Brightcove 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Brightcove

4.2

(17)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Brightcove

Brightcove: The most trusted streaming technology company in the world

Brightcove creates the world’s most reliable, scalable, and secure streaming technology solutions to build a greater connection between companies and their audiences, no matter where they are or on which devices they consume content. In more than 80 countries, Brightcove’s intelligent video platform enables businesses to sell to customers more effectively, media leaders to stream and monetize content more reliably, and every organization to communicate with team members more powerfully. With two Technology and Engineering Emmy® Awards for innovation, uptime that consistently leads the industry, and unmatched scalability, we continuously push the boundaries of what video can do.

At Brightcove, we strive to deliver the highest quality, most scalable and secure streaming technology for any company, brand or creator to own their digital future. We combine the most complete solutions with curated content services and a team of experts to lead you through every stage.

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Brightcove Features

Popular features found in Content Marketing
Audience Targeting
Campaign Management
Content Library
Customizable Branding
Customizable Templates
Editorial Calendar
Publish Scheduling
Reporting & Statistics
SEO Management
Social Media Integration
Workflow Management
More features of Brightcove
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Tracking
API
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Audio/video file upload
Brand Overlay
Bulk Uploading
Catalog Management
Categorization/Grouping
Closed Captions
Content Management
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop
Engagement Tracking
File Management
Filtering
Inside the Video Search
Interactive Content
Labeling
Lead Capture
Live Streaming
Live Streaming Production
Media Library
Metadata Management
Mobile Screen Support
Monitoring
Multi-Channel Distribution
Multi-Language
Multiple Format Support
Multistreaming
Performance Metrics
Performance Monitoring
Privacy Options
Real-Time Analytics
Real-time Broadcasting
Reporting/Analytics
ROI Tracking
Search/Filter
Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Streaming
Social Sharing
Split/Multi-Screen
Surveys & Feedback
Tagging
Template Management
Templates
Third-Party Integrations
User Interaction Tracking
User Management
Version Control
Video Creation
Video Editing
Video Hosting
Video Looping
Video Management
Video Monetization Tools
Video Streaming
Video Support
Video Tagging
Visual Analytics

Brightcove Integrations

Marketo Engage

Google Analytics 360

Kollective

YouTube

HubSpot CRM

Twitter/X

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Brightcove User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

41%

35%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

3.8

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.2

Tanner L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Good video management platform that could use better reporting

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use video hosting platform. Many upload customization options, and a great one-click landing page option. Easy to implement on landing pages and track within playlists.

Cons:

Reporting methods are hard to get video-to-video comparison reports without using workarounds that involve a ton of manual work.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Amazing solution to upload and track video marketing metrics

Overall I have had a very positive experience and Brightcove as a product has really exceeded my expectations as far as user interface, video uploading process, reporting by individual video content and metrics sharing and exporting.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to quickly and efficiently upload larger video files and mp4 files, create a video library and copy video embed code that content can be leveraged and published across other platforms. It is a very modernized and robust solution that stands out from similar tools in the market.

Cons:

The ability to customize user permission and settings is something that I would like to see improved. I would like to have the ability to create customized permissions based on roles like marketing, content creator and admin roles.

Reasons for choosing Brightcove

The full suite of solutions that Brightcove and its product reputation outweighed the total offering of competing solutions.

Michael M.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2023

Good except for the reporting functionality

I'd give it a 3 out of 5. The basic functionality of video hosting is acceptable but the reporting is poor. I was hired into this organization and Brightcove was the video hosting platform in use. I have previously used Wistia and had a reasonably good experience with it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For the most part, it allows me to host & edit the videos that I embed on the web pages that I create.

Cons:

I find your reporting interface to be pretty horrible for my use case. If given the opportunity, I would ask Brightcove or one of your UX people, who your intended customer base is and how you expect a customer with many videos to navigate through your reporting functionality? Being able to visualize the most popular videos is helpful but not the only question I'm trying to answer. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way for me to customize my interface. Again, for instances with many users and videos, what is your expectation of how these disparate users will engage with the platform?

Jared C.

