Best Live Streaming Service ?

[JakeKettle]

i love Justin.tv I think they're great. There's another website called Vaughn Live which opened up not to long ago. They're not horribly popular yet, but the owner of the site runs it like his personal playground instead of a like a business, so I see no future there. Justin is my primary broadcasting site, I think it offers the best features and is easiest to use, but then again I'm biased, I've been on there since 2008 (as a viewer).

[andrewzarian]

We have tried nearly every service out there and my top 3 are Stickam , Ustream and JTV. I dont think anyone else has the audience that these 3 are able to pull

[JakeKettle]

We have tried nearly every service out there and my top 3 are Stickam , Ustream and JTV. I dont think anyone else has the audience that these 3 are able to pull

I agree, I haven't really seen any that are able to stand up to those 3. I've never been a big fan of Ustream or Stickam, I haven't gotten a lot of viewers on either of those sites, but Justin.tv has gotten me quite a few views, which makes me quite happy.

[Spencer Kobren]

Stickam has been great for The Bald Truth! They’re very open to featuring unique programming that other streaming sites might not think fit their demographic. The truth is, I’m probably one of the oldest guys on stickam.com, but that doesn't seem to matter to the young people who watch my show and write us to express their support every week. Stickam has made my live streaming experience a great one, and has done a tremendous service for all the young hair loss sufferers who found us through their site.

[JakeKettle]

Stickam has been great for The Bald Truth! They’re very open to featuring unique programming that other streaming sites might not think fit their demographic. The truth is, I’m probably one of the oldest guys on stickam.com, but that doesn't seem to matter to the young people who watch my show and write us to express their support every week. Stickam has made my live streaming experience a great one, and has done a tremendous service for all the young hair loss sufferers who found us through their site.

The only beef I really had with stickcam is that I couldn't figure out how to use their services, bias I know haha. I'll have to look into it again!

[Spencer Kobren]

The only beef I really had with stickcam is that I couldn't figure out how to use their services, bias I know haha. I'll have to look into it again!

Have to have an open mind!

[mcphillips]

I'm with @joedemax. Bambuser is the hands-down winner for bandwidth only. Based on my observations, justin.tv has the most curious built-in audience, but we haven't tried it yet. We embed the Bambuser player on our website so that we can switch CDNs, if necessary, like we did when we dumped Ustream.

[Spino]

I love and use Bambuser too.

[cseeman]

I don't think there's a "best." It depends on the feature set you need and whether you're using free or paid service and why.
I use Livestream as their studio features are critical for me.
I'm often streaming with producers/camera people from around the country. Sometimes I bring them in through Skype and sometimes several of us are sending to Livestream Studio and I'm switching.
In addition the ability to use their lower thirds and crawls help and that you can embed hyperlinked URLs, is important to me.
I also use their playlist feature when I'm off air so visitors see the most recent cast.

[andrewzarian]

I really like what livestream has done with the Studio interface they have. We recently had to stop using livestream due to the limits they put on the "free" accounts.