How Webcast helps in Marketing

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Webcasts and Webinars are constantly growing up the charts for the most preferred advertising or marketing tactics. In the 2010 B2B Marketing Budgets and Tactics Online Survey conducted by Forrester Research & MarketingProf, it was found that 62% B2B marketers use Webinars & Webcast in their marketing mix.

All this is because of the various ways Webcasts can be used to promote products and services. For making your webcast a successful marketing tool, you can ask your webcast service provider to provide you the following:

1. Branded Interface: You can have an interface customized to portray your corporate branding which can start from registration for the webcast through which people are invited to the webcast/ webinar. Further, a branded interface can be developed for the webcast. As this screen will get the undivided attention of the viewer and therefore provides an excellent opportunity for businesses to advertise their key products and its features. 
2. Interaction with Stakeholders: People who watch a webcast do it because they are interested in the topic in one way or the other and according to a survey conducted by KnowledgeStorm, 53% of technology B2B buyers participate in webcasts. The service providers provide you with an option to either chat during the live webcast or ask question with the on demand video is playing. LiveStreamPro provides two options for this, in one the attendees can put their comment or ask questions as a guest or anonymously and in the second they will require to log in through their social media accounts like twitter or facebook, so that they can be identified. 
3. Gather Feedback: One of the key to good marketing is collecting customer feedback and use that in product improvement. The feedback collected at the time of webcast and the questions asked can help marketers understand the customer requirements in a better way. 
4. Use for Syndication: A short snippet of the video webcast can be put on the advertising websites or you tube etc. and the link to it can be put on the full video, like a trailer to the movie. It is a well known fact that many people these days spend time to watch demos and read feedback and blogs before actually making their purchase. 
5. Use in Social Media: These videos can also be posted on various social media like facebook, twitter, blogs, linkedin etc. to increase the company reputation and be more found in search engine results. 
6. Analyze Participants: LiveStreamPro, as a webcast service provider, provides you with options to gather information like name, email, company, etc. about the webcast viewers. Also the webcaster gives you other information regarding the viewers like number of viewers (unique), area of viewing, and length of time of viewing. This information can be used by the marketers for analyzing their audiences and gauging their expectations.

LiveStreamPro is a premiere service provider that offers end to end webcast and webinar services and solutions to all businesses – small, medium or large. Use our webcast services to promote your products and services and get an edge over your competition.

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Corporate Houses using the Webcast Technology

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Many big corporate houses are making use of the webcasting and streaming technology these days. Webcasting means the broadcasting of a live event or an activity over the internet for its virtual viewing by known and sometimes unknown audience. This depends on whether the event is webcasted for private viewing or public viewing.

Samsung Galaxy Tablet Launch

Just last month on August 10, 2011, Samsung launched its much awaited Galaxy TABS 750 and 730 in India and it used the webcasting technology to share it with the world. LiveStreamPro was responsible for webcasting it.

So basically, Samsung invited a few media people to the event who were physically present there and also invited the rest of the world to be virtually present and watch the event over the Internet. This resulted in a huge viewership for the event. And the good news for Samsung team was that they did not have to worry about logistics, and other hospitality issues, and still had the entire world watching them launching the new tablets. And such is the advantage of organizing a virtual event and making use of webcasting technology.

Many other big companies like Red Hat Enterprise and HubSpot use webcasting technology to promote their products/ services. Red Hat uses webcast for training and informing people on its products. Red Hat regularly organizes these webcasts and takes up one topic of discussion and train people on it.

Like HubSpot, an inbound marketing company, that organizes webinars on a monthly basis to educate about their various online services. It works out as a great marketing tool for them as the people participating in the webinar are all their potential customers, and many of them take up their services also.

Moreover, all these webcasted events and webinars are recorded and also put online for future viewing for those people who have not attended it live earlier, and this increases the life of the virtual event or webinar. 

There are many many more corporate houses and businesses which are using the various applications of the streaming technology to promote their business and reach out to their customers and employees globally.


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Webinar helped me manage time

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I am a visiting faculty at many colleges and educational centres. A few months back I was struggling a lot with time issues. With increasing traffic on roads, the distances  also seemed to be increasing and I was taking more and more time in reaching places. It seemed to me like I was forever on the road. 

