{"id":310,"date":"2009-05-06T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-05-06T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:56:17","slug":"stickam-launches-streamapi-makes-live-branded-streaming-video-cheap-and-easy-for-web-site-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/stickam-launches-streamapi-makes-live-branded-streaming-video-cheap-and-easy-for-web-site-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Stickam Launches StreamAPI &#8211; Makes Live, Branded Streaming Video Cheap and Easy for Web Site Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I did a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/general-stuff\/2009\/02\/18\/ustream-watershed-brings-private-live-video-broadcasting-to-businesses-large-and-small\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watershed<\/a>, a service that Ustream.TV had started offering, where web site owners could white label (brand) live, streaming video on their sites.<\/p>\n<p>Now, one of Ustream&#8217;s competitors, <strong>Stickam<\/strong>, has raised the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Stickam just introduced a new service called <strong>StreamAPI<\/strong>, which like Watershed, allows web site owners to incorporate live, streaming videos into their sites.\u00a0 And like Watershed, these streams can be white labeled.<\/p>\n<p>But the first big difference between Watershed and StreamAPI is the cost.\u00a0 While Watershed can cost up to $1 per hour, per viewer, StreamAPI prices can be as low as 5 cents per hour.\u00a0 With StreamAPI, you get to select the quality of your stream&#8230;pay more and you&#8217;ll get better quality.<\/p>\n<p>For example, let&#8217;s say you want to put on a live, 2 hour streaming event.\u00a0 You want it to appear on your own web site.\u00a0 There are going to be 250 people watching the event.\u00a0 And you want to stream it in full HD quality.\u00a0 With StreamAPI, your total cost to put on this event would be around <strong>$98<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yep, that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, StreamAPI uses a WYSIWYG, drag and drop interface.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to know anything about Flash programming to use it.\u00a0 For you, that means in just a couple minutes, you can have everthing setup and ready to broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you&#8217;re &#8220;technically challenged&#8221; and still need some help with all of this?\u00a0 Well, for an extra $100 a month you can get premium support, where technicians will help you every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p>There is no sign-up fee for <strong>StreamAPI<\/strong>, no contracts and no commitments.\u00a0 You pay only for what you use.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about <strong>Stickam&#8217;s<\/strong> new <strong>StreamAPI<\/strong> service, you can visit their web site by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streamapi.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I did a post about Watershed, a service that Ustream.TV had started offering, where web site owners could white label (brand) live, streaming video on their sites. Now, one of Ustream&#8217;s competitors, Stickam, has raised the bar. Stickam just introduced a new service called StreamAPI, which like Watershed, allows web site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[116,222,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}