If you want to find out some great benchmarks and best practices for webcasts, check out ON24 2010 Webcasting Report. The results are from evaluating 10,000 demand generation webcasts from 700 corporate clients. To peek your intereset here are the key findings:
- 52% of all registrations occur in the ten days before a scheduled webcast, with 15% registering on the day of the webcast.
- Given average registrant-to-attendee conversion ratios, 33% attended during the live webcast, while an additional 25% viewed the archived webcast.
- Webcasting is an effective and popular way to reach audiences year-round, including during holiday and summer months.
- The average viewership per webcast is 38 minutes
A live demonstration (application sharing) gives you FLEXIBILITY.
A recorded demonstration gives you PEACE OF MIND.
The birth of “Guerilla Video” sites, such as Peekvid.com, Alluc.org and Youtube.com have given users instant access to a plethora of free media files. Although streaming video technology offers instant access to video files, zero loading time is not always possible. There are many factors that attribute to your computer’s ability to start videos immediately. Other factors such as choppy PC video playback and slow video streaming also hinder your viewing experience. There are easy fixes to these problems. Sometimes choosing another site for the source of the video streaming or a lower quality version of the video can award you with instant play. These alternatives are not always available. However, there are a number of tweaks that help speed up your streaming video startup times, eliminate choppy PC video play and stop slow streaming video.
Before we start with the tweaks to speed up slow streaming video, lets get a basic understanding of streaming video technology in order to stop choppy video. Streaming video is a prerecorded video files that can be distributed as part of a live broadcast “feed.” The video signal is converted into a compressed digital signal and transmitted from a Web server. This server is able to be multicast the same file to multiple users at the same time. When you click on the on the video it is partially loaded before you can access it. This is known as “buffering”. This helps you to load and play the video instantaneously. Now lets take a look on how to cut down on buffering time, stop slow streaming video and eliminate choppy PC video playback .