Hey Habr! As before, I continue to look for specialized collaboration services. Last time I published a review about mail services for a domain, but now I needed domestic platforms for online broadcasts.
As it turned out, there are not so few of them, and the services are quite worthy. Most of them are immediately ready to use - 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.
Available features include:
- Virtual host and LIVE commentator.
- Online broadcasts and video meetings.
- Event tape.
- 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 captions and infographics, as well as saving broadcasts, including the podcast format.
In order for participants to watch broadcasts, several mechanics of attention control are offered:
- Questions to participants when it comes to broadcasting.
- Stop questions and tests when it comes to a training course.
Event participants can chat using 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 specialists and a proprietary 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 tools allow you to identify potential customers among viewers, measure employee engagement, interact with the audience through interactive tools, generate detailed analytical reports that allow you to evaluate the effectiveness of the event. And all this - during the broadcast.
You can connect a feed from Twitter with the hashtag of the event to the player with the broadcast. It can be posted on websites, as well as communities on Facebook, Vkontakte and YouTube. Thanks to this feature, viewers can communicate not only with the mailing list organizers, but also with each other. The player works on any mobile devices.
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, broadcasts and webinars. The company's software is compatible with Zoom, Cisco Webex, BlueJeans, Lifesize, and more.
If necessary, TrueConf systems can be integrated with the enterprise infrastructure. Supported:
- Active Directory user directories.
- Third party H.323/SIP video terminals.
- Integration with corporate telephony.
- Conference broadcasts, webinars, etc.
Video calling and broadcasting works on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. Subscribers - an unlimited number, but only in the case of purchasing a paid service.
ZEN
A specialized service for online events. The developers of the service provided the possibility of customizing events for specific tasks. The organizers claim that thanks to this, the organizer gets the opportunity to keep the attention of the viewer for a long time.
The service is aimed at organizers of information events, including forums and presentations of new products. To engage the audience, important opportunities are presented:
- Text translation.
- 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.
Other features of the platform include:
- Organization of the broadcast of the event with the ability to track the progress of the speech on the main topics and obtain information about the speaker.
- The ability to add author's text comments to accompany the broadcast.
- Voting during the speaker's speech.
- Creating surveys - to consolidate the material or find out the level of satisfaction with the content.
video most
A fairly popular software product in Russia that allows you to organize broadcasts and video conferences through a browser or client application. Among the features of the platform are a mobile messenger, document sharing, voting, a board with shared access, plus integration with an electronic diary and journal.
With the help of the service, you can organize business conferences, webinars, online training. Thanks to optimized software, a meeting of 1000 people can be organized using a single server, the power of which is similar to that of a modern desktop PC. If necessary, the meeting can be scaled by adding new participants.
Among other possibilities:
- Completely ready subsystem of audio and video of IP communications on the basis of the SPIRIT engine.
- SDK with well-developed programming interface (API).
- Flexible scalable system architecture.
- Support for SIP and XMPP standards.
- The platform is used by many Russian companies, including telecommunications giant Rostelecom. It sells PaaS "VideoServer" services to the VideoMost database.
Just a few years ago, there were not so many domestic services for online broadcasts and video conferencing. But now there are 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.
Source: habr.com