I'm an engineer on the Zencoder team, which is an API for the transcoding piece of the puzzle. My company (Brightcove) also has a full video CMS product (Video Cloud), but it's not really geared towards small businesses.
If you want a fairly cheap solution to bootstrap that you control, I'd honestly suggest going the DIY route in terms of hosting / playback and use a service like Zencoder to deal with the transcoding. If you go this route and need a player, I also contribute to the Video.js project :)
Like the previous commenter said, it's not aimed at small businesses. At my last job (ClearChannel), we were considering switching to Brightcove for 38 web properties, including Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Sean Hannity, AT40, and there was a minimum you had to commit to for a contract. Something like Amazon would be ideal since your costs would be pennies to start if you have no traffic. If you are pushing terabytes of video per month, providers like Akamai or Brightcove can do it cheaper if you commit to a minimum level of traffic.
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I'm an engineer on the Zencoder team, which is an API for the transcoding piece of the puzzle. My company (Brightcove) also has a full video CMS product (Video Cloud), but it's not really geared towards small businesses.
If you want a fairly cheap solution to bootstrap that you control, I'd honestly suggest going the DIY route in terms of hosting / playback and use a service like Zencoder to deal with the transcoding. If you go this route and need a player, I also contribute to the Video.js project :)
Any idea what Brightcove pricing is like? Can't seem to find a link that talks about that.
Like the previous commenter said, it's not aimed at small businesses. At my last job (ClearChannel), we were considering switching to Brightcove for 38 web properties, including Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Sean Hannity, AT40, and there was a minimum you had to commit to for a contract. Something like Amazon would be ideal since your costs would be pennies to start if you have no traffic. If you are pushing terabytes of video per month, providers like Akamai or Brightcove can do it cheaper if you commit to a minimum level of traffic.