For good or bad, streaming Church services has become more of a norm than an exception.
It’s a great tool for shut-ins, Church shoppers, missionaries and those on vacation.
There are a numerous solutions, some target Churches while others do not:
There are many, many more solutions, but there’s nothing better than a solid recommendation to get you started on finding just the right solution that will meet your Church’s need.
Please tell us:
How does your Church stream services?
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Matt James says
Lightcast Media…
gr33n3ggz says
paid livestream.com. They take the stream to mobile and desktops.
Jonathan Pearson says
We use Livestream too. Great service and great customer support. Easy to embed in web page.
Russell Coppock says
ustream watershed – paid service, dead simple and works well
Tony says
We use http://www.churchvideostreaming.com/
It’s only $59.99 per month at the highest rate.
Stefan Tribble says
We use Highwinds CDN and then send it up via FLME on a dedicated streaming and encoding machine.
I actually did a 30 minute Vlog post on the concept of streaming media and the principal behind it, some basic terminology, and requirements for those who have never messed with live streaming of their services or events. I posted it on my website. http://stefantribble.com or http://vimeo.com/stefantribble
Don’t worry I’m not trying sell or make money, just a start to my not so frequent Vlog posts
Hope it helps!
John Hanlon says
We use Livestream.com mostly because it’s free. But also because it has a nice desktop app that doesn’t slow down our video mixing program.
Anybody know of a better free service? Paid just doesn’t make sense for the very few people that use it each Sunday.
Eric says
Mediafusion (http://www.startthefusion.com). Currently using it for audio streaming of weekly Sunday School lessons (http://ericlwoods.tumblr.com/media), but they offer video streaming via embedded player, Vimeo and Roku that your site has featured in the past (https://churchm.ag/get-a-roku-channel-for-your-church-with-upperroom-tech/). Currently $29 a month flat fee.
Douglas Porter says
We currently use Ustream.tv but I’m waiting for YouTube to go forward with their live feature. I read on their blog somewhere it will be available for all users by end of 2011.
John Hanlon says
I have not heard YouTube live streaming is opening up to the public anytime soon. They’ll probably add G+ Hangout streaming before opening up a full fledged live service.
But who knows. If you’re into Google news, you can hear me rant about it each week on my podcast. http://goo.gl/xJwYa Or if you’ve only a got a minute… http://goo.gl/pd1Zc
Arelthia says
We started streaming our services and bible studies (http://www.christunveiled.org/tv.html) using USTREAM. We learned our lesson and went with a Livestream paid account.
Eric Dye says
What an excellent list of links and feedback!
Jon Wise says
We rolled our own solution, but we’re using the EdgeCast CDN, resold by FaithNetwork. We did not have a good experience with 316.
Eric Dye says
Sad to hear.
Peter Awad says
We started with Ustream, went to watershed, then to Lightcast. Now we’re running our own on Amazon Web Services with Wowza Server. Excellent service and saving us lots of money.
Bob Felton says
We use http://www.worshipstream.com at New Hope Community Church in Traverse City and Bellaire, MI.
You can contact me for more info if you like.
Wes says
Facebook Live with a Mevo