Publishing & Distribution Product List

Top Products

Platform for video collaboration, publishing, and marketing.

Parent organisation: IAC
Type of organisation: Publicly-listed company (or group)
Market share: #2 brand

Pricing: Free-$900/annum
Factors driving pricing: Additional features, More users (publishing-side), Ability to whitelabel or customise
Skills needed to set-up: Needs tool/domain expert to configure
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)

Pros

Releases new features regularly

Transparent pricing model

Clear data policies

Allows data deletion

Shares diversity data

Cons

Newsworthy business problems - Vimeo ordered to compensate Mediaset over breach of copyright, Vimeo embroiled in biometric ‘face map’ lawsuit over user privacy, consent

Lacks accessibility statement

Vimeo

Substack

Email and web publishing with a focus on monetization.

Type of organisation: Privately-owned company (or group)
Market share: One of the leading products (#3-7)

Pricing: Free-10% cut of subscription revenue
Factors driving pricing: More audience (e.g. more subscribers, traffic)
Skills needed to set-up: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Requires audience sign-in to use: Yes, sign-in compulsory

Pros

Transparent pricing model

Releases new features regularly

Clear data policies

Cons

Lacks accessibility statement

Does not share diversity data

Video.js

Open source HTML5 video player framework.

Parent organisation: Brightcove
Type of organisation: Publicly-listed company (or group)
Market share: Market dominance

Pricing: Free
Skills needed to set-up: Software developer
Skills needed to use: Software developer

Pros

Open Source alternatives available

Transparent pricing model

Cons

Unclear data policies

Lacks accessibility statement

Does not share diversity data

Video.js