Sometimes I even missed my class or reached the class late, because I was stuck in traffic. And by the end of the day I felt tired, exhausted, but more than that I was frustrated. Moreover, this continuous travel was affecting my health and it goes without saying that my work was suffering too.

As a solution to my problems I opted to webinars. Webinars is like an interactive seminar which I conduct from my office and is attended by students either assembled in classrooms or even their respective houses. During my presentation I mute the voices of the audiences, but they can ask me their questions by typing them on the messenger provided on the screen. But I open the sound at the end of the class for question answer session. 

Through this amazing facility I am also able to take back to back sessions for different centres. Sometime I even take sessions for multiple centres together. Webinars have made my life so much simpler. Now I only travel for limited lectures and at times when I can avoid traffic.

There are many interactive options you can have in webinar that your service provider can help you with. And all this makes webinar an excellent technology and has taken education system to another level altogether. A lot of my students attend my lectures from other states too.

To me it means cost saving, less tiredness, less stress, better health and getting a lot of work done. I am now able to manage my time a lot better and also concentrate on activities which otherwise were completely neglected by me.

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b) Types of Webinars

c) Webcast in Education 

Types of Webinars

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Webinar is short for Web-based seminar. Webinars can be attended from anywhere, from the comfort and convenience of your home or the office or may be a coffee shop. This makes Webinars quiet cost-effective as it saves the travel time as well as cost.

Webinars are basically presentations, lectures, workshops or seminars that are conducted over the Web. Generally webinars are used for selling and also for training or information purposes.

The training webinars are of following types:

1. Unidirectional Training Webinars: In this, the presenter provides the training over the internet and the attendees to the training just receive the training. There is no interaction between the presenter and the attendees. Generally these types of trainings are recorded and either uploaded on the internet for on demand viewing or sold as DVDs and Videos.
2. Two-directional Training Webinars: In this type of trainings there is a two way communication between the presenter and the attendees.  The webinars are highly interactive and there is plenty of scope for discussion and doubts asking and clearing.

Sales/ Information webinars have the following features:

1. Sales Webinars: Identifies the key attributes of a product or service, highlighting its benefits to the customer. These types of webinars should be focused, to the point, light and fast, which sparks the immediate interest of the customer. Customers today are short of time and patience and always need to know what is in for them. 
2. Hybrid mix of Sales and Training (Information) Webinars: These types of webinars are generally very sensitively handled. While the customers are invited to attend an informative session, there is a sales pitch included in the presentation. The sensitive part is where you do not let the people know that a sales pitch is being made to them, else they feel cheated.

Any type of webinar needs proper planning in order to derive maximum benefits from it. They need to be well thought of and informative so that customers or students, as the case may be, are glued to their computers and the purpose with which the webinar had been planned is fully met.

The webinars can have one speaker or multiple speakers. Coordination and facilitation is one important part to make success of a webinar. And therefore it is very important to choose the right vendor to webcast the webinar for you. Do not forget to find out the experience and technology used by the vendor. 

LiveStreamPro is one such webinar vendor who is technically proficient as well experienced to undertake a webinar of any type and scale. Visit www.livestreampro.com for more details.

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b) Webcasting can benefit you only if you use it
c) Business Applications of Webcasting

Adobe Flash Webcasting on the iPad

MediaPlatform, the enterprise video software company, in Sept, 2011 announced that its WebCaster software is the first to deliver live webcasts on the Apple iPad® using HTTP live streaming (HLS).

The WebCaster software allows iPad users to view and interact with live presentations that integrate video streaming from Adobe Flash Media Enterprise Server 4.5 and PowerPoint slides. The company now provides webcasting to many different tablets since it started offering webcasting to Android devices earlier this year.

"Getting Flash video on to the iPad is an absolute 'must have' for so many of our large enterprise clients," says Andrew Irving, director of Webcasting at Mediaco, a Canadian event production company. "The MediaPlatform iPad solution is an important innovation that fits with our mobile webcasting vision."

According to a recent study from Interactive Media Strategies, 51 percent of corporate users would view business video more frequently if they had access to it on a tablet.

