Live Streaming CDN Platform Review

Live Streaming CDN Review

Live video review included

Live Stream PlatformsA quick review of ● DaCast (slide 4) ● StreamSpot (slide 6)● TikiLive (slide 9)● UStream (slide 14)● Meridix (slide 17)● Wowza (slide 19)● Twitch (slide 23)● YouTube Live (slide 24)

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DaCast features monetization for your pay per view livestreams.

It also integrates with vMix, giving you the option to log in directly from vMix to DaCast.

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StreamSpot is very easy to use and straight forward. It also integrates with vMix, giving you the ability to log into StreamSpot through vMix itself. StreamSpot is a CDN for Houses of Worship mainly. It features high quality, live or on demand streams.

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StreamSpot has clear, straight to the point steps to getting your stream up and running. It also has a ton of integrated options for your live streams.

TikiLive was surprisingly powerful offering the ability to create your own television station with on-demand style viewing. TikiLive offers Word Press integration, as soon as you’re signed up you can design your site around your livestream. TikiLive has 15 total CDN options to use, giving you a vast majority of options to fully customize your livestream.

This is by far one of the most advanced CDN’s.

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Bring the “traditional” cable experience to your customer’s living rooms with our Android STB App. Our Android STB App replaces the traditional cable box and allows your customers to watch their favorite channels while “cutting the cord” to traditional cable

Watch Live TV with interactive features like the Electronic Programming Guide(EPG), Video On Demand, Cloud Based DVR and much more!



UStream has many useful features including: the ability to collect valuable information from stream viewers, vMix integration, great pricing for constant livestreamers, and much more. The analytics give this live streaming platform increased usability, and make is much more live streamer friendly.

UStream is becoming a big name in the live streaming industry. Their approach is simplistic and it’s very easy to get started right away with UStream Broadcaster. We found it to be one of the easiest platforms to get started on and enjoyed the free 30 day trial with no credit card required.

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Meridix is a live streaming solution for sports. It offers vMix integration, just log in through vMix to Meridix and start streaming! It also has the ability to upload all streams to the site to watch prior streams once they’re over.

Meridix is highly specialized for live streaming sports. This allows for really easy customization for sports team managers who have little experience with live streaming technologies. That being said, we prefer a simplistic approach to delivering a RTMP stream from a software like vMix or Wirecast who handles the “score board” and camera switching...

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As many of us know, Wowza is one of the biggest live streaming platforms on the market. It has a ton of CDN integrations making it simple to live stream with whatever service you may want to use. Wowza is extremely easy to use, and asks simple questions while setting up to give you exactly what you need for your live stream.

One of the unique features is the ability to select servers from around the world (3 in the USA!). This is a great way to reduce latency and delivery the highest quality live streams.

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Choose where your server is, which inevitably chooses where your audience is located.

Twitch is a live streaming service for gaming. There is a upgrade to the free service called “Turbo” which gives you an ad free service, more video storage for past live streams, different chat colors, and much more. Twitch integrates with vMix, just log in and set up your stream and you’re good to go.

One thing that surprised us is that Twitch automatically deletes videos after 2-4 weeks. So this really focused on live streaming not content for videos on-demand.

YouTube Live is a free live streaming service that automatically upload all live streams straight to YouTube once the stream is over, given that you choose to upload the video. It is extremely easy to set up, and completely free!

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Live Streaming CDN Platform Review