Content Management Systems

Video Delivery Services

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

You can control your message viewing quality and other factors of your video. It's important to understand content delivery networks (CDN's). These are companies with big budgets who have powerful computers that serve live streaming video to your  viewers located anywhere. If you visit any Fortune 1000 company with video streaming on their Website, they have hired a CDN to stream video for them. A CDN has computers located in different geographical locations, your video is located on each of their computers, when a viewer presses play the nearest server to the viewer streams the video or serves up the video quickly and smoothly. This is all happening behind the scenes. Big companies are spending big money to ensure their messages look great when you press play. Small companies may also use these services and will only pay for the service based on how much bandwidth your videos use. If you don't want to pay for this CDN service your only options are to use free, public video sharing sites or upload the video to your website hosting server. The disadvantage to free video sharing sites is these sites need to monetize your video, so expect your videos to show ads you did not place promoting random products like cough syrup or car insurance.

Here are a few companies to consider hiring to deliver your video messages. As online video continues to grow, this is going to be a very competitive segment. So check out these companies yourself. I suggest using your favorite search engine to identify all the companies who provide this service.

http://www.swarmcast.com Delivers a HD video using a network of CDN's.

http://www.edgecast.com  EdgeCast is tailored for video - streaming, live broadcasts, and progressive download.

http://www.ignitetech.com Secure and scalable Content Delivery Solution, enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver, and manage digital assets.

http://www.limelightnetworks.com A large CDN service. Many large companies use this service.