We use it extensively to stream weekly tutorials, as well as live feed conferences and events. Overall, our experience has been very positive and you can quickly talk to a real persona if you get stuck or something´s not working.

Dacast is a solid streaming platform backed by an excellent support team which have helped me sort out configuration and integration into our e-learning platforms. I also like the fact that it´s highly customizable and integrates well into OBS studio and HTML pages, as well as Facebook. All in all, the quality/value for money ratio is well worth it.

The latency is annoying (can be up to 15 secondes) and the upgrade payment to eliminate it is really too expensive.

Dacast helps our team keep focus and lets us fully control our content, while keeping videos private and only accessible to our team. I've been quiet pleased with how seamlessly we were able to integrate it into our training materials in the place of YouTube.

Dacast is a great platform for hosting and live streaming videos. You can control the style of the video player without any third party branding or recommended videos like YouTube has. It creates a lot more streamlined and focused viewing experience for employee training videos.

The overall polish of Dacast could be improved. Changes to video info isn't always saved the first time. Uploads don't always finish uploading the first time. Processing to full HD quality can take a while too. The product works well overall, but it could use that extra bit of fine tuning.

Overall, I wish I'd selected another platform Honestly, the amount of time and effort spent in figuring out the bugs I described above was not worth it. I have about 2000 people that are actively using the platform I build and they trust me to give them a reliable way to stream live classes (dance classes) and record them for later viewing, and I feel I've let them down choosing DaCast I do not recommend DaCast to anyone

They don't make you pay for a full year and the price is a bit lower compared with vimeo and some other platforms i checked. Fast response support (not good, but fast)

Features don't work!! 1. Analytics - does not work at all (support: "as soon as it works we will notify you") 2. VOD - recorded live streams have multiple 'holes' in them, most recordings have 10-20 minute holes missing in the recording!! Also, one of the recordings was corrupted after about 5 minutes in the stream, so 1.2 hour video = trashed. 3. LiveStreams - a huge bug in the token refreshing within the player, making anyone who views the stream refresh the browser every 6 minutes (as it stops the stream) 4. Support - the support is a fast-response-low-on-knowledge kind of support. The more knowing people are not responding at all (been 3 weeks with no response) 5. They have lots of articles that seem like someone who knows a thing or two about streaming wrote, that was mostly the reason I decided to invest my time in DaCast, it seemed promising (but only promising, no results)

Our clients aren't made of money, so we needed a streaming platform that would allow us to stream community/local events and not lose money on the deal. Customer service is good. The platform is not super polished compared to some competitors, but we've seen many improvements over the last 2 years.

We needed a simple and affordable platform for live streaming events. While Dacast isn't perfect, the streams are reliable and that is very important to us. There is not much else to say, it meets our needs!

Connection times to viewers to the streams have been long (30 seconds to minutes to connect) even with the most recent update to their platform. Reviewing data for how many viewers watched each event is clumsy, especially when we have back-to-back events on the same channel, but still want to see the data separated. Splash screens take a long time to load on the streaming pages. Backoffice tasks can be accidently missed because each section of settings requires you to press a save button at the bottom of the page. Subscription details aren't explain very well, for example if you purchase a certain package you get data but it's parcelled out over the year, not given to you all at once to use. This results in overage charges but fortunately you can enable protection to add data automatically when you run out so your streams never go down.

Excellent reliability. Been streaming with Dacast for sever years now and never had a failure. Solid, reliable streaming every time

Dacast gives us all we need to live stream our services at a competetive price. We're not a huge ministry so price is important to us, and other providers don't seem to get that and offer such competetive rates for small users who want to grow

The customised OBS version needs updating. You don't have to use it, but it's a good option for new starters

Almost a year broadcasting, working just fine on a daily basis.

The great variety of settings you have to get the image do you need. The price it's also great for my needs.

In my case, the learning curve. I was not familiar with this kind of broadcasting.

Very easy to use, live-stream has never failed.

The live stream file that it provides is easy to integrate with subsplash, an app developer/platform we use for our custom app.

