Running a website and want to incorporate live streaming video into it? But what if you’re cash-strap? Well, this is when StreamAPI comes in really handy. Touted as “the easiest and most cost effective way to incorporate live streaming video into your website or application”, this premium service offers a fully-customizable and scalable, white label solution for companies looking to easily take their website live without any hassle. All thanks to its reliable and world-class data centers, this service helps bloggers or webmasters to host as many simultaneous live streams as they require, be it for small- or medium-size businesses.
Full high-definition streaming is supported using a state-of-the-art Flash technology VP6 and H.264 with 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. StreamAPI offers very low-rates whereby users would have to pay only $0.45 per GB. It even comes with an online calculator to estimate the cost of live streaming, depending on the duration, quality and number of simultaneous viewers. The average cost of a medium quality event and social network site are priced at $74.16 an hour and $5,339.36 per month respectively.
StreamAPI also offers stream analytics for users. This is crucial as it can help them to track the live streams on their sites such as demographics and where viewers are geographically. The excellent service has been used to power billions of live streams mostly on Stickam, one of the largest live streaming video website with millions of members in the community. It claims that its servers are very reliable which provides best streaming performance to end users. According to the folks there, StreamAPI “use only the best networking and server hardware from our partners Cisco, Foundry Networks, and Dell.”