Vidcast
vidcast.ioSummary
Vidcast is an AI-powered video messaging platform that enables users to record and share video messages with screen and camera, facilitating asynchronous communication for various business functions like sales, support, and internal announcements. It offers features for video creation, editing, collaboration, and analytics, aiming to enhance engagement and productivity for teams.
Features13/16
See allMust Have
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Screen Recording
Camera Recording
Instant Shared Links
Basic Video Editing
Viewer Analytics
Other
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Timestamped Comments
Emoji Reactions
Auto-Generated Transcripts
Team Library
Mobile App Support
Custom Branding
Password Protection
Enterprise Security & Compliance
Slack Integration
Gmail Integration
API Access
PricingFreemium
See allBasic
- Up to 15 minute video recording
- Collaboration Features
- Editing Controls
- Playback
- Video Analytics
- Video Recording Length: 15 minutes
- Video Storage: Unlimited (will be limited in the future)
- Collaborative Editing
- Collaborative Playlists
- Collaborative Pages
- Teams
- Emoji Reactions
- Comments
- Video Quality: 720p
- Virtual Backgrounds
- Noise Reduction
- Screen & Self Camera recording
- Trim
- Clip
- Stitch
- Edit Closed Captions
- Change thumbnail
- Playback Speed Adjustment
- AI Highlights
- Closed Captions
- Smart Chapters
- Translated Captions
- Embed (responsive & fixed size)
- Restrict viewing to specific people & domains
- Restrict viewing to creator only
- Restrict viewing to a Group
- Viewer Insights
- Engagement Insights
- Playlists
- Pages
- Teams
- Profile Page
- Search
- External Video Upload
- Trash Folder
- Webex Meeting Import
- Webex Events (embed)
- Share to Webex Space
- AI Highlights
- Smart Chapters
- AI assistant/ Ask me anything
- Noise Reduction
- AI generated Vidcast
- 15 minute video recording limit
- Video storage will be limited in the future
Premium
- All Basic Features
- Polls by Slido
- +1 hour video recordings
- Administration Controls
- No watermark
- Vidcast Studio (Beta)
- Video Recording Length: 1 hour +
- Video Storage: Unlimited
- Polls by Slido
- Remove Vidcast Watermark
Enterprise
- All Basic and Premium Features
- AI Generated Vidcast
- Video Upload
- Company Homepage
- MS365 Integration (coming soon)
- Semantic Search (coming soon)
- Video Recording Length: 1 hour +
- Video Storage: Unlimited
- AI generated Vidcast
- Company Homepage
- MS365 (coming soon)
- Semantic Search (coming soon)
- SSO + SAML
- Video retention
- Data classification
- Set default sharing permissions
- Restrict external sharing
- Restrict downloads, uploads and comments
- Recordings management
- Data residency
- Security built in, not bolted on
- Industry Leading AI capabilities
- Single pane of glass management
Rationale
Vidcast is a strong match for the asynchronous video communication platform concept. It explicitly offers screen and camera recording, instant sharing, basic editing, and viewer analytics, which are all must-have features. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive set of 'other' features like timestamped comments, emoji reactions, auto-generated transcripts, team libraries (referred to as 'Team page' and 'Playlists'), mobile app support (implied by 'Works with your favorite tools' and general accessibility), custom branding (removing watermark, company homepage), password protection (restrict viewing to specific people & domains), and enterprise security & compliance features (SSO, data retention, access controls, Webex security). While direct mentions of Slack/Gmail integration and API access are not prominent, the core functionality and many additional features align very well.