Verified reviewer

Sports

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2024

Acquistion to Unbeatable Platform

We used Ooyala, then it was bought out by Brightcove. They initially wanted us to jump from Ooyala to the Brightcove platform, but didn't have all the feature we needed. Instead of just telling us, "this is how it's going to be" Brightcove connected me with their engineering team so that they could build what we needed in fuctionality so that we would be able to move off of Ooyala to Brightcove instead of moving to a different company. This has been the case ever since. If another company can offer something Brightcove can't they just build it for us, and usually build it better. And if a company comes in cheaper, Bightcove has always beat their competition's pricing. So while I have had moments of frustration with Brightcove, they always make it right and do it quickly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Brightcove is the only platform that we have found that checks all of our livestreaming and video needs in a single platform. And the needs they didn't meet in the beginning they quickly developed to beat out the competition.

Cons:

Everything I didn't like about Brightcove, they have made a conscious effort to develop, fix, or improve. I wish it was a little cheaper, but it's still a great price and cheaper than their competitors for what we get.

Reasons for choosing Brightcove

Cost was lower than the competitors for what we need, and not all competitors were able to do everything Brightcove does in one platform.

Reasons for switching to Brightcove

Brightcove bought out Ooyala; however, we tested and got bids from 13 other livestreaming and VOD platforms before resigning with Brightcove. We constantly re-evaluate the market, and Brightcove has gone unbeaten in 4 years.

Jason R.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2023

Excellent platform and support

Very happy. Great support, excellent platform and features.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of deployment and strong stability of the platform. This is key when doing a large amount of consumer facing video.

Cons:

Would like to see better QoE analytics from the platform. Helps know how the user experience is.

Reasons for choosing Brightcove

Better ROI based on stability metrics, features available and worked with us for getting onto the platform quickly.

Verified

Reviewer

Events Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Easiest video platform ever

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I use Brightcove daily as a Digital Production Manager. The entire interface is intuitive and user-friendly, from uploading videos to creating playlists to manipulating players. Their gallery players are my favorite aspect because it layouts playlists in a clean, modern player and easy to integrate into landing pages. Also their customer support is top-notch. When I have trouble with customizing a player or troubleshooting why a set of them weren't working on my webpages, their engineers provided quick, thorough support.

Cons:

What I like least is the limited analytics available. Most often than not, our clients want to know how many unique views they received or how many people viewed the video at specific time markers. Brightcove, unfortunately, doesn't supply this data.

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Reviewer

Religious Institutions

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

It's no YouTube

I would much rather convince our organization to swap over to exclusively use YouTube for all of our video needs, but there is still some value to be had from using Brightcove if you aren't ready/willing to go all in on YouTube.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It does a decent job at getting the analytics you need, if you're patient enough to wait for who knows how long to get the information back. You're not going to forget about YouTube, but there is still some value to be had from Brightcove.

Cons:

The reporting isn't super flexible, robust, or timely. It could definitely be because of the way our organization has implemented Brightcove, but it's not uncommon to wait 10+ minutes for a simple report to see how many views a couple videos have received.

Phillip L.

Verified reviewer

Sports

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Livestreams and video hosting

Outages have become more rare, but when they happen, yowzers. All videos die for all users. Not a pretty picture.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Over the years, the uploading and editing features have become easier to use. Generally, a user is one or two clicks away from accomplishing tasks.

Cons:

Player selections generally feel like they lag behind what is needed for modern websites.

Verified

Reviewer

Professional Training & Coaching

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

It handles the traffic and looks great

Previously 4

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Functionality

Previously 4

Pros:

I love how easy it is to embed video hosted on Brightcove in our website or resource center. We pull video directly from brightcove into streams in uberflip, and it requires no work beyond the initial setup. I really appreciate all of the options in players as well, from adding logos, skins, playback options, etc., it's easy to customize. Video is such an important part of our business, Brightcove is also by extension!

Cons:

This is totally on my organization and not on Brightcove, but we have a lot of users in our instance. These users have caused issues by changing things in Brightcove, which cause issues on our website or on our resource center. I have not figured out how to, or if it is possible to, approve/deny changes made to videos before they are published.

Kyley Shinead E.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Used to host videos on website.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple website hosting of videos. Video is a big part of modern websites so a tool that lets you host your videos (without a logo watermark) is useful.

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