What it costs to run on Viewcast.
Channels, delivery and the modules around them, from one platform and on one contract. Everything below is a list price per month. Bring your current bill and your peak concurrency and we will tell you what your own number is.
Playout, per channel
One price per channel per month, lower as you run more of them. A channel is one programme played out, whatever it is scheduled from.
| Channels | Per channel, per month |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | $2,250 |
| 10 to 24 | $1,800 |
| 25 and more | $1,400 |
| Extra output, per channel | $250 |
What a channel includes
- Scheduling and the playlist, live source switching and SRT ingest.
- One output of your choice, and the tenant console to run it from.
- Monitoring and alerting on the channel itself.
- Higher resolutions and channels that need heavy transcoding are quoted separately. A second destination is a second feed, not a free by-product.
Delivery, per sustained audience
You buy sustained audience, not a pile of gigabytes and not one lucky night. We measure concurrent viewers every five minutes and drop the highest five per cent of those samples, which is how bandwidth itself has been sold for thirty years. A genuine spike therefore costs you nothing; what you pay for is the level you actually hold.
| Tier | Concurrent viewers, 95th percentile | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | 10,000 | $12,000 |
| Growth | 25,000 | $27,500 |
| Scale | 50,000 | $50,000 |
| Network | 100,000 | $90,000 |
| Carrier | 250,000 and above | from $200,000 |
Two channels can share a peak of 10,000 and be nothing alike. One holds it around the clock; the other sits at 2,500 and touches 10,000 on a good night. The first pays Launch. The second has a 95th percentile near 2,500, so it pays for 2,500 and its spike is free. Below Launch we quote per thousand, from $1,200 per 1,000 sustained viewers with a minimum of $4,000 a month.
If your 95th percentile sits above your tier month after month, you move up a tier. That is one conversation, not an invoice you did not expect.
Two things worth knowing
- We work with broadcasters and platforms from about 10,000 peak concurrent viewers. Below that, the saving rarely covers the effort of switching. The peak decides whether it is worth talking; the 95th percentile decides what you pay.
- You can also take just the delivery layer: we plug in as a transparent carve-out behind your existing playout and DRM, typically live in four to six weeks. If it does not perform, you flip the traffic back.
Modules
| Module | Price |
|---|---|
| Server-side ad insertion, stitched into the stream | 15% of advertising revenue |
| Server-side ad insertion, if you sell your own inventory | $0.25 per 1,000 stitches |
| Widevine DRM with bring-your-own-key, per channel | $350 |
| Managed operations, 99.9% service level target | $2,500 |
| Measurement and per-channel reporting | included |
The ad insertion fee carries a minimum of $750 per channel per month. We would rather share the revenue: if the channel grows, we grow with it, and you pay nothing for inventory you did not sell.
One contract
Playout, delivery and the modules together: 20 per cent off on a twelve-month term, 25 per cent on twenty-four. One invoice, one console, one number to call.
Nine channels and a peak of 10,000 viewers
- Playout, nine channels at $2,250
- $20,250
- Delivery, Launch tier, traffic included
- $12,000
- Bundled, on a twelve-month term
- −20%
- A month, all in
- $25,800
What that replaces
- Playout, ad insertion, protection, measurement, monitoring and the delivery layer itself are five or six contracts in most buildings. Here they are one.
- Customers typically save 30% or more on what they currently pay their delivery network, and the saving grows as the audience grows. We price against what the equivalent unicast delivery would cost you, so the bigger your peaks, the wider the gap.
The small print, in the open
- All prices are list prices in US dollars per month and exclude VAT.
- A quote is set against your current bill and your peak concurrency; these are the starting points, not the outcome of a negotiation.
- Prices are reviewed periodically. What you sign is what you pay for the term.
- What the same audience would cost you at the published list prices of the large clouds is on the costs page, with the sources and the dates.
Pricing is quoted against your current bill and your peak concurrency; bring both.
Bring two numbers.
Your current delivery bill and your peak concurrency. Those two numbers are enough for us to tell you whether the saving is worth your time, and to tell you if it is not.