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Easy to use video streaming solution with adaptive bitrate transcoding

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Boost your views by streaming to multiple social media sites

Why choose us?

No Contracts

There are no contracts and commitments with Castr. You are free to upgrade and downgrade your plan anytime with us.

Full Streaming Stack

You don’t need to depend on multiple platforms for your streaming workflow. We have simulcasting, video hosting, pre-recorded live and more. 

Powered By Akamai

Castr comes with Akamai integration so that you can deliver content globally without any buffering with a build-in cloud transcoding feature.

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Value of Castr's feature-rich, personalized live video streaming platform is unbeatable.

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Compared features are based on monthly plans.

Data accurate as of December 23, 2020. For inquiries, please email [email protected]

Trusted by 200,000+ Streamers

We're rated Excellent 4.7 out of 5 on Capterra

"The Castr restreaming product was very easy to set up and works flawlessly. We use it every night to live stream our 10pm newscast on YouTube and Facebook. In addition, the low cost of the service was a big bonus for what is a very robust and mature product."

  • Lakeland PBS
  • Bill Sanford Director of Engineering - Lakeland PBS

"We are using castr.com for our live stream productions without any problems, the latency is great and the fact they have servers around the globe allows for stable streams even from the US to Europe, etc. For our usage, castr.com is perfect as it offers everything we need and nothing more on a stable, easy to use platform."

  • Esport Battlefield International
  • Timothy Ross VP - Esport Battlefield International

"Adding your platforms to Castr is easy as 1, 2, 3. Their no fuse way of adding platforms makes it so easy to do that I had it done within 3 minutes. When looking for a solutions to livestream to both Facebook and YouTube, we came across Castr and it solved all of our issues. We love the fact that it doesn't required you to put any of their branding in the descriptions."

  • Heartland Worship Center
  • Jake Bradley Creative Director - Heartland Worship Center

"We use this service daily and this is already part of our workflow! It offers a clever alternative to slow internet connection when one need to stream to various channels and is very easy to use. We user Castr to deliver our content 24/7 to different platforms, it makes our workflow much simpler, we save internet bandwidth and hardware stress"

  • Rede TVT
  • Mauricio Junior IT Director - Rede TVT

"The ability to have an uploaded pre-recorded video scheduled to stream live with just 3 mins notice is really useful for failsafe option. Internet gremlins can always get in the way during a live event, so I find this quick scheduling option to be really useful and the main reason I stuck to Castr and not their competition."

  • Dream Factory
  • Daniel Herrera CEO - Dream Factory
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FAQ

Using Castr Simulcast, you can stream to multiple social platforms. You can also enable and disable platforms on the fly.

Castr Live Streaming CDN feature provides a fully white-label player that you can embed on your website.

Castr Simulcast is the easiest way for you to live stream to 30+ channels at once. Stream to YouTube, Facebook, and others— at the same time. Don’t worry about where you have the biggest audience, just stream everywhere.

There are no limits on streaming, and you can stream 24x7 without any restrictions on any of our plans.

Yes, you can stream to a custom RTMP Destination by configuring a custom platform in the Castr dashboard.

Yes, you can upload video files in Castr and get an embeddable player and HLS URL for the uploaded video file.

Castr Simulcast is the easiest way for you to live stream to 30+ channels at once. Stream to YouTube, Facebook, and others— at the same time. Don’t worry about where you have the biggest audience, just stream everywhere.

Yes, all live video streams get delivered via Akamai CDN. We bet there won’t be any buffering.

We transcode the streams in the cloud and you have the option to enable and disable adaptive bitrate streaming options for your live streams.

Yes, we do, when you upload a video, you will get the option to choose the resolutions to which the videos need to be encoded.

If you are on All in one Entry, your streams will shut off when you run out of bandwidth.

If you are on All in One Plus plan or above, overage protection will be enabled when you run out of bandwidth. It will be charged at $0.25 per GB for each that you go over, and billed per 1TB.

Overage protection is a feature that keeps your live streams up and running in case you are out of bandwidth. It will only be enabled when you go over your total bandwidth limit for your subscription plan and don’t have any rollover bandwidth remaining. In this instance, your overage protection will kick in and the selected payment method, such as a credit card, will be drawn from for the specific amount automatically.