castr

About

Castr is a live video streaming platform that brings together the services businesses usually piece together from several vendors: live delivery, recording, video hosting, monetization, and OTT. It is positioned for business-critical broadcasts and is marketed to production agencies, media and OTT operators, businesses, education and government organizations, and sports and ticketed-event rights holders, with workflows for each group that run on the same platform.

The platform's live streaming features include multi-CDN delivery, backup ingest, low-latency playback, and multistreaming to 30+ platforms plus custom RTMP and SRT destinations. Users can also produce broadcasts with cloud switching and overlays, transcode sources for different audiences, publish replays through video hosting, run 24/7 playout channels, and monetize content through pay-per-view, subscriptions, and advertising. Products can be connected, such as turning live streams into VOD and VOD into channels. Castr states it offers a 99.9% uptime SLA, 24/7 human support with every plan, and a 7-day trial with no credit card required.