One platform for every broadcast your business depends on.
Castr is the professional live video streaming solution that replaces the stack behind live video: delivery, recording, hosting, monetization, and OTT, with one team on the line while you are live.
No credit card required Plans from $16/moSee pricing Works with any RTMP/SRT encoder
24/7 live chat with real humans, not chatbots, plus a direct engineer line on Slack & WhatsApp for Enterprise.
Who Castr is for
Pick the workflow that fits your team.
Each one runs on the same platform, so you can add streaming, hosting, playout, or monetization later without switching tools.
Production agencies
Manage every client broadcast
Run concurrent events, send streams to each destination, publish recordings, and keep client delivery in one place.
For production teams
Media & OTT operators
Run live channels and OTT services
Combine live delivery, 24/7 playout, video libraries, monetization, and branded audience experiences.
For media operators
Business, education & government
Deliver secure, branded video across your organization
Give employees, customers, students, or citizens a branded, access-controlled place to watch live and on-demand video.
For organizations
Sports & ticketed events
Monetize live events and replays
Sell access, run advertising, protect premium streams, publish replays, and keep the audience on your service.
For rights holders
Customer story · The Pits TV
“Castr handles the harder parts of live motorsport for us: reliable streams from remote tracks, replays online right after the race, and watermarking to protect our premium events. Having all of that in one platform, with a team on the line during live events, makes a real difference.”
Jason Gutteridge
The Pits TV
Support that answers
When the stream matters, support matters too.
24/7 human support comes with every plan, backed by resilient delivery, monitoring, and backup ingest. That support runs across professional live video streaming, livestream hosting, 24/7 playout, and monetization.
Castr products
Start with one product, or replace your whole video stack.
Most teams stitch this together across four or five vendors. Each Castr product works on its own and gets stronger when connected: live streams become VOD, VOD becomes 24/7 channels, and channels become a branded OTT service.
Live streaming
Reliable delivery for business-critical broadcasts.
- Multi-CDN delivery
- Backup ingest
- Low-latency playback
- Live-to-VOD
Multistreaming
Send one live feed to social platforms and custom destinations.
- 30+ supported platforms
- Custom RTMP and SRT
- Per-destination control
- Scheduled streams
Cloud production
Produce polished broadcasts from anywhere.
- Cloud switching
- Overlays
- Multi-source input
- Live preview
Transcoding
Prepare every source for every audience.
- Adaptive bitrate
- H.265 to H.264
- Custom transcoding
- Watermarking
Video hosting
Turn every live event into on-demand video your audience can rewatch.
- VOD libraries
- Branded player
- Playlists
- Access controls
24/7 playout
Build always-on channels from live and recorded content.
- 24/7 scheduling
- Live insertion
- Looping
- Ad insertion
Monetization
Offer flexible ways to monetize owned audiences.
- Pay-per-view
- Subscriptions
- Advertising
- Audience insights
White-label OTT
Build a branded web service and scope the native apps you need.
- Branded web app
- Native apps
- Custom domain
- Content CMS
Video API
Embed Castr's infrastructure into your own product.
- Live API
- Video API
- Player events API
- Webhooks
Explore more professional capabilities
Connect & ingest
- RTMP and SRT ingest
- HLS, RTMP, RTSP and SRT pull
- Global ingest locations
- Backup ingest
- Professional encoder support
- IP camera workflows
Deliver & protect
- Multi-CDN delivery
- Adaptive bitrate
- Low-latency playback
- DRM
- Domain restrictions
- Geographic controls
Operate & analyze
- Concurrent streams
- Teams and sub-accounts
- Stream health analytics
- Audience analytics
- APIs and webhooks
- Priority technical support
Extend every broadcast
- Cloud recording
- Live-to-VOD
- Live clipping
- VOD-to-live
- Dynamic Player
- VOD hosting
- 24/7 playout
- Paywall and advertising
- White-label OTT
Reliability & security
Built for broadcasts that can’t fail.