When you delete videos that have been recorded, you don’t get your memory back. When you’re not streaming, the not available feature doesn’t work with subsplash, instead you get an error.

Overall the service has been reliable but lacks some features and convenience that I expected at this price point. I am currently looking for another cheaper provider for my live streams.

What brought me to this software was the integration with InPlayer, which allows monetization of live streams and videos. We were looking to quickly deploy a Dacast workflow for a football team that wanted to charge online viewers and Dacast worked well in that application, both reliability and monetization features. The cost and reporting of bandwidth is transparent.

The control panel seems a little buggy with some changes requiring to confirm with a button at the bottom, others do not. Changes take a few seconds to take in order to do anything else with the page. In general, the control panel could use some work. I would like to see the ability to email the stream encoder settings to yourself or an app that allows you to see the settings. The recording feature has been unreliable with some missed portions and multiple recordings for the same stream. YouTube was able to record the stream reliably.

easy to use and setup means I could focus on other areas of production instead of worrying about server side or live-streaming problems.

Integration and ease of use made any of my live-stream setups simple and fast.

Can be lacking simple customization like live chat, but there are plug-ins for this but may take some extra time to setup.

Dacast worked for us for a few years and did what it was supposed to. We only needed it for live streaming and it did that well. The analytics sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. We were happy with it when we only had the $19/month package but when they raised the price to $39/month we switched to another provider. We didn't need the extra storage or pay wall features they were adding so the price increase didn't make sense for us to keep the service. We switched to another provider and are very happy with our decision. Dacast also made it very difficult to cancel their service and in the end the only reason they did cancel it was because our card on file was expired. Otherwise they would have ignored my multiple emails and requests to cancel the service and I doubt I would have been refunded a full amount.

It worked reliably. It didn't do anything fancy which made it solid, and they did make things easy to change on my end when they upgraded their distribution services. Once you set it up, you kind of forgot about it because it just sat in the background and worked, which was ideal.

It didn't stream to social media, you had to constantly remember to turn on live stream recording.

I've checked out virtually all other services. They all have their pros and cons but I've found DaCast has far fewer cons. Pricing is the biggest difference. DaCast is actually affordable for any kind of broadcast and combining that with the solid reliability puts DaCast way ahead of the rest. We continue to check the other services, as the years go by, but we keep coming back to DaCast. There's just no reason to go anyplace else.

We don't broadcast often, but when we do, we need to know that our CDN is solid with little chance of dropping. DaCast has proven their reliability, to us. We started with them when they first came on-line. Back then, there were little hickups as would be expected. In my opinion, DaCast is superior in every way to all other similar services. We did a week long broadcast recently, and had zero drops! Those were 12 hour days and not one drop. That's amazing. Setup is easy and quick. I setup a new broadcast channel in about 10 minutes and was testing the broadcast. We use Wirecast and DaCast is simple to interface with it. Support is available via chat and is pretty quick to connect and help you. That's huge when you're in the middle of a broadcast and need help.

The only con is in setting up overage protection. You can select it, and it appears that you have it, but you might not actually have it and there's no way to know that you don't. Until you go over your allocated bandwidth.

I love dacast it’s an integral part of my business, I use it daily, please keep up the good work

Quality Reliability Ease of use Video view, it slides across making selection easy

Setting out folders, I’ve not figured this out and would like help

The overall useability of the service is very good, however the programmers need to take issues more seriously and get them corrected. It is very frustrating to have to check every Sunday to see if there is enough room for a recording to take place.

The ease of use, straight forward website and stream programming functions

When we signed up for Dacast the website worked great but then after a few months Dacast went through a full website redesign. After that I have had problems with the website tracking how much space our recordings are taking up. It has been about a year and the problem is still not fully resolved. The website does not track our recordings correctly. I counts a recording and deducts the size of the recording from our allotted space however it will not deduct that space when I have deleted the recording from their storage thus stopping the system from allowing a recording to be saved. Almost ever Sunday for over a year I have had to contact tech support to clear our storage so a recording can take place. I know this is a software issue however it should not take this long to correct the problem.

