Hello, Habr! As before, I continue to look for specialized collaboration services. Last time I published a review about mail services for a domain, now I needed domestic platforms for online broadcasts.
As it turned out, there are not so few of them, and the services are quite decent. Most of them are ready to use right away - you just need to register. Let's see what the market offers us.
DEEP Platform
Russian platform for holding online events with any number of participants.
Among the available functions:
- Virtual presenter and LIVE commentator.
- Online broadcasts and video meetings.
- Event feed.
- Chat.
- Gamification.
9204 users took part in one of the events organized by the platform. The platform promises the ability to integrate any external services, an unlimited number of participants, adding titles and infographics, as well as saving broadcasts, including the podcast format.
In order for participants to watch broadcasts, several attention control mechanics are proposed:
- Questions to the participants when it comes to broadcasting.
- Stop questions and tests when it comes to curriculum.
Event participants can chat via text messages, media files, and quoting external sources. Well, during the broadcast, a professional journalist, if necessary, conducts a text broadcast of the session.
COMDI
COMDI is a team of experts and its own broadcast platform for broadcasts. COMDI organizes online events of any complexity, including fully virtual events and teleconferences with an audience of hundreds of thousands of viewers.The founders of the company are Webinar Group, which also act under the brands Webinar.ru, We.Study, Webinar Meetings.
The player's toolkit allows you to identify potential customers among viewers, measure employee engagement, interact with the audience through interactive tools, and generate detailed analytical reports that allow you to evaluate the effectiveness of the event. And all this - during the broadcast.
You can connect a Twitter feed with the event's hashtag to the streaming player. It can be posted on sites, as well as communities Facebook, Vkontakte and YouTube. Thanks to this feature, viewers can communicate not only with the organizers of the newsletter, but also with each other. The player works on any mobile device.
COMDI organizes turnkey online events, ensures minimum preparation time and, if necessary, takes care of all the details of the organization.
TrueConf
TrueConf is a developer of corporate software and equipment for video conferencing, broadcasting and webinars. The company's software is compatible with Zoom, Cisco Webex, BlueJeans, Lifesize, and other services.
If necessary, TrueConf systems can be integrated with the enterprise infrastructure. Supported by:
- Active Directory user directories.
- Third-party H.323 / SIP video communication terminals.
- Integration with corporate telephony.
- Conference broadcasts, webinars, etc.
Video calling and broadcasting works on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. There is an unlimited number of subscribers, but only if you purchase a paid service.
ZEEN
A specialized service for holding online events. The service developers have provided for the possibility of customizing events for specific tasks. The organizers claim that thanks to this, the organizer is able to hold the viewer's attention for a long time.
The service is aimed at organizers of information events, including forums and presentations of new products. Important opportunities are presented to engage the audience:
- Text broadcast.
- Voting.
- Polls.
- Content management.
Most often, ZEEN is used to create a full-fledged online event in addition to offline. But if offline events are not planned, then only online functions can be used.
Among other features of the platform:
- Organization of broadcasting the event with the ability to track the progress of the speech on the main topics and obtain information about the speaker.
- Ability to add author's text comments to accompany the broadcast.
- Voting during the speech of the speaker.
- Creation of surveys - to consolidate the material or find out the level of satisfaction with the content.
VideoMost
A fairly popular software product in Russia that allows you to organize broadcasts and video conferences through a browser or client application. Among the platform's functions are a mobile messenger, document sharing, voting, a shared board, plus integration with an electronic diary and journal.
Using the service, you can organize business conferences, webinars, and online training. Thanks to the optimized software, a meeting with the participation of 1000 people can be organized using one server, the capacity of which is similar to that of a modern desktop PC. If necessary, the meeting can be scaled by adding new participants.
Other features include:
- Completely ready subsystem of audio and video IP-communications based on the SPIRIT engine.
- SDK with a well-developed programming interface (API).
- Flexible scalable system architecture.
- Support for SIP and XMPP standards.
- The platform is used by many Russian companies, including the telecommunications giant Rostelecom. He sells VideoServer PaaS services to VideoMost.
Just a few years ago, there were not so many domestic online broadcasting and videoconferencing services. But now there are definitely more than a dozen of them. In this collection, I tried to mention the most famous / new ones. But there are others. Maybe I'll try to evaluate them next time.