Redundant infrastructure, encrypted delivery, and content protection your technical and procurement teams can review before you commit.
99.9% uptime SLA
Redundant infrastructure
Built for events where downtime is unacceptable, with continuous performance and platform health monitoring. Track it live on our public status page.
Multi-CDN
Akamai, Fastly & CloudFront
If one provider has an outage, delivery automatically routes around it.
40+ locations
Global ingest locations
Each encoder connects to the nearest healthy edge, cutting latency and removing single points of failure.
Auto-failover
Backup ingest built in
Push a primary and a backup feed. If the primary drops, Castr switches to the backup automatically and the broadcast stays up.
Access controls
Decide exactly who can watch
Password protection, domain allowlisting, and geographic restrictions keep private and licensed content with the right audience.
DRM
Encrypt premium streams
Protect premium and pay-per-view content with multi-DRM encryption, viewer watermarking, and paywall enforcement.
Common questions
Questions buyers usually ask.
Check protocols, migration, scale, and plan requirements here. Our video team can help with anything specific to your setup.
Talk to a video expert →Can Castr help us migrate from another video platform?
Yes. Our video team can review your current ingest, destinations, player, video library, security, monetization, and OTT setup, then confirm platform fit and map out the migration steps before you switch. You can also run Castr alongside your current platform while you test.
Which encoders and protocols does Castr support?
Castr works with professional software and hardware encoders, including OBS, vMix, Wirecast, TriCaster, Teradek, and LiveU, over RTMP and SRT. Castr can also pull sources over HLS, RTMP, RTSP, and SRT.
Is Castr suitable for 24/7 and high-importance workflows?
Yes. Teams run 24/7 channels and business-critical events on Castr using backup ingest, multi-CDN delivery, stream monitoring, and priority support. Talk to a video expert about your concurrency, bandwidth, failover, latency, and support requirements.
How reliable is Castr for business-critical streams?
Castr delivers through a multi-CDN network (Akamai, Fastly, and Amazon CloudFront) backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA, redundant infrastructure, 40+ global ingest locations, backup ingest, edge redundancy, and continuous monitoring you can track on our public status page. Higher-tier plans add priority and dedicated support for important events.
How does Castr handle security and data protection?
All traffic to Castr is encrypted in transit over HTTPS with HSTS enforced. You can protect content with DRM, password, geo, and domain restrictions, watermarking, and paywall enforcement. Castr operates under published Privacy and GDPR policies and does not sell personal data. Share the specific controls and procurement requirements your organization needs and the video team will confirm what is currently supported.
Do you offer live streaming solutions for enterprise teams?
Yes. Castr supports enterprise teams with multi-CDN delivery across Akamai, Fastly, and Amazon CloudFront, 40+ ingest locations, APIs, team access, security controls, and options for dedicated support. Talk to a video expert to confirm concurrency, bandwidth, migration, procurement, and support requirements for your deployment.
How is live stream hosting different from video hosting?
Live stream hosting is about delivering a broadcast to viewers as it happens, while video hosting is about storing and serving that content on demand afterward. Castr does both from one platform: it delivers your live stream in real time, then automatically records it and hosts the VOD so audiences can watch on demand. That means live streaming and on-demand video hosting stay in the same place instead of split across separate services.
What is a live streaming solution for teams?
A live streaming solution for teams is an end-to-end platform that handles everything a professional broadcast needs: reliable ingest, multi-CDN delivery, recording, VOD hosting, monetization, and viewer security. Castr is that live streaming solution, giving production agencies, media operators, and organizational video teams one place to run live events, publish replays, and deliver video to any screen without stitching together multiple vendors.
What should I look for in a video streaming platform?
Look for reliable ingest, delivery across more than one CDN, recording, video hosting, access controls, monitoring, support, and pricing that matches your audience and workflow. Castr brings those capabilities together so you can evaluate one connected workflow instead of separate vendors.
Ready to go live?
Run your next critical broadcast, channel, or video service on Castr.
Choose the path that matches the broadcast you are planning.
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