Easy to use, customer support 24x7 and no advertisements.

I’ve had a few issues with lag on livestream, however most often it works as expected. I know they are currently in the process of upgrading this though.

We use Dacast on bandswith.com to stream concerts. It's working well so far.

It's intuitive and reliable. They also offer a 1-month trial which is helpful to test the quality of the service. The player is sometimes very slow to download;

Sometimes, the dashboard doesn't load. There are glitches here and there

Ease of use. the software interface has a natural progression, instructions and samples in laymen's terms. In the years I have been using Vzaar, I can count on this software to deliver my needs to customers without fear of malfunctioning. Customer support is always knowledgable and reactive in a timely manner.

analytics could be a little more user friendly, and a trending function should be added. Software support should be 24/7

Over all since signing up with Dacast my business has grown, I have more options and my personal wireless software works excellent

The software allows me option in monetizing my streaming or PPV

Not much, but if there was an improvement I would say, “The Promo Code Process” Simplify

DaCast is easy to use and provides a great, dependable and very stable stream for my online TV station.

Does not provide a schedulable 24/7 playout for setting up a traditional TV-style station

We're streaming network cameras in a ski resort, live 24/7.

Intuitive controlpanels and very easy to set up with support for practically everything that streams. Dacast has had no downtime we can remember either. Customer support 24/7 and extremely helpful. The customer support went above and beyond for us one day helping us with encoder software, which they don't have to do.

There is a big gap between their low data plan and medium data plans, specifically something targeted at people who stream alot but doesnt monetize their streams.

It's been a long road with Dacast, and it as certainly improved over the years. I look forward to Dacast's continuing growth, service and feature improvenets, and overall success.

Easy to implement into my workflow (player embedding, etc.) . The CDN reaches a large audience and hads been reliable.

Anayltics could be better, especially real-time (live). Need to know actual number of connected devices (audience/users) at a given moment in time. This will give us an indication of when people are watching and when peple are leaving. This informs programming decisions for future broadcasts. ie what engages the audiene, and what does not.

I migrated away from Wistia (a fine company) to VZAAR. Why? Because VZAAR doesn't charge per video. I host over 400 smaller-sized videos and growing. That's a big bill at 25 cents per video at Wistia. So that was a "good enough" reason to change. But here's what I found in VZAAR that was a pleasant surprise during their free trial: AMAZINGLY EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT. The chat support was phenomenal. The response times were excellent. They were patient as I learned and navigated their admittedly more complex UI. There are some things that Wistia (or others) may do slightly better. For now. But for SUPPORT... VZAAR wins the day. I highly recommend VZAAR to anyone looking for rock-solid hosting, fast performance, fair pricing, mature hosting features, and excellent support. Try them out for free for 30 days. You won't be disappointed.

Cost and features. Also, some of the best support I've ever received. Amazingly powerful and versatile.

The back-end UI is in need of updating. But once I got used to it, it was not a deal-killer at all. Don't let the initial appearance of the back-end scare you off.

Dacast is very reliable , great costumer support, great dashboard. I only can say positive things about the service.

Latency. If the latency can come down to 1 second or less, will be super.

good

reliability of streaming out - usually no issues

not understanding, whats the max bitrate that could be used from input streams. Using 3 input streams, playing out them in player, 5mbps 3 mbps and 1 mbps, stuttering begins. Dropping the middle, 3mbps stream, makes all working fine again - so there must be some limits. Which sucks.

We live stream our morning worship service every week. This software is wonderful! Members who cannot attend in person, for whatever reason, are able to tune in from wherever they are and not miss anything! The convenience also allows us to reach someone who may not be a regular attendee. This is a wonderful tool for our church, and would recommend it to anyone.

At this point, there hasn't been anything brought to my attention that I feel needs to be improved.

It's so inexpensive, but it works great!

We don't use most of the features, but we have no cons with streaming.