I’m a “young” streaming user (from dec. 2008) and i’ve tested quite every services.

Everyone has his “strengths” but in the dream of a user no one have all the features that we like.

I stay in europe, so the live streaming is a little bit difficult for the “hop” needed to reach the us servers and so need much more upload bandwidth that other us users: this is a point on which that big players have to remember for the growth of their business because Europe is not so little.

- Mogulus
I find mogulus user friendly and with a lot of features (most of all the slow but good Studio) that meet quit all the needs of my customers. The free version is (in the most of the case) sufficient for low level customers (and hope that in the future it will be deleted like options for clean the market from the milions of “embedder” programmer that make the customer confused). Mogulus is a business driver for a lot of little software house in my opinion, and needs multicamera live features and a transition section for to be one of the best.

- Usstream
simply and stable. this are the words that i can use for describe their services. Need to have a “studio” solution, multicamera and pip at least. the new business model can be interesting but is not the best (like Internap can offer)

- Make tv
This guys have the best interface of all, far milions of miles from the other and really is a totaly studio console: multi-pip, cue from unlimited remote camera, MIX between local video and remote live stream, chroma key (2 keys), alpha etc are really the best of the market. Titling is not good as the other features (not rolling or scrolling) but they are so near the “goal”.. Their studio application needs to be more reliable again, and their business plan are interesting.

-CDN
Yes. at least for a good business their offer the best price for the “pure” services. You need to do Your interface, your application, etc but they are moving for offer it (without claim) to the “end business customers”. From those that i Tested Velocix, SimplyCDN and Streamzilla was for my needs the best. Internap has the best business plan offer that i REALLY HOPE to find everywhere:
Pay for GB of traffic, NO MATTER of how much bandwidth do you use or need (for concurrent viewers), no mounths prefixed fee, JUST PAY for 1 user ad 300Kbits or 1000 at 1.5 Kbits traffic. I found this the “peace” of heart respect to the
waste of the costs of the other business models (for example in one mounth you can use half of your prepayed traffic/bandwidht/what_also_over and payed the mountly fee, and in another mount for just one day of peek event you have to pay the “burst” plus the base fees).

At moment the dream solution for me is the Make.tv interface, on the streamzilla cdn, with the stability of usstream, and some features (and the “friendly”) of the mogulus studio, but it is far to come.

like alway no one have the best solution for all business, every one has some “strengths”, BUT the business model that ALL US can ask to ALL their can be a simply PAY-AS-YOU-CONSUME model, like from years the
telephone companies did (and it’s more simply to explain the model to OUR customers).

My 2 cents

http://www.make.tv

Their tech support used to be quick and responsive but now is in the toilet. We’ve switched to uStream for their overall stability. I hope they add multi-camera support (being able to cue cameras and transition between them) soon. But for now I’ll take a stable, less feature-rich platform over the anxiety of wondering “Will Mogulus will work today?”

(Also their studio application desparately needs an HTML/non-flash alternative as it can be terribly slow and unresponsive)

After seeing Max’s post, it’s obvious these comments are from Max Hoat. I’ve never read comments so negative/filled with insecurity/attacking on Techcrunch kinda obvious…

LOWEST PRICE generally means CHEAPEST PRODUCT.

Not sure I would be proud nor public about that.

glad I saw this post…some entertainment value!

Mogulus is a “Pro” Account and basic.

Ustream is a true enterprise solution.

We aren’t comparing apples to apples.

Your product is cheaper because it sucks. Choppy and buggy.

I canceled after one month. How do I process a return?