"Enterprises need their employees to be able to access webcasts and other corporate video from whatever device, browser and platform they're using." says Greg Pulier, president, MediaPlatform. "Our introduction of interactive, live HLS webcasting to the iPad satisfies this enterprise need while delivering all the technological and network benefits of the Adobe Flash Platform to the corporate IT department."

Virtual Events – A Practical & Convenient Alternative

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Before we get into what the various advantages of Virtual Events are, let us first know what a Virtual Event is. 

So what is a Virtual Event?  According to Wikipedia, “a Virtual Event is a gathering of people sharing a common virtual environment on the web, rather than meeting in a physical location. Virtual events are highly interactive, looking and feeling a lot like their physical counterparts.”

With the prices of petrol and diesel increasing and the traffic growing everyday, all companies are concerned about their increasing budgets and the time people waste on traveling and end up effecting their productivity. And so many companies are resorting to various types of virtual communication like organizing virtual events and making use of webcasting techniques in order to save costs and reduce various expenses in terms of time, travel as well as logistics. 

 

Virtual Events can be beneficial to any organization in the following ways:

• Reach out to larger audiences, both nationally and internationally.
• Reduce event costs, in terms of time, travel and logistics.
• Anyone can watch the event from anywhere, individually or in groups.
• Eases the mental stress caused to people during traveling for meetings and trying to reach on time.
• Helps reduce pollution, thus contributing to a green environment.
• The on-demand services available after the event is over, increases the life-span of the event and helps the attendees re-visit the proceedings if they have missed any part.
• Provides excellent ROI.

Most of the companies today use virtual events parallel to physical events; they amalgamate virtual event and physical events, due to the various advantages they offer. The virtual events are so convenient to organize and are so cost effective that more and more companies are using them.

In a data compiled by ON24, a San Francisco based virtual events company, the environmental benefits of virtual events show that a virtual event with 2,300 participants can reduce carbon emissions by some 3,300 tons; an estimated 17,000 trees would be needed to have a similar effect. Furthermore, a virtual event saves an average of 36,000 sheets of paper per event and can decrease both water consumption and the creation of solid waste.

LiveStreamPro is an organization based in Delhi that excels in facilitating virtual events. We are webcasters of various virtual events for large corporates like Samsung, Chivas Regal and Lanco Group. We are well equipped to webcast virtual events of any scale for all types of organizations – small, medium or large.

I attended my first webinar today!

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I had heard a lot about webinars and always wanted to experience one myself. And finally I got a chance to attend one... it was my weekend class for MBA.

I was sent link to the class on my email along with the date and time as well as the username password to attend it and directions on what needs to be done.

On the given date and time, I clicked on the link sent to me and entered my username password. It was a private event so I waited for the presenter to accept my request. When I finally was allowed to view the webinar, it looked something like the screen shown below:

As you see in the image, I was able to see the entire presentation and hear my professor explain the concepts in detail. On the right side of the screen, I could see all the attendees to the class. The attendees were from across India as well as from abroad. There was also a screen where we could ask questions from the professor.

The professor was very good. He went on with the class slowly and to make the class interactive he kept on asking questions from the class and the participants typed in their answers. Whenever there were questions, the participants typed in the questions and the professor took on all the questions and answered.

The class could have been very boring if it was only the presenter speaking and we would have got frustrated if we had no medium to convey our queries. But the interactive feature did wonders to the way the class went. A blissful technology indeed and it was very well facilitated by the webinar service provider who was in charge. I logged out 2-3 times because of poor net connectivity and had to log in again. My request was instantaneously accepted, so I did not miss much.

This is the first time I attended a class from my house, without any worries of travelling to the study centre in the mid-day Delhi traffic, finding a decent place to sit and feeling awkward to ask questions in a class full of people staring at you. The experience was just magnificent. I was stress-free, saved me so much of time and I was able to attend the class without any disturbances.

There are other forms of webinars too. In one you are able to see the presenter as well as his presentation. And then there are public webinars which everyone can watch without restrictions. It all depends on the features that your service provider offers you, so in order to get a satisfactory experience, it is very important to choose the vendor who is able to provide you with options you require.

Business Applications of Webcasting

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Webcasting and Live Streaming technology has offered a wide range of solutions for the business users. It helps the businesses take their communications to a much superior level. While the conventional ways of communicating with stakeholders have their own place and cannot be ignored, WEBCASTING adds a personal touch to the business communications and makes it more satisfying and effective, because we all know a picture is worth a thousand words.

Webcasting helps you to get undivided attention of your audience, which a written communication from you might not be able to get. Many businesses are today recognizing the benefits of webcasting and deriving new and innovative ways to use this technology to give a niche to their businesses.

Some of the many applications of webcasting and live streaming in Business Communication are listed below:

Webinars Web Meetings Online conferences and seminars Presentation of annual & quarterly Committee meetings Council meetings Town hall meetings Shareholder meetings Product Presentations Product Launches Road shows Press conferences E-learning Refresher courses Lectures Training courses/sessions

Internal communication Addressing staff Announcement from CEO or members of Executive Board New Year’s speeches Company newscasts Crisis communication Communication pertaining to mergers/ takeovers Strategy updates Marketing update Quarterly update Instruction videos Promotional Videos Fashion Shows Other Virtual Events

... and the list is never ending. You can really plan big and reach out globally.

LiveStreamPro helps you organize all types of webcasting business communications. We have the best equipments, software and infrastructure to ensure uninterrupted and smooth proceeds of your presentations, lectures, seminars, meetings, product launches, or any virtual events. Through the use of interactive features that we provide in webcasting, you can conduct a meeting or give a lecture or a presentation or organize a virtual event sitting anywhere in a cost effective manner.

If you have any queries regarding webcasting or live streaming or would like to hire LiveStreamPro, please write to us at sales@livestreampro.com. To know more about webcasting services at LiveStreamPro please visit www.livestreampro.com.

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Things to take care in Wedding Webcast

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Wedding webcast has really come into ‘vogue’ and almost everyone is opting to get a webcast done for their wedding, and this is done over and above the videography or photography. The reason is simple. Mostly all have one or the other relative or friend staying abroad or somewhere else and is not able to be present at the wedding venue.

LiveStreamPro is one of the oldest and reputed wedding webcast vendor and has start-of-the-art technology to undertake wedding webcast assignments of any magnitude. LiveStreamPro has carried out many wedding webcasts and holds tremendous experience in the field.

From our experience of having webcasted so many weddings, we would like to share some of the things that the couple going for wedding webcast need to keep in mind: 

1. List of Virtual Guests:
You should ensure that the list of all your virtual guests along with their correct email ids is given to the webcasting vendor. Email ids are very important as the link to view the wedding webcast will be sent to all guests via email only. The numbers of virtual guest effects the option in which live streaming will be done. So the number needs to be decided correctly and communicated to the webcast vendor.  

2.  Prepare your guests: 

Before the wedding, make sure that the link to your wedding live web streaming is sent to all your virtual guests by the webcast vendor. Ask your guests to go through the email and the explanations with it and keep the webcast vendor’s number handy, in case they have a problem. In cases where some additional software needs to be installed, that can be done beforehand. So if all guests have familiarised themselves with the procedure and downloaded the software beforehand, it will be convenient for them on the day. And also if any adjustment to firewalls, etc. is required, that can be taken care of too.

3. Choose a good networked wedding location: 

Webcasting requires good net connectivity. While the webcasting company uses its own internet dongles, it is very important that the network available to them is proper and undisturbed. Good network will make sure that your wedding is live streamed freely and uninterrupted into the computer screens of all your virtual guests.

4. Acknowledge your Virtual Guests: 

It is very important that you acknowledge your virtual guests every now and then. This will make them feel a part of your wedding. After all they also wanted to be with you and share your happiness, so don’t forget to include them by acknowledging them. If their messages are shared with you by the webcasting vendor, take out time to respond to them.

It is important that you hire a professional wedding webcast vendor to carry out your webcast for you. It is your special day, your once is a lifetime day, which you will cherish all your life, so let some amateur not ruin it for you. 

If you have any queries regarding webcasting or live streaming or would like to get your wedding webcasted, please write to us at sales@livestreampro.com. To know more about our webcasting services please visit www.livestreampro.com. 

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Webcasting can benefit you only if you use it

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Often we read about how technology is making people lazy… but rarely do we get to read that people don’t use technology provided to them because they are lazy. 

Something exactly like this happened on the Kariavattom Campus of the Kerala University (KU). University Grants Commission (UGC), under the National Knowledge Network Plan for providing network connectivity to universities across India, funded a 10 lakhs project to set up a Video Conferencing and Webcasting Centre within the university campus. 

Webcasting service set up in the campus was to be used for communication between University Vice Chancellor and university officials as well as campus-wide webcasting of seminars, events and functions held at the university. The facility was inaugurated last year.

But since the inauguration, more than 100 seminars have been organized by various departments of the university, but not a single one was webcasted using the facility. It is a sheer wastage of a world-class technology. To read the full news please visit http://ibnlive.in.com/news/webcasting-centre-rotting-on-ku-campus/176889-60-123.html

Our reason to highlight this news is not to demean any university or seek reasons why it happened what happened, we just want to make readers aware that any technology can prove to be beneficial ONLY when it is used.

Webcasting or live web streaming technology has a lot of advantages and if used effectively and strategically it can work wonders to the communication system of any organization whether it is an educational institution or a corporate house or any business for that matter.

But then the most important and essential condition that applies here is that for the technology to serve you and benefit you, you need to put it to use.

 

Webcasting is an innovative technology and is considered to be a unique way of communications today. It is used as a tool to reach out to a larger audience and is very cost effective. To read about the different applications of webcasting and to make use of this amazing technology to boost your business, contact us at sales@livestreampro.com or visit our website www.livestreampro.com

 

Webcasting – the Smart way to Communicate

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Webcasting has gained the reputation of the most efficient and smart way to communicate today. It is now treated as one of the most important mediums of communication for many corporate houses, especially those who have global operations. Webcasting helps save tremendous cost and time, the two very important resources of an organization.

Whether it is a business meeting (a web conference) between the business heads of different regions sitting in different parts of the world or a CEO addressing all his staff across the globe or business wanting to launch a product and reach out to its audiences globally, webcasting and its different services come in very handy.

Webcasting helps expand your reach. It allows everyone to access a message, presentation or training directly and in a cost-effective manner over the internet or intranet. Many organizations use webcasting as an e-learning tool. They record the training sessions and product demonstrations and use it repeatedly to train their employees and product users. Also educational institutions can use webcasting to broadcast the guest lectures and other faculty lectures taking place in one institute in all other institutes under a university or group of institutions.

Live Webcast offers various interactive features. In webinars and live presentations, there is an option of a two way communication between the presenter and the participants of the conference. In this, the presenter and his presentation can both be seen on the screen while the presentation is in progress. The audiences can ask him questions by typing in the box provided to them to which the presenter can answer as per his presentation flow or convenience.

Today, an organization operating internationally or even nationally cannot think communication without webcasting. Each organization is using one or the other webcasting services. Whether you would like to talk to or train employees, provide information to customers (new or existing), shareholders and the press or reach other stakeholders, webcasting is the most effective and innovative way of communication.

LiveStreamPro is a Delhi-based company that provides all types of webcasting and live streaming services across India to organizations of any scale. The services are customized according to the need of each organization and are of excellent quality. Make a smart decision to hire LiveStreamPro today to communicate smartly.

Successful launch of Samsung Tabs in India

LiveStreamPro webcasted the LIVE launch of Samsung Galaxy Tabs 750 and 730 in India yesterday i.e. on August 10, 2011. These Tabs are priced at Rs. 36200/- (750 model) and Rs. 33900/- (730 model) in India.

The event was a huge success. There were about 200 people present at the event venue from the print and electronic Media.

LiveStreamPro was given the responsibility to webcast the entire event over the Internet for the pubic to see. People from 92 countries and territories across the globe watched this launch live over the internet. LiveStreamPro covered the event by installing three video cameras on the venue and streamed it live at www.livestreampro.com/samsung

The live webcast was also available on facebook and many other blogs.

Please find below a few pictures of the LIVE launch event.

 

Celebrity Guest Lara Dutta launching the Tabs

Tabs on Display

 

Lara's Galaxy Round with Samsung Team

 

Media Presence at the Event

LiveStreamPro Team in Action

LiveStreamPro webcasts LIVE launch of Samsung Galaxy Tab 750

It’s ‘the day’… finally!

Samsung is launching its much awaited Galaxy Tab 10.1 in India today, with the name of Galaxy Tab 750. The event is being live webcasted over the internet from 12:00 pm onwards today and LiveStreamPro is responsible for the LIVE webcast.

You can watch the live webcast at www.livestreampro.com/samsung.  

 

The event will start at 12:00 pm and continue till 2:00 pm. Log in to the link to view the live webcast.

Samsung Galaxy 750 tablet is the thinnest and the lightest mobile tablet in the world. Its features are listed below:

Operating System	Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Dimensions	256.7×175.3.4×8.6 mm
Network	3G HSPA+ upto 21 MBps
Processor	1Ghz Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual Core processor
Display	10.1 inch WXGA TFT Touch Screen display (Bravia Engine) 1280×800 pixels screen resolution
Battery	6860 mAh standard
Music Playback Time	upto 72 hours
Weight	565 gram
Applications	Android Market, Android Browser/UI, Google Mobile Service, Gtalk Video Chat, Google Maps Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 data connectivity Wi-Fi direct a-GPS, turn by turn navigation with Google Maps Mobile Office
Other features	·         Gyroscope , accelerometer , Ambient light sensor ·         Compass 3 mega pixels primary camera with LED flash ·         Autofocus HD video playback and recording ·         Secondary 2MP camera for video calling ·         Multi-format music player ·         3.5 mm jack ·         Surround sound speakers ·         1GB RAM ·         16/32GB internal memory ·         External memory slot ·         Abode Flash Player 10.2

How webcasting my wedding saved me?

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I was to get married in a small church and so I could not call all my friends to my wedding. I had only about 100 invites and more than 300 guests to invite. I was stressed out completely. I wanted all my friends to be a part of my most special day. And all my friends are dear to me and so I wanted all of them to attend it. 

A few of my friends saw the stress I was going through and so they suggested that I go for wedding webcast. That way all of them would be able to see my wedding and be a part of the LIVE ceremony while it was taking place. The suggestion was exciting and I decided to go for it.

I hired LiveStreamPro, a Delhi-based company and premiere webcast service provider, to live stream my wedding. I gave them the list of all my virtual guests and that was it. My job was done. Rest all LiveStreampro handled brilliantly.

So on the day, all my friends were able to watch the entire wedding proceedings and all its rituals. Some of them assembled at one place to watch the wedding together. I could even talk to them, as in they sent me messages on real time and I replied to them live. It felt as if they are with me only and not sitting somewhere else. It was so much fun.

And since I was getting the webcasting done I took the opportunity to invite a few of my relatives and friends from abroad also who would have otherwise missed the wedding, all having some or the other reason... cost... office... school... and so on. But anyways, they were happy that I did not forget them and made them a part of my wedding. And I got a lot of blessings from all across the world. Lucky me.

There were a few of my friends who were not able to watch the wedding live, so for them LiveStreamPro provided a video on demand facility for viewing. They uploaded my wedding on the internet and gave me the login password, which I could share with the people who I wanted to share my wedding with. 

My wedding was a hit and each and every one of my friends go to see it. I think to get my wedding webcasted was the best decision I made and LiveStreamPro captured it brilliantly. 

Wedding Webcasting Vs Videography

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Of the two options given below, which one will you opt for, to view a wedding that you would have liked to attend in person but are not able to attend due to your prior commitments.

Option 1: Watch the wedding live over the internet while it is taking place; unedited and real; where you can yourself participate too.

Option 2: Watch an edited video of the wedding much after the event is over, without being able to participate, which means that you are just a silent spectator.

Given a chance, I would have opted for the first option. Where I am watching a live wedding as it is happening and I am able to convey my good wishes to the bride and groom and comments on the proceedings too. I am sure you would have also chosen the first option, rather than watching an edited version. Here, the first option is Webcasting or Live Streaming and the second option is Videography.

And there is more, the wedding webcast vendor who undertakes to live stream the wedding also makes it available on the internet for the on demand viewing. So if you are not able to watch the wedding live, you can still watch it later on at any time of your convenience. And this video on demand (VOD), can be your wedding video, if you so desire.

Videographers, most of the time, edit some of the wedding moments while making their videos, which for them are not important. But in video on demand, all unedited version is available, which is much more fun to watch. The videographers take time to give you the videos but video on demand is made available to you within hours of the event getting over.

LiveStreamPro (www.livestreampro.com) is a Wedding Webcast vendor in Delhi that provides webcasting services across India. The services provided by LiveStreamPro are very cost efficient. We try and capture all special moments at a wedding to make the day special for both the bride and groom and  the experience of watching the webcasting pleasurable for all the virtual guests. 

If you have any questions regarding webcasting/ live streaming services or you would like LiveStreamPro to webcast a wedding for you, please write to us at sales@livestreampro.com

5 Myths about Webcasting a Wedding

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Wedding Webcasting means live streaming or broadcasting a wedding live over the internet so that people who otherwise could not attend the wedding can watch it from anywhere in the world.

Although Wedding Webcasting has gained immense popularity over the years, people still have a lot of apprehension while taking a decision to go for webcasting a wedding. LiveStreamPro decided to take this opportunity to discuss some of the misunderstanding that exist in the minds of people towards wedding webcasting.

a)    It is going to cost me a lot to webcast my wedding?
Many people think that webcasting will cost them a fortune. This is not true. Webcasting in fact is very cost effective. The cost varies only slightly with the number of virtual guests you would like to have, but it is still very cost efficient. In fact many webcast service providers, including LiveStreamPro undertake the task of videopraphy as well as photography of the wedding, along with webcasting the wedding. You just need to discuss the options with the provider.

b)    I can chat Live with all my virtual guests?
People have a misconception a lot of times that webcasting is a simultaneous two way communication where they can chat live with their family and friends. This is however not the case. The family and friends watching the webcast can send their wishes to the bride and groom on real time, and this message is conveyed to the bride and groom by the webcasting team and the bride and groom can reply to that message live if they choose to do so.

c)    I am scared that any random person will be able to view my wedding?

Most people are scared that by webcasting their wedding, they are making their wedding available for public viewing over the internet and anyone can watch it. This is not the case at all. Your wedding will be available for viewing only to those people to whom you want. You will be required to share the details of all your virtual guests with your webcasting service provider, who will then ensure that all your virtual guests are sent the link to view your wedding.

d)    I am afraid that it will be too technical for my guests to understand?

People think that a person needs to possess a lot of technical knowledge to view the wedding webcast. Viewing a webcast is very simple. It happens by just a click of a button. Let us explain how. Once you provide the list of your virtual guests with their email ids to the wedding webcast vendor, he will send a link. By just clicking on the link your virtual invitees will be able to view your wedding. It is not complicated at all. In fact at LiveStreamPro, we ensure that the guests are well versed and comfortable with what needs to be done before the event starts. We insist on a dry run before the day of the event so that if any software needs to be installed, it is done beforehand only. We also dedicate a team your event on ‘the day’ incase any of your guests need any assistance.

e)    My wedding is going to be at an area where there is no internet. Then what sense does it make for me to get a webcast of my wedding.
Unfortunately, webcasting requires internet connectivity. But in such a case, LiveStreamPro takes the option of ‘deferred live’. This means that we capture your wedding and then stream it or webcast it from the nearest place which has internet connectivity. This way your relatives and friends, even if cannot see it live, they can see it very soon after it has happened, hence not entirely losing its impact. And LiveStreamPro team will still capture their comments on real time for your viewing at convenience.

Wedding webcasting is an excellent way to have all your family and friends attend your wedding and give you their blessings. So one must insist on incorporating the cost of wedding webcast in the wedding budget.

If you have any questions regarding webcasting or would like LiveStreamPro to webcast a wedding for you, please write to us at sales@livestreampro.com or visit www.livestreampro.com.