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Empowering Universities and Educational Institutions
Lightcast revolutionizes education by offering a streaming and VOD platform that enhances learning, boosts engagement, and connects communities, making education accessible and interactive for students, parents, alumni, and faculty, anywhere, anytime.
Revolutionize Your Educational Experience
Imagine offering students and faculty a dynamic way to experience media-rich courses, classroom sessions, projects and campus news, across all screens - every classroom display, TV, mobile device and digital signage.
Allow parents and alumni to remain engaged like never before by participating in sports events and special ceremonies - from anywhere, at any time, on their TVs, mobile devices, in their cars and every screen, including on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Samsung Smart TV, LG TV, Vizio, iOS, Android, Spotify, TuneIn and much more...
Boost Engagement
Keep your community informed and engaged with live-streamed campus events, sports, and news, fostering a strong sense of belonging, attracting new talent, and supporting marketing and enrollment in the process.
Connect Families
Allow parents and families to be a part of their student’s education and achievements through live streams of sports, performances, graduations, award ceremonies, and more.
Engage Alumni
Strengthen alumni relations with updates on university advancements, event live streams and opportunities to give back, keeping them connected to their alma mater.
Support Faculty
Provide faculty with cloud-stored and managed media libraries, sharing research, sharing media with students securely, and the ability to hold webinars and streamed classes, both live and on-demand.
Enhance Learning
Deliver interactive training and educational content that students can access on-demand, supporting different learning styles and schedules.
Your Custom-Branded Apps Everywhere
- App framework for all major TVs, screens and app stores
- Your custom branded apps
- All of your media libraries, podcasts, contents, live events and streams
- Alumni and student login for non-public content
- Distance learning login
- Public content for marketing, enrollment and family relations
- All the media hosting, storage, transcoding, live-streaming your school needs
- Digital signage and campus communications
- Auto-publishing to social media, your websites, mobile apps and TV apps in one workflow
How Lightcast Apps Transform Educational Engagement
Elevate Sports & Theater Programs
Bring high school and university sports teams to a wider audience by live streaming games, tournaments, and special sports events. Engage students, parents, families, and alumni in school spirit from anywhere in the world.
Stream Campus Life
Keep students and faculty connected with campus news, special events, and club activities through real-time live streaming. Provide your students a publishing opportunity to showcase their projects, media production, skills and talents to the world.
Classroom Media Libraries for Faculty
Allow your faculty to store, manage and share media libraries used in class, accessible instantly and securely on every TV and display in every classroom across the campus. Eliminate the various risks of requiring faculty to connect laptops to displays in classrooms in order to play back videos in class.
Enhance Student Engagement
Grant select students access to select media libraries as needed for studies and projects, and allow them to upload their own media projects and campus news to select channels and app-segments, promoting engagement in media production and fostering talents.
Support Marketing & Enrollment
Showcase campus tours, testimonials and other marketing video contents to over 1 billion viewers across all major Smart TVs and streaming players, securely, ad-free and fully controlled within your own university TV apps and mobile apps across all devices and displays.
Reach Everyone On Campus
Stream to digital signage and displays across the campus and into every dorm room, classroom and office. From promos to campus news videos, to live broadcasts of sports events, graduations and other ceremonies, emergency and other urgent messages - it's on every screen!
Technology That Elevates Education
Join Lightcast in transforming the educational journey for students, parents, alumni, and faculty alike. Embrace a future where your institution leads in digital engagement, making education accessible, interactive, and inclusive for all.
Your Needs. Your Vision. Your Platform.
Lightcast puts you in control—no interference, real support, and seamless delivery so you can focus on shaping the future.
Educational Success Stories
With over a decade of experience in media—working on TV and podcast shows, events, and various networks—I can confidently say Lightcast is the best OTT service provider in the industry. We turned to Lightcast after our previous provider failed to deliver on promised services. ightcast not only met but exceeded those expectations. From the start, their team listened to our vision for CTR Media Network, supporting not just our brand but also the community we serve. They enhanced our foundation, elevating our reach to all major TV platforms, expanded our social media, and podcasting platform. Their premium services have been instrumental in delivering an exceptional experience for our audience, sponsors, and content creators. Lightcast’s professionalism, expertise, and commitment to their clients are unmatched.
CTR Media Network
Rochelle Ford
Dean of the School of Communications and Professor of Strategic Communications, Elon University
Lightcast and the Media Cloud platform offer clients a powerful and comprehensive distribution ecosystem. Beyond its impressive technical capabilities, the platform delivers exceptional service and user-friendly tools that make managing accounts/media straightforward and efficient. Customer service stands out as responsive, thorough, and consistently helpful, with comprehensive training that ensures users can maximize the platform’s potential. Regular marketing tips and updates shared via email add value by helping clients expand their reach and optimize content visibility with ease. I highly recommend Lightcast and its platforms to anyone seeking a far-reaching, connected viewing app experience, supported by exceptional service and innovative tools.
Ocean City Schools
Every Device, Every Platform
Lightcast empowers educational sector of all sizes to deliver live-streams, events & on-demand video & audio media to custom branded Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, SmartTVs, AndroidTV, Mobile Apps and more. All managed in Media Cloud, a single dashboard to store, organize, automate, and deliver media to most any destination.
Lightcast Delivers!
Live Event Streaming across Web & all OTT platforms
for Conferences with
Pay-Per-View processing & promo codes
Live Event Streaming across Web
& all OTT platforms for Conferences
with Pay-Per-View processing
& promo codes
Developing and marketing a conversion
optimized website through social media marketing
and SEO to increase online sales
Developing and marketing
a conversion optimized website
through social media marketing
and SEO to increase online sales
Reaching viewers in over 50 countries
with a local leadership forum through
Lightcast.com live-streaming
Reaching viewers in over
50 countries with a
local leadership forum through
Lightcast.com live-streaming
End-to-end OTT infrastructure and
MEDIA CLOUD distribution automation
across all major app stores
End-to-end OTT infrastructure and
MEDIA CLOUD distribution automation
across all major app stores
Building new viewerships across the leading
ConnectedTV platforms with all content managed
in real-time via the Media Cloud Management System
Building new viewerships across
the leading ConnectedTV platforms
with all content managed in real-time
via the Media Cloud Management System
15
YEARS EXPERIENCE
As an OTT Industry Leader & Innovator since 2008, Lightcast gives more value at a better price because our solution has been built from the ground up over the past 15 years. While others come and go, Lightcast has prevailed and will continue to serve you 15 years from now.
2,000+
HAPPY CLIENTS
Lightcast isn't reliant on cloud providers like AWS & Azure. Our proprietary cloud technology means lower costs, more protection and more freedom.
70,000+
STREAMING SERVERS
Utilizing the endlessly scalable power of the largest CDNs on the planet for delivery of your media, and our proprietary software and hardware tech-stack with backups and redundancies, keeps your media safe and your organization protected.
12,000+
APPS BUILT & LAUNCHED
Lightcast was one of the original OTT providers, shaping the streaming industry as we know it today, years ahead of its competition. Experience you can trust.
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Join over 2,000 educators, institutions, and creators who trust Lightcast to revolutionize learning and engagement.
Ready to inspire your students, connect your community, and expand your reach like never before? Lightcast makes it easy to deliver your content to any device, anywhere.
Request a demo today and discover how Lightcast can elevate your impact, enhance engagement, and bring your educational vision to life.
