--- title: "Brightcove Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Brightcove Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Content Marketing Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/content-comparison/) / Brightcove Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/alternatives/) # Brightcove Review Custom quote Free trial 1 plan Wondering if Brightcove is right for your organization? Our Content Marketing Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews ## Overview Brightcove 4.2 [(17)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/reviews/) 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. For Media: We help you fully monetize your content, expand your reach and deepen engagement with the most cost-effective technology, the most complet... e solutions and the deepest expertise. For Enterprise: We help you attract new audiences sell more products, deepen employee engagement and grow your brands with the most complete digital marketing solution for a video-first content strategy. www.brightcove.com Wondering if Brightcove is right for your organization? Our Content Marketing Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Brightcove User Interface ## Popular Brightcove Alternatives Main Product Brightcove 4.2 [(17)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.0Ease of use - 3.77Value for money - 3.87Customer support - 4.24Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Wistia](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-hosting/wistia-profile/) 4.7 [(172)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-hosting/wistia-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.65Ease of use - 4.25Value for money - 4.57Customer support - 4.50Functionality Pricing Starting at $19.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Enterprise Video Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/enterprise-video-platform-profile/) 4.6 [(15)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-editing/enterprise-video-platform-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.67Ease of use - 4.25Value for money - 4.73Customer support - 4.33Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Vimeo](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-event/vimeo-pro-profile/) 4.6 [(1052)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-event/vimeo-pro-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.52Ease of use - 4.21Value for money - 4.22Customer support - 4.44Functionality Pricing Starting at $12.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Watchity](https://www.softwareadvice.com/classroom-management/watchity-profile/) 4.6 [(8)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/classroom-management/watchity-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.50Ease of use - 4.50Value for money - 4.86Customer support - 4.25Functionality Pricing Starting at €230.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Dailymotion](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/dailymotion-profile/) 4.4 [(40)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/dailymotion-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.35Ease of use - 4.35Value for money - 4.34Customer support - 4.15Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price ## Brightcove Pricing and Plans Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing Free Trial Free Version Basic Pricing available upon request No plan information available Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## 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 Integration rated undefined from -1 review Google Analytics 360 Integration rated undefined from -1 review Kollective Integration rated undefined from -1 review YouTube Integration rated undefined from -1 review HubSpot CRM Integration rated undefined from -1 review Twitter/X Integration rated undefined from -1 review See all 14 integrations ## Brightcove User Reviews ## Brightcove customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.2/5 - Total reviews: 17 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 8 reviews (47%) - 4 stars: 5 reviews (29%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (24%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3.8/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 --- ### Good video management platform that could use better reporting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tanner L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Amazing solution to upload and track video marketing metrics - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Good except for the reporting functionality - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Michael M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Biotechnology - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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? --- ### Acquistion to Unbeatable Platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jared C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Sports - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Excellent platform and support - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jason R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Online Media - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very happy. Great support, excellent platform and features. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Easiest video platform ever - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Events Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### It's no YouTube - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Religious Institutions - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Livestreams and video hosting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Phillip L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Sports - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### It handles the traffic and looks great - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Professional Training & Coaching - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Used to host videos on website. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kyley Shinead E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 17 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/video-management/brightcove-profile/reviews/) ## Other Top Recommended Content Marketing Software [Wrike](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/wrike-profile/) **4.4** (3038) Recently recommended **9** times [DivvyHQ](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing-planning/divvyhq-profile/) **4.2** (63) Recently recommended **2** times [monday.com AI Work Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/monday-com-profile/) **4.6** (6098) Recently recommended **0** times [Zoho Social](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/zoho-social-profile/) **4.7** (3462) Recently recommended **0** times Stuck Between Options? Our experts can help you compare Brightcove with other top options, so you can find the best fit for your needs. ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice