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 has been a valuable platform by which we can connect with our parishioners, both local and in remote locations.

The Dacast platform provides great value for money. The move to the Limelight CDN platform has give much lower latency, and a generally improved connection experience for viewers. Works seamlessly with OBS and most hardware encoders.

Some viewers have difficulty making a connection to a live stream, since connection to the video feed is not automatic once the streaming url is displayed. Analytics are not fully available on the basic plan, and sometimes do not show at all. Brand image does not always display in the same location of the streaming window, depending on the aspect ratio of the device used to view the stream. Multi bitrate streaming appears to be unavailable with the Limelight platform.

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)

Dacast did work for our events and the support team took one's best to care about us buying the right plan. Yet we try to move our viewers to move to a traditional platform and deal with copyright infringement beforehand. With 15k viewers bandwidth goes like nothing.

Dacast is easy to use and does work for any stream that has to deal with copyright infringement and similar issues on traditional streaming platforms. The mix of advance-payment and subscription is ideal for repeated streaming with small audience.

Bandwidth gets very expensive very fast especially when streaming for a great audience. Mind your projects beforehand and do the math with included stream calculator. Also there is no way to verify the spent bandwidth since you will not receive any logs.

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.

We finally gave up using them in 2023, after nine years with the company.

We began using Dacast in 2014 when live streaming was something really unique.

Dacast has raised their prices, lowered their level of service and failed to keep up with latest technologies. The product seems to be a cash cow they are milking.

I think it is a great software that help me start live streaming my photography classes. I am thinking of incorporating the paywall feature and running a membership in the future so it'll be nice to have an easy transition and I'm already saving my old broadcasts

It was easy to embed the live stream feed into my website. I did have to look up how to resize the box but it wasn't that hard.

No chat box feature or live chat. I installed a plug-in to my website so I could have people submit questions etc. I understand that's not really part of the video service, but I'm using you as an alternative to a zoom broadcast so I can send traffic to my website while running free webinars. A chat function that everyone can see would be a nice add-on.

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.

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.