sure how I got that idea. I’ll make sure I’ve had my coffee before hitting the ’submit’ button next time.

Posted by Aaron on May 23rd, 2007 at 1:07 am

No worries, no harm done.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 am

Jeremiah,

It seems that the streaming and lifecasting is really moving very fast, even faster then video did. It seems that most of these sites out there have (in my opinion) not done a very good job of organizing all of it. I visit some of these sites and don’t even know where to start. Where do you think this ultimately all ends up? Is the big one going to be the one that figures out a way to organize all of this, ie. search, tags and streaming. I’d be curious to your opinion on this.

Stan

Posted by Stan on May 25th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

It’s too early to really tell where there emerging industry will end up, but here’s a few predictions:

As network pipe’s get more bandwidth there’s an opportunity for higher grade video to appear.

Also, mobile devices will start to stream video in the very near future as EDVO and other wireless infrastructres take hold

I see that vidoe streaming will become a feature for many websites, and will become very common in corporate communications.

Well, I said more than I thought I could!

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 25th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Thanks for the quick response. I’m just wondering as so many companies enter this space and might I add they are popping up overnight, if opportunity exists for some type of search organization of all of it as google did in the late 90’s with search and as Truveo did with video.

Posted by Stan on May 25th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

I get your point. Lots of streams will be castin’ 24/7, which ones will we watch? Yes, a new type of ‘real-time’ tool will aggregate and find the right video for the right need.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 25th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

Hi Jeremy,
I’m very excited to be able to experiment with these new services…

Check out http://www.comvu.com/, they allow me to LIVE broadcast from my Nokia N93/N95…

–Steve

Posted by steve garfield on May 28th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

Steve, you’re doing great stuff, I love your fast videos you publish, thanks for the link submission.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 28th, 2007 at 5:25 pm

Thanks for the impressive list, indeed, this segment of the industry is growing quickly. Each of these sites you list offers a unique and different perspective of live video streaming. As I have been saying for the last six months, this is the “next big thing”! As Stan (above) so aptly put, focusing on the user experience is what is most important now. Whoever can create an environment that effortlessly allows the user to “go live” will have a decided advantage. Streaming live to and from mobile devises is also heating up.
I am including my email here so that anyone who is interested in working together can contact me. In this type of industry, I think “sharing” is most important to finding solutions and success.

Please feel free to contact me…sflacks@gmail.com

Scott

Posted by Scott Flacks on May 29th, 2007 at 9:41 am

Thanks Scott, I agree this is an exciting space

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on May 29th, 2007 at 9:51 am

By the way, I suppose I should have mentioned that I manage marketing and Operations at Stickam.com

Posted by Scott Flacks on May 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am

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You forgot about Broadcaster.com

Posted by jerry on June 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

I just saw a story on NBC http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/…..eid=13133. It said that Stickam.com protects the interests of minors by built in safety features. I used to work at Stickam and you should know that their professed concern for the safety of underage users is bogus. Right now a 14 year old user can chat outright with an adult and even worse go into a private room together where what happens can not be monitored. Stickam removed several of the features that keep underage users protected. This was done because increasing signups was a bigger priority than safety. There are repeated complaints made to the site about explicit content and behavior but they go unheeded. They fired a staff member because he was reporting predators and abuse. It is common to find minors flashing and posting explicit pictures. The so called “monitors” ban male users who remove their shirts and leave girls who are on cam in their underwear or worse. Their no tolerance policy for explicit content and concern for child safety is just so much lip service. There are even worse things going on at that company if you were to dig deeper and go behind the facade. Suffice to say I would never want any child of mine involved with it. MySpace is Sunday school compared to what goes on at Stickam and its affiliated companies.

p.s how is it that a so called start up company can afford to operate from the tallest building on the west coast of the US (US bank tower) wouldn’t you like to know where the money comes from….hint its not venture capital. Parent company Advanced Video Communications and the other related companies are so much bigger than they would like you to believe and they DO NOT really build video conferencing systems for companies. It’s something much less respectable

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Jerry

I can’t confirm from looking at http://www.broadcaster.com/ that it’s a LIVE video streaming site, is it?

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on July 10th, 2007 at 4:09 am

Yebotv.com also does live streaming of concerts and also has streaming channels of unsigned bands music videos on its underground live section

Posted by Britt Forbes on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:11 am

Thanks Britt, can I stream my own video on Yebotv.com? I don’t see that as a feature.

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Hi,
You tube has great site for online video.

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SEO

the requirements are LIVE video streaming. YouTube is pre-recorded content.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 am

How about justin.tv, Jeremy? Does it pass for one?

Posted by Alain Yap on January 7th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

yes it does Alain, thanks

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on January 7th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

for professional services in the live streaming space, check out http://www.viewstream.com — we also do live High-Definition streaming!!!

Posted by John Assalian on May 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am

HD streaming — that is pretty cool!

Posted by Robert on June 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am

This newly launched website has a combination of video services such a live video streaming, video email , member generated pay per view , video chat , friends and private messaging , etc. check it out. Did I mention it is all free ?

Posted by kevin on June 30th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

oh , yea , StreamAVideo offers Flash High Definition hosting and streaming as well ..

Posted by kevin on June 30th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

Hi all. Kinura is a European web video agency. We provide live webcasting in Adobe Flash. We recently streamed a 2 day digital conference in Manchester, England, with live chat forum that users could participate in via sms as well as online.
http://just-b.com/btween/programme/19june

We set up 3 cam shoot, live encoding and archiving with bookmarks was done via ‘Timelines’ in collaboration with an agency called Someth;ng. Muchosmedia developed the chat app for us.

http://www.kinura.com

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