Our Wowza hosting and streaming service combines our website hosting with streaming via the Wowza Media Server, giving you the ability to stream live, on-demand, and even podcast from the same source files that you use for on-demand streaming.

There are limitless applications of streaming media. Some of our streaming media customers are:

• Churches which Broadcast worship services live to shut-ins, deployed military members, missionaries and others.
• Churches which store archived worship services for on-demand streaming - great for those who miss the service, or are interested in finding out more about a church through its website, before visiting.
• Online stores presenting video product information and demonstration to increase sales.
• Traditional radio stations broadcasting their programs over the internet for extended reach.
• Internet radio stations with Internet-only broadcasting.
• Traditional and Internet-only TV stations putting their programming on the Internet.
• Musicians and bands making their music and videos available over the internet.
• Educators teaching foreign languages to students via streaming video

MediaServe's streaming service takes advantage of the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash Player, which enjoys an incredible 99+% market penetration. This means your potential audience is far greater than what is possible with any other streaming media format.

Below is an example of embedded flash streaming - using the "Big Buck Bunny" film from www.bigbuckbunny.org. (Be sure and explore the player options and skip around the timeline to see how quickly the player and streaming responds.)

(Movie © copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org)

Wowza Media Server was the winner of Streaming Media Magazine's 2008 Reader's Choice Award for Server Hardware/Software, beating out Adobe's own Flash Media Server as well as Microsoft Windows® Media Server.

A variety of encoders are supported, as well as a variety of formats beyond Flash, including h.264 and MPEG-TS.

Wowza Hosting and Streaming Pricing

Video streaming service providers price streaming in various ways, which can get confusing. Our pricing is $8.00 per month for the underlying service, (which includes hosting and on-demand video storage), plus $1.00 per concurrent streaming connection.

Streaming connections represent the maximum number of people who can be viewing your streaming simultaneously, and streaming is available 24/7. Thus, if you order 25 streaming connections, you can have 25 people connected to your streaming at the same time for the entire month, for $33 per month ($8.00 for the base service + $25.00 for 25 concurrent connections.)

There are no per-view charges, no bandwidth overages, it's a flat fee based on the maximum number of streaming connections you wish to support (i.e. the maximum audience size you want to be capable of handling.)

We serve organizations with small to medium streaming requirements, up to 100 concurrent connections.

Wowza Hosting and Video Streaming Features and Ordering

	Wowza Hosting and Video Streaming
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30 day money back guarantee	Yes
Website hosting included	Yes (see features here)
Live streaming included	Yes
On-demand streaming included	Yes
Flash player compatible	Yes
Silverlight compatible	Yes
iPhone, iPad, iPod compatible	Yes
Android, Blackberry compatible	Yes
Maximum bitrate	1,024 kbps
On-Demand Storage	10 GB (10,240 MB)
Monthly streaming bandwidth/traffic	No limit beyond bitrate limit
Potential streaming frequency	24/7
Concurrent streaming connections	Chosen during order, up to 500 at $1.00 each/month
Upgrade/downgrade concurrent connection limits	Yes